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An elderly woman with white hair and glasses wearing a patterned red sweater holds an open case of metal drawing instruments.

Monica Smith, 2014

Monica Smith, 190 Gwydir Street, Cambridge

A lifetime of Mill Road memories

Monica Smith remembers the busy streets of her childhood in the 1930s.

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SMITH1_street.mp3

 

“I could put my mark on nearly every property on Mill Road”

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SMITH1_bistro.mp3

 

Shopping along Mill Road.

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SMITH2_shops.mp3

 

The Bath House.

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SMITH2_bathhouse.mp3

 

Memories of the 1941 bombing of Mill Road bridge.

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SMITH2_bombs.mp3

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  • oral history
  • world war two

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