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Swaffham Bulbeck photos
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Swaffham Bulbeck maps
Historic maps of Swaffham Bulbeck and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Swaffham Bulbeck maps
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Swaffham Bulbeck books
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
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Cambridgeshire Living Memories
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Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
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Memories of Swaffham Bulbeck
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I am assured that my memory is not playing tricks on me when I recall elephants living in the large garden close to Dr Pritchard's old surgery. The nuns at the convent off the A 10 road used to terrify my sister and I. They were all partially visible behind a decorative gridded screen to the side of their chapel, black-clad... [more]
Shared on 10 February 2009
I lived in the cottage next to the Chapel, and played with Wendy, we used to cycle to Upware and Wicken fen. At one point we would sit on the haystacks after the farmers had finished them. I would go horse riding in the corn cut fields, wonderful thing to do.
One good memory was when it snowed, Mrs Dowdswell... [more]
Shared on 12 February 2007
My first experience of England
When my family arrived in England from the US we went straight to our home which was located in Burwell. While my parents went to buy groceries for the kids we were able to start meeting our new playmates in the area. This was my first expereince with the difference in our english language. To this day I... [more]
Shared on 11 August 2008
Hi John Moore, I am very interested in what you remember. I was born at number 34 in 1941 and lived with my nana Ethel and grandad, mother Rita and sister Rita, there was also a boy from London, Douglas Kitson, he lived with Nana until he got married in 1957 but died in 1983 aged 47. My mother Rita died... [more]
Shared on 27 September 2009
I was interested to read the article by Ron Clarke (1950s football team). I lived at 34 Fulbourne Road with Mr and Mrs Clarke in the war. They were looking after their grandson whose father I believe was named Phil and was posted abroad. I have a few memories of Cherry Hinton in the war, some good, some not so good.... [more]
Shared on 19 September 2009
THE VILLAGE FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE 1950s
I remember in the 1950s when Cherry Hinton had the best village football team in Cambridgeshire, and around the 1950s when Cherry Hinton was a village, sadly no more. Farms up the High Street. Smiths bakers in Fulbourn Road. A piano playing all the old songs on a Saturday night in the Robin Hood.
I remember the sheep being brought from... [more]
Shared on 12 June 2009
My memories refer to 1960 through to 1963 (I think!).
I was in charge of String Tuition for the Education Department with our HQ in the Guildhall and a storage room for instruments in the bowels of the building.
I remember Ludo Stewart who was Music Adviser and David Bass and Sam Grice (both staff teachers with me) and the SMO,... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2009
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?
Shared on 20 January 2008
Extracts From Swaffham Bulbeck & Cambridgeshire books
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Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories
Swaffham Bulbeck's vicar for much of the 19th century was Leonard Blomefield, alias Jenyns. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and they both used to go on nature rambles together. It was Jenyns, in fact, who gave up his place on the Beagle to allow Darwin to go instead.
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
The house facing the small green is Mitchell Hall, a timber-framed house built in the early 17th century but partly cased in brick in the 18th century. The huge clunch barn (right) is dated 1845. Further along the road stands a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered cottage.
This is an extract from Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories.
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Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories
The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec. In the 18th century the building was bought by William Hamond, who rebuilt the first floor in a local yellow brick.
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