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Living in Church End

I lived at number 14 for about 11 years and I miss it greatly. My parents moved from Cambridge and I was born at Mill Road in 1968. I remember long summers and playing in the fields just outside the village boundary. Neighbours were Joy and Andrew, Olive and Ray and across the road in the farm opposite was Ricky the Alsation dog. My mother had MS and my parents seperated in about 1978 when my Grandparents bought the cottage to look after my mum. They missed Anglesey too much and in 1979 we left. I still miss the place greatly and try and return for a look around every couple of years. I was in the local cub pack and ...read more here
A memory of Gamlingay contributed by tom knight

Florence Pansy Muggleton

Florence Pansy Muggleton born in Grantchester 1920 can trace her family back to her great, great grandparents Joseph Muggleton and Mary Ann Boutle who married at Grantchester church on 17th January 1822.  Flo has many memories over the years of the village.  She moved from the village in 1945 but still kept in contact via her family.  If anyone has any queries about the village pre 1942 she will try and help you and can be contacted via her daughter Gill Casper at gillian.casper@ntlworld.com.
A memory of Grantchester contributed by First name Last name

To Ron Goodliffe - A Trumpington Ploughman 1946 - 1958

My late father worked for the Pemberton Estate as a tractor driver from 1946 to around 1958.
I offer below, in his memory, an extract from the tribute I composed for his funeral in March 2005.

But, there was another love in your life,
by the name of Allis-Chalmers.
And you spent many hours alone in her company
as she ploughed each field with furrows.

As a child I’d sometimes join you on her ample bench type seat.
The constant roar of the engine and the screaming of the gulls
made conversation difficult
and I often fell asleep.

So you’d put your strong arm round me,
to stop me falling and getting crushed,
and we’d plough ...read more here
A memory of Trumpington contributed by Brian Goodliffe

A ghost in Melbourn High Streeet

I lived at 65 High Street from 1964 to 1971. The two little figures on the left of the photo are my two daughters, Lisa and Jane. We shared our house with a ghost who, we believe, was Miss Howard, who had previously lived there. Her father owned the baker's shop next door and had built the two houses next to it. Miss Howard 'appeared' to both my daughters at different times, when they were 18 months old and 3 years old, and I think that, at that young age, they were not capable of inventing such a story. Our dog was also aware of her presence, and over the years we were there, we frequently heard her walking about, along ...read more here
A memory of Melbourn contributed by Joycee Davey