The Bun Shop, St Andrew’s Hill, Cambridge (Cambs Collection)

2 St Andrew’s Hill (The Bun Shop), Cambridge

History of the Bun Shop

The Bun Shop saloon and retail bars  was built in 1902 as ‘Vaults’ to serve the labourers on the Downing Site where work started that year.

It was numbered 1 or 2 St Andrew’s Hill at different times as Whitmore’s was number 1, but was also 13 Downing Street.

3 January 1913
Whitmore & co, wine merchants in liquidation, based in Downing Street – good stock of vintage wine, catered at Alexandra Palace, owned Bun Shop, Queens Arms
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge DOWNING STREET & PEMBROKE STREET Scrapbook, reference 1913 01 03.

25 March 1975
Cambridge pubs range from grimy to gracious according to a drinker’s guide just published by a group of undergraduates. Grime, according to the guide, is synonymous with the Locomotive pub in Mill Road, and grace is one of the virtues of the Plough Inn at Fen Ditton. Praise is lavished on the “thematic scheme” of the Galleon bar in the Burleigh Arms, Newmarket Road. The Free Press has “exceptional character” and the Baker’s Arms, East Road, is called a “refreshing surprise”. The Bun Shop, Downing Street is said to be “something of a Cambridge institution and well worth a visit”
Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge DOWNING STREET & PEMBROKE STREET Scrapbook, reference 1975 03 25.