The Bowling Green, High Street, Chesterton

25 – 27 High Street, Chesterton, Bowling Green, Robert Peel, Queen’s Arms

History of 25 - 27 High Street Chesterton

Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: house, now two tenements, not. 25, 27 High Street …. though of the 18th cent., the building has been drastically altered and a N wing added in the 19th cent. The street front is of 18th cent. brown brick to the top of the first floor windows; all above, in Gault bricks and the roof, are of the 19th cent. The front was symmetrical, with a central doorway, two windows to each side and five above; the original door case has gone; one of the windows has been converted into a second doorway…. No. 27 is  the ‘Bowling Green’ public house.

1755 King’s Arms [?]

1780 Queen’s Arms

The Bowling Green dates from 1789. It took its name from the bowling green laid out in the back garden.

1840a: Sir Robert Peel

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1871 High Street Sir Robert Peel Hotel

John Harding, 62, wheelwright, b Norfolk

Alice, 60, b Lincs

Mary Golding, daughter, 32, b Norfolk

Rosa Hannah Harding, 22, b Norfolk

Alice Harding, 14, b Norfolk

Robert L Walker, lodger, 46, annuitant, b Teversham

Thomas Jackson. lodger, 36, shoemaker, b London

Alice Golding, granddaughter, 5, b London

In 1876 Robert Walker died of fatty degeneration of the heart and he was living in Victoria Road Chesterton. In 1861 he had been living on Willowes Farm in Teversham. In 1872 his wife Elizabeth was detained in Fulbourn lunatic asylum.

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1890s the Bowling Green

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1913

(25) John Waller, basket maker

(27) John Waller, Bowling Green PH

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5 March 1932 — Eagle Tavern relicensed
Magistrates refused to relicence the Bowling Green public house, High Street, Chesterton. The landlord said a billiard room had been re-decorated, he had regular customers and it had become more or less an institution. But there had been a decrease in trade, despite the growing estate nearby. The Maypole in Portugal Place was the headquarters of the Whippet Club; the tenant was 70 years of age and his only means of support would be the old-age pension. This together with the Alhambra in East Road, the Eagle Tavern beerhouse in Victoria Road and the Clarendon Arms was relicenced.

Credit: Mike Petty, 32 03 05.

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1936 closed

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1962

(25-27) David Ellis, architect

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1985 still retained upstairs billiards room