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The Lodge, Chemical Labs, Pembroke Street

History of the Lodge

1939

Frederick G Cable, b 1898, resident engineer chemical laboratories (AFS University Laboratories)

Alice M, b 1897

John, b 1925

Jane Barham in Upstairs Cambridge, 1986, writes about her great-uncle Frederick who was chief maintenance engineer of the Department of Chemistry. He took the job in 1925 and was always on standby if there was a problem. Jane describes the family living with a sitting room that had a curved wall on the corner of Free School Lane. There was a tiny garden with a pear tree. When the new Chemistry department in Lensfield Road was opened, the old. building was used for Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy. Frederick stayed at this site.

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