Cambridge Daily News 15 Dec 1948: Council estate neat and well-established

The first important milestone in Cambridge post-war housing drive was reached when the Mayor opened the council’s 1,000th house – an “Easiform”, at 27 Peverell Road on the Newmarket road site, where tenant, Mrs Betson, was waiting. Beforehand they had been taken on a tour of some of the principal housing estates in the town and saw estates at all stages of development - ranging from the neat, well-established looking one at Trumpington, only lacking the shops which will come one day, to the unfinished but partly-tenanted. At these mothers with perambulators have to be helped through the mud, and children kept in wellington boots.