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Old Hurst maps
Historic maps of Old Hurst and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Old Hurst maps
Old Hurst photos
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Old Hurst area books
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Memories of Old Hurst
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Cambridgeshire memories
RAF Wyton.
I lived on the RAF Base with my then husband after we married in 1974. I got a bus to work in Huntingdon that stopped just outside of the main gate. If I missed the bus I was very late for work. We stayed there until 1977 until we bought a home in Needingworth. I enjoyed doing the 'march out' on the home as we painted all of the walls to pass the inspection. Jill and David Hertzog lived across from us and gave great parties until the early hours of the morning. My then husband liked going to the "pigs bar" with his work mates and USAF Alconbury for even later drinking hours. It was a fun place to be back then.
The Rendevous Cafe
The year this picture was taken I lived in a flat above the Rendevous Cafe in the building directly behind the statue. Owned by Pat and John Harvey, this was home to a newly arrived American family, and this town has lived in the hearts of my sister and me ever since. I love to return whenever I can and am happy to feel right at home again each time!
Grocer Of Bridge Street
My 3 x great-grandfather William Lightfoot was born in 1809 in Roxton, Bedfordshire. He was a grocer. His wife was Mary Jane Lightfoot (nee Clarke). They had 5 children, 3 of whom worked in the shop. The youngest son James (1846) was born in St Ives, he and his brother John Scott Lightfoot were painters. The family moved between 1861 and 1871 to Merryland, St Ives.
I am a descendant of William and Mary's eldest son William (1841) who became a grocer and tea dealer in Northampton.
Tractors
Monday market, being taken there by my Mum to do the shopping and then being indulged by the generous salesmen from Standens agricultural engineers and allowed to sit up in the (then) enormous cab and glory in watching our market hub-bub flowing past whilst imagining myself ploughing some vast Fen field. ( Genetics? My eldest son is now an agricultural equipment engineer and has always loved being around the machines.)
Looking For Matthews
Hi I am researching my family tree. The name is Matthews My great great grandfather James came from St Ives, his son was Louis Matthews, they were cattle dealers and lived in Needingworth Rd from 1840 onwards. If anyone has any info it would be fantastic as I'm not making much progress. They both had a lot of children, James had 6, Louis was married twice and had 9! I must have some rellys out there! Here's hoping.
Growing up in Somersham
I was born in Somersham in 1940, in my grandmother's house, which was 1 West End.
My own house was known then as 6 Trinity Terrace, since changed to 90 High Street. Until the mid 1950s a lot of the houses were quite primitive, no indoor sanitation, the Terrace had a pump for the 6 houses. The only heating was a fire in the living room, the bedrooms were always freezing. My memories are of a friendly village although as youngsters, our only plan was to get out. I started infant school in what is now the library, and the junior school was closer to 'The Cross'. Life, in retrospect, was simple and fun, we, as children, could be absent from home all day and no one would worry, knowing that we would turn up when hungry. I do not get back to the village much now, having no immediate family left there.
Kirton/Graham Ancestry
This is a message for Ian Graham:
Dear Ian, Hope all is well with you? We are fine, having just become grandparents, we are being kept pretty busy!
I have lost your email address but found you here.
I have been contacted by an American lady who descends from one of your grandmother’s brothers.
Do you want her contact details?
Best wishes, Lin
