Notes for Alice May Fox: Down Your Street (ISBN0907115160) by Sarah Payne in chapter 14 about Rose Crescent in Cambridge page 90 the following two paragraphs:- In September 1930, Frank Hall, who lived at a house called "The Cabin" in Hills Road, was paying a rent of £101 per annum for the lock-up shop and at the back which he was using for his tailor's and robe-maker's business. In the same month Arthur Edward Twinn rented the basement and first and upper floors at £100 per annum from Gonville and Caius. Two years later, in August 1932, H. R. Aldiss became the new tenant for the ground floor. his rent was £101 per annum, the lease to run for "20 3/4 years". H. R. Aldiss died in October 1946, but the family business continued there. Lodging house keeper Mrs Twinn was quite a character in the Crescent. She obviously packed the students in, because a letter from the college to her husband dated 13th May 1931 alludes to some alterations to the rooms: "Dear Sir, I understand that you are thinking of dividing a large bedroom into two rooms. This is a matter towards the cost of which no contribution can be made by the college, but I am willing that you do no damage and that you restore the room to its original size at the end of your tenancy if required to do so by the landlord. " The Twinn's son Mr E. J. Twinn, of 4 Holland Street, married the daughter of Mrs Fox, another well-liked Rose Crescent landlady, who rented the basement and upper floors of no. 5 from Almonds's the dairy. He and his wife went to live with his mother-in-law when they were married. When their son was born in 1927, they were told he was the first child to be born in Rose Crescent for about 100 yea
More About Alice May Fox: Record Change: 31 Aug 2002
More About Alice May Fox and Eric James Twinn: Marriage: 27 Nov 1926, Cambridge Register Office, Cambridge. Record Change: 28 Jun 2006
Children of Alice May Fox and Eric James Twinn are:
Alice May Fox (d. date unknown)
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