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Trinity college staff: Johnathan Apthorpe on right, [Frederick?] Carter [b 1841?]on left and four bedmakers. (Cambridgeshire Collection)59 Hertford Street
History of 59 Hertford Street
1901
Jonathan Apthorpe, 71, retired college servant, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 51, b Hants
Frederick, 20, college clerk, b Chesterton
Leonard, 19, invalid, b Chesterton
Frank J, 16, solicitor’s clerk, b Chesterton
1913
Jonathan Apthorpe, pensioner
59 Hertford Street was the home from at least 1955 of Anthony Alfred Brotchie. He had been approached in 1941 by Canon Marshall of the Catholic church as a replacement winder for the church clock, a prominent landmark on Hyde Park Corner. The clock and its chimes were driven with a 24-hour power reserve and required manual winding every day. ‘Catholics in Cambridge’ ed N Rogers, has a an account by Tony Brotchie of his time as clock winder. Once, because there were no lights in the clock tower he had to use a torch to wind the mechanism. Someone must have reported the strange lights because he was quickly investigated by plain clothes police.
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