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34 Orchard Avenue

History of 34 Orchard Avenue

1939

John R Godden, b 1900, estates clerk to Gonville and Caius College (air raid warden)

Dorothy C, b 1898

John Dix Godden, b 1931

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John Dix Godden (1931 – 2011). John attended Cambridge High School for Boys and was a member of the Boy Scouts. He sat his School Certificate in 1947 and went on to study a the School of Navigation at Warsash near Southampton.

John became a professional marine pilot and in 1965 was accepted as a “Cinque Ports” pilot. He ended his professional life as the editor of The Pilot.

Printed obituary for John Dix Godden featuring a portrait of a smiling man in a suit and a black-and-white ship photograph.

Obituary of John Dix Godden from The Pilot

 

 

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