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Ermine Business Park maps

Historic maps of Ermine Business Park and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Ermine Business Park maps

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Ermine Business Park area books

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Cambridgeshire memories

Boyhood Memories 1940s Great Stukeley Village & Its People

My memories are in book form, title as above. My book was published in Feb. this year (2011) and is available from John Lovell, 73 West End, Brampton, Huntingdon, CAMBS. PE28 4SG. Tel: 01480 457637 "E" mail. john.lovell10@btinternet.com or Authers On line Ltd. 19, The Cinques, Gamlingay, Sandy BEDS. SG19 3NU Tel: 01767 652005. "E" mail. theeditor@authersonline.co.uk or www.authersonline.co.uk The Price is £6 95 fron John Lovell or £6.99 from Authers on line. The Full Title is. Boyhood Memories of Village Life and its People in Nineteen Forties Great Stukeley. The book is copyrighted and ISBN978 0 7552 1308 5. Also available in e-book format, details available at www.authersonline.co.uk

The Cromwell Museum

The Old Grammar School c1960
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Better known today as The Cromwell Museum!!

I Remember...

High Street c1965
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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 'Fishers' (I think), and 'Steadmans'. I loved Huntingdon where I had many happy times as a child when I went to stay with Nanna and Grandad Wayman. Nanna was from Godmanchester (a Woods) and she'd worked at 'the mill' making lingerie until she was 29 when she married. Once she made a pair of golfing socks to be presented to the future Edward VIII. Grandad came from Offord Cluny and he worked in Brampton for 'Mr Riddiford' as a managing director. They moved to Huntingdon around 1960 and lived at  number 128 Hartford Road.  Wish I could visit.... perhaps I might... I send love XX XX!

Good Times

Hinchingbrooke House 1907
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I loved Hinchingbrooke School growing up and the house just intrigued me. I remember my first year of sixth form in the house and my friends and I decided to look around the grounds where we came across the graves of Oliver Cromwell's dogs behind the Wendy House. This was an amazing find and the stories we were told about the history of the house was wonderful. I would very much like to see a paranormal team within the house to find out if part of the past is still there within the house as stories of ghosts sightings were heard of quite a lot when I was at school and I would love to learn more about its history and if any spirits still live within the walls and hallways of the great historic Hinchingbrooke house!

A Great Coincidence

Car in The High Street c1955
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The man riding his cycle beside the car looked so familiar, and I firmly believe that it is Mr Timothy (Tim) Towler who was Art and Technical Drawing Master at Huntingdon Grammar School during the 1940s and very early `950s. Tim, as he was called by us irreverent pupils, lived in Godmanchester, and cycled from his home to the Grammar School (now demolished) on Brampton Road daily. He was much loved by all of us, and helped me personally on my career to become an engineering draughtsman both in England and later in Sweden. The coincidence is almost unbelievable, looking at this print in 2011 in Sweden, and seeing Tim from 1955.

Osman's of Huntingdon

High Street c1965
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A truly old-fashioned type of ironmonger and household ware store seen here on the immediate right of the picture. My mother, Mrs. Ruby Chandler would have been working here in 1965, as she did for many years both before and after '65. If you couldn't get it at Osman's you couldn't get it anywhere else, either. The shop premises were very old, and when it rained, there was panic up in the storage rooms above to place buckets to catch the leaks.
I remember, too Stiles, the Bakers, further up along the High Street. My grandfather and I walked into Huntingdon from Alconbury (the only way to get there) on my 9th birthday in 1941 to collect my birthday cake, supplied during rationing times.
Almost opposite Osman's was Cox the County Clothiers, who supplied my uniform for Huntingdon Grammar School a couple of years later.
Huntingdon once boasted two cinemas, The Grand, accessed through an archway beside Murkett's Garage, opposite the Market Place, and The Hippodrome further along the... Read more

About 1940

High Street c1965
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Around about 1940 I was evacuated to Huntingdon, my age was about 5 or 6 years. I remember I stayed with a little old lady and I think she had one son who came home on leave while I was there. Her house was attached to a church or chapel and she was the caretaker at the time. To the right hand side of the building there was a garden. Across the road I feel sure there was a farm gate and just a few buildings, along from there was a shoe menders. The school I attended was a kind of hut-like building and I think all the children shared the same class. My memeries are still quite vivid of it and I am hoping that someone can help to tell me if any of this still exist or anything at all about what I have just written. I do hope that someone knows something, no matter how small. Thank you for reading this.

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