A dark timber-framed building labeled Red Cow sits at a street corner with shops at ground level and cars parked out front.

Red Cow 1970 (MoC 199/70)

1 Corn Exchange Street, The Red Cow, Cambridge

History of 1 Corn Exchange Street

1898 by Richard Reynolds Rowe. Red brick and timber frame and plaster gable and turret. Plain tile roof with gabled ends, hipped corner, bands of shaped tiles and crested ridge-tiles. Brick gable end and axial stacks with corbelled brick caps and shafts. Plan: L-shaped plan on corner site. Old English-Jacobethan style.

1898

1899 04 02

The Red Cow Inn concert hall, Guildhall Street, Cambridge. Special engagement for six nights of Miss Sadie St John, comedienne and dancer; Miss Gracie White, serio and dancer; and Mr G. Kent, comedian and mimic. American bowling saloon now open. —Advertisement. 99 04 02c

Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Guildhall Street Scrapbook.

1913

W & T Avery, weighing machines

The Red Cow, Harry Swan

1962

The Red Cow, Percy Leary

The timber-framed Red Cow public house features a patterned facade and multiple bay windows, with cars parked on the street.

The Red Cow, Corn Exchange Street c.1960

Narrow street view featuring The Red Cow pub sign on the left and a long brick building on the right under a grey sky.

Red Cow, Corn Exchange Street 1964 (MoC 430/64)

1971

Cars parked along a narrow city street leading to a half-timbered building with a Red Cow sign, two women walking on the right.

The Red Cow (1st Floor), Modern Craft & Citizens Advice Bureau, from Guildhall Street, 1971 (Peter Soar)

A narrow brick-walled alleyway with bicycles parked on both sides and a hanging pub sign for The Red Cow on the left wall.

Entrance to the Red Cow on Guildhall Place, 1971 (Peter Soar)

The facade of The Red Cow public house, a brick building with a columned entrance and signs, on a street with a parked bike.

The Red Cow, Corn Exchange Street (MoC120.72)

A corner view of a building featuring an ornate, dark wood-panelled oriel window decorated with carved reliefs and gargoyles.

Red Cow, 1 Corn Exchange Street 1974 (MoC613/74)

A corner building on a street with a Hockeys Sold By sign, arched windows, and a hanging sign for The Red Cow pub.

The Red Cow, Corn exchange Street (MoC429/74)

A corner building with a domed turret stands at the junction of Corn Exchange Street, with a Sold by Hockeys sign displayed.

The Red Cow, Corn Exchange Street (MoC428.74)

1999

The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, reports sightings here during the Cambridge Ghost Walk.

Sources

Mike Petty Archive

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