69 Bridge Street

History of 69 Bridge Street

Pevsner notes: six bays, brick, early C18 with a later parapet (rainwater heads dated 1791). According to 1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: it is mainly of the early 18th cent.; the tall range to the street appears to be a reconstruction of an earlier building and parts of the cellar was are of 16th or 17th cent. brickwork. The kitchen at the NW end and the rooms over are part of no.68, a 17th cent. building refaced in the 19th, formerly the ‘Bell’. The house, previously the property of the Twin family, was bought for Sir Isaac Pennington MD in 1793 for £2,000. During the 19th cent. it was divided into two; though now one house again, two 19th cent. staircases remain.

Wikipedia:

Isaac Pennington was educated at Sedbergh School and St John’s College, Cambridge. From 1773 to 1817 he was physician to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and from 1793 to 1817 Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University. He bequeathed the house to St John’s College.

Sir Isaac Pennington

Another resident of the house was Richard Monckton Miles, 1st Baron Houghton.

Lord Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes

1660s

This was the location of the house of Thomas Ewin. Token money issued by Thomas Ewin is on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

According to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thomas Ewin was the son of John Ewin, mayor of Cambridge at the restoration of Charles II in 1660. According to a contemporary account, ‘On Fryday the 11th May 1660 King Charles was proclaimed King by John Ewin Chandler then maior of Cambridge. The maior himself read the Proclamation, the Towne Clerke more audibly spoke it after him’.

1841 unnumbered

William Ekin, 36, brewer

Mary [née Nix], 35,

Samuel Ekin, 26, apprentice

Maria Ekin, 26,

Augustus Ekin, 6

1851

William Ekin, 46, brewers maltster foreman, b Huntingdon

Mary, 49,

Hannah Ships, 71, servant, b Lancs

Eliza Wilkins, 21, servant, b Lancs

1861

William Ekin, 56, brewer, b Huntingdon

Mary, 58, b Kennington Hunts

Augustus G, 25, b Cambridge

A M E, daughter, 10, b Cambridge

Susan Marshall, 28, servant, b Suffolk

M A Hammond, servant, 20, b Horseheath

1911

Arthur Cooke, 42, surgeon, b Bradford

Lucy Vivien, 40, b Birmingham

Helen Vivien Gresham, 10, b Cambridge

Roger Gresham, 4, b Cambridge

Kathleen Roberts, governess, 30, b Wales

Mary Anne Lily Stearn, 31, parlourmaid, b Teversham

Alice Dant, 32, housemaid, b Chesterton

Martha Rayment, 39, cook, b Royston

1913

Arthur Cooke, MA MB FRCS. Hon Assistant Surgeon to Addenbrooke’s Hospital

1970

John Wejknis