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The red-brick upper floors of a Trinity Street building feature white-framed sash windows and carved stone faces above lintels.

23 Trinity Street, Cambridge

History of 23 Trinity Street

Three storey houses built at the beginning of the 18th cent. The ‘Junior Parlour’ of Trinity College extends the full length of the first floor and is lined with original ovolo-moulded and fielded panelling. (see 1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge)


1881

(23-24)

Henry M Ransome, 58, tailor & robemaker, b Cambridge

Emily, 47, b Cambridge

Emily S, 21, b Cambridge

Harriet E, 20, b Cambridge

Henry M, 16,  b Cambridge

Kate, 15, b Cambridge

Herbert W, 13, b Cambridge

Arthur J, 10, b Cambridge

Lilian F, 6, b Cambridge

Frank P Galloway, lodger, student, 21, b Ceylon

Alfred E G Price, lodger, student, 21, b Wales

Elizabeth Sanderson, servant, 24, b Cottenham

Emma E Martin, 16, servant, b Cambridge

1891

1901

(22-23)

Arthur John Ransom,  30, tailor robemaker & tobacconist,

Amy K, 27,

Marjorie, 1, b Cambridge

Frances A Hayward, 25, servant, 25, b Abingdon

Bertha L Hayward, 21, servant, 21, b Abingdon

1911

Arthur J Ransom, 40, cigar & cigarette merchant, b Cambridge

Amy Katherine, 37, b Bristol

Marjorie, 11, b Cambridge

Joan, 1, b Cambridge

Laura Lavinia Bowls, 24, working housekeeper, b Suffolk

Dorothy May Fisher, 15, nursemaid, b Suffolk

A sepia-toned street view of Trinity Street, featuring rows of shop fronts with awnings and several indistinct figures.

Trinity Street, 23 & 24 on left (MoC15/55)

 

A sepia-toned street view of Trinity Street, featuring rows of shop fronts with awnings and several indistinct figures.Pedestrians walk along the cobbled Trinity Street past a red post box, shop fronts, and historic buildings under a grey sky.

 

1913

Ransom & Son, tailors and robemakers

A J Ransom, cigar merchant

WE Bryan MA

Athenaeum Club

The Ransoms later lived at 96 Barton Road

1937

(23 & 24) Adamsons, tailors

1970

(23 & 24) A Lewis & Co, Westminster Ltd, tobacconists and post office

 

Sources

  • 1881 census
  • 1901 census
  • 1911 census
  • Kellys Directory
  • Museum of Cambridge
  • Photographs
  • Published Source

Tags

  • Then and Now

Projects

  • Trinity Street

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