23/51961 – retirement of Edward Wright of Goodrum’s Dairies

167 Cherry Hinton Road, 6 Middleton Terrace, Cambridge

History of 167 Cherry Hinton Road

1891

Robert Hyde, 30, carpenter, born Hunts

Emma, 23, born Hunts

1901

Priscilla Chapman, head, 56,

Jane, sister, 53, dress maker

1911

Jane Chapman, head, 61, single, dress maker, born Suffolk

Priscilla Chapman, sister, 64, single, private means, born Suffolk

1961

(167a) Edward Wright, milk roundsman

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Edward Wright, who recently retired as a milk float rounds man for Goodrum’s Dairies, was the last of the drivers of horse-drawn milk carts in Cambridge. However he was not happy at retiring and leaving ‘Sandy’, the horse he has made his milk deliveries in the Perne Road area with for the past 16 years. So he bought ‘Sandy’ from the diary and keeps him in a stable at his home in Cherryhinton Road. Now he has come out of retirement to advertise the Dairy Festival to be held in June 61 05 23a
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Cherryhinton Road Area Scrapbook 1897–1990.