WHITELOCKS YARD

HIGH STREET (WHITELOCKS YARD)

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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Whitelocks Yard

Also known as Workhouse Yard, Whitelocks Buildings.

From 1901 onwards this group of 13 cottages (on the site of the present Whitlocks) probably consisted of four facing High Street (nos 1 to 4), a terrace of six running at right angles to High Street in the middle of the site (probably nos 5 to 10), two on the northern edge (11 and 12) and no 13 at the far (western) end.

The 1901 and 1885 Ordnance Survey maps show a very similar layout, except that in 1885 there seem also to have been two cottages on the southern edge and an extra one at the far end. In 1891 there were 17 households recorded, 12 of them matching those from 1901 (and several of which had been there since 1851).

Going further back, the census records show the number of households to have been 17 also in 1881, 18 in 1871, 20 in 1861, and 21 in 1851. The yard is believed to have undergone a complete re-build in the 1880s, and we have not attempted to ascribe particular people to individual houses before 1891.

1 Whitelocks Yard

Also known as 48 High Street

1891-1925 Mrs Harriet (Lloyd) Rayner with children

1891-1935 Simeon Rayner (Harriet’s son)

1935-47 Bernard and Rose (Dimmack) Mynott

1947-65 James and Mary (Waddell) Brown

2 Whitelocks Yard

(address also in High Street 1926 to 1945)

1891-95 Mrs Elizabeth (Lovett) Haslop

1901-05 Mrs Hannah (Rowe) Ilett

1911-20 Mrs Jane (Maltby) Hymus

1922-25 Miss Rachel Carter