You are here: Explore your past > Abbots Ripton
Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire
Abbots Ripton maps
Historic maps of Abbots Ripton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Abbots Ripton maps
Historic map of Abbots Ripton
Illustrated Victorian map of Cambridgeshire
Historic Map of any Abbots Ripton postcode
Abbots Ripton books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Abbots Ripton and the local area. View all Abbots Ripton books
Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £15
£12
Cambridgeshire Living Memories
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
1 Abbots Ripton photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Abbots Ripton
Displaying a selection of personal
memories of Abbots Ripton
.
Add your memory of Abbots Ripton
or of a photo of Abbots Ripton.
Evacuation to Abbots Ripton 1939
My father, Gerald Blockley, originally from Derby, had just completed a degree in History from Unversity College, London and was appointed to teach at Bruce Grove School in Tottenham in 1939. He was evacuated with a lot of the children to Abbots Ripton in the autumn of 1939. He managed to find lodgings for all the children but none for himself,... [more]
Shared on 08 August 2008
David and Julie Smith lived in Abbots Ripton 1987-1999.
walky talkys enabling the posse... [more]
Shared on 05 December 2007
Cambridgeshire memories
My family moved from Kent to Little Stukeley at the beginning of the Second World War. I believe my uncle had a bakery there for my father was a baker. My uncle's name was Sidney P Bull and his wife was Etta. I am told that we moved back to Kent but moved back again to Little Stukeley - as I... [more]
Shared on 19 June 2009
My memories are of living at Bell Lane, Alconbury with my parents and granny. My parents, Ivy and Charlie Gillings, went to school there, and I so want some photos of Bell Lane as it was in those days.
Shared on 06 June 2009
My name is Pamela Alston, nee Earley. I lived in Alconbury village from the age of 5 in 1943 till the age of 15 in 1953. I went to the village school and had an exellent education, much better than my college educated children. We lived at the Globe House and my father Walter Earley transported prisoners of war to work,... [more]
Shared on 24 April 2009
I remember Huntingdon's High Street in 1965. I was only a little girl then, holding on to my grandmother's hand. My grandparents were Kate and Reginald Wayman and they lived in Hartford Road opposite the River Ouse. Nanna and I would often walk to the town centre and she'd buy me a 'Pixie' comic; there were some lovely shops, I remember... [more]
Shared on 17 June 2009
The 'Valet' shop in Brampton in the 1960s
Does anyone remember the 'Valet' shop that used to be near the High Street entrance to the Village Park? It was sort of a haberdashers but the lady also used to take in dry cleaning and shoe mending. It was a portakabin type building and there was one lady who used to run it. I wish we'd taken a photo. We... [more]
Shared on 25 June 2009
Extracts From Abbots Ripton & Cambridgeshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Abbots Ripton, inspired by Frith photos.
Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
These beautiful gardens at Abbots Ripton Hall were created by Lady de Ramsey and her gardener. The Hall is the centre of the Abbots Ripton Estate; many of its timber-framed and thatched cottages and farmhouses date from the 16th century.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories
The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon. At the time of the Dissolution it was held by Ramsey Abbey. The village was called Ripton until it was owned by the abbey, when and the forename `Abbots` was added. The main wealth of the parish lay in the high quality of the soil and the extensive woodland. This flower garden, with its grass walks and sundials, flourishes in the best soil... [more]
This is an extract from Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories
Built around 1130, the Manor is supposed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain. Lucy Maria Wood Boston, born in December 1892, bought the building in 1939 and spent two years restoring it. During the Second World War she kept open house for the RAF officers stationed at the nearby airfield at Wyton, and arranged musical and literary evenings. She used the Manor as an inspiration for her series of six children`s stories... [more]
This is an extract from Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
