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Capper Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 9NZ

Overnight rain left puddles by the roadside - rarities in the unusually dry winter, spring and autumn of 2011.

Housing originally built as married quarters for personnel at RAF Waterbeach/Waterbeach Royal Engineer base. Following closure of the base in 2013, the houses were transferred in stages to Annington Homes who refurbished them for onward sale or letting. Although I have seen no specific evidence of the origin of the name, the airbase and Royal Engineers connection coupled with Capper Road coming off nearby Cody Road points to it commemorating Colonel John Capper RE. Colonel Capper, later Major-General Sir John Capper KCB KCVO, along with American entrepreneur Samuel Franklin Cody, was involved in the development of Britain's first powered military aircraft, a semi-rigid airship named Nulli Secundus, including being at the controls of its maiden flight at Farnborough on 10 September 1907 and a longer flight on 5 October 1907 from Farnborough over central London before landing at Crystal Palace. They then became involved in the development of fixed wing aircraft, with Cody designing and building British Army Aeroplane Number 1, which on 16 October 1908 undertook the first sustained aeroplane flight in the UK.

The overhead wires of the Cambridge-Ely railway line are in the background of this picture taken through the hedge from Bannold Drove on a bright November morning.

Past the access route to the proposed relocated Waterbeach railway station.

Barracks accommodation on Fletcher Avenue being refurbished for civilian use.

The barracks, home to 39 Engineer Regiment, is to close by 2015 and be sold off for housing.

Cattle still in the barns.

Housing originally built as married quarters for personnel at RAF Waterbeach/Waterbeach Royal Engineer base. Following closure of the base in 2013, the houses were transferred in stages to Annington Homes who refurbished them for onward sale or letting. Although I have seen no specific evidence of the origin of the name, the airbase and Royal Engineers connection coupled with Capper Road coming off nearby Cody Road points to it commemorating Colonel John Capper RE. Colonel Capper, later Major-General Sir John Capper KCB KCVO, along with American entrepreneur Samuel Franklin Cody, was involved in the development of Britain's first powered military aircraft, a semi-rigid airship named Nulli Secundus, including being at the controls of its maiden flight at Farnborough on 10 September 1907 and a longer flight on 5 October 1907 from Farnborough over central London before landing at Crystal Palace. They then became involved in the development of fixed wing aircraft, with Cody designing and building British Army Aeroplane Number 1, which on 16 October 1908 undertook the first sustained aeroplane flight in the UK.