Red Shed

Sarrum's best-known entertainment house, licensed as three adjoining public houses, holding close to a thousand standing for ballads, prize fights, players, speakers, betting and hiring.

A former wool store in Fleecegate turned into an immense drinking, music, speaking and prize-fighting house; Sarrum's cultural equivalent to an opera house.

Named with it

• Nell Vetch, the Cinder Lark · singer
• Thomas 'Iron Tom' Dace · prize fighter
• Mara 'Mother' Brindle (power behind it
• three licensees owe her money)

At the table

Will put a mangled scene from a London success on the same boards the following night; its stars are famous far beyond the county in ways the Mayor is not. Staged a rough local version of The Last Lantern that Cambridge called vandalism; Nell Vetch sings there.