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Florence Pansy Muggleton
Florence Pansy Muggleton born in Grantchester 1920 can trace her family back to her great, great grandparents Joseph Muggleton and Mary Ann Boutle who married at Grantchester church on 17th January 1822. Flo has many memories over the years of the village. She moved from the village in 1945 but still kept in contact via her family. If anyone has any queries about the village pre 1942 she will try and help you and can be contacted via her daughter Gill Casper at gillian.casper@ntlworld.com.
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Cambridgeshire memories
Florence Pansy Muggleton
Florence Pansy Muggleton born in Grantchester 1920 can trace her family back to her great, great grandparents Joseph Muggleton and Mary Ann Boutle who married at Grantchester church on 17th January 1822. Flo has many memories over the years of the village. She moved from the village in 1945 but still kept in contact via her family. If anyone has any queries about the village pre 1942 she will try and help you and can be contacted via her daughter Gill Casper at gillian.casper@ntlworld.com.
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To Ron Goodliffe - A Trumpington Ploughman 1946 - 1958
My late father worked for the Pemberton Estate as a tractor driver from 1946 to around 1958.
I offer below, in his memory, an extract from the tribute I composed for his funeral in March 2005.
But, there was another love in your life,
by the name of Allis-Chalmers.
And you spent many hours alone in her company
as she ploughed each field with furrows.
As a child I’d sometimes join you on her ample bench type seat.
The constant roar of the engine and the screaming of the gulls
made conversation difficult
and I often fell asleep.
So you’d put your strong arm round me,
to stop me falling and getting crushed,
and we’d plough ...read more here
A memory of Trumpington contributed by Brian Goodliffe
sweet shop
my g.g.g. grandparents the Nixons had a sweet shop at 26 Petty Cury in the 1850s to early 1880s. Anybody ant news or pics?
A memory of Cambridge contributed by sylvia finch
Extracts From Grantchester & Cambridgeshire books
Intentional or unnoticed? The photographer has managed to capture someone either entering or leaving his or her house. A few seconds either way, and the photograph would have had a person in it to add a touch more interest!
An extract from from"Cambridge Photographic Memories".
We can see the church and the small thatched schoolroom built in about 1830; it was to become the National School. The cottages on the right were once a farmhouse - it was divided at the time of the enclosures. Many of the windows have early 19th-century leaded lights.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".
‘And laughs the immortal river still/Under the mill, under the mill’. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester’s mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
‘And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill’. So wrote the poet Rupert Brooke about Grantchester’s mill. The river may well be immortal, but the mill certainly was not. It burned down in 1928.
An extract from from"Cambridge Photographic Memories".
The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915. In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.
An extract from from"Cambridge Photographic Memories".