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1 Botolph Lane

1 Botolph Lane, The Rutland Arms

History of 1 Botolph Lane

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: house was built in the 16th cent. The street-front was remodelled in the 18th or 19th cent and there are two modern shop windows. Inside the W shop has exposed moulded and stop-moulded intersecting ceiling beams and wall plates and a wall-post with shaped head. On the floor are chamfered beams.

1913 The Rutland Arms

Mrs Emily Highland


1962

(1) G J Alsop, butcher

(1a) Miss A E Rouse

(1b) Speedy Shoe Repair Service (R Carter proprietor)


2018

(1a) Jet Photographic

According to The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000,  staff at this shop believe it is haunted. There are noises and sightings of a man’s feet going up the stairs which disappear.

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