127 Newmarket Road, Nurses Home

History of 127 Newmarket Road

1901 Nurses Home

Edith M Arnold, 39, superintendent of district nursing home

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1908

District Nurses’ home, Newmarket Road — new premises, 6 November 1908
The Cambridge District Nurses moved into their new home standing in its own grounds on Newmarket Road. Designed by W.M. Fawcett and built by Coulson and Lofts, it has a smart exterior appearance. Facing the road is the entrance to the surgery with the dining room, and kitchen with sitting rooms for the Superintendent and nurses on the first floor together with four bedrooms and another three on the second floor. The building is lighted by incandescent gas and fitted with electric bells. CWN 08 11 06 p5
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Newmarket Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, entry 1908 11 06.

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1913

R Elwell Naish, physician and surgeon

H R Coombes, MRCS