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My Evacuee Days.
My family was evacuated to Eaton Socon after being bombed out in London. My father was serving in The Royal Navy. I was only a baby so my memories only go back to about 1943. I came to Eaton Socon with my mother, her parents and my elder brother.
We were able to rent a cottage in School Lane from a farmer by the name of Payne. I can remember the Walton family in School Lane and starting school there. Unfortunately my mother died very suddenly in September 1944 when I had only been at school for one day. I was brought back to London to live with relatives until my father finished his time in the Service. My brother had ...read more here
Contributed by Pat Siddy
Cambridgeshire memories
My Evacuee Days.
My family was evacuated to Eaton Socon after being bombed out in London. My father was serving in The Royal Navy. I was only a baby so my memories only go back to about 1943. I came to Eaton Socon with my mother, her parents and my elder brother.
We were able to rent a cottage in School Lane from a farmer by the name of Payne. I can remember the Walton family in School Lane and starting school there. Unfortunately my mother died very suddenly in September 1944 when I had only been at school for one day. I was brought back to London to live with relatives until my father finished his time in the Service. My brother had ...read more here
A memory of Eaton Socon contributed by Pat Siddy
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
Michells Boutique
My first job as a 15year old was a sales assistant in a newly opened boutique just off Market Place. The shop was 'Michelles' and it had one foot in the fashion world where corsets abounded and the other in the exciting mini skirted fashion trend. There were two side windows that were often 'dressed' to appeal to holidaymakers walking up from the boat moorings. Roger and Pauline Wilkinson were the owners and the shop was opposite the Electricity Board Showrooms. I used to bike from Little Paxton to get to work, across the common. I would love to know what happened to the Wilkinsons as I lost touch when I moved from the area I ...read more here
A memory of St Neots contributed by Marilyn Messenger
Extracts From Eaton Socon & Cambridgeshire books
Built at the end of Washbank Road, Eynesbury, on the site of one of the earliest St Neots` crossings of the Ouse, Conygear
takes its name from the nearby rabbit warren owned by Margaret, Countess of Ferrers, and her sister, Elena la Zouche. The
warren consisted of a huge mound of earth surrounded by an impenetrable fence. The warrener looked after the `conies` to
ensure that there was a constant supply of fresh meat, and drove away poaching locals.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
The parish church of St
Mary the Virgin appears
to have been built in the
early 15th century using
some earlier parts, which
possibly date from the 14th
century. Unfortunately, in
February 1930 the church
was destroyed by fire, and
only the west tower and the
vestry survived. Rebuilding
was immediately put in
hand, and the restored
church was re-consecrated
in 1932.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
Inns and restaurants such as the Old Plough and the White Horse (left) served the travelling public on the Great North Road until a bypass was built for the A1 to the west of the village.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".
The parish church of St Mary was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style 600 years ago. In 1930 it was restored and partly rebuilt by Sir Albert Richardson after a serious fire. The tower has buttresses banded with light courses of limestone and darker courses of ironstone; inside there is an interesting spiral stair to the north chapel.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".
Just after the end of the First World War the
town suffered a serious loss with the closure
of Days’ Brewery. When Frank Day died at
the early age of 56 in June 1919 there was no
family member to continue the business, so it
had to close. The brewery buildings were taken
over by the firm of Jordan and Addington, but
they were no longer used for brewing.
At the sale of Frank Day’s estates, the Priory
garden was acquired by St Neots & District
Recreation Club Company and developed for
various sports, especially bowls which gained
great popularity in the area in the years
immediately following the end of the war.
Interest in the Recreation Club Company
itself declined during the 1930s. In 1939
St Neots Bowling Club acquired its assets and
with them control of the whole site.
As the town began to recover from the
effects of the war, the Urban District Council
turned its attention to providing the new
housing that the town needed. This resulted
in 1921 in the first council house estates being
built off the Cambridge Road, just before the
railway bridge in St Neots, and off Berkley
Street in Eynesbury.
An extract from from"St Neots - A History & Celebration".