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Spaldwick Windmill & The Belton Family
The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village.
My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby Kimbolton, was married to John Belton.
John, my uncle, inherited the windmill as well as a further windmill at Alconbury and a *water driven mill at Houghton, now owned by the National Trust. The Belton family had a very healthy corn milling business in this area of Huntingdonshire, (sad that it had to be gobbled up by Cambs.). I have documents associated with the business as well as John's 'verge' pocket watch, which formerly belonged to a "Charles" Belton, (father?). I have also, letters written ...read more here
A memory of Spaldwick contributed by Paul Digby
Staty Fair.
The Staty Fair is really called 'The Statute Fair' as it is held one night only but the high street is actually blocked off for 48 hours.
My family have lived in Kimbolton for over 500 years, my grandad had the butchers shop in the high street 'Whitemans', and my nan had the 'Saddle' public house. During the war they lived at number 40 and had doctors and nurses staying with them.
All my family return to Kimbolton and are buried in the cemetery.
A memory of Kimbolton contributed by Lisa Wright
The Cromwell Museum
Better known today as The Cromwell Museum!!
A memory of Huntingdon contributed by Korina Morris
The Swan
I became landlady of The White Swan as it was then, with my husband Gordon, who has since died. It had previously been run as an up market restaurant, but had not been successful. We concentrated on the village life, bringing the community together. Introduced bar skittles, darts, and instead of the restaurant, kept to plain English home-made cooking. We always had a themed New Year party, and people would be queueing outside on a Saturday night. The hardest three years work of my life, and while there were many happy memories, there were more unhappy ones. I was so glad to leave it. I have visited only once since, in the mid 90s. ...read more here
A memory of Old Weston contributed by Angela Cain
Extracts From Ellington & Cambridgeshire books
With just a sprinkling of snow, this delightful scene could very easily make a traditional Christmas card! Ellington’s church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the oldest surviving part of the building dates back to the 13th century. The spire was restored in 1899, and the nave roof about a year after this photograph.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
Ellington lies on the present
A14 road to the west of
Huntingdon. At Domesday,
the manor was held by
the Abbot of St Benedict`s,
Ramsey, and the parish
had a population of about
150. By 1906, when the
photograph was taken,
the population had risen
to around 260. The farmer
in his trap and the pair of
roadmen appear to be the
only inhabitants - but of
course most people would
be working in the fields
preparing the land for the
coming winter.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered. Inside is a very fine roof with carved angels at the feet of the principal rafters, and at the wall post is a small, carved figure, possibly an apostle.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".
A church at Ellington is
mentioned in the Domesday
survey of 1086. The chancel
arch of the present church
dates from the 13th century,
and the tower was added
in around 1390. Shortly
afterwards, the nave arcades,
north aisle and the north porch,
shown in the photograph, were
added. During the 1860s, Sir
George Gilbert Scott redesigned
and rebuilt the chancel. This
view shows the church after the
restoration of the spire in 1899
but before the rebuilding of the
nave roof in 1907.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
Built around 1130, the Manor
is supposed to be the oldest
continuously inhabited house
in Britain. Lucy Maria Wood
Boston, born in December 1892,
bought the building in 1939
and spent two years restoring
it. During the Second World
War she kept open house for
the RAF officers stationed at the
nearby airfield at Wyton, and
arranged musical and literary
evenings. She used the Manor
as an inspiration for her series
of six children`s stories known
as the Green Knowe books.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".