Shop Front from 45 Bridge Street at Museum of Cambridge
45 Bridge Street, le Cage
45 Bridge Street
West of Bridge Street in the Nineteenth Century
1573 no. 45 was reserved by the vendors of the Swan, Thomas and Joan Hodylowe, being then described as ‘another tenement adjacent, commonly called le Cage.’
1664 Edward Spence occupant
1739 sold by Hodylowe family to sitting tenant, Robert Ellis I.
1861
John Mitchell, 64, butcher, b London
1876 property descended to one of Robert Ellis’s grand-daughter’s husband, William Stanley. Bought in 1876 from William Stanley’s great-nephew Joseph Wentworth.
1911
William Reginald Chapman, 56, butcher, b London
Eliza Reginald, 53, b Cambridge
Bridge Street Thompson’s Lane Junction circa 1900
1913
William R Chapman, butcher
1939
In the 1930s the west side of Bridge was purchased by St John’s College an demolished. The college presented the 18th cent. bow-fronted window from no.45 to the Museum of Cambridge.
It was used to display general stores and toys.
See Enid Porter: Bridge Street
Shop front in yard of Folk Museum circa 1940
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