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A three-story red brick building with a gabled roof and a green storefront labeled Giles & Co at street level.

4 Trinity Street

History of 4 Trinity Street

4 Trinity Street was the address of the business set up in 1761 by Gilbert Woollard also associated with 5-6 Trinity Street. (see family papers)

The street view shows multi-storey brick buildings with shops on the ground floor and tram tracks curving across the foreground.

Trinity Street south end

William Whewell, Master of Trinity, is credited with the construction of nos 4 & 5 Trinity Street in 1850. The two properties have red brick, ‘bargeboards and fashionable chamfered timbers’ according to Pevsner.

1871

John L Palmer, 53, college butler, b Wisbech

Mary, 51, b Suffolk

John B, 26, Navigating ?? R N Acting List, b Essex

Charles W, 24, attorney & solicitor, b Essex

Louisa M, 18, b Cambridge

Samuel, 16, b Cambridge

Arthur, 14, b Cambridge

Agnes Shaw, 18 general servant, b Soham

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