Green Man Lane & Victoria Terrace
J & H Roadley
History
Green Man Lane was named after the Green Man pub which was at the entrance to the lane, off the High Street.
There was a row of terraced cottages named Victoria Cottages (Nos 1-6) as which were built perpendicular to the High Street, to south (left hand side) of Green Man Lane. Pedestrian access into the rear yards was via Victoria Walk on the left, with an access gate at the High St end, with gardens fronting onto Green Man Lane. When village houses were re-numbered around the 1960s they were given a number on Green Man Lane, (1,3,5,7, 9 & 11 ) rather than Victoria Walk. Victoria Walk continued on past the cottages to their allotments. Gerald Ives said the small allotments further down Green Man Lane were where they would deposit the night-soil from their toilets.
It is not known exactly when these cottages were built but they were on the 1885 OS map. The 1913 sale notice had them all for sale as one lot.
The cottages were described as ‘Brick built, plaster & tiled, two lower and two upper rooms, with front gardens to Green Man Lane and a yard at the back containing an outbuilding for each cottage and a brick built ash pit for joint use of the tenants’.
Wesley Bond lived in the Cottages, then called Victoria Walk in 1950s and rented out by Frank Swann. Wesley said the cottages were two up, two down, made of clunch and timber, and you could see the beams. There was a kitchen and living room downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs- one opening out straight from the staircase. There was a narrow twisting staircase. The kitchen had a small oven. In the back garden was a toilet – there was no bathroom in the house and eventually the cottages got condemned as unfit. There was only one tap for the water supply and this was along the back passage way into their back gardens. One bad winter the tap froze up as did the ground below it and Wesley tried to thaw it by burning paper and asbestos below it and was shocked when the asbestos exploded.
Occupants
Nellie Emma Horner, daughter of Arthur James and Martha Anne Horner, was born on the 16th August 1904 in one of the cottages. She married Fred Collins born in 1899 to Julia & John Collins who also lived in one of the cottages. Another son Bert Collins was born in 1906 in one of the cottages.
The 1910 land use evaluation map gives M.H.Foster of Trumpington as the owner. The occupants, with map numbers, were:
378 Frederick Parker
379 John Collins
380 Henry Smith
381 William N Gilham
382 Alfred Whiston
383 Patman
The 1913 sales document gave the occupants as :
Parker
Collins
Carrier
Gilham
Whiskin
Edwards
1911 John & Julia Collins were living in Harston, Green Man Lane, with family, likely in No 2 with:
Harry 21 B:Shepreth farm lab
Robert 16 B: Shepreth farm lab
Amy Sarah 14 B:Shepreth gen service
Frederick John 11 B: Harston school
Jane Elizabeth 8 B: Harston school
Bertie 4 B: Harston school
Census, electoral registers (ER), burial records and local knowledge gave the following information about the occupants of Victoria Terrace in 1930s-50s:
No 1:1945 (ER) George & Hilda Simpson lived at 1 Victoria Walk
Mrs Burnett c early 1960s (source: Andy Bowden)
No2: (source: Cheryl Marriot) Mrs Harry Northrop & husband Harry lived at No 2 Victoria Terrace in Apr 1918 – from postcard info. Photo shows them there in 1927. Their son, Leslie Arnold and Ivy Northrop had Yvonne Northrop 8 Sep 1927 of 2 Victoria Terrace. Agnes Victoria Northrop 1932 in Victoria Walk- unsure of connection to others.
1945-55 Mary A and Bertie E Cox lived there (ER)- called Victoria Row
No 3:1945 Albert & Sarah Mallows at 3 Victoria Walk
1955 (ER) Sarah Mallows lived there
1960s Mrs Mallows at No 2? c early 1960s – husband came from Hauxton
No 4:1955 (ER) Bernard Warren, son of Charles Warren, gardener, (D:21 Jul 1939 age 65) of VT. Charles’ daughter, Joan Louvain Warren of Victoria Terrace age 20 M:11 Nov 1935 to Cyril Charles Harold Loates of Bassingbourn. Witness: Bernard Charles Warren.
No 5: Alan John Thomas Davison (born 29 Apr C:30 May 1937) of Alfred & Edna May of 5 Victoria Row Harston, lorry driver
Diana Olive Hedger (born 16 Nov C:26 Dec 1939) and Barbara Ann Hedger (born 26 Apr C: 15 Nov 1942) of Frank William & Lily Rebecca of 5 Victoria Terrace Harston bricklayer
1955 Frederick & Julia Dyson lived there(ER)
No 6: Muriel Kathleen Ashby C: Mar 1934 (B:26 Feb 1918) of blank deceased and Florence deceased.
1955 (ER) Charles Culling lived at 6 Victoria Walk
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