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Red Lion, High Street, Trumpington, 1920s (Cambridgeshire Collection)Red Lion, Trumpington
History of the Red Lion, Trumpington
1842
Sale of Red Lion, 1842, part of the James Nutter estate (Cambridgeshire Archives)
1842_Sale_of_Nutter_properties
1871
Robert Wilson, publican, b Trumpington
Martha Wilson, b Trumpington
1881
Martha Wilson, publican, widow
1891
William Saunders, publican, b Trumpington
Charlotte Saunders,
1901
Philip Howard, carter and publican, b Trumpington
Mary Howard,
After 1901:
John Moss
1907
Augustus Charles Hacon
Hacon was a member of the Red Lion quoits team. In 1909 he appeared in court after knocking down a pedestrian while riding his bicycle home from a quoits match. (Camb Independent 26.11.1909). From 1914 he was a member of the local Volunteer Training Corps.
Extract from the Inland Revenue Land Value map for Trumpington, 1910-11, showing the Red Lion. Cambridgeshire Archives, file 470/047, sheet XLVII.10.
1914
19 December fire which burnet down the Red Lion. Press report: The Red Lion public house at Trumpington was completely gutted by fire but the landlord and his family escaped out of the bedroom window. Flames burst through every window and the inside was completely burnt out but the roof was hardly damaged. Very little commotion was caused in the village and people living in a cottage opposite were not aware of the fire until the following morning. The contents were completely destroyed, including £50 in notes of Slate Club money. But gold and silver were recovered from the ruins. The home of the Hacon family was destroyed.
1916 – 1935
Walter Frost, he was landlord and also head waiter at Trinity College. he ran a taxi company and father of 12 children. In 1917 he was summonsed for not shading a window. (Cambridge daily News 12/11/1917)
1935
“The tenant of the Red Lion at Trumpington had been there since 1916. If the licence was taken away he would be deprived of his livelihood & the Red Lion Self-Help Club would be broken up, magistrates heard. There were 34 allotment holders on ground belonging to the pub and half the allotment land in the village had already been lost on account of building. It was an old-fashioned house, very quiet and homely and the Feast was held in a field at the rear. They served teas to anybody who asked for them, but not much beer. The licence was renewed.” (Newspaper report quoted by Mike Petty, 5 July 1935 .)
1936
Old pub demolished
1939
New pub built closer to the road. It ws closer to the road and put an end to the traditional Feast in the meadow. It was reputed to be haunted.
Trumpington War Memorial and the Red Lion, 1969. Cambridgeshire Collection. Frith Collection, TM.30.
1970
Whitbread’s attempted to create a 60 bed motel at the site.
1975
Red Lion closed and was demolished. Trumpington Court houses built.
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