St Neots
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Eynesbury House
My first husband, David Beames, and I, moved into Eynesbury House in July, 1968, and our first son, Andrew, was born at Mill Road Hospital, Cambridge, a few weeks later. William was born in 1971, also at Mill Road. Both boys went to St. Mary's Primary School, Eynesbury. (They are now both married and living in America. I have two lovely grand-daughters, Mary and Catherine (Andy's children). Will married a nice girl called Janna two years ago, but so far no sign of children.) I joined the St. Neots Musicmakers a short time after Andrew's birth. We all found St. Neots a very friendly place, and were happy there. Unfortunately my husband had to move North when his office closed, and ...read more here
A memory of Eynesbury contributed by Jenny Given
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
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
Extracts From St Neots & Cambridgeshire books
This Victorian street scene combines bystanders quite obviously enthralled with the activities of the photographer, who are standing still enough to be captured in sharp detail, with people going about their business, whose movement registers as blurs; the person crossing to the pavement on the left-hand side almost appears to have only one leg!
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
Vast quantities of water are required to manufacture paper, hence the situation of the paper mill at St Neots on the Great Ouse. But whilst a lot of Victorian industrial architecture has a certain charm, there is certainly none apparent here.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
The paper mill was built on the site of a corn mill called Okestubbe Mill, which was owned
by St Neots Priory and continued to operate until the early 19th century. In 1799, the mill
was bought by Ousley Rowley, a local landowner, who let it to a Mr Hobson of Eaton Socon.
Shortly afterwards it was taken over by Henry Fourdrinier, one of the most innovative of
local paper makers, but the cost of development broke him, and by 1808 he was bankrupt.
Eventually, after a chequered career, the mill became the St Neots Paper Mill, owned by
George Fydell Rowley; it employed over 200 people. In 1912, a disastrous fire destroyed the
building in the photograph, but a new, state-of-the art paper mill was built the following
year and the business continued to thrive.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
There is an interesting mix of trades in one building on the far side of the road: a hairdresser and piano shop. What would that inspire - ‘Chop-sticks’, perhaps? Or maybe ‘Hair on a G String’...
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
The Westminster Bank
(right) has taken over from
Ellwoods, and the trees
have begun to grow in
the front yard to the
Congregational Church. In
the distance, the columned
lantern on the Pavilion
Cinema, the old Corn
Exchange, is silhouetted
against the skyline. In fewer
than five year it will be gone
forever in a terrible fire.
On the south side, whilst a
touring charabanc waits for
its customers outside the
Royal Oak public house, a
handcart makes a delivery
to Fraser`s, piano sellers
and household outfitters.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".