Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
Newnham Mill Pool,c1900. Jolly Millers, left, brewery late The Malting House on right. Mott's cows are fording the river.

26 Newnham Road, Mott’s Dairy

Hisotry of 26 Newnham Road

1911

26 Newnham Road

James Mott, 54, cowkeeper, b Cambridge

Emily, 51, b Chesterton

Wallis, 20, assistant, b Cambridge

Annie Gooderson, companion, 52, widow, born Beds.

Frank Stubbings remembered watching Wal Mott chewing dried peas while he milked as an alternative to smoking.

In 1981 Sara Payne (CWN March 1981) collected reminiscences about Mr Mott the dairyman. Albert Rhodes (51 Selwyn Road) remembered how his eldest brother Fred used to drive Mott’s cows across the Mill. Wallis Mott’s daughter recalled how she used to help her father with his round. “I used to run around with the old float and when we brought the cows back across the Mill Pond and up Newnham Road, we used to hold up all the traffic. My ducks and hens used to follow behind.”

During WWI, Ludovick Stewart (of The Maltings) recalled Mrs Mott coming into their garden to cry on the shoulder of his mother when she heard her son had been killed.

The property was later a doctor’s surgery. Mrs Joyce Stewart worked there for Dr Jennens.

Share this article

Share on Bluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit and, if you do,  would consider making a donation today.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge.

As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion – unlike many other museums in Cambridge – and are facing the need to drastically cut back our operations which could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website.

If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well. If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge