Greenham Concrete and the Great Train Robbery

Do you know anyone who worked for Greenham Ready Mixed Concrete when it had its offices at 200 Regent’s Park Road (the Old Station) from 1965 – 1975?

I am a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. Part of my research is looking at the people who drove Greenham’s cement-mixer lorries and, in particular, at events in the 1960s. Some people who drove these lorries were employees of Greenham; others were self-employed lorry drivers. Both kinds of driver are relevant to my research, as are any managers to whom they reported. In case it helps to jog anyone’s memory, one particular event that I am researching  happened on the day of The Great Train Robbery, on 8 August 1963.

You can contact me via my University email, which is gevm2 [at} cam (dot) ac [dot] uk ; or you can telephone me via either my mobile 07761 656454 or my landline 01223 812862. If you prefer you can write to me at my college address: Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EU.

I will be most grateful for any help that you can give me. Thank you.

Guy Mulley LLB(Hons), MSc

PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

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2013 Hair and Beauty History: GROCER Christopher Loughmon  1861  GROCER & POST OFFICE RECEIVING HOUSE, MONEY ORDER OFFICE & SAVINGS BANK 1865-1986/87 Christopher Loughmon  1865-1881 Frederick Rouse 1889 Philip Syms 1895 William Kenny 1901 Joseph Tomlinson & Son 1905 Thomas Morgan 1920 Sydney Murphy 1922 Henry … Continue reading

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2013 Café History: CONFECTIONER Thomas Masters 1855-60 This was the first confectioner in Primrose Hill. Many others have been and gone in all the local streets.  CONFECTIONER  John Miller 1860-65 “  Mrs Mary Miller 1865-75 “  John Marshall 1880-85 DRESSMAKER Mrs Ada Fooks 1890 CONFECTIONER … Continue reading

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2013 Beauty care products History: COFFEE ROOMS   Thomas Sears 1868-71 & FRENCH POLISHER      ”  1871 COFFEE ROOMS William Norton 1871-81  CHIMNEY SWEEPER     John Langton 1889 “  George Chappell    1895-1910 BOOT MAKER William Rann  1895-05 “ Herman Hulland 1910-22 FIREWOOD DEALER     George Chappell 1922 DAIRY Welfare Dairies … Continue reading

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2013 Garden shop History: DINING ROOMS Thomas Jefferson 1865 “  Alfred Melbourne 1871 “  Thomas Scratchley 1875  “  William Lewis 1881  COFFEE ROOMS Bartholomew Higgins 1889 “ Thomas Driver 1895-1901 “ William Greenslade 1905  TAILOR Vaclav Hejno 1922 “  Maurice Singer 1929  WIRELESS SUPPLIES Mark Singer 1935-50  DYERS & CLEANERS S. & … Continue reading

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3 Erskine Road: Elizabeth Somers, Chandler’s Shop

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2022 Ice Cream Bar History: CHIMNEY SWEEPER     Thomas Barrows  1871  FURNITURE DEALER    Richard Gifford    1895 CHANDLER’S SHOP      Mrs Elizabeth Somers 1922-30, see below “   Mrs B.R. Stratford  1935 SHOPKEEPER  William Neck  1940 NEWSAGENT George Lemon 1945-57 “   Jeans  1960-65 … Continue reading