Mrs. Fixit
Mrs Gee and her son Philip run Gee’s Electrical shop.
‘We left London in 1940 when my husband’s parents’ shop got damaged in the Woolwich docks bombing. His family set up here in Cambridge where he had relatives. We must be the oldest shop on Mill Road.
‘I’ve seen it all. Times have certainly changed. In those days, if your wireless or vacuum cleaner broke down, you repaired it. A customer would come in and ask for a component. We sold resistors, capacitors, valves, everything. Of course nowadays, your vacuum stops working and you throw it away and buy a brand new one! All the faulty appliances go into land fills, don’t they. It doesn’t make much sense to me…’
As owner of one of the oldest shops on Mill Road, Priscilla Gee was chosen to open the first Winter Fair in 2005.
‘I was so taken aback I couldn’t refuse. They drove me to the city end of Mill Road in a pedicab. It was a great honour.’ |
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