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Linton, Cambridgeshire
Linton maps
Historic maps of Linton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Linton maps
Historic map of Linton
Illustrated Victorian map of Cambridgeshire
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Linton books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Linton and the local area. View all Linton books
Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
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Cambridgeshire Living Memories
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Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
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£11.20
5 Linton photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Linton
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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
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
Cambridgeshire memories
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
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
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
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
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
Extracts From Linton & Cambridgeshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Linton, inspired by Frith photos.
Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
This little lad demonstrates the ingenuity of a stile which maintains the integrity of the field boundary without the need for steps over the fence. Simply push the three rails down, and step over! This one is the only example of a clapper stile in Cambridgeshire.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories.
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Cambridgeshire Living Memories
A possible relict from the 19th century enclosure, this stile was rebuilt in 1998, but the gate has now gone. When this picture was taken in the 1950s, the Linton estate farms were mainly arable, with only 200 acres recorded as grassland.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Living Memories.
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Cambridgeshire Living Memories
In 1897 the vicar employed district visitors to serve the growing congregation, estimated at 1,200 people with 240 regular communicants. In 1959 the congregation had shrunk to around 11. Since this picture was taken the trees around the church have grown, and it cannot be seen from this tree by the brook.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Living Memories.
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