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No. 32 is a mid C18 red brick house with Venetian windows on the first floor. It was extended W early in the 19th cent. John Bowtell, bookbinder and antiquary, lived here. Inside there are original cornices, panelled doors and a staircase. There is a good early 19th century staircase in a well lit through a roof lantern. (see 1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge)
Residence of John Bowtell, book-binder, antiquary and philanthropist
Jane Warwicker, widow, 80, living on her own means, b Herts
William Bodger, boarder, 70, retired hosier, b Cambridge
Ellen Lackie, servant, 16, b Essex
Alice Ricketts, 21, servant, b Gloucs
Ann Marshall, companion, 55, b Northants
32 Trinity Street, date unknown
Ernest Shepherd set up a tailor’s shop in Cambridge in 1902. His father was already established in Oxford. The rooms above were used as undergraduate lodgings by Trinity College.
Alice Elizabeth Ward, wife, 30, lodging house keeper, b London
Alice Grimshaw, step daughter, 13, b London
Gertrude King, niece, 4, b London
Rachael Elizabeth Newman, 21, servant, b Cambridge
Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand was allocated a bedroom on the third floor. Chakrabongse wrote in 1943: The room had ugly wallpapers, dark red curtains and armchairs and sofas covered in a hideous red plush. His table was quickly filled with letters – hundreds of circulars from innumerable university clubs and societies together with others from shops in Cambridge offering everything the new undergraduate could conceivably want – match boxes, tobacco jars, and other utensils all decorated with the college crest. They were known as ‘freshers’ delights’.
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