A man rides a bicycle past a brick building with decorative gables and ground-floor shopfronts on a sunny Cambridge street.

Junction of Trumpington and Silver Streets (MoC)

71 – 72 Trumpington Street, Cambridge

History of 71-72 Trumpington Street

1862

Junction of Silver and Trumpington Streets. 1862 (J Palmer Clarke)

1913

Neal, James and Son, tailors and robe makers

Four brown circular four-hole buttons, two of which are embossed with the words James Neal Ltd Cambridge on the rims.

Buttons by James Neale (photo GS)

1962

Neal James Ltd, tailors

1977

A Cambridge tailors, James Neal Ltd, which has been in Cambridge for 107 years, has been taken over by another tailors which is even older. The firm which has bought out the Trumpington Street business is Ede and Ravenscroft which started trading in 1689. It specialises in ceremonial and academic robes and is a leading manufacturer of wigs and legal wear

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Trumpington Street Scrapbook, 11 November 1977.

A brick building facade with a green shopfront sign reading Ede & Ravenscroft, a green awning, and a Silver Street sign.

Ede and Ravenscroft, Trumpington Street (RGL2026)

A street view of Trumpington Street with a brick building on the left, a stone church on the right, and pedestrians below.

Trumpington Street, Cambridge (RGL2026)

Sources

Mike Petty Archive

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