1 Burleigh Street, March 1970 (MoC 26/55/70)
1 Burleigh Street, Cambridge
History of 1 Burleigh Street
1913
George Chapman, boot repairing depot
1937-39
George Chapman, boot makers
1962 1
Laings, boot and shoe reparers
JD sent this email in 2025:
Harry Laing was my father and bought the shop after the war. When I was a girl I helped for a while on Saturday mornings by serving customers. I remember the excruciating noise fom the machines out the back and which caused him to become partially deaf. He died in 1984.
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