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George Rich, 26 Springfield Road26 Springfield Road
History of 26 Springfield Road
1930
George Rich born 19th March. Apart from the time he spent on national service in the RAF in the early 1950s, he lived in the house all his life until shortly before his death at the age of 90.
1939
John Spalding Rich
Florence Mary
George Bramwell
1946
George served a five-year apprenticeship as an electrician with The Electric Wiring and Repair Company, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge from the age of 16 in 1946 until he qualified in 1951, with certification that he had received ‘practical instruction in the craft of an electrician in… all classes of installation work for light, power, heating, telephone, etc and general repairs’. He attended Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art (one of the educational bodies which later evolved into Anglia Ruskin University).
George Rich, 26 Springfield Road
During this time, he flew model aircraft with Cambridge Model Aeronautical Society at Marshall’s Aerodrome (now Cambridge airport).
George Rich, 26 Springfield Road
In the garden at Springfield Road
1953
2022
Toby Sibley
Rosalind Griffin
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