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Great Staughton, the Highway c1955
Great Staughton, the Highway c1955 Ref: G279005
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 Kimbolton, High Street c1955 (ref: K157001) |
Year: 1960
Staty Fair. A memory of Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire 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. Last edited: 12/06/2007 14:22 by Lisa Wright |
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 Eaton Socon, School Lane c1960 (ref: E202021) |
Year: 1943
My Evacuee Days. A memory of Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire 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 by this time started work, so he stayed on with our grandparents. They all went back to London at the end of the war. About four years ago I made some enquiries on the internet as to the whereabouts of the Walton family and was lucky enough for someone who knew them to see my posting. Consequently my brother and I were re-united once again with the Waltons. I couldn't believe my luck. I now keep in touch regularly with them. Last edited: 15/07/2008 07:54 by Pat Siddy |
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Year: 1966
Michells Boutique A memory of St Neots, Cambridgeshire 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 do know that they had a son not too many years after I left in 1968 I believe. Happy days! Posted: 24/08/2008 14:08 by Marilyn Messenger |
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 Eynesbury, St Mary Street c1965 (ref: E216050) |
Year: 1968
Eynesbury House A memory of Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire 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 we went to live in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in 1976. I still remember the people who were so kind to us when we moved in: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cambers, John and Joyce Chapman, and Jill and Roger Henthorne to name but a few. We also became friendly with Reg Bygrave from the garage in St. Mary's Street, and of course his wife Brenda, and I as a new Mum and housewife got to know Edith Jones and "Mrs. Lowe", who came and did some cleaning for me. (Eynesbury House was a big place in those days!) I also became friendly with Fiona Ellis, who worked in an Estate Agents' in town, but we lost touch. I have very happy memories of my years in Eynesbury, and David and I are hoping to come down in the summer and see how much everything has changed! I am now retired, having been a teacher of French for nearly twenty years. David and I divorced in 1989 and in 1990 I married someone I had known since we were in college together (studying French) in the 1950s. He sadly died four years ago. David and I have remained good friends, and we see each other quite often, which is lovely. I have not re-married. I now live in Barnoldswick, not far from Skipton, and I can get to Macclesfield, where he lives, fairly easily by bus. I sold my car two years ago, as I hardly ever used it! I do hope that Eynesbury will not have changed too much! Posted: 18/03/2007 21:51 by Jenny Given |
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Year: 1955
Spaldwick Windmill & The Belton Family A memory of Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village. My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby Kimbolton, was married to John Belton. John, my uncle, inherited the windmill as well as a further windmill at Alconbury and a *water driven mill at Houghton, now owned by the National Trust. The Belton family had a very healthy corn milling business in this area of Huntingdonshire, (sad that it had to be gobbled up by Cambs.). I have documents associated with the business as well as John's 'verge' pocket watch, which formerly belonged to a "Charles" Belton, (father?). I have also, letters written to John's mother when he was in France in WW1 and a number of French embroidered postcards which were popular with soldiers. Why 1955? Well it was around this time that I visited the mill as a teenager and was saddened to see it in its dilapidated state. The ruin and attached land were subsequently sold by my mother who inherited the same after her sister, my Aunt Violet, died. I believe that a house has now been built on the site. The Beltons lived in a house in the centre of the village near to the church in whose churchyard are buried their children who only lived for a short time. Consequently, the family name of Belton does not live on, in Spaldwick at least! *Note: My further research casts some doubt on the Beltons' actual connection with Houghton Watermill. A John Belton is recorded as having worked the mill but beyond that there remains much uncertainty. The National Trust has no record of Beltons owning the mill. I shall be grateful for any more information on my Belton relatives. If anyone lives in or near to Spaldwick I would be most grateful if they could, on a sunny day, look in the churchyard for any reference of Beltons being buried there. Last edited: 15/07/2008 08:00 by Paul Digby |
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