162 (71) Newmarket Road, Shamrock Passage

History of 162 Newmarket Road

At the rear of this property was Shamrock Passage. It is not listed on the 1841 census but is named on an 1840 map.  In 1850 an advert describes six freehold houses behind the Shamrock public house near Barnwell Old Church. The Shamrock PH is not mentioned in a census by name. Varying numbers of properties are listed in Shamrock Passage from 1851-1891.

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1861

Henry Branch, 28, labourer

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1871 ?

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1881 (71)

Robert James, 63, general labourer

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1891 (71)

Henry Plumb, labourer

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1901 (71)

John Chappel, general dealer

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1903

Shamrock Passage, Newmarket Road — assault with a flat-iron, 6 October 1903
From certain events that occurred in Shamrock Passage, Newmarket Road, Cambridge recently it appears that the virtues of the flat-iron as an aid to argument continues to meet with dangerous recognition. One woman adopted this method of silencing her neighbour who was rendered insensible. Complainant: “She flew out of the house, shouted ‘You old —, take that’. I went down and remember nothing afterwards. Defendant: “When I came home you was wonderful drunk … you kicked me and ‘busted my door open”
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Newmarket Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, entry 1903 10 06.

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1913

John Smith

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1962 not listed