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3 – 4 King’s Parade

History of 3 - 4 King's Parade

Nos 4, 4a and 5 is of four storeys. Cast in the heads of the two rainwater downpipes on the west is the date 1834, the probable date of the building. The wide doorway off centre is original but has been moved. A stone above is inscribed C.C.T.G. probably for Greef, a plumber, who lived here.

Circa 1900, may have been a carpenter’s and undertakers.

1846

The jug is engraved with the arms of the plumbers and glaziers guild. Thomas Greef left instructions in his well that it was to be filled with beer for the benefit of his friends every Saturday at the Eagle pub in Ben’t Street.

4 King’s Parade, Greef beer jug 1846 (MoC)

1861

unnumbered: Anne Greef, widow, plumber 14 men, b Cambridge

unnumbered: John Swan, 61, retired bootmaker, b Cambridge

1871

(4)

Robert J Greef, 38, master plumber employing 10 men, b Cambridge
Louisa, 40, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Heddy, wife’s mother, 80, visitor annuitant, b Cambridge
Harriett Allgood, 25, cook, b Coton
Caroline Bilson, 20, housemaid, b Sussex

(3)

John Swan, 72, bootmaker retired from business, b Cambridge
Frances, 71, b Somerset
Hester Biggin, niece, 23, companion, b Bucks
Fanny Barron, 23, housemaid, b Herts

1876

Inventory of Stock in Trade of late R Greef King’s Parade, Feb 1876 (MoC261/64)

R Greef, King’s Parade, Inventory 1876

 

1881

(4) Greef

(3) Swan

1891

(4) Greef

(3) Morris

1901

(4) Greef

(3) Else

1911

1913

(3) Grant and Lane, music and pianoforte warehouse
Alfred West

(4) Miss Lane
Frederick Rogers

(4a) Henry Edward Greef, plumber, decorator

1962

Copper Kettle Restaurant and Copper Dive, Miss M Lennox Towler proprietress

(4a) C P Stockbridge, antique dealers

1981

Copper Kettle: Silvio Fella

Silvio bought the business from the bakers Wrights of Haddenham who were in partnership with Mrs Lennox-Towle

2018

Copper Kettle

More Information

In 2024 Ann Kennedy Smith gave a talk to the Mill Road History Society about Louisa Greef.

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