• Home
• /
• Projects
• /
• Chesterton
• /
• Chesterton Road
• BackForward

Spring Brewery c. 1900

14 -16 Chesterton Road, Spring Brewery, Tivoli Cinema

History of 14 Chesterton Road

The brewery was founded about 1855 by James Dyson.

1880 sold to C Preston.

The owner of the Spring brewery which predated the Tivoli cinema was James McCallan Preston. He sold it to the brewer E Lacon in 1898 for £38,000.

---

1900

Spring Brewery circa 1900

---

1925

Most of the brewery buildings were demolished and the Tivoli Cinema, Cambridge’s second purpose built cinema, built in 1925. The architect was George P Banyard. The lower end of the cinema was reputed to flood when the river level was high.

The Tivoli, Chesterton Road

---

Tivoli cinema 1926 (Cambs Collection)

The photo shows the advert for “The Desert Flower” with Colleen Moore. The Tivoli Cafe is next door.

Tivoli and the Boathouse

---

Cambridge undergraduates have punch-up with anti-war activists outside The Tivoli Cinema – November 1933

---

1936, Blue Book

---

1939-1945

The Little Theatre, Chesterton Road was HQ ‘D’ Coy 5 Cambs Bn

---

1956

The Tivoli closed in 1956 and after a period as a warehouse became the The Exchange restaurant and health club.

---

14 and 14a Chesterton Road

1962

The New Spring public house

(14a) Arthur Conder, hairdresser

14 and 14a Chesterton Road

(16) Flinders (Wholesale) Electrical Retailers

---

1963

Tivoli Cinema in 1963, Flinders electrical wholesaler. Subsequently converted into fitness centre and then a pub.

---

There was a major fire at the premises in 2015.

Information about the restoration can be found here:

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/36849

Tags

• brewery
• cinema

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit and, if you do,  would consider making a donation today.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge.

As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion – unlike many other museums in Cambridge – and are facing the need to drastically cut back our operations which could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website.

If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well. If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge