136 – 150 Mill Road, Measham Terrace, Cambridge

History of Measham Terrace, Mill Road

1913

(136) John Andrews, railway platelayer
(138) William Horwood, coppersmith
(140) W H Hodges, storekeeper
(142) William James Thurlow, platelayer
(144) Charles Tye, railway guard
(146) Daniel Dunston, platelayer
(148) Enoch Braizer, platelayer
(150) Henry John Evans, carpenter

See for additional information:

124-134 Mill Road (Railway Cottages) – 3rd Edition

146 Mill Road — Daniel Dunston
6 September 1940

Killed by Drifting Balloon. — A man was killed and considerable damage done when a barrage balloon drifted over Cambridge yesterday afternoon. The dead man was Daniel Dunston, a platelayer, of 146 Mill Road, Cambridge. Aged over 60, he was near the railway between Mill Road and Coldham’s Lane Bridge when he was caught by a steel cable trailing from the balloon. He was carried for a distance of over 30 yards and then dropped, sustaining fatal injuries. Before the accident the balloon had passed over the town at a considerable height. In the Mill Road area it came lower, and the cable threw a wireless pole through the roof of a house in Mill Road. The interior of the house was not damaged and nobody was injured in this incident. The balloon then gained height and drifted in the direction of Teversham. At Teversham Hall an old chimney stack on a scullery was struck by the cable. A piece of the cable was snapped off and the balloon at once shot up into the air and continued in an easterly direction. Telephone wires were damaged and the electricity supply for a village was affected for a time.

Credit: Mike Petty Archive.

On 14 April 2026, Philip Attwood gave a talk to the Mill Road History Society about the time he spent as a child at 142 Mill Road in the 1960s and then expanded this into a PDF report which you can read here:

Many thanks for Philip for permission to include his research here.