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1-3 Devonshire Road, Midland Tavern

1 Devonshire Road, Midland Tavern

History of 1 Devonshire Road

1879 Frederick Searle Fuller (Kellys)

1881

Frederick Searle Fuller, publican, 40, b Bishops Stortford
Ann Fuller, 37, b Hunts
William Fuller, 10, b Cambridge
Maud Mary Fuller, 8, b Cambridge
Mabel Jane Fuller, 4, b Cambridge
Alfred Charles Fuller, 1, Cambridge
Mary Collins, mother in law, cook, widow, 62, b Hunts

1883 William Tillbrook Claydon (Kellys)

1888 John Day (Kellys)

1891

George Day, 50, publican, b Suffolk

1892 George Day (Kellys)

1896 George Day (Kellys)

1901

George Day, publican

1904 George Day (Kellys)

1911

Hardy

1913 (1 & 2) Midland Tavern

H J Merriman

1916

Henry James Merriman (Kellys)

1962

Midland Tavern

Albert J Rees

1970

Midland Tavern

1971

Albert Gordon became landlord. He was born in Treasure Beach, Jamaica nd moved to England in 1961. The Cambridge Evening news headline “West Indian is new City landlord” (26.2.1971) The pub started to serve Caribbean food and held popular dances every Friday and Saturday nights. It became the meeting place of the Cambridge West Indian Cricket Club. The Midland became an international pub; Gordon told the Cambridge Evening news in 1971: The reverse of the colour bar operates in their pub. If anything, their customers are more friendly because of their differences.

2025

The story of the Midland Tavern featured in the Legacies of Windrush exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge.

Midland Tavern, Legacies of Windrush exhibition 2025

See also:

Memories of growing up in the Midland Tavern

 

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