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Old 17th Jul 2019, 4:18 pm   #7
John Wakefield
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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Default Re: H Gee - Cambridge

Sadly this shop burnt down on Monday 15th July 2019. https://i66.servimg.com/u/f66/17/77/69/16/dsc07518.jpg

It had been closed for some months but had been steadily running down before that. Ironically it could in many peoples opinion have prospered when Maplin closed its shops in Cambridge, but the owner, the son of the founder Harry Gee did not seem to want to carry on. Stock ran down and he never replaced it, and in the last months it was open it wall full of cardboard boxes stacked up in the shop. Probably old now obsolete stuff from the upper floors.
The shop was getting very tatty both inside and out, with stuff in the window fading due to prolonged exposure to sunlight.
Harry Gee must be turning in his grave, in the 1960's it was a mecca for radio hams and hi-fi enthusiasts, Mr Gee always smartly dressed and smoking a small cigar
RIP H Gee 94A Mill Road Cambridge.

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