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9 Mill Lane, Sawston

History of 9 Mill Lane

The Proud family moved to this address from Stockton-on-Tees circa 1945. Nora Christabel Proud née Ross, b 1912, had been widowed by the loss of her husband, Stanley, Flt. Lieut. in the RAF, after his ship, the weather observation SS Toronto City, was torpedoed in 1941 by U-108 500 miles north of the Azores. Nora took a post at Sawston Infant School.

Her brother, Malcom Ross, was the warden of Sawston Village College from 1945 until he moved to Crown Wood school in Sidcup.

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