Below is a brief overview and index to chapter 5 of Sara Payne's book Down Your Street, to help people decide if it's a book that's of interest to them either for local history research or family history.
This chapter is five pages long and looks at Orchard Street, the date 23 April to 3 May 1984 is given in the page title. I didn't feel that this chapter had as much anecdotal content as the Maid's Causeway chapter, but the interviews with the residents were exciting glimpses into their past or the past of their house/road. Orchard Street is a small street, so there are fewer residents to be able to generate these snippets we seek!
Built in 1825, the row of cottages in Orchard Street, Cambridge are chocolate-box gorgeous.
Living people named/interviewed:
Mrs Kidd, Mrs Gladys Cable, Percy Wing, Sylvia Wing, Miss Kathleen Humm, Henry Humm, Henry Cable, Margaret Cable, John Fletcher, Marjorie Hopkins, Jodrell Hopkins, Paul Jodrell,
Archivists and other authors who helped with background/research: David Chaffin, Miss Ena Mitchell (author of Notes on the History of Parker's Piece), Martha German (of Emmanuel Road)
Historical figures mentioned:
Charles Humfrey, Miss Annie Ayres, Ann Howard, Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard, John Clark,
Photos in Chapter 5:
- Half page photo of Orchard Street in August 1938,
- Full page drawing of Charles Humfrey,
- 1/4 page photo of Mrs Gladys Cable with her porcelain cat,
- 1/2 page photo of the Golden Rose public house in 1912, with what are probably the publicans and a younger woman standing outside (servant or daughter?)
Discover other roads published in this book: Index of Streets in Down Your Street
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