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29 Thompson's Lane29 Thompson’s Lane
History of Thompson's Lane
1543 Jeffrey Rankyn died childless and left to his nephew Gerard a tenement ‘sett and buylded in the same paryshe of Saint Clement at the corner leading towarde Harlestones place commonly called the corner howse wherein Wylliam Smythe pewterer nowe dwellythe.’ ‘Harlestones place‘ was the same as the Harlston Inn [site of Anchor brewery], on the east side of Quayside Inn. The corner house was probably where no. 29 Thompson’s Lane stood in 1886. For more information on this plot see William Dak Tenement entry. (Source: T E Faber, An Intimate History of St Clement’s Parish, 2006)
Roger Thompson, owner of the brewery, built a new house on this site circa 1674.
1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: the almost symmetrical block centred on the entrance doorway and extending to the back wall of the stairwell in depth was built early in the 19th cent. before no. 30.
1803 Richard Foster
1841 uninhabited
1851 Francis Eaden, brewer and spirit merchant (in 1841 Richard Foster was living in Brooklands)
The house was sold together with all of the Fosters’ estate including the Thompson’s Lane brewery in 1859. At the time no. 29 had 8 bedrooms and was lately occupied by Richard Foster deceased whom T E Faber assumes to have been the same as the Richard Foster living in the house in 1803.
1870 Edward Beales took over the running of the ironmongers business from his uncle, Swann Hurrell.
1881
Edward Beales, 42, iron monger, b Cambridge [son of Patrick Beales]
Anne, 41, b Cambridge
Frances, 9, b Cambridge
Edith, 7, b Cambridge
Herbert, 6, b Cambridge
Gertrude, 4, b Cambridge
Mary Plumb, 50, cook, b Balsham
Rebecca Barton, 25, nursemaid, b Isleham
Esther Smith, 24, housemaid, b Oakington
1884 valuation of household furniture of Edward Beales (MoC134/63)
1891
Arthur Harper, 37, butler, b Suffolk
Jane Saggs, 28, housemaid, b Essex
Ellen Brewers, 16, servant, b Essex
1893 property occupied by Alexander MacIntosh and son; at the time he leased the Ironworks on the Thompson’s Lane brewery site.
Macintosh and Sons
Macintosh and Sons
1913
Miss Gillard
1962
Mrs O Edwards, guest house
2019 (29 and 28)
29 – 28 Thompson’s Lane
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