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Tour 8 – War Memorial Hills Road and Brooklands Avenue area
Self Guided Tour of Brooklands Avenue area
Preface
The list below of links to the Capturing Cambridge website is a selection of the more interesting entries en route. Information about most of the buildings, and their historical occupants, that you will pass on this tour, and many that have vanished, can be accessed on the web site.
As with our other tours, suggestions of corrections and additions are most welcome and should be offered via the email address on the website.
Note the City Council’s own study of this area:
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/2844/new-town-and-glisson-road-area-appraisal.pdf
Guide
Start at the War Memorial at the unction of Hills and Station Roads.
The Homecoming War Memorial
1.2 Station Road, Poplar Cottage
2. 92 Hills Road (site of), @nd Lt Roland George Ingle, killed in action 1916
3. 96 Hills Road (site of), home of Thoday family
4. 98 Hills Road (site of), home of Felix Morley, composer
5. 102 Hills Road (site of), home of George Kett
6. 104 Hills Road, site of Heffer and Sons Printing Works
7. 106 Hills Road, The Flying Pig
8. 108 Hills Road, (site of ) The Osborne Arms
9. 110 Hills Road, home of artist Robert Farren
10. 112 – 114 Hills Road (site of) depot of the Ortona Motor Company
11. 81 Hills Road, home of artist Alfred Southwick
12. 83 Hills Road, home of Alfred Kett
13. 93 Hills Road, home of Joseph Masters, organist and poor rate collector
14. 111 Hills Road, home of Solomon Schiller, Jewish academic
15. 117 Hills Road, home of William Constable, artist in stained glass
16. 125 Hills Road, Beales Coal Wharf
17. 129 Hills Road, The Earl of Derby
Turn right into Brooklands Avenue
19. 1 Brooklands Avenue, home of Rev John Merrin
20. 3 Brooklands Avenue, home of the Bales family
21. 5 Brooklands Avenue, home of George Kett and Owen Whitehouse
Turn left into Clarendon Road
22. 19 Clarendon Road, home of Algernon Campkin, pharmacist and mayor
Turn right into Fitzwilliam Road
23. 5 Fitzwilliam Road (site of) Cottage Home for Little Orphan Girls
24. 3 Fitzwilliam Road, home of Major Cotterill, university coach in military subjects
Turn right into Shaftesbury Road
25. 5 Shaftesbury Road, home of Edward Prior, professor of Fine Art
26. 3 Shaftesbury Road, 2nd Lt Roland Ingle, killed in action 1916
Turn left into Brooklands Avenue and stay on south side
27. Accordia
28. Brooklands, home of the Foster family
29. Brooklands Farm
Cross to north side of road and turn to east
30. 23 Brooklands Avenue, home of John Carter Jonas
31. 21 Brooklands Avenue, home of MacIntosh and Hughes families
32. 19 Brooklands Avenue, former Winston House Boys’ Hostel
33. 22 Brooklands Avenue, home of Sir William Pope, chemist
34. 20 Brooklands Avenue, home of Geldard family
35. 18 Brooklands Avenue, home of George Kett
36. 15A Brooklands Avenue, formerly Hope Nursing Home, home of Wetenhall and Tillyard families
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