CAMBRIDGE ARMS, 52 FLEET STREET

1861 John Deacon listed as licensee, previously 1859 a John Deacon of Fleet St listed as manufacturer.

In 1870, the Cambridge Arms was run as a beerhouse, the licence being transferred from Thomas Denman to John Knight, but Knight soon found himself in financial difficulties culminating in him leaving the Cambridge Arms the following March.  He was eventually declared bankrupt to the tune of £196.11/6 in October of that year.

Rendell Voce took over from Knight, but he too only stayed for just over a year.  This was not before he had an altercation with James Brown, who having just been released from prison, smashed the Cambridge Arms window, when refused a drink whilst drunk.  Then in October 1872 Mary Wightman took on the licence.  Mary married Joseph Robert, so he then became licensee.

Thomas Clarke, ran the pub with his wife Mary.  Mary was once charged with unlawfully taking water belonging to the Leicester Waterworks Co.

Thomas was to die here in 1880.

In 1890, it was listed as brewing, Stephen Atkins the victualler.

On the 10th of February 1900, the brewing equipment was auctioned off.

Little else is known as yet of this pub.

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