Down Your Street, Sara Payne. II East Cambridge. Index of Chapter 3, Maid's Causeway

Below is a brief overview and index to chapter 3 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 nine pages long and looks at Maid's Causeway and Doll's Close, the date 10-17 May 1984
 is given in the page title.

Being much larger than the previous chapters it contains more interviews with local residents, who also fill in some background about their house, their spouses and their work.  Those listed below as living/interviewed are most likely to yield details of their lives, whereas the historical people mentioned might simply be a name on a list of who owned a piece of land a particular house was built on.  The "historical" names are probably of lesser interest, but sometimes there's a nugget of information for those interested in those characters.

Living people named/interviewed: 

• Richard Levente, Madge Levente, Margaret Laing, Mrs Margaret Reiss, Dr Bernard Butts Reiss, Freddie Webber, Dr Lisa Jardine, Kit Martin, Jane Roth, George Kingsley Roth, Mrs CD Newman, Mr & Mrs Smee, CD Smee, Mrs Kathleen Apthorpe Webb, Dr Hugh Apthorpe Webb, 

Archivists who helped with background/research: Catherine Hall (Gonville & Caius Archivist), Roger Lovatt (Peterborough).

Historical figures mentioned: 

• Stephen Perse, Dr HF Apthorpe Webb, Charles Humfrey, Quinlan Terry, Sir George Downing, Mr Ashman, Misses Deighton, Mr Buller, Henry Thomas Hall, William Eaden Lilley, William Eaden, Mr Barker, Sir William Butts, Sir Henry Butts, Edith Wolfe, Blacklee, Apthorpe, Brett, Papworth, Sherwin, Sir Leslie Martin, Baron von Hugel, Parson Kilvert, Mary Kingsley, Kingsley Roth, Rev Sibson, Canon Edward Church, Dr Gordon Simpson, William Waters, Benjamin Jolley, Robert Donat, Ella Voysey, Tyrone Guthrie, Flora Robson, Frederick Apthorpe Webb, Miss Elizabeth Robinson, Sir Clive Sinclair.

Photos in Chapter 3: 

• Half page photo of Doll's Close, Maid's Causeway.  
• Full page view of the roofline of Doll's Close from an attic window of 18 Maid's Causeway. 
• 1/4 page photo of Richard and Madge Levente with two of their cats. 
• 1/2 page photo of Maid's Causeway. 
• 1/2 page photo of Maid's Causeway. 
• 1/2 page Grafton House. 
• 1/2 page 1920s photo of the Zebra public house. 

Overall, the interview with the residents in this piece gave a lot more information about their individual houses and a lot of specific resident names were attributed to invidividual houses.

Discover other roads published in this book: Index of Streets in Down Your Street



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