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A sepia-toned book cover illustration shows a thatched cottage in front of a church tower, surrounded by leafy trees.

From Bombs to Buckets, Dora Tack (1989)

11 New Street, Godmanchester

History of 11 New Street

Dora Tack moved here from Cancell Road, Brixton in 1940. Dora and her mother Florence had gone to stay with her grandmother and Aunty Daisy. Dora was ill with symptoms of a nervous breakdown from the noise of the Blitz in London.

From here Dora went to live with her mother’s friend Florrie, with whom she had been in service at Alconbury House. Florrie had married Percy Yates, a local postman, and they lived in the end council house near Alconbury Aerodrome, Little Stukeley.

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