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Houses next to Mill Road Bridge, 1998UK Census:
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
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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1941:
Michael Bowyer in ‘Air Raid!’ pub. 1986, describes how in the afternoon of 30 January 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.
Mill Road bridge bombing 1941
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1962:
(130a) Bernard Horner
(130) Frank Martin
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1970:
Frank Martin
Frederick Bond
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