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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!
Contributed by Linda Christie
Cambridgeshire memories
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!
A memory of St Ives contributed by Linda Christie
My Parents Lived there
My sister and her husband Mr. & Mrs. E. Parkinson built a bungalow and shop on the corner of the main street and Pound Road. They kept it for many years and during that period my Mother and Father moved there and lived in Pound Road for a number of years before returning to Wales. My wife and I visited a number of times and we sometimes went out on the river in the punts that were moored at the Boat House. There was a small restaraunt in the Boat House. A very nice village on the side of the Ely river. We often walked to the adjacent village of Hemmingford Abbots, Houghton Mill and into Ely town. The Church is ...read more here
A memory of Hemingford Grey contributed by Roy Newton
I was a Dr Banardo's boy
I was a Dr Banardo's boy. I was with Mrs F Ashton for about 3 yrs, at the homestead, which I think has since gone, it was an old pub. I had very happy memories of Bluntisham, if there is anyone who remembers me, I would like to hear from you.
Our head teacher was Mrs Xmas.
Just if I may mention a few names I remember, Richard Tebbitt, Richard Leader, Ales Boulter, Leonard Marsh, Grace Barker, Joy Tebbitt, Sybil Merryweather, Allen Abbott.
I did enjoy living in Bluntisham, so if anyone remembers let me hear from you.
A memory of Bluntisham contributed by irwin parker
Extracts From St Ives & Cambridgeshire books
The market here dates back to medieval times, when it was one of the most important in existence. A great fire in 1689 destroyed over a hundred houses. The one thing that is missing in this view is the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Free Church - it was erected some three years after this photograph.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
ST IVES, Bridge Street1955 S23004
Today, the bridge at St Ives is restricted to pedestrians, but up to fifty years ago, it was possible to drive a cart or a car over
the bridge. On the left in the 1955 view is the Manor House, occupied by Wadsworth, the beer and soft drink bottlers,
whilst on the right is the building which used to be the Temperance Hotel. The 1898 view shows the earlier type of blinds
used by the shops to protect their goods: the awning is supported on wooden posts driven into the road surface. Whilst a
Jaguar 2˝ litre heads a row of cars in 1955, only a little boy with a pram uses the road in 1898. At the far end, facing across
Bridge Street, is the old Crown Inn with its distinguishing cross on the upper panel. It was demolished after a fire in 1975
and rebuilt for Woolworth`s in a sympathetic manner.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
The bridge across the Ouse at St Ives was built in medieval times. Part of it was destroyed and a drawbridge put in its place as a defensive measure during the Civil War; it was then subsequently rebuilt. Its distinguishing feature - almost uniquely - is the chapel in the middle. The two upper storeys were added in 1736, and for a time the building was used as a public house. It was restored in 1929 when the upper storeys were demolished.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
The first recorded wooden
bridge was built here on
the site of the original ford
in the early 12th century.
The present bridge was
constructed in Barnack stone
in 1414, and the chapel of
St Ledger (or St Lawrence as
some records suggest) was
consecrated in 1426. In 1645,
during the Civil War, one arch
was removed and replaced
with a drawbridge. The
drawbridge was demolished
and the round-headed arches
were rebuilt in 1716. Two
extra stories were added to
the chapel in 1836 and it
became a private house, but
in 1930 the structure was
found to be unstable, and the
chapel was returned to its
original design.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
In the 13th century, St Ives was one of the biggest markets in Europe. Since then, encroachment by buildings greatly reduced its size. The statue is of the town’s most famous resident, Oliver Cromwell, who lived here for five years in the 1630s. To his right is the Free Church, built in 1863 by the owner of a nearby flour mill.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".