Cambridge Lives 1939-2000

SHORT CHRONOLOGY

1939 Mum and Dad arrive at Rock Road to begin managing Cambridge Steam Laundry

1944 Anthony born

1947 Tony Cherryhinton Hall Nursery

19?? Tony Huntingdon Road Kindergarten

1948? Kazio arrives in Cambridge

1950 Tony

1953 Kazio and Janina are married in March and Plu start living in Cambridge and Bozena born 11 October

1953 2nd JUNE CORONATION

INTRO

1939 Rock Road, start job

1940 Marriage

House and surrounds – bed in dinning room – fruit and vegetables – chickens

The Laundry

War time in Cambridge

WW2 Peoples War memories -Cambridgeshire BBC

Marshall’s Airport and bombing and children relocated

National Service after WW2

TONY

1944 Born Oct

Baby competition

Violet and live in housekeeper

Earliest memory – napping under apple tree

1945 Home

1946 Nursery

1947 Nursery “In 1947 the house opened as a nursery school with Miss Littlehales from Buckinghamshire as headmistress. As reported by the Cambridge News in 1964, there were 40 full-time and 40 part-time children every day and a long waiting list. On the first floor of the building was a maternity and child welfare clinic.”

1948 Huntingdon

1949 Huntingdon

1950 Convent Kindergarten (admitting at age 5 much earlier, called Paston House,

1951 (PLU GRADE 1)

1952

1953 Coronation

195? St. Andrew, named that in 1936 and later renamed in 1962 re-named St. Alban’s to avoid confusion with Cof E.

REFERENCES
British History Online (BHO) Cherry Hinton

Cambridge Historian

Capturing Cambridge Cherry Hinton Hall

Cherry Hinton Hall

Nursery School at Cherry Hinton Hall in 1949