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Horseheath, Cambridgeshire
Horseheath maps
Historic maps of Horseheath and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Horseheath maps
Historic map of Horseheath
Illustrated Victorian map of Cambridgeshire
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Horseheath books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Horseheath and the local area. View all Horseheath books
Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
Paperback
£15
Cambridgeshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Horseheath
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In 1938 my father was landlord of the Red Lion - I was just 6 years old but remember it clearly. I have a photo of my father standing on the front steps and the frontage is still clearly recognisable. At the time, all the lighting was by oil lamps and you had to go down a steep flight of stairs... [more]
Shared on 05 September 2009
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
Extracts From Horseheath & Cambridgeshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Horseheath, inspired by Frith photos.
Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
The post office and shop are at the junction with the Haverhill Road and the village green. In the distance is a very fine 17th-century farmhouse with a jettied cross-wing.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories.
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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.
This is an extract from Cambridge Photographic Memories.
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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!
This is an extract from Cambridge Photographic Memories.
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