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15, Heyroun (Showells), Chaucer Road, Cambridge

History of 15 Chaucer Road

1895

Walter Heape, animal geneticist

1904

Marshall Jones

1919

Henry William Law, barrister

1940 -1945

HQ of Cambridge University Air Squadron


1949

Chaucer Road — University Air Squadron headquarters, 8 November 1949
The Chief of Air Staff, Marshall of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder came to Cambridge to unveil the war memorial at Magdalene College and to open the new Headquarters and Mess of the Cambridge University Air Squadron at Chaucer Road. The Cambridge unit was the first University air squadron not only in Britain but the world.
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge TRUMPINGTON ROAD Area Scrapbook, entry 1949 11 08.


1951

Mrs Law

1953

MRC Applied Psychology Unit

 

Sources

  • Mike Petty Archive

Tags

  • world war two

Projects

  • Chaucer Road

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