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2,3,4 Trumpington Street

4 Trumpington Street (Cromwell Lodge)

History of 4 Trumpington Street

1861

Charles Brewster Dyer, 49, surgeon, b Lincs

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1871

Philip L Hudson, 26, college cook, b Cambridge

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1881

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The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, refers to an archive of the Society for Psychical Research, case file G266, as well as a paper in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (1901) 43-47. These describe a n occupant of the house, Mrs Jephson, who heard footsteps on the stairs in the night. A servant, Emma Ellis, saw a beautiful girl standing by a door late at night. These apparitions seem to have been often benign. Between 1889 and 1892 Mrs Jephson took in a lodger, Mr Joy. Both he and a friend, Mr Hadath, heard strange noises one night. Both submitted affidavits of their experiences to the Society for Psychical Research. When the house changed hands in 1899, three human skulls, two male and one female, were found under the dining room window. They were removed to the University Museum ofArchaeology. Since then there have been no reports.

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1891

Caroline Maskell, widow, 73, servant, b Berks

Charlotte Wright,  73, servant, b Cambridge

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1901

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1911

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1913

Fawcett and Atkinson, architects; T D Atkinson

Miss Mills, studio

S Harris, tobacconist

Miss A Harris, certified teacher of piano and singing

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