Eynesbury

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart. The old houses are timber-framed, though the nearest had a brick casing added when the workshop was built next door. The Queen Anne house still has its original windows and door, and is advertising hair cutting and shaving. Around the corner at the Chequers Inn is a quoit ground, where matches with visiting teams were held.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".

The parish church of St Mary is built of local cobbles, with a fine tower that was rebuilt in 1688 using 13th-century materials. The remains of the original Norman church can be seen in the north arcade of the nave, where the capitals to the piers have a scalloped decoration. The Royalist chaplain to Prince Rupert was rector in 1629-31, followed much later by William Cole, the Cambridgeshire antiquary, from 1768.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".

Almost exactly the same view as No 39994 (pages 16-17) shows that little has changed: even the bicycle, albeit a little more modern in design, seems to form the main method of transport. A shopping precinct has replaced the building in the right foreground. On the right, Knowles bakery has become a Chinese take-away, and the nearest foreground building is occupied by the St Neots Motor Cycle Company. The fish and chip shop sporting the Walls ice-cream sign (beyond the bakery) and today occupied by St Neots Picture Gallery was the home of the Tebbutt family, who were well known champion Fen ice skaters.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".

Crescent. An ambitious programme of celebrations and entertainments was undertaken, with pony races and cycle, athletic, and rural sports. In the evening dancing on the Market Square ended with a bonfire and fireworks display. At the end of the 19th century, a church service was held ‘to bury the old century and usher in the new’. St Neots and Eynesbury people no doubt felt that there was much from the past on which they could reflect with pride, and also that they had good grounds to look forward to the future with optimism.
An extract from from"St Neots - A History & Celebration".

THE NEW century saw a renewed burst of building activity. The town, while remaining essentially small and with only a minimal growth in population, continued to spread eastwards. Shaftesbury Avenue was built up in 1904. On the north side of the Market Square Barclays Bank, which had taken over the local bank in 1896, erected an imposing new building in 1901. William Seward, a major businessman in the town during the early years of the century, built a new boot and shoe shop in the High Street in 1901 and followed this up with other new premises in 1904. The Royal Oak (now the Halifax Bank) was rebuilt in 1903. All this, together with Charles Wren’s new fish shop in 1905, helped give the town centre a fresher and more modern face. Although so many of the old St Neots family businesses have disappeared, one that began in the early years of the 20th century still flourishes. In 1906 Frank Brittain opened a furniture shop in Eaton Ford. He moved into the building on St Neots Market Square that had once been the post office in April 1914 and subsequently into the High Street, where the present shop is still run by members of the family.
An extract from from"St Neots - A History & Celebration".