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Gamlingay, Mill Street c1965 (ref. G277007) | 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. |  Add your own Memory
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Balsham, Post Office and Stores c1955 (ref. B725002) | Balsham is situated at the opposite end of Fleam Dyke to Fulbourn. Fleam Dyke is a three mile long earthwork built in the 7th century to defend East Anglia from the Mercians. | Add your own Memory
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Balsham, Cambridge Road c1955 (ref. B725013) | Enamelled metal advertising signs, much sought after as collector's items these days, abound on the walls of this little village shop. | Add your own Memory
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Bluntisham, High Street c1955 (ref. B726015) | Without doubt, Bluntisham's most famous daughter was the novellist Dorothy L Sayers, creator of the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Her father was rector at Bluntisham, and she spent most of her childhood here. | Add your own Memory
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Bottisham, High Street c1955 (ref. B727008) | Bottisham seems to have had more than its fair share of bad luck over the ages. In 1712 twenty houses were destroyed in a fire. Then, in February 1846, fire destroyed the produce of two large farms, as well as fifteen cottages. Twenty-four families lost their homes. | Add your own Memory
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Bourn, Mill c1955 (ref. B713009) | Just a windmill, you might think, but this dark weatherboarded post mill is the oldest of its type in the country, dating back to around 1620 or possibly earlier. | Add your own Memory
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Bourn, High Street c1955 (ref. B713006) | Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street. These days, Bourn is probably best known for Bourn Hall clinic, renowned the world over for its pioneering work with test-tube babies. The hall itself, an Elizabethan mansion, was built on the site of a former castle built by the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest. | Add your own Memory
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Brampton, Church Street c1955 (ref. B182020) | The famous diarist Samuel Pepys often came to Brampton, visiting his uncle. Pepys himself always wanted to retire to this pretty village, although he ended his days in Clapham. His sister, Mrs Paulina Jackson, was the last member of the family to live here, and a monument to her can be seen in St Mary's church. | Add your own Memory
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Brampton, High Street c1955 (ref. B182015) | Back in the 1950s it would have been quite normal for a bank to have a branch in a small village. Rationalisation has seen a good many of them close down. | Add your own Memory
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Buckden, Church Street 1906 (ref. 55429) | The man with the horse and cart on the left is at the village pump, which is situated in front of the Methodist Chapel. | Add your own Memory
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Buckden, Church 1906 (ref. 55431) | Although the church of St Mary's has many interesting points, clearly the main object of interest in this picture is the building next door, Buckden Palace. Although but a fraction of the original 15th century palace, this nevertheless impressive building was the residence of the Bishops of Lincoln up until 1842. Katherine of Aragon was imprisoned in one of the corner turrets for a year after her marriage to Henry VIII was annulled. | Add your own Memory
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Buckden, High Street 1906 (ref. 55427) | Here we see two fine old coaching inns - the Lion, on the left, dating back to 1500, and the 18th-century George Hotel on the right. It is the early days of motoring, and the hotels are clearly competing against each other with the facilities on offer, including inspection pits! Further down the street, we see a wonderfully-posed assortment of turn-of-the-century trades - a delivery boy in his striped apron, someone pushing a cart with a water barrel, and the village postman. | Add your own Memory
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Buckden, the Village c1950 (ref. B237010) | It is just over forty years after photograph No 55427, and doubtless the inspection pits are not quite the selling point they once were! And whilst the general level of signs outside has reduced, AA and RAC signs are prominent on both buildings. | Add your own Memory
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Burwell, High Street c1955 (ref. B728031) | There is no hint of a dark secret in this view. But in 1727, a company of players gave a performance in a nearby barn. So popular was it, that the doors were nailed shut to prevent any more people from getting in. But then a fire started, and eighty-two people were burned to death. Nearly fifty years later, an old man on his deathbed confessed to having caused this terrible tragedy. A monument to the dead stands in Burwell's churchyard. | Add your own Memory
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Burwell, Steven's Mill c1955 (ref. B728009H) | When this photograph was taken, the tower mill which overlooks Burwell was still fully functioning. The last remaining windpump in Cambridgeshire was taken from nearby Adventurer's Fen and resited at Wicken Fen in 1956. | Add your own Memory
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Cambridge, King's Parade 1933 (ref. 85547) | This photograph looks out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary. At the tailor's across the road, blazers are selling for 32/6 - £1.62 in today's money. | Add your own Memory
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Cambridge, King's Parade 1890 (ref. 26496) | Hansom cabs line up in King's Parade, outside the elegant classically designed Senate House to the right. Designed by James Gibbs, it is the meeting place of the governing body of the University, and the place where degrees are conferred. The impressive King's College Chapel is to the left. | Add your own Memory
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Cambridge, King's College, the Bridge 1909 (ref. 61480) | The Backs, which are the lawns, meadows and gardens behind the colleges which back on to the River Cam, are a favourite place for recreation. In the foreground, some young ladies appear to be trying their hands at rowing, whilst midstream we have what is more commonly associated with the river in Cambridge: punters. | Add your own Memory
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Cambridge, St John's College, Old Bridge 1890 (ref. 26443) | Here we see St John's College Old Bridge, originally conceived by Wren, but brought into being in 1712 by Robert Grumbold. Just beyond, joining Third and New Courts of St John's College, is the Bridge of Sighs, its Gothic design unashamedly borrowed from the covered bridge of the same name in Venice. | Add your own Memory
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Cambridge, St John's College Old Bridge 1890 (ref. 26454) | The Old Bridge is seen this time from the Bridge of Sighs. Beyond is the Wren Library, part of Trinity College. | Add your own Memory
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