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Great Abington maps
Historic maps of Great Abington and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Great Abington maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Cambridgeshire
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Great Abington 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 Great Abington
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I was 6 mths old when my parents moved into Magna Close, my maiden name being Stenson. 1955 I was born. Well, I have many warming memories of my childhood in Great Abington, some of which relate to the post office. Harry and Hilda Jaggard owned and ran it then, Harry seeing to the post office side of things and Hilda... [more]
Shared on 27 February 2008
I was a pupil at the local primary school in Great Abington. This picture shows the Old School House that the headmasters of the school lived in during my time there. The Village Shop and Post Office is the white building making up the corner of the road as it leads round to the right. The road that leads round the... [more]
Shared on 05 May 2008
Cambridgeshire memories
I moved into this cottage in 1953 with my parents and older sister. I remember very clearly looking out of the large window in the centre of the cottage wishing I was old enough to go to school with my sister. I was also very envious as she came home from school with a Coronation mug of the Queen and Prince... [more]
Shared on 20 April 2007
The photograph shows a shop and house which my grandmother ran between 1931 and 1952. It was then run by my uncle until it was sold as a house in 1979. My grandmother's name was Colville and she ran the shop as a general stores. Before the building was a shop it was a public house called the... [more]
Shared on 06 April 2006
My paternal grandparents, by the name of Goodliffe, lived in a house called The Robins, on Old House Road, Balsham. (Both of which are still there, although the house has been extended somewhat and modernised. Mind you, it certainly needed modernising. Even as late as the early 1960s, when my widowed grandmother eventually died, it still had an... [more]
Shared on 24 December 2008
I remember visiting my great aunt Alice and her husband Arthur as a child. I lived in Gloucester and visited with my parents and brother Richard. My great grandmother Emily Wilkins (Alice's mother) was still alive. I remember vividly the house martins nesting in the eaves of the thatched roof. I remember uncle Arthur with severe arthritis and being able... [more]
Shared on 11 February 2008
My paternal Robinson relatives (married Moore) are buried in the churchyard at Great Shelford from 1839 and at one time lived in Woollard's Lane. In 1849 they moved into Cambridge when William Joseph Robinson marrried Jane Rayment Mansfield Barrett. One branch remained in Cambridge whilst others moved to Lancashire and the United States.
Shared on 14 December 2008
My name is Jacqueline Erickson Morgan. I lived in Milestone Cottage from August 1968 - January 1971. I know this thatched cottage as Milestone Cottage; the name was due to the Milestone in front of the cottage that indicated the number of miles to Cambridge and to London.
The house number of the cottage was, I believe, 14 Whittlesford... [more]
Shared on 26 June 2008
Extracts From Great Abington & Cambridgeshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Great Abington, inspired by Frith photos.
Cambridge Photographic Memories
The cyclists here obviously felt sufficiently safe not to worry too much about hugging the kerb and avoiding brushes with the traffic. The practice of parking a bicycle by leaning it on one pedal against the kerb is rarely seen these days.
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Cambridge Photographic Memories
With their knee-length breeches and caps, the word that comes to mind is 'urchins'. More to the point, one wonders just what it was they were conspiring about when the photographer set up to take this photograph!
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Cambridge Photographic Memories
There are some obvious posers in this photograph. Peering over the thatched roof is the battlemented octagon of the village church, rebuilt after two collapses in the 18th century.
This is an extract from Cambridge Photographic Memories.
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