| Description | Transcripts of statements made by named local residents; histories of sheep on the green in their lifetimes. Statements from Thos Apthorpe, carpenter Newnham; Hannah Brown, Coldham Lane; Henry Crane, groom Orchard Street; William Gee, herdsman Russell Street; John Glasscock, Fitzroy Street; Edward Goode, boatbuilder Sheep Green, and Sarah his wife; Ann Gray and Henry Gray (aged 25), Newnham; Richard Holloway, lab. 144 East Road; Thomas Baker, butcher Castle Street; Thomas Preston, cowkeeper Newnham; Richard Richardson; James Smee, corporation pindar, Albion Row; John Spencer, 3 St. Andrew’s Terrace; Jacob Holfe, drover Smarts Row; Francis Allen, lab. 20 St Peters Street; Thomas Bell, marine store dealer Cambridge Place; Henry Driver, cowkeeper Coronation Street; Edward Mayes, herdsman Sun Street; William Wilson Powell, butcher etc Milton; William Skinner, butcher Coronation Street; Matthew Hattes, union workhouse; William Hall Palmer, butcher Petty Cury; Henry Houlden, attorney’s clerk Cambridge; John Cook, at Mr Watts Regent Street; John Blanks, tollman Russell Street; John Gibson, drover Gas Lane near St Matthews Church; John Mansfield, butcher Newmarket Road; Thomas Halton, shoemaker, Union House; William Melbourn, printer, Union House; Patrick Beales, Mayor of Cambridge. |