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Gamlingay books
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
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Cambridgeshire Living Memories
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Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
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Memories of Gamlingay
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I lived in a cottage in Long Lane, beyond Church End as a child during the war. I have vivid memories of my life here. The snowy winter of 1943 when the snow reached up to the cottage windows. We had no neighbours except Dick and May Norman, who lived next door. I remember "Uncle Dick", as... [more]
Shared on 13 January 2009
I lived at number 14 for about 11 years and I miss it greatly. My parents moved from Cambridge and I was born at Mill Road in 1968. I remember long summers and playing in the fields just outside the village boundary. Neighbours were Joy and Andrew, Olive and Ray and across the road in the farm opposite was Ricky the... [more]
Shared on 24 February 2008
Bedfordshire memories
Hello, I was born at Paxton Park in 1948. My mum was Sheila Shepherd, daughter of Lilian and Percy. Mum married Horace Hermitage who was stationed there, they married and went off to live in Kent but she came back to St Neots to have my sister Carole. I remember so well the train journey from Kent to go and stay with... [more]
Shared on 29 October 2009
My first husband, David Beames, and I, moved into Eynesbury House in July, 1968, and our first son, Andrew, was born at Mill Road Hospital, Cambridge, a few weeks later. William was born in 1971, also at Mill Road. Both boys went to St. Mary's Primary School, Eynesbury. (They are now both married and living in America. I have two lovely... [more]
Shared on 18 March 2007
I attended here in the late 50s and early 60s
I remember St Marys when Mr Naylor if im right was the headmaster when i left to go to Longsands in 1962. At easter and Christmas we use to go to St Marys church opposite for services. There was some prefab classrooms at the back and you still had ink and milk monitors, i cannot remember the name of the teachers... [more]
Shared on 03 August 2009
My great-grandfather the papermill manager
My great-grandfather Ogilvie Bricknall was the manager of this mill at the turn of the century. He was a great papermaker and had moved to St Neots with his family from Longforgan in Perthshire. His son James was assistant manager in 1911 and the mill employed his two daughters as clerks.
Shared on 08 March 2009
My first job as a 15year old was a sales assistant in a newly opened boutique just off Market Place. The shop was 'Michelles' and it had one foot in the fashion world where corsets abounded and the other in the exciting mini skirted fashion trend. There were two side windows that were often 'dressed' to appeal to holidaymakers... [more]
Shared on 24 August 2008
My family was evacuated to Eaton Socon after being bombed out in London. My father was serving in The Royal Navy. I was only a baby so my memories only go back to about 1943. I came to Eaton Socon with my mother, her parents and my elder brother.
We were able to rent a cottage in School Lane from a... [more]
Shared on 14 July 2008
Extracts From Gamlingay & Bedfordshire books
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
The parish church of St Mary is built from deep golden Carstone with limestone details. Much of the church was rebuilt in the 15th century by Merton College, Oxford, and the steward of their estate, Walter Taylard. The church was restored in 1880 by J P St Aubyn, who designed and built the church on Gamlingay Heath.
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Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
Situated on the Cambridgeshire border with Bedfordshire, Gamlingay was once a thriving market town. After a disastrous fire in 1600 which nearly destroyed the entire town, the market was moved to nearby Potton, in Bedfordshire.
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
There was a great fire in 1600 in Gamlingay, and most of the buildings along Church Street were burnt down. The Cock is one of the early replacements; in 1965 the beer was supplied by Greene King. Further down the street was the village maltings.
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