212 – 214 Victoria Road, Eagle Brewery, The Eagle & The Horse and Gate, Cambridge

History of 212 - 214 Victoria Road

1851 unnumbered unnamed

Charles Freeman, 32, publican, b Cambridge

Sarah Lander Freeman, 32, b Middlesex

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1861 unnumbered Horse and Gate

Mary A Reader, widow, 63, publican, b Linton

William Weatherall, brother, widower, 66, carpenter, b Swaffham

 

Joseph Beales, 43, brewer, b Cambridge

Margaret, 43, b Milton

Margaret, 18, b Barton

Charles, 15, b Barton

Henry Francis, 11, butcher, b Wilburton

Sarah Collis,  37, nurse, b Girton

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James Wisbey moved from the Priory Brewery circa 1874 and took over the Eagle Brewery. The Brewery was short-lived but the Eagle public house remained until 1964. In 1964 an artesian bore hole was discovered which presumably had been the brewery water supply.

See 208 Victoria Road

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1911

Melinda Elizabeth Dean, 51, widow, license holder public house, b Weston Colville

Frank Cyril, 19, butcher, b Chesterton

James Daniel Warner, boarder, 40, wood turner, b Herts

Ernest Edward Coe, boarder, 24, butcher, b Stradishall

[1913 Ernest Coe married Nancie Martin]

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1913

(212) The Eagle

Mrs M Dean

(214) Horse and Gate

Walter Parr

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1918

Frank Cyril Dean: Private 42054, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 27 March 1918. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Formerly 203516, Bedfordshire Regiment.

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1964

The Eagle demolished