Notes for: Joseph Robert Kefford

Brian Goodliffe writes:
Joe Kefford was the Pemberton Estates Carpenter, who had a workshop at what is now Bidwells at the top of Maris Lane.
When I knew him in the 1950s he walked with a limp, due to having a false leg. I think I have memories of him riding a bike that had been specially adapted: with a working pedal on one side only, and a large 'L' bracket on the other side on which to rest his non-pedalling false leg. This modification could easily have been carried out in the farm machinery workshop that was adjacent his own.
In 1954, soon after we moved into Park Cottage, 22 Grantchester Road, we had some work done in our kitchen and Joe Kefford made us a new draining board (possibly out of Elm?) and I remember being fascinated as a ten-year-old as I watched him use a special plane to make the parallel grooves in it to drain the water back down into the sink.