Foister & Jagg, St Andrew Hill (MoC257/60)

8 St Andrew’s Hill / 7 St Tibb’s Row (St Andrew’s the Great Workhouse)

St Andrew's The Great Workhouse

1829 St Andrew’s Workhouse

The building that encompasses 8 St Andrew’s Hill and 7 St Tibb’s Row was built in around 1829 as St Andrew’s the Great Workhouse. After the Poor Law reform in 1836 it was used for the reception of about 30 married couples and aged women.

In 1838 it was sold to a shoeing smith. This may have been George Waters but we have no listing until 1851.

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St Andrew the Great Parish Workhouse, Cambridge
Founded in 1756, the workhouse of St Andrew the Great became one of Cambridge’s best documented parish institutions. Although established to provide employment for the poor, Murphy notes that by the late eighteenth century its inmates were predominantly elderly, sick or orphaned people who required care rather than work. The institution reflects the gradual transformation of workhouses from centres of labour into places providing long-term welfare.

Source: Michael J. Murphy, Poverty in Cambridgeshire.

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1851 (Gardner Directory of Cambridge)

George Waters and Son, Blacksmiths and Veterinary Surgeon, St Andrew’s Hill

1869 (Kelly)

George Waters, veterinary surgeon, 8 St. Andrew’s Hill

1878 (Spalding)

8 St Andrew’s Hill
George Waters, veterinary surgeon
Charles Oddy, dealer in old clothes

St Tibb’s Row
George Waters, shoeing smith (forge), and veterinary surgeon

1891

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1904 (Spalding’s)

St Andrew’s Hill

Artistic Sign Union
8 National Telephone Company’s Stores
8a Hanks, RC, inspector, Pearl Insurance Company

St Tibb’s Row

Temporary Premises of the Town and County Liberal Club
Livery Stables

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1911 Artistic Sign Union

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1913 (Spalding)

8 St Andrew’s Hill

Artistic Sign Union

St Tibb’s Row

Law’s Livery stables, Law, H. B. & Law, A. B.
Biggs, J. J., robe maker

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1915 “Destructive Fire”

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1916 (Kelly)

8 St Andrew’s Hill

Artistic Sign Union, Fred Chapman, manager
Josiah Jas. Biggs, robe ma

St Tibb’s Row

Law Herbt. B., livery stables

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1960 Foister & Jagg Printers (8 St Andrew’s Hill)

The sign on the building says Lion Hotel & Garage, the entrance to the Lion Yard was immediately to the north of the building on St Tibb’s Row and is just visible on the left of this photo..

At the start of the 20th century Foister & Jagg were within the Old Corn Exchange Building.

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1962

8a St Andrews Hill: Speedy Shoe Repair

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1967 (Kelly)

7 St Tibb’s Row (empty)
8a St Andrews Hill: Speedy Shoe Repair
8 St Andrew’s Hill: Cosmo’s Café

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1969 Cosimo’s Cafe Italiana (8 St Andrew’s Hill)

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1970 Central Watch Craft (8a St Andrews Hill)