Rose and Crown, Rosedale, 64 Boxworth End, Swavesey

History of Rose and Crown

Memory Lane (2004), Swavesey History Society, has a chapter by Joyce and Bill Chowings – “Where is the Rose and Crown?”

1765 licensee Sarah Wilderspin

1779 Archibald Wilderspin

1797 – 1812 Samuel Thorp

1812 Joseph Thorp

1841 Joseph Thorp, butcher

1850 inquest held into death of 4 month old sick child had been given poppy tea. Child died the next morning and a verdict of death from convulsions was returned. These would have been caused by the opiates in the poppies. (Swavesey Chronicle, Cambridge Chronicle)

1859 sold by Thompson’s Lane Brewery, Cambridge. Described as having two parlors, taproom, four bedrooms, cellar and dairy.

1861 High Street ‘Rose and Crown’

Joseph Thorp, 57, innkeeper and farmer 15 acres, b Swavesey

Mary Ann, 19, b Swavesey

Sarah, 13, b Swavesey

Charles Kester, 15, servant, b Swavesey

1860s – 1880s: Robert Webster, 22 acres

Ann wife

Robert, son, plumber and glazier

1881

Robert Webster

Ann

Jane, daughter

Christopher Ingle, grandson

1891

Robert and Eliza Ellwood, sausage skin cleaners

1909 Rose and Crown demolished and house built. Daisley’s move into Rosedale. There remains attached a building that predates 1909. There is also a cellar.

William Daisley was a shopkeeper from 299 Mill Road, Cambridge. He had been born in Swavesey where his mother had been working in 1881. An inheritance by William’s wife, Nellie Constance, made the new house possible. He was a perfectionist and insisted on the very highest workmanship.

1939

William Daisley, b 1862, farmer own account

Douglas Gee Daisley, b 1916, farmer assisting father