Cobbold Cottages, Saxham Street (tm 216 & 216a)
So called because during the mid-20th century they were semi-detached cottages owned by the Cobbold family of Grange Farm and occupied by farm workers.
until after the 1960s they had been some what neglected!
Some occupiers can be named, but this is very much a work in progress
Reginald Thrower
He had been an emplyee on Grange Farm who remained as a tenant even after he finished working on the farm
Billie Rogers (the younger)
Possibly around the 1960s.
1881 census: Thomas Robinson (b1850) and his wife Susannah with children, Thomas, Arthur, and Mary
Their next door neighbour is John Bird and Edmund Goldbury (Saxham Cottage.
David Jermin and others.
