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17 Petty Cury c1960s (MoC274.72)17 Petty Cury
History of 17 Petty Cury
1851 unnumbered
John Robinson, 66, tailor, b Cambridge
Ann, 66, b Cambridge
1871-1861 not listed
1881 shop locked up at night
1891
(17)
Naomi Curtis, widow, 61, living on own means, b London
Mary Ann, 21, dress maker, b Chesterton
Louise Clark, 20, servant, b Cambridge
1901 (16-17)
Edward James Culyer, 46, Temperance Hotel proprietor, b Norfolk
Alice Mary, 40, b Norfolk
Ada Laura, 16, b Norfolk
Elizabeth Russell, 40, cook, b Ely
Kate C Brown, 19, housemaid, b Suffolk
Minnie Reed, 25, waitress, b Soham
Millie Wright, 27, waitress, b Cambridge
Mary A Bradford, 25, kitchenmaid, b Bottisham
Phoebe Cook, 23, housemaid, b Cambridge
John H Groyther, boarder, Congregational Minister, b Lancs
Agnes D Groyther, boarder, 30, b Cheshire
Edward H Power, boarder, 56, commercial traveller, b Kent
Herbert Harmsworth, boarder, 29, merchant…., b Hants
William Thomas Bleet, servant, 15, errand boy, b Cambridge
1913
(16-17) Livingstone Commercial Temperance Hotel, Dining Rooms and Restaurant
Edward J Culyer, proprietor
19/10/1929 With the passing of Mrs Eliza Jane Mason of the Livingstone Hotel, Petty Cury, Cambridge has lost a prominent member of the restaurant business. She commenced business with a university lodging house on Market Hill which became known as ‘Masons’ and was converted into a restaurant. It was largely used by cadets and catered for the officers stationed here during the Great War. Almost the first Belgian wounded soldiers were billeted there and she acted as a sort of nursing mother to them. Her next move was to Sadd’s before she bought the Livingstone Hotel which was then only a coffee house. It is now one of the best commercial hotels in Cambridge. She also built the Rendezvous, Magrath Avenue as a skating rink in 1909. (Cam.News)
(17a) Brown and Pain, milliners and baby linen
1937
(16 & 17) Livingstone Hotel, H P Claybyn
(17) Brown and Pain, corset makers
1940s:
Kittridge’s tobacco shop (in 1937 Kittridge was at 70 Sidney Street)
The front was renovated in the 40s and an elaborate carved wooden fascia was put up, embellished with carved negro heads, similar to those which appeared on 18th century tobacconist’s signs. Two of these heads are now in the Museum of Cambridge.
1962
Separates (Jennifer) Ltd, fashion specialists
16 Petty Cury
17 Petty Cury (MoC25/60)
1972
17 Petty Cury (MoC)
It had been thought that the carving of the woman second from the left had come from the tobacconists at 70 Sidney Street.
Deer Woman figure of Native America Mythology. Traditions say she can be controlled though chanting and use of tobacco. (MoC) From unknown address in Sidney Street
A note on the reverse of this photo states: Photograph of all four pinewood figures which were placed above each side of the fascia of 17 Petty Cury which was demolished in September 1972. The figures seemed to have replaced the carved negro heads which belonged to J Kittridge tobacconists. Photograph by Edward Leigh, King’s Parade, after the carvings were removed to the Guildhall. Neg No. C33073.
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