1 Sherlock Road, Cambridge
History of 1 Sherlock Road
Letter from Mrs Macdonald to Constance Pyle
1938 04 08
Miss D.I. Macdonald of Sherlock Road has returned from Spain, where she experienced air raids. “There is nothing you can do except sit still, and I was frightened because I felt completely trapped.” Universities were deliberately selected as targets by attackers who feared the people within them. Government proposals to construct covered trenches in domestic gardens here were sensible: the essential requirement was protection from splinters and machine-gun bullets. In Spain the shelters were not unsightly, as flower beds had been planted on top of them. 38 04 08
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Huntingdon Road Scrapbook.
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