C18: inn believed to have existed from at least this period.
1851 Bell
William Gilbert, 47, butcher and publican
1861 ? see no.80
1871 (79)
George Barrell, 58, publican
1881 The Bell Inn (79)
William Harmer, 36, publican
1891 Bell Inn
Emily Harmer, 97, inn keeper
1901 (79)
Emily Harmer, publican
1913 Bell Inn
Mrs Florence Tabor
Mrs E J Harmer
1962 –
1963
Enid Porter records in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore p223f how, in 1963, two 14 year old boys brought to the Cambridge Folk Museum two pieces of decaying wood that they had picked up in an outbuilding behind the Bell public house. The inn had by then been pulled down; the pieces of wood had markings on.
Most likely it was a table top used for the game of Merelles or Nine Men’s Morris.
It is known that the Bell Inn existed in the C18; it had a small entertainments room with stage and gallery, in which concerts were given until early in the C20.
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