George IV pub, East Road, c 1950

70 & 71 East Road, George IV, Cambridge

History of 70 & 71 East Road

1830 Stephen Cowell (Pigot’s)

1839 Robert Holden (Pigot’s)

1852 Thomas Holder (Slaters)

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1861

Thomas Holder, publican & broker, 39, b Hunts
Charlotte Holder, wife, 40, b Great Wilbraham
Emma Rolfe, step daughter, 13, b St Neots
Ann Rolfe, step daughter, 10, b St Neots

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1869 Thomas Holder (Post Office Directory)

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1871

Thomas Holder, licensed victualler & broker, 51, b Hunts
Charlotte Holder, wife, 50, b Wilbraham
Annie Rolfe, daughter in law, milliner, 20, b St Neots
Bessie Simpkins, niece, 13, b Wilbraham

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1879 Thomas Holder (Kellys)

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1881

Thomas Holder, publican, 60, b Somersham
Eliza A Holder, wife, housewife, 46, b Cambridge
Ernest Heighton, son of wife, 14, b Cambridge

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1883 Arthur Smith (Kellys)

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1888 Anthony Smith (Kellys)

1892 Alfred Cann (Kellys)

1896 Alfred Cann (Kellys)

1904 Mrs Sabina Cann (Kellys)

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1913 George IV

Edwin Dove (Spalding)

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1916 Chas Wm Aldridge (Kellys)

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17 July 1926
Trade at the George the Fourth public house in East Road, a beer drinking, working-class residential neighbourhood, had been carried on for years without complaint. There were about 20 persons living there every night of whom 16 had been there from one to 12 years; one old man, aged 83, had been living there for ten. Housing conditions in Cambridge are very bad, there were 700 or 800 applications for houses at the present time. It was difficult to see what was going to happen to these people if the license was withdrawn and the pub closed down
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge East Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, reference 1926 07 17c.

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1933 George Munns (Kellys)

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F T Unwin in ‘A Cambridge Childhood Revisited’ notes that Molly Hogg was a well-known landlady here.