HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE)

HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE)

NOTES:

A. According to electoral registers, the houses in High Street were only numbered in 1950. Before that year, other evidence must be used to determine which house is which, such as the order of the houses as it appears in various directories, registers and censuses, as well as comparing where particular families lived in different records at different times. In some cases, what follows has to be a “best guess” that fits the evidence as well as possible.

B. Nowadays we use the term “High Street” to mean the main road through Trumpington from Long Road south to where Hauxton Road and Shelford Road diverge. It is that section of the former A10 which is covered here. However, over time it has also been known variously as Cambridge Road, London Road, Trumpington Road and Main Road.

C. We have attempted to trace properties back to the time of the census in 1851 (and in a few cases earlier still). The majority of the buildings standing in 1851 were still in existence in 1950, and if so they are given their numbers from that year. However, many have been lost over time. In that case we have tried to give an indication of where, in relation to known houses, they probably stood.

D. The oldest large-scale (25 inches to a mile) Ordnance Survey map of Trumpington shows the village as it was in 1885. From that year onwards it is relatively easy to specify where each house stood. However, before then (and this includes the censuses of 1881, 1871, 1861 and 1851) there has to be some speculation regarding their location. Baker’s map of 1830 and the Inclosure Award map of 1804 both show buildings, but it can be difficult to match them with later representations.

E. Please read the general notes about these street pages .

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WEST SIDE (Even numbers)

2 High Street

Keepers Cottage, Kingston House

1911-38 Armond and Dora (English) Cannell with children

1939-45 Arthur and Gladys (Newman) Missing

1947-50 Cedric and Winifred (Deighton) Masterman with mother Mrs Ethel (Watson) Deighton

1951-70 Sidney and Mary (Spencer) Patterson

4 and 6 High Street

Pair of semi-detached cottages , known as “Park Houses”

4 High Street

1 Park Houses

1947-60 Kenneth and Dorothy (Wagstaff) Nelson

1961-63 Ralph and Margarete (Scheiber) Carrington

6 High Street

2 Park Houses

1947-58 Arthur and Olive (Taylor) Hitch

1959-70 William and Olive (Smith) Taylor with father Augustus Taylor

18 High Street

Attached to the Coach and Horses (Wok n Grill) and since 1960 part of it.

1861 James and Mary (Wilson) Smith with children

1871 Joseph and Sarah (Long) Parker with children

1881 George and Maria (Westley) Braid with children

1884-1891 Charles and Agnes (Beaumont) Lloyd with children

1892-1915 Thomas and Laura (Crack) Rayner with children

1916-60 Charles and Florence (Simpson) Wilkerson with children

20 High Street

Coach and Horses, Wok n Grill

1841-51 George and Rachel (Birks) Elliott with children

1861-71 James and Rachel (Smith) Stearn with children

1881 James and Betsy (Lunnis) Kay

1888-91 Charles and Matilda (Harradine) Scott with children

1901 Joseph and Elizabeth (Smith) Scanlon

1903-27 Henry and Alice (Boys) Howard Pare with children

1924 William Swann (son-in-law of the Howard Pares)

1928-31 Arthur and Violet (Willmott) Button

1934-37 Percy and Ellen (Finch) Carter

After WW2 various people lived for a short period at the Coach and Horses, but it is not clear how many of them were fully resident.

1957-70 Howard and Beryl (Kellett) Harrison

22 and unnumbered High Street

By 1950, when High Street houses were numbered, only number 22 remained. The southern half of this pair of semi-detached cottage had been demolished in about 1945.

22 High Street

1851 William Elliott

1851 Mrs Mary (Kemis) Darnell [house servant]

1861-86 Charles and Mary (Taylor) Fromant with children

1891 James Shildrick with children

1901-40 Frank and Eliza (Stearn) Mynott with children and brother Frank Stearn

1947-68 Leslie and Ena (Dockerill) Deer

Unnumbered High Street

1851 William Creek with niece Dorothy Whitbourne

1861 George and Charlotte (Coleman) Haslop with children

1871 unoccupied

1881-1901 David and Sarah (Lloyd) Lloyd with children

1881-1944 Harry and Emma (Brown) Lloyd (son of David and Sarah) with son Reginald Lloyd

House demolished by 1949.

24 and 26 High Street

This pair of semi-detached cottages were combined in about 1968, then taking the number 24.

24 High Street

1851-65 Joseph and Elizabeth Kefford with daughters

1851-1911 Misses Phoebe, Sarah, Charlotte, and Mary Kefford (daughters of Joseph and Elizabeth)

1920-45 Montague and Alice (Randall) Parker with children

1946-57 Charles and Florence (Chapman) Hunt

26 High Street

1851-89 James and Mary (Dickerson) Huddlestone with children

1891-1936 Charles and Martha (Powter) Wilson with children

1891-1939 Miss Rhoda Wilson and Miss Susanna Wilson (daughters of Charles and Martha)

1941-67 William and Rose (Shearing) Wilson with children (grandson of Charles and Martha)

28 and 30 High Street

This pair of semi-detached cottages were combined in about 1968, then taking the number 30.

28 High Street

1851-91 Richard and Martha (Waters) Horner

1901 Thomas and Emily (Kefford) Cambridge

1911-19 Montague and Alice (Randall) Parker with children

1927 Cornelius and Annie (Watkinson) Sadler

1928-67 Arthur and Margaret (Busby) Wilson

30 High Street

1851-91 Samuel and Sarah (Morley) Wilson with children also mother Mrs Charlotte Morley

1901-15 Mrs Mary (Wilson) Smith and family (daughter of Samuel and Sarah)

1926-55 Herbert and Rosina (Pearmain) Haslop with children and sister Miss Edith Pearmain

1956-70 Harold and Evelyn (Tingey) Anderson

32 High Street

The Smithy

Just south of the War Memorial; demolished in the 1980s and now replaced by Bidwells Stone Cross. No residents.

34, 36, 38, 40 High Street

A terrace of four houses was on this site from 1881 to 1935. Before that there seem to have been five or six houses. About 1935 the southern two were demolished and the present number 40 was built in their place. The remaining houses survived until 1959.

34 High Street

1879-81 Daniel and Julia (Harradine) Gentle with children

1891 Charles and Susan (Lloyd) Harradine with children

1899-1904 Charles and Sarah (Wilson) Seekings with children

1911 Robert and Florence (Chamberlain) Wilson with children

1913-31 James and Florence (Ingrey) Wilson with children

1950-59 Basil and Rosamund (Garner) Laurie

Absorbed into 36 (Post Office) during the 1930s and 40s.

36 High Street

Post Office 1901-43

1871-1897 William and Susan (Careless) Saunders with children

1877-81 John and Susanna (Saunders) Moss with children (daughter of William and Susan)