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1963 St Giles Cemetery, Huntingdon Road Cambridge - grave of Ada Broom (Hatchman)

15/2/2021

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8th Dec 1963 - 10 days after the funeral of Ada Broom (formally Cruden, nee Hatchman). St Giles Cemetery, Huntingdon Road Cambridge
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1955 Oxford Road Cambridge

15/2/2021

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1955 - Arthur Cruden (at back leaning on chair) with some of the Westley Family, Oxford Road, Cambridge.
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February 12th, 2021

12/2/2021

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11 Sep 1931 - Passport of Violet & Arthur Cruden, Cambridge.
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11 Sep 1931 - Back of passport of Violet & Arthur Cruden, Cambridge.
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1931 - Violet Cruden - nee Westly - Kidd & Baker Cambridge The Blitz Studios Photography
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George Cruden, Cambridge Military c.1940s

12/2/2021

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Old photograph of George Cruden, 2nd from top left. Cambridge Military.
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Oxford Road, Cambridge family c.1935

12/2/2021

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c.1935 -  Back garden of Oxford Road, Cambridge. Bottom left to right - Connie Toller (nee Broom), Ada Hatchman (prev. Broom/Cruden), Marie Cruden, Violet Cruden. Top left to right - half seen probably Bill, Ed Toller, George Cruden, Arthur Cruden.
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1st Camb. HQ in Cambridge. 1925

12/2/2021

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My Great Uncle Arthur Cruden at the 1st Camb. HQ in Cambridge. 1925
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Rowing on the River Cam 1925

11/2/2021

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Stroki Cullins, 7 Packham, 6, 5, 4 Dant (Selwyn), 3 Wilkinson, 2, Bow Cruden (Arthur), Cox

This is my Great Uncle Arthur Cruden rowing on the River Cam by Stourbridge Common.
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George Cruden, Russell Street Cambridge

11/2/2021

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Old photograph c.1923 George Cruden, Russell Street Cambridge
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The Wayman Family, Oxford Road, Cambridge.

11/2/2021

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Old photograph c.1935 The Wayman Family, Oxford Road, Cambridge.
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George Cruden, Oxford Road Cambridge

11/2/2021

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Old photographs of Great Uncle George Cruden in his army uniform in the back garden of the house at Oxford Road, Cambridge c.1940's
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Marie Cruden, sitting in back garden of house in Oxford Road, Cambridge

11/2/2021

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Marie Cruden, sitting in back garden of house in Oxford Road, Cambridge c.1920's
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Eaden Lilley of Cambridge adverts for household items c.1920's

11/2/2021

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2 old adverts for Eaden Lilley of Cambridge- a well loved shop that is no longer in Cambridge.
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Cambridgeshire Transport Section ? WWI

11/2/2021

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Old photograph of Cambridgeshire Transport Section ? WWI 
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Cambridgeshire Transport Section WWI

11/2/2021

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Cambridgeshire Transport Section WWI
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Cambridgeshire Transport Section WWI

11/2/2021

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Cambridgeshire Transport Section and my Great Uncle Arthur Cruden, who lived on Russell Street and then Oxford Road, Cambridge. Arthur is bottom right of the picture, as you look at it, sitting cross legged on the floor with his arms folded.
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Arthur Cruden, Oxford Road, Cambridge. WWII ?

11/2/2021

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My great Uncle Arthur Cruden, standing in the back garden of the house in Oxford Road, Cambridge c.WWII ?
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Room in Oxford Road, Cambridge. 1915-1925

11/2/2021

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Old Photograph of a room in the Broom & Cruden family home on Oxford Road,  Cambridge c. 1915-1925.
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Granny working at Chivers Fruit Farm & Pye Radio in Cambridge

29/6/2014

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My granny (Connie Toller - nee Broom) talking about when she worked at Chivers Fruit farmers and Pye Radio in Cambridge c.1933
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Granny's School 1

29/6/2014

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My granny (Connie Toller - nee Broom) talking about her first school in Russell Street, Cambridge c.1918 onwards
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Russell Street House Cambridge and pimple face!

29/6/2014

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My granny (Connie Toller) talking about the house she lived in when she was very little(c.1915-1920's), on Russell Street, Cambridge. 
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The Globe Pub, Cambridge.... and shoe money :) c.1915

29/6/2014

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My granny (Connie Toller) talking about her mum (Ada Broom) working in The Globe Pub on Hills Road Cambridge c.1915
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Great Uncle Russ and the balloon

29/6/2014

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This is my Granny (Connie Toller) talking about when she was little and lived down Russell Street in Cambridge. This is her tale of her brother Russ and the balloon - this little incident would have taken place about 1919 
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Lilly Langtree & Cambridge

14/3/2014

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Last night (8/07/2010) I stayed in a hotel in London called ‘The Grand Royal’, situated at no’s 1-9 Inverness Terrace, London – just to the north side of Hyde Park. To my surprise, after settling in, I noted that the hotel bar was named the ‘Lilly Langtree Bar’ as I waited at the reception to ask why the bar had been named so I also noticed that there was a glass display cabinet in the lobby containing several old frames photographs of Lilly Langtree. When I asked the lady at reception what the link with the hotel and Lilly Langtree had been, she was unsure but duly printed off a history of the hotel for me. According to the brief history which I was given, the hotel had been built/renovated at the turn of the last century, commissioned reputedly by Edward VII as a private residence for his mistress Lilly Langtree. The architect was Charles Mews who had just completed the London Ritz. What was unusual about the renovation was the addition of a private theatre – which is now the ‘Lilly Langtree Bar’ – Lilly Langtree was a famous socialite and actress and the hotel I stayed in last night was created, supposedly, as both a love nest and a career bolster for Lilly.

I took some photos of the pictures of Lilly Langtree displayed in the hotel lobby and some of the theatre bar which you can see below.

The theatre bar originally consisted of two rooms, the front circular and domed (the auditorium), the second (the stage) rectangular with a proscenium arch between them. It is a very intimate space with mirrored walls and Venetian glass chandeliers with soft plush velvet seating. The wonderful, original Edwardian theatre seats are still there and in very good condition.

My interest in this and surprise came from the fact that I had ended up in a place once frequented by my great grannies friend! My great granny was Ada Broom (previously Cruden, nee Hatchman) and when she lived on Russell Street in Cambridge she would let out rooms. Lilly Langtree had stayed at my great grannies house in Cambridge several times when she had been playing at the ‘New Theatre’ in Cambridge, which was just down the end of Russell Street on Hills Road (no longer there). My granny (Ada’s daughter) remembers Lilly Langtree staying at the house well. One of the tales she tells is how Lilly had a little dog she would carry under her arm (not too dissimilar from the Paris Hilton’s of today), granny told me how one day Lilly came rushing into the house calling “Mrs Broom, Mrs Broom!” and how grannies mum had come running to see what was the matter. Lilly had said “Oh Mrs Broom, it’s my poor little dog! He has hurt his foot!” Great granny had said “Alright dear, give him to me; let me have a look…now tell me what happened.” Lilly replied by explaining how she had been in town (Cambridge) and had gone to Boots (still there today!) and at the entrance to Boots there was a revolving door and as she had gone through the door her little dog had got his paw caught. She had rushed straight back to great grannies house on Russell Street. Great granny bandaged the little dogs paw and saw him alright.

Granny told me how Lilly left a box of chocolates on the sideboard for her dog to have as a treat and had told great granny to give them to her dog every now and again when she was out. Granny said how her mum had said “Now dear, you are not to touch those chocolates coz they’re for the dog” and granny had replied “but they’re real chocolates for people” and granny still says today “they were you know!”

So what a nice surprise it was last night to spend a night in a hotel where Lilly had once slept too!


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Lilly Langtree
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my room at the Grand Royale
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original windows at The Grand Royale
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The Lilly Langtree Bar
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The Lilly Langtree Bar
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The Lilly Langtree Bar
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The Grand Royale
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The Grand Royale
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War Time Child in Cambridge. WWII

13/3/2014

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This is my aunts story ( Joan Punter, nee Toller )- as she wrote it- March 2005.

I was born in 1940 so war was a normal state of affairs for me and my sister. The family ( grannie, aunts, uncles and cousin ) all lived in Oxford Road Cambridge. My father was away fighting the war in France, in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Uncle Bill was in the Fire Service and Uncle George was in the R.A.F. so men in uniform was normal. Uncle Russ and Uncle Arthur worked away some of the time in munitions, so ours was a world of women.
We grew our own veg and salad, kept the allotment going to help Bill, with chickens and pigs to feed. We made our own clothes often and baked cakes and pies.
Nights were spent sleeping under the air-raid metal ) table, surrounded by wire mesh on a red cross blanket. We had an Anderson shelter in the garden, which was cosy but cold and damp. We also went in the cupboard under the stairs when the siren went, and took it in turns to sit on the gas meter! Luckily for us the bombers which came over Cambridge usually headed up north to bomb our factories which made munitions, but I remember the sickening siren sound, followed by bombs exploding. My daddy was driving these baddies away, and he later told us how he came back from Dunkirk with bombs dropping all around and near their boat. He kept saying " Please God get me home to my wife and children."
I was five when it ended, and all I remember then was red, white and blue everywhere, street parties, and best of all a new baby brother! ( Sadly I had friends whose daddy never came home as ours did.)

Joan ( nee Toller )

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Queen Edith School c.1982

30/12/2010

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Found this little note home to my mum from the headmistress of Queen Edith School, Cambridge [Miss J Johnson]
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    About Michelle's Cambs History

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