This bungalow was built in the late 1950s. Originally another lane was located some 30 feet to the north of and approximately parallel to Sheepshead Lane and provided access to a playing field and pavilion. This pavilion was converted into a house known as The Pavilion, High Street. This was subsequently replaced with Kerrymead.
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My Grandfather (George) Eric Michell purchased this property in Harston shortly after the First World War and will have moved there with his wife Irene Helen in the early 1920s. She grew up in County Kerry which is where the name of the house Kerrymead comes from.
My aunt Joyce was born in 1921 and grew up at Kerrymead along with her younger brother, who was my father Brian Michell. In the late 1940’s, after the Second World War, my grandparents emigrated to New Zealand, the property was divided and Kerrymead was sold.
Consequently my parents Brian and Mary Michell built a new house on the land nearest to the High Street and which is now occupied by the BP petrol Station. The house was called Cautley Croft and I grew up there, along with my sister Helen from 1952 until 1960 when we moved into Cambridge.
I clearly remember walking up the driveway with my father to Kerrymead on several occasions. There were extensive fruit orchards there which my grandfather had planted, but his original house had suffered a fire after it was sold and I believe it was rebuilt sometime in the early 1950’s
Eric Michell
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