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Old Cottage, Queen's CottageThis cottage was one of a number of old buildings that survived until 1935 to make way for the Fisher Building.
For more detail about the development of this area of Queens’ College and Cambridge see:
Gwen Raverat mentions ‘a little Tudor cottage which stood among the trees‘ in period Piece p.44.
An undated note on a contemporary postcard says: ‘An old cottage belonging to Queens’ on the opposite side of the river. Some of the college dependants and servants live in it.’
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1891:
Queen’s Cottages 1 Silver Street
John W Sumpter, 51, college porter, b Windsor
Eliza, 54, b Suffolk
Arthur G, 19, chemist, b Cambridge
Queen’s Cottages 2 Silver Street
William Digby, 34, college servant, b Essex
Rebecca, 33, b Little Downham
William, 9, b Cambridge
Reginald S, 8, b Cambridge
Frank L, 7, b Cambridge
Ethel, 5, b Cambridge
Alfred E V, 3, b Cambridge
George F, 1, b Cambridge
Queen’s Cottages 3 Silver Street
Robert M Jones, 45, gardener, b St Asaph wales
Emily née Rallings, 38, b Duxford
Leonard, 10, b Cambridge
Mabel M, 8, b Cambridge [This is the same person as Madeline Myfanwy Jones who later founded the Garden House Hotel]
Florence E, 5, b Cambridge
Frank Ibberson, lodger, 33, grocer’s assistant, b Leics
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