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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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