Two men stand on the pavement before an old two-story shop with a tiled roof, while a small dog waits beside them.

1 Christ’s Lane on junction with St Andrew’s Street (MoC)(J Palmer Clarke)

1 Christ’s Lane, Cambridge

History of 1 Christ's Lane

1901

A two-storey building with a tiled mansard roof stands on a corner, with two men and a small dog standing on the pavement.

1 Christ’s Lane, 1901

Cobbled Christ’s Lane in Cambridge, with bicycles parked by a building on the left and the shopfront of George F. Roe ahead.

Roe’s, Christ’s Lane date unknown (MoC 263/58)

1913

Roger Roe, furniture dealer

An old monochrome print showing a corner building with a tiled mansard roof and boarded-up storefronts along a narrow lane.

Christ’s Lane c.1920 (MoC 57/68)

1962

No thoroughfare

A modern two-storey building with a Metro Bank branch at street level, decorated with festive lights and metal scaffolding.

2 November 1984
Own Roe, the St Andrew’s Street antiques dealer, is the latest in a line of specialist private shops owners to be driven out of the centre of Cambridge by massive rent rises. His great-grandfather started in business at the corner of Christ’s Lane in 1822 but that shop was pulled down to make way for Bradwell’s Court in the 1960s. Recently E.J. Pigott (tools) left Sussex Street after nearly 50 years and now the Granta Wool Shop is concerned about a rent review. Model Mania in King Street has also moved.
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge CHRIST’S LANE Scrapbook, reference 84 11 02 p8.

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