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1 Trinity Street (29 Market Hill)
History of 1 Trinity Street
Trinity Street south end
1581
Bookshop started by William Scarlett
House rebuilt with three storeys, cellar and attic early in 19th century with shop and dwelling. Inside, on the ground floor are cast-iron columns with lotus-leaf capitals. On the first floor are original plaster cornices with lotus and acanthus foliage.
1 Trinity Street and surrounds circa 1840
1851
Alexander Macmillan, 32, bookseller and publisher, b Scotland
Ebenezer Budden, visitor, 24, bookbinder, b Hammersmith
Thomas G Davis, 16, bookseller apprentice, b London
Robert Bowes, bookseller apprentice, b Scotland
Ellen Steed, 31, servant, b Suffolk
[See Daniel Macmillan in Regent Street]
1861: 29 Market Hill
Alexander Macmillan, 42, bookseller and publisher, b Scotland
Caroline, 37, b Cambridge
Malcomb Kingsley, 8, b Cambridge
George Augustine, 5, b Cambridge
Margrett Ann, 3, b Cambridge
Olive, 2, b Cambridge
Frances Eliza, 39, sister in law, bookseller and publisher, b Cambridge
Frederick Orridge, 9, nephew, b Cambridge
Maurice Crawford, 7, nephew, b Cambridge
Arthur Daniel, 3, nephew, b Cambridge
John Brown, 34, visitor, farmer, b Scotland
Sarah Poster, 28, cook, b Burwell
Emma Petit, 38, house servant, b Impington
Emily Stearn, 21, house servant, b Grantchester
Mary Ann Coxall, 29, house servant, b Cambridge
Harriett Curtis, 22, house servant, b Chesterton
[Robert Bowes is living in Westminster at the time of the census described as bookseller’s clerk]
1871
occupied as shop
1881
1891
1901
1907
Named Bowes and Bowes
1911
1913
Bowes and Bowes (formerly Macmillan and Bowes) : Robert Bowes and G Brimley Bowes MA, booksellers, publishers and stationers
1936, Blue Book
14/3/1953 The site of England’s oldest bookshop has just changed hands for the 14th time in more than 350 years. Messrs W.H. Smith have acquired Bowes and Bowes’ shop on the corner of Trinity Street which has a heritage of bookselling, publishing and binding that goes back as far as 1581. In 1807 it belonged to John Nicholson, son of the celebrated ‘Maps’ who went his rounds of the University with a moveable stall laden with textbooks and called out “Maps and pictures”. Later Kingsley and other literary men held ‘tobacco parliaments’ on religion and politics, Wordsworth reclined there, Thackeray dined there and Tennyson first read “Maud” in the Long Room, now the Foreign Department. (Cam.News)
16/10/1986 Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge’s oldest bookshop, marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new. The building on the corner of Trinity Street started as a bookshop under William Scarlett in 1581. It was acquired by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who in 1845 laid the foundations for one of the largest publishing firms in the world. It became a literary centre where figures like Thackeray and Charles Kingsley were frequent visitors. Now it has been completely redesigned and reopened under its new name of Sherratt and Hughes. (Cam.News)
1992 occupied by Cambridge University Press, just as with the neighbouring address, 28 St Mary’s Street.
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