
30 Magdalene Street, Pickerel Inn
History of 30 Magdalene Street
1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: has walls of plastered timber-framing and of brick…It is L-shaped on plan, with a long range projecting W from the southern part of the E range. The oldest structure is that half, approximately, of the W range adjoining the E range; it is of the 16th cent.
1830:
John Nutter (Pigot’s)
1839:
John Glasscock (Pigot’s)
1851:
William Bullen (Gardner’s)
Sarah Bulman was living here, sister of William Lusher. William and his father were living at 17 Willow Walk.
See Mill Road Cemetery entry
1852:
Thomas Favell (Slater’s)
1861:
William Lusher was living here. In 1863 he married Amelia Constable. In the same year he took over the grocer’s shop in 15 Petty Cury.
1869:
William Bullen (Post Office)
W Bullen brewery © Museum of Cambridge
1871:
William Bullen, widower, 50, brewer, b Norfolk
Alfred, 20, b Cambridge
Amelia, 20, b Cambridge
Fred, 12, b Cambridge
George, 8, b Cambridge
Eliza Ransom, 29, cook, b Stapleford
George Bullen, brother, 60, gardener, b Norfolk
Elizabeth Foreman, 23, servant, b Fulbourn
Mary A Patten, servant, 16, b Fulbourn
Charles King, 20, barman, b Hardwick
1878:
W Bullen and Son (Spaldings)
1881:
James Harris, 43, hotel proprietor, b Middlesex
Emma, wife, 27, b Wiltshire
Fladgate, son, 16, b Kent, deaf
Ernest, 14, b Kent
Ethel, 12, b Kent
Percy, 11, b Kent
Minnie, 10, b Kent
Jane Vane, 21, lady help, b Kent
Maria Hall, 21, chamber maid, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Hartley, 15, servant
1888:
Frederick Silk (Kelly’s)
1892:
Frederick Silk (Kelly’s)
1896:
William Silk (Kelly’s)
1913
William W Silk, Pickerel Inn, fly and funeral carriage proprietor
Frederick Silk
9/10/1922: There were exciting scenes at the Pickerel Yard, Magdalene Street after a loud explosion was heard in the harness-room. Fred Silk had been cleaning his motor bicycle and in filling the tank had spilt petrol. He then lit the acetylene lamp and threw the match down. Immediately flames sprang from the floor and the petrol tank exploded. His arm was rather badly burned and bicycle left in a fearful state, though not damaged beyond repair: about half the back tyre was burned completely away. The fire was put out by Thomas Frohock, a porter at Magdalene College, using a Minimax patent extinguisher. (Cam.News)
1933:
Benjamin Frederick Silk (Kelly’s)
1962
Pickerel Inn
Karl E Friman