Cambridge Daily News 18 Jan 1963: death of Alice Haslop

Miss Alice Haslop, 95, Trumpington’s oldest parishioner; was born and lived all her life in the village where he father was bootmaker and carrier to Cambridge. She was a laundress of no mean repute and a good plain needlewoman, particularly in making pillow-slips. She insisted on doing her own housework as long as she could and possessed a sense of humour. As a child the nearest doctor was near Woollards Lane, Shelford, and medicine had to be fetched, walking to the surgery before breakfast. “I liked going”, she said with an impish gleam in her eye, “because then I was late for school”. Her death closes a chapter in the village’s history.