Earith, Cambridgeshire

village website for Earith is now launched,..

Hi Bill,

I saw your comments on the FrancisFrith site.
I live in Earith (70 High St) and recently created a website for the village (www.earithvillage.com).

I would absolutely love to get in contact with you and get copies of your photos for the website,.. would be a really valuable addition to the site.

Feel free to... [more]

School Master's House, High Street

Anyone living in Earith before 1970 will know my name, not because of me, but through my father, Don Guymer, and my mother Beryl.  Dad was known because of the haulage firm he used to run out of the house in the High Street.

What I would dearly love is to find some photos of the house as it used... [more]

Earith, Cook's Drove

Hi, my husband, Tony, was born in Cooks Drove, Earith, in the actual house that's still there to this day. After a year there he moved to St Ives but we now live in Bluntisham.
All his sisters were born in Earith and his dad used to bike to over railway crossing where he worked as the guardsman and crossing... [more]

RE: Childhood Memories

I was wondering if anyone has any information about the house/houses that used to be at 113 High. I understand that it was once a cottage and a house. If anyone can provide any information, old pictures we can scan, what the house was used for (we have found a lot of horseshoes), or who lived there, we would be very... [more]

Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories

It was in Victorian times on the Old Bedford River near Earith that a most bizarre experiment took place. A wager had been placed on whether or not the earth was flat, and the Old Bedford River was chosen to prove or disprove the theory, as it was the longest, straightest stretch of calm water in the country. The experiment was... [more]

Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories

Earith is where the two great drainage cuts of Fenland, the Old and New Bedford Rivers, take off from the Great Ouse. The drains run north-east, roughly parallel for approximately twenty miles. During the winter, the strip of land known as the Ouse Washes in between is allowed to flood, and is consequently a major haven for wildlife.

Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories

It is a calm summer evening, and someone is fishing. Moored at the jetty are a number of boats; on the banks are reeds, rushes and alders, good nesting places for small birds, ducks and swans.