Railway Cottages next to Mill Road Bridge, 1998

130 (27 Railway Cottages) Mill Road

History of 130 Mill Road

1871

George Watkins, 40, Railway Goods Guard, born in Ipswich

Sarah Watkins, 44, born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire

Jane Watkins, 10, born in Cambridge

George Watkins, 8, born in Cambridge

Charles Watkins, 5, born in Cambridge

William Wilson, 18, nephew, Railway Telegraph Messenger, born in Cambridge

Samuel Wilson, 16, nephew, Railway Telegraph Messenger, born in Great Claxton, Essex

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1881

George Simpson, 28, railway porter, b Suffolk

 

Alfred John Backer, 26, railway porter, b Cambridge

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1891

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1901

Charles Northfield, 39, railway guard, b Dorset

Elling, 37, b Cherry Hinton

Millie, 15, b Cambridge

Fred, 12, b Cambridge

Alfred, 10, b Cambridge

Wilfred, 6, b Cambridge

Hubert, 4, b Cambridge

Arthur, 1, b Cambridge

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1911

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1913

Edward Brown, platelayer

William Jordan, acting fireman

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1937

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1939

Arthur William Saunders, b 1888, maintenance LNER heavy work

Elizabeth C, b 1881, housewife

Violet R Wilson, b 1921, provision head grocery

Henry J, b 1927

In 1911 the Saunders family were living at 3 Granta Place.

In 1921 the family were living at 17 York Terrace

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1941

Michael Bowyer in ‘Air Raid!’ pub. 1986, describes how in the afternoon of 30 January 1941 a German bomber came into Cambridge at low level from Ely and dropped nine 50kg HEs at 15:57, straddling Mill Road bridge. Bombs burst in the Corporation store yard, and then 130 Mill Road and the next house were shattered by a direct hit. Two civilians were killed and ten injured.

On 30th January 1941 while waiting in the train due to leave Cambridge station at ten-past-four on a murky afternoon, a series of explosions grew rapidly louder. A low flying Dornier had followed the railway line in from the north and it raced past at less than 500 feet, almost overhead. Luckily for me and others returning after an ordinary day at school, the stick of bombs landed in the railway sidings a few hundred yards away. (p74)

(R H Vincent, A Tanner will do)

31 January 1941: Bombs next door … Mill Road bombing. Creeping in from Ely at low level during the dull, dreary Thursday afternoon, it dropped nine 50 kg high explosive bombs at 3.57 pm, straddling Mill Road Bridge. Bombs burst in the Corporation store yard, and No. 130 Mill Road and the next house were shattered by a direct hit. Other bombs exploded in the rail yard. Although the undershoot meant that the locomotive maintenance area escaped destruction, two civilians were killed and ten injured, for the bridge was being used by many pedestrians and cyclists at the time. Credit: Mike Petty Archive.

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1962

(130a) Bernard Horner

(130) Frank Martin

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1970

Frank Martin

Frederick Bond