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The Portland Arms
The New Spring
My dad, if not exactly born in a pub, was brought up in a pub, the Portland Arms Cambridge. His grandparents, also had a pub, the Fitzroy Arms in Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, but when we were children his regular pub was the New Spring, down near the river. It was further away than the Portland, […]
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Revisiting the Scales Hotel
I wrote about the Portland Arms, the pub in Cambridge that my grandfather Reuben Elsden once held the license, and I was reminded of a post I wrote some time ago. Here it is: From the Scales Hotel to the Portland Arms was no distance at all because they were one and the same! The […]
MoreThe Scales Hotel… to the Portland Arms
The Scales Hotel, Cambridge … some time before 1920, which was rebuilt as the Portland Arms Hotel in the 1920’s In order to keep the license, when the rebuilding was taking place, one half was knocked down and my grandfather and the family lived in the other half, keeping the pub open while the rebuilding took […]
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Lois Elsden 