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FOUNTAIN

Location:- Drapery Row to the right of the rear entrance to Deva House

Brewery or Owner:-finally- Halls of Ely.

1 Sir John Barleycorn	7 Victoria Hotel(Carlton)	13 Two Old Brewers
2 Temperance Hotel	8 King's Head	14 Bull
3 Eagle	9 Wellington	15 Green Dragon
4 Three Tuns	10 Dolphin	16 Fountain
5 Bushel	11 Lamb	17 Orby House
6 Woolpack	12 Lacons Stores (Pelican)

Towards the Wellington Street end of Drapery Row, to the right of the entrance to rear entrance to Deva House and Hadleigh House. .
Apparently the publicans did not favour advertising as it is not mention in any trade directory so far seen

Between 1911 and 1913 the magistrates decided to have a clear out of licences as they realised that with 30 licences in St Mary's ward alone they had one beer outlet for every 90 man,woman and child

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1787			Chapman's map
1858	Arthur Frederick Webb		Cambridge Independent Press
1861	Josiah Carter		census
1871	" "		census
1874	William Mockford		Bury Free Press
1878	William Whitmore	assaulted customer, fined 5s and 7s 6d costs	Cambridge Independent Press
1880	William S.Brewer		Bury Free Press
1881	Frederick Hall		census
1883	Frederick Hall (cautioned as to behaviour)	White Hart Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1884	transfer to Arthur Verer refused	" "	Bury Free Press
1884	Walter Welham	" "	Newmarket Journal
1889 Apr	Edward Famish		Cambridge Daily News
1889 Dec	Henry Leonard Gaught		Bury Free Press
1891	" "		census
1896	advert for tenant	White Hart Brewery	Bury Free Press
1901	Edward Famish		census
1902 Oct	Henry Dyson		Newmarket Journal
1906	Walter Cardwell	Star Brewery	Bury Free Press
1906	licence surrendered		Bury Free Press
1913	sold - unlicensed	" "	Newmarket Journal

This very poor image is all that has been found, with the Dolphin on the left, and the Fountain on the right.
Taken looking along Drapery Row from Wellington Street towards The Bushel

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