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The Anchor (MoC272.71)

13 Silver Street, The Anchor

History of 13 Silver Street

1851

Edward Newman, head, 50, publican and milkman, b Bourne

Frederick Samuel, head, 25, miller, b Cambridge


1872

pub first licensed

George Jarvis proprietor, also bricklayer, builder and boat proprietor.


Anchor Cricket Club, Cambridge, 1892

In this group are H Carpenter, Tom Hayward, J C Hobbs, G Watts and J O’Connor


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Dolbys

According to ‘The Cambridge Nobody Knows’, 1977 by F A Reeve, the boatyard at the Anchor Inn was once the only one in the district, and when it was owned by Mrs Robson, who later married Dolby, no boats were ever let out on Sundays.

The manager of the Anchor boatyard, Mr Prime who lived in Mill Lane, was the man to introduce punts in Cambridge after he had seen them being used for racing in Henley.


1954

The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, records that in 1954 there was a sighting of a ghost in Silver Street close to the Anchor. A student from Queens’ College followed the figure of an old man with long thinning hair and a morning coat. When the student was within two paces of the figure it disappeared. He then wrote a detailed account of the experience which he sent to the Society for Psychical Research. The Society president, Frederick Stratton, University Professor of Astrophysics was convinced of the sincerity of the account.


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