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P D James, Roseford Road1 (41) Roseford Road
History of 1 Roseford Road
1939 (41)
Sidney V James, b 1896, estab civil service clerk
Dorothy M, b 1893
Phyllis D James, b 1920, clerk Cambridge Food Control cttee
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Phyllis became famous as the novelist P D James. She went to the Cambridge Grammar School for Girls but had to leave school at 16 to look after her younger siblings. She then worked in a tax office in Ely for three years and then as assistant stage manager at the Festival Theatre in Cambridge. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962.
(See A Community Remembers: Histon Road p.82)
1962 (1)
Norman F Pinnock
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