Notes for: Michael Brewer
Many newspaper advertisements between 1824 and April 1862, including the following:
Cambridgeshire Chronicle and Journal, 29 Oct 1824. M. Brewer, Nurseryman, Seedsman and Florist, London Nursery, Trumpington Road, and Regent Street, Cambridge, has for sale etc. etc.
The Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, 23 Apr 1831: Michael Brewer, Nurseryman, Seedsman and Florist, Trumpington Causeway, and Market Hill, Cambridge, . . .
The Huntingdon, Bedford and Peterborough Gazette, 1 Jan 1831, has: Monday last, at his uncle's residence, Trumpington Causeway, aged 28, after a lingering illness, Mr J. Brewer, late Gardener to Lord Lyndhurst. Josiah Brewer, age 28, was buried at Cambridge St Mary the Less in 1831. He was baptised in Grantchester in 1802, the son of Josiah and Elizabeth Brewer.
Cambridge Chronicle 15 Jan 1842:
Thomas Bradford (52), charged with stealing three trained fruit trees and four maiden fruit trees, the property of Michael Brewer of Trumpington. Verdict, guilty. Three months’ imprisonment.
Cambridge Chronicle 19 Aug 1843:
Amongst the sufferers in the immediate vicinity of the town the gardeners attract the most commiseration, and assuredly their case is a very hard one. The general effect, as we have it is by no means easy to conceive the desolate picture presented by their erstwhile smiling and bountiful premises after the storm had passed over them. The destruction of glass alone was enormous, but this was a minor matter when compared with the devastation committed amongst expensive fruits, and buds and plants, which were growing up into a source of future profit. Mr. Widnall’s loss would seem to be considerably greater than the amount at which we estimated it last week: it is still, however, impossible to form a correct judgment of value of the property positively lost, many of the frames which were destroyed contained very costly plants of various sorts. We understand that upwards of 2,000 hearts’-ease were destroyed , and in one of the frames which fell before the fury of this most terrific tempest were more than 60 plants of a valuable geranium. At Mr. Brewer’s, on the Trumpington-road, twenty-two thousand squares of glass, exclusive of hand-lights, were broken: a statement has been published to the effect that the number of squares broken at Mr. Brewer’s was about 10,000, but we have every reason to believe the fact to be as we have stated.
Cambridge Chronicle 19 Aug 1843:
THE LATE STORM
The well-known Benevolence of the University, Town and County of Cambridge, which has been so frequently manifested in cases of far a less distressing nature than one now presented for consideration, has moved several compassionate and influential persons to begin a SUBCRIPTION in behalf of Mr. Brewer, of the London Road Nursery, Trumpington, whose property was entirely Devastated by the awful storm of the 9th August, his Greenhouses, Frames, Lights &c. smashed to atoms his Stock of rare and valuable Shrubs, Plants and Flowers Destroyed; and himself, after a life of honest and successful industry, reduced to a state of comparative ruin.
In this Statement, no attempt is made to stimulate the public sympathy by a laboured circumstantial detail of Mr. Brewer’s losses. A bare recital is felt to be sufficient where the facts are so notorious; and a charitable spirit requires, only to call it into action, an object and a direction.
Subscriptions thankfully received at the different Banks in the town, and at the offices of the Cambridge Chronicle and Independent Press.
LIST OF SUBCRIBERS follows.
Cambridge Chronicle 17 Apr 1869:
TO NURSERYMEN AND GARDENERS.
To Let,
The Old-established NURSERY BUSINESS carried on by Mr MICHAEL BREWER for upwards of 40 years, on the Trumpington-road, near Cambridge.
The Premises contain Five Green and Hothouses, Three Six-light Brick Pits, also a large Showhouse and Seed and Flower Shop facing the promenade walk and main road.
The Glasshouses have been painted and repaired this season, and the old Nursery Stock and Box-edging cleared off, and the Ground prepared and Stock and Box-edging partly replanted.
May be taken by the Year, or a Lease would be granted to a suitable tenant.
For particulars apply to Mr. M. BREWER, The Nursery, Trumpington-road, near Cambridge, who is about declining business, being in the 86th year of his age.
Cambridge Chronicle 30 Oct 1869:
THE NURSERY, TRUMPINGTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE.
MICHAEL BREWER BEGS to thank the Public for the support he has received for may years past in the above Business, and to state that he has disposed of the same to Mr. DILLISTONE, on whose behalf he solicits a continuance thereof.
WM. DILLISTONE, NURSERYMAN, SEEDSMAN, and FLORIST, AUCTIONEER, and GENERAL HORTICULTURAL AGENT,
On succeeding to the business carried on by Mr. BREWER, begs to intimate to the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and Inhabitants of the Borough and County of Cambridge, that he intends keeping a First-class Stock of Articles in all the branches of his Business, and will be happy to supply the same on the most moderate terms.