123 Coleridge Road, Cambridge
History of 123 Coleridge Road
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Nurse G.A. Dorrington of Coleridge Road is a midwife who has brought over 3,800 babies into the world. For 30 years she has been on call night and day, attending women in their own homes across Cambridge. Occasionally she visits a woman having a baby and finds she actually delivered the mother many years ago. Now she has been awarded the M.B.E. 57 03 29
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Cherryhinton Road Area Scrapbook 1897–1990.
1962
Mrs Gertrude Alice Dorrington, midwife
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- Mike Petty Archive
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