Mereside, Soham

History of Mereside

1939 unnumbered

Ernest I Isaacson, b 1895, master butcher

Minnie Fenn Taylor, b 1895

Maureen Elizabeth Taylor b 1934

Ernest married Minnie in 1945 and Maureen took her step-father’s name

Ernest died in 1948

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In 1957 Maureen married David Collen Aves, a farmer from Isleham.

Maureen’s reminiscences about life in Soham and Isleham can be found in:

The way of things here at that time – Oral History from Isleham and Soham edited by Sue Edgington and Marie Askham, pub. University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, 2002.

Maureen recalls the Soham train explosion of 1944:

… There was an almighty crash and when I tried to move my legs I couldn’t! The chimney pot had come through the roof and landed, not on my legs, but beside them, trapping the bedclothes. …. anyway, it was half-past two and it started to get light, and the gasworks went up, there was a tremendous woosh and the sky was full of flame – it was horrendous… (p.30-31)

She also recalls her time at Soham Infant and Junior schools.