Tinted postcard showing riverfront houses with moored rowboats and a boat rental business sign by a narrow Cambridge waterway.

Old houses at Bullen’s, Magdalene Street

31 (32) Magdalene Street

History of 31 Magdalene Street

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: consists of a 16th cent. range to the street..the house seems once to have formed an annexe to the Pickerel Inn. … In the N wall is an Ovolo-moulded oak doorway and, close up under the eaves, a blocked two-light window, both of the 16th cent; in the roof is an unaltered 17th cent. dormer-window with leaded quarries.

A watercolor painting showing a river with flat-bottomed boats moored beside historic college buildings and a stone bridge.

Pre 1831 view towards St John’s College

Etching showing a riverbank with old buildings and a stone bridge, with a small boat moored in the foreground.

View up river from Bullen’s boatyard, after 1831 (date of Bridge of Sighs)

1862 (32)

Benjamin Jolley, 40, furniture broker, b Chesterton

A watercolor painting shows a riverside scene with thatched cottages, poultry, people, and a bridge in the distance.

Cam at Magdalene Bridge, date unknown

1913 (31)

Frederick W Bullen & Co, furniture dealers and boatbuilders

Bullen’s boatyard can be seen on the picture alongside the Cam.

A punter stands in a boat on a narrow river beside a boat yard with brick buildings, trees, and several moored wooden boats.

Bullen’s boat yard 1935 (Cambridgeshire Collection)

1962

The Bridge Wool & Needlework Shop (Lillie Evans)

Projects

Magdalene Street

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