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Black and white sketch in profile showing a balding, middle-aged man with a thin moustache, wearing a collared shirt and tie.

Albert R Frank

8 Leys Road

History of 8 Leys Road

1939

Albert Rudolph Frank, b 1872, chemical engineer Dept of Engineering

Elly Braby, b 1885

Paul Lebram, b 1873, physician retired

Margarete Lebram, b 1883

The Lebrams left Germany in the 1930s because of the political threat from the Nazi government. Albert Frank was Margarete Lebram’s brother. They were friends of the Arndt family who left Darmstadt in Germany in 1935 for the same reasons. Uli Arndt visited the Lebrams frequently while he was a student in Cambridge 1942-44.

Building dates

  • Built 1983–1990
Source for this date
  • Built 1983–1990: EPC construction age band: 1983–1990

Tags

  • refugees
  • world war two

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