Notes for: Nathaniel Robert Holmes
CambridgeChronicle 14 May 1864:
NATHANIEL ROBERT HOLMES, HORSEDEALER, GREEN MAN INN, TRUMPINGTON,
Begs to thank the Gentry of the University, County, and Town for past favours during his twelve years' residence at Shelford, and to inform them that he has entered upon the above Inn, where he hopes for a continuance of their favours.
Cambridge Chronicle 6 Apr 1872:
Godmanchester Fair. - Our annual fair was held on Easter Tuesday. The weather was most unpropitious as showers of rain fell during the day. The attendance of business men was not so large as on former years, and the same remark applies to the supply of horses. The animals exhibited in the fair were not of a first class order. Most of the best animals were sold on the previous day. Prices ranged high, and animals were soon caught up at good prices. Trade was brisk. Mr. Hooper, of the Bull Inn, had a good show of horses at his extensive range of stables. Mr. Holmes, Trumpington, exhibited a splendid team of horses, consisting of hacks, carriage horses, and hunters; 30 out of this lot were really fine cattle, and fetched prices ranging from £60 to £70 each, and the extreme price was £80. A fine red roan cob, noticeable for its high step and fast going, was sold for £84. . . .
Cambridge Independent Press 14 Jun 1873:
CAMBRDIGE DIVISIONS PETTY SESSIONS.
SATURDAY. - Before H.W. Pemberton and I.H. Wilkinson, Esqs.
TRUMPINGTON. - Robert Holmes, publican, Trumpington, was charged on remand by C. Stretton, inspector of weights and measures, with having on his premises, on the 26th May, fifteen deficient earthenware measures. Mr. Stretton said that one of the quart measures was the smallest he had examined, being five ounces, or one eighth, deficient. - The defendant thought they were all correct. Fined £1 and costs.
Bury Free Press 2 Oct 1886:
CAMBRIDGE.
STOURBRIDGE FAIR. - Saturday last was the horse fair day in connection with this old-established mart. The horses were exhibited upon the Common, near the river Cam, and in close proximity to the Barnwell station of the Great Eastern Railway. Welsh and Irish ponies were shown in abundance, and these realised from £7 to £10 each, but few of them were disposed of. Cart horses were a magnificent show, but no spirit was exhibited by the company, and they hung on hand. The owners of nags and coaching horses, Messrs. Benton (Cambridge), Holmes (Trumpington), and Layton (Fulham), brought splendid looking animals, but even in this class of horses buyers were wanting, and only a few consequently changed hands. The prices asked ranged from £25 up to £60. At the close of the fair the majority of the horses were unsold.
Cambridge Chronicle 14 Jan 1898:
TRUMPINGTON, CAMBS., Two Miles from Cambridge,
HIGHLY VALUABLE FREEHOLD FULLY-LICENSED PROPERTY, Comprising
The Old-established and well-known COUNTRY INN, known as "THE GREEN MAN,"
Containing 7 Bedrooms, W.-c., Bar, Tap Room, Smoking Room, Sitting Room, Dining Room and Parlour, with excellent Wine and Beer Cellars; with EXTENSIVE PREMISES, Including
4-Quarter BREWERY, with PLANT, Stabling for about 40 Horses,
COACH-HOUSES, &c., with PADDOCK, with Artificial Jumps and Horse Run, KITCHEN GARDEN,
With accommodation for Bowls, Quoits, &c.; The whole containing about 3 ACRES,
And combining exceptional opportunities for the development of a most remunerative Licensed Trade and a valuable Building Estate, as well as for the continuance of the Old-established and well-known Business of a Horse Dealer, as lately carried on by the late Mr. N. R. Holmes.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY Messrs. GRAIN, MOYES & WISBEY, On FRIDAY, 28th January, 1898, at 5 o’clock in the Evening, at the Lion Hotel, Cambridge, by direction of the Executors of the late Mr. N. R. Holmes.