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Bobbi Ward, 53 Jesus lane c.198053 Jesus Lane, 4 St Radegund’s Buildings
History of 53 Jesus Lane
1861
William Wiseman, 60, yeoman, b Cambridge
1913
James Wright, lodging house keeper
Philip Lake, University lecturer in Geography
1931
Beatrice Ward starts running lodging house here.
1938 Electoral Roll
Beatrice Gertrude E. Ward née Germany
Albert Edward Ward
Reginald Ward
Beatrice and Albert married in 1901.
Other members of the Germany family lived at 50 Jesus Lane
1939
Albert Edward Ward, b 1878, manager clothing salesman
Beatrice Gertrude E, b 1879, unpaid domestic duties
Reginald Claude, b 1918, R.A.F.V.R.
Irene Helen Cockcroft, b 1906, unpaid domestic duties
Ruth L Maud Frotman, b 1923, paid domestic duties
Adrian Adams, b 1920, pre-clinical student in medicine
1955 – 1979
Mr Ward, worked for Crossman and Co solicitors
Pearl Kathleen ‘Bobbie’ Ward, wife
Susan, b 1943
Michael, b 1952
Veronica, daughter
The Wards’ marriage at St Anselm’s Church. Hatch End 15.8.1942
Jesus College students boarded during term time and other guests in the summer including Willie Herbert of Scott Polar Research and the actress Anna Quayle who was starring at The Arts Theatre in Pal Joey. The Cambridge Evening News included ‘Bobbie’ in an article about Cambridge landladies. The house used to have a yellow front door and distinctive railings, now gone.
Grandma Beatrice also took me into their garden at no.50 Jesus Lane. An alleyway ran along the back of the houses with an entrance into each house’s garden from it. Our garden was just under a 100’ long with a walled off area at the back that was the old stables. Our garden had a large outbuilding at the back, a garage with room above and the remains of a stable and we had a mounting block in the main garden I remember a horse trough with ring to tether a horse to it in the corner in the back section. The college took about half the length of gardens and a carpark was built so all the gardens were shortened. I dug up an old coaching lamp and threepenny bits and farthings in that section.
Veronica attended Park Street Primary and then the High School for Girls. (info from VG2024)
1962 Kelly’s
Mrs A E Ward (Beatrice Ward)
1982 Cambridge Evening News 7/5/1982: story about landladies who were among the first to take female students.
53 Jesus Lane: 7/5/1982 Mrs Bobby Ward
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