99 Shelford Road, Trumpington

History of 99 Shelford Road

This is the house which was owned by Jack Overhill and family. The Overhills moved out of it and into Saxon Street at the beginning of World War II and let 99 Shelford Road during the war. The rent in 1941 was 2 guineas.

The Overhills returned to the house in October 1945.

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1962

Jack Overhill

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1986

27 May 1986 – Jack Overhill’s unpublished King Street novels preserved
Thirty novels by Cambridge writer Jack Overhill were presented to the Cambridgeshire Collection. Although only three of his books had been published, the collection included two unpublished novels describing life in King Street during the 1930s, which had nearly been adapted as a television serial in 1973. Overhill explained that many of his works had been written after long working days, sometimes in an air-raid shelter, and were based on his own memories of Cambridge life.

Source: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge King Street Scrapbook 1897–1990, Item: 86 05 27b–c.