Monday 7 December 2015

Down Your Street, Sara Payne. II East Cambridge. Index of Chapter 1, Abbey Road

This is a quick index to the book Down Your Street, by Sara Payne. ISBN 0907115195 II East Cambridge which I've recently bought.  There's no index in the book, so I've written one out!

Chapter 1: Abbey Road.  
The chapter covers just over four pages.  There's one whole page on the history of Abbey Road and Abbey House itself, with one full page photograph of Abbey House.
After that there's an interview with local residents.

Photos in Chapter 1:
  • Full page photo of Abbey House, Abbey Road, Cambridge
  • ¼-page photo of Miss Kathleen Morgan, outside her home, 42 Abbey Road. Behind her the bricked up doorway to her grandfather's boot and shoe workshop. 
  • ¼-page photo of Mrs Evelyn Harris, Cresta Quality Cleaning. 
Living people interviewed: 
Miss Kathleen Morgan - her grandfather built the house she lives in, he was Ellis John Rolls, Mrs Evelyn Harris

Living people named: 
Professor Peter Danckwerts, Arthur Gray

Historical figures mentioned: 
Pain Peverel, Dr Thomas Wendy, Jacob Butler, Tommy Panton, Leonard Amey, Mr Askham, Lord Fairhaven, Joseph Sturton, Ellis John Rolls, Ranjee, Miss Royston, Horace Lister, Gordon Lister, Dodds, Mr Mason, Mr Brown, Mr Dent, Charles Kidman, Mrs Eley, Robert Eley,

Books mentioned in this chapter as being used in Sara's research:
  • Arthur Gray: Cambridge Revisited
  • Florence Ada Keynes: Byways of Cambridge History, 1947, ASIN: B0006ARDT0. 157 pages.
    Anecdotes, reminiscences and Cambridge antiquities
Discover other roads published in this book: Index of Streets in Down Your Street

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