Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Centre Cambridge
  • /
  • St John's Street
  • Back Forward
A pale three-storey building with sash windows, housing a Savoy Taylors Guild shop with sale posters in the ground floor windows.

14 St Johns Street, Cambridge

14 St John’s Street, Cambridge

History of 14 St John's Street

1861

Charlotte King, 40, tobacconist, b Essex

1911

Rosa Mary Barker, 44, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge

1912

P M Mason, typewriter dealer

1913

P M Mason & Co, The Cambridge Typewriter Depot

Mrs Barker, lodging house keeper

1939 (14 & 15)

R Buttress & Co, tailors and outfitters

Mrs Lockyer

(Elegance) day and evening gowns

In 2026 Michael Donovan talked about his apprentice at Buttress & Co which lasted for five years, from 1957 to 1962. At the time he was living at 152 Foster Road, Trumpington.

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Buttress.mp3

 

Sources

  • 1861 census
  • Kellys Directory
  • Oral / Unpublished Sources
  • Sound Recording

Tags

  • Listed building

Projects

  • St John's Street

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

St John's Street

St Ives Bridge and Chapel

The Dower House (The Old House)(The Cottage), 26 Lower Street, Thriplow

26 St Mary’s Street, Eynesbury

16 St John’s Street

11 St John’s Street, The Merry Boys

15 St John’s Street

8 St John’s Street

12 St John’s Street

17, St John’s Street, Cambridge

13 St John’s Street

St John’s College (St John’s Hospital), Cambridge

9 St John’s Street

Richardson Candles