
52 Sidney Street, The King’s Head
History of 52 Sidney Street
This was the site of The King’s Head. In the early 19th century it was a coaching inn and ran a daily coach, The Blucher, to Huntingdon. The head ostler, George Traise, moved from here and took over the licence of The Engineer in Hills Road in 1845. Barraclough (2018) notes that this was a smart move as the railway was putting coaching inns out of business. The King’s Head closed about 1851.
1851
Charles Loyd Davis, 44, inn keeper, b Hants
Susannah, 39, b Surrey
Maria, 12, b Cambridge
Westbrook, 7, born Cambridge
Susanna, 5, b Cambridge
James Vaugham, visitor, 39, solicitor’s clerk, b Surrey
Charlotte Haslow, 29, bar maid, b essex
Sarah Phillips, 25, waitress, b Suffolk
Maria Mean, 24, chambermaid, b Ickleton
Mary Taylor, 25, cook, b Isleham
William Savell, 22, boots, b Cambridge
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1962
Eastern Gas Board
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2018
Lakeland