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St Andrew’s Court, St Andrew’s Street

History of St Andrew's Court

1861

(1 & 2) Arthur Newbery, 39, tailor, b Suffolk

(3) Thomas Smith, 59, tailor, b Cottenham

(4) Joseph Hasban, 76, invalid, b Isle of Wight

(5) William Wright, 45, wheelwright, b Cambridge

(6) William Rayner, 46, chair maker, b Essex

(7) Isabella Bull,  63, b Suffolk

(8) William Wright Jun, 2, college servant, b Cambridge

(9) Ann Dawkins, 73, family laundress, b Cambridge

(10) Betsey Parmenter, 60, b Essex

(11) Mary Newling, 68, college bedmaker, b Quy

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1886

Cambridge Independent Press 28.8.1886: ANNUAL LICENSING… The first matter of interest was the license of the Rose and Tulip St Andrew’s Street recently held by Andrew Clarke. In reference to it,

The mayor said the magistrates had been blamed for granting a license to this house and asked the Superintendent of Police if it was originally granted by the bench.

In reply Supt. Turrall stated that it was a license under the old Act and that it was not granted by the magistrates but by the Excise. He also added that the landlord, Mr Freeman, had a thoroughly respectable man as tenant.

The Mayor said that in consequence of the numerous complaints respecting the house, if it was not conducted in a very much better way than it had been, it would be a matter for the consideration of the magistrates in the future.. The license was granted.

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1889

In Caroline Biggs’s ‘The Spinning House’ she writes that that the Rose and Tulip was known as a place for women to shelter from the gaze of the proctors down its long dark side passage. Annie Woodroffe assaulted Jane Elsden here and challenged her to fight on Parker’s Piece.

Cambridge Independent 15 Feb: Annie Woodroff, a girl of ill fame, residing in Kettle’s Yard, was summoned for having used obscene language towards Jane Elsden, another girl of the same class who lives in the Spotted Cow Yard, Northampton Street, on Friday night in St Andrew’s Street. From the evidence of the complainant and a witness named Florrie Hume, it appeared that between a quarter past seven o’clock on Friday night the defendant met the complainant in St Andrew’s Street near the Rose and Tulip public house. She used a filthy expression towards Elsden and offered to fight her for 10s on Parker’s Piece. Again at ten o’clock she repeated the offence in the same street. The defendant alleged that she did not leave her house that night until eight o’clock but admitted having a few words with the complainant about ten o’clock. The magistrates considered the case proved and as this was the third time that the defendant had been charged with using obscene language and the seventh offence in Cambridge she was sent to gaol for 14 days. Superintendent Turrall said that with reference to the Rose and Tulip, numerous complaints had been made to the police by the tradespeople in its immediate vicinity of the disturrbance and annoyance caused by girls of the class of the complainant and defendant in this case, who frequented the house and used the passage leading up to it for the purpose of getting out of the way of the proctors. The house had been a great nuisance for a number of years, and on more than one occasion the magistrates had considered the propriety of withdrawing the licence. The house was hired by Mr Freeman, brewer, and unfortunately he held it on a lease, otherwise he would have closed it before now. However, he (Supt. Turrall) felt it to be his duty to take some steps in this matter. Mr Redfarn inquired who was the present occupant of the house. Supt. Turrall replied that the landlord was a man named Miller. The house was continually changing hands. The Chairman: I think it will be only right to let Mr Freeman know what has takne place in this particular case. Supt Turrall: I will take care that that is done. The Chairman: And that you have called the magistrates attention to it. Supt. Turrall: Yes.

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1913

1 & 2: Rose and Tulip, Herbert James Stacey

3. David Williams, ostler

4. Mrs Clements

5. William Gifford, painter

Thurston’s warehouse

7. Mrs Summerlin

8. William Sparkes

9. Alfred Carter

 

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