Maps

2,009 maps found.

Map Of Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire Ref. F04
Map Of Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire Ref. F18
1919, Waresley Ref. POP860724
1946, Elton Ref. NPO701100
1946, Kingston Ref. NPO748196
1946, Haddenham Ref. NPO724227
1946, Hartford Ref. NPO727804
1946, Duxford Ref. NPO696087
1946, Coates Ref. NPO672654
1946, Coldham Ref. NPO675032
1946, Comberton Ref. NPO676030
1946, Covington Ref. NPO679223
1946, Broughton Ref. NPO652748
1946, California Ref. NPO659676
1920, Highfields Ref. POP734472
1920, Holme Ref. POP738612
1901, Barham Ref. RNC633138
1899-1901, Barton Ref. RNC634314
1896, Whaddon Ref. RNE866763
1901, Sandhill Ref. RNC825028

Books

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Memories

26 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

1940s

We moved into Colindale Avenue in 1942 shortly after the Tube station was bombed. I and my two brothers spent many happy days playing in the park opposite the station. I still keep in touch with friends that I made 60 years ago and we remember ...Read more

A memory of Colindale by Brian Goodall

First Love Thornton Heath 1963 69

My memories of Thornton Heath are not as a local resident, but as the girlfriend of someone who lived in the area and with whom I went out for 6 years from the age of 15 to 21, eventually becoming engaged when ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Marion Coward

Growing Up In Foxton Cambridgeshire

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

Name Search

I have no memories of Bangley as such but am very interested in the place (or rather the NAME) as I married into the Bangley family and because the name is so unusual, any references I find regarding the name Bangley gives me great ...Read more

A memory of Bangley Park by Alan Walker

Off Grid Living

Im hoping that local residents from the late 40s onwards can help. I remember travelling with my family late 1950s to vistit some relations who lived in March, in train carrages bolted together. My memories are vague but they were jolted ...Read more

A memory of March by Stephen Armstrong

Pre Post World War 2

Attended Houghton Road Junior School, then in 1944 the Hill School. Lived 45 Windsor Street. Memories going to school eating breakfast of bread and dripping, transporting a ton of coal from the street to the coal house at ...Read more

A memory of Thurnscoe by Dennis Flavell

Sacred Heart High School For Girls

I cannot remember when I went to the Convent but the first class I went in was Prep 4. I believe I left school approx summer 1957. Although I was not particulary keen on school I can say I enjoyed my time there. ...Read more

A memory of Chew Magna by Ruth Ball

West Hendon 1940s 1960s

My Harrison ancestors all came from Cambridgeshire, mostly from the Downham, where they were agricultural laborers and my father, Victor Alfred George Harrison was born in 1914 in Peterborough. His father, George William ...Read more

A memory of West Hendon by edgwaredr

William Foster

I have no memories of Gedney Hill but am searching for a William Foster who I know lived there at least between 1871 and 1901 - after this I lose him. He was born in 1841 in Parson Drove Cambridgeshire and was married to Elizabeth. Hope someone can help. Ken

A memory of Gedney Hill by Ken Rebetzke

The Norden Family Of West Wratting And Weston Colville

I have been researching the Norden Family History for my husband's uncle. His mother was born in London and he wondered why she came to live in Weston Colville with relatives. James Norden ...Read more

A memory of West Wratting in 1860 by Pauline Barker

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Captions

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Caption For Upwell, Village 1923

The county boundary between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk actually runs along the middle of the river at this point, so the church is in Norfolk, while the pub is in Cambridgeshire!

Caption For Burwell, Steven's Mill C1955

The last remaining windpump in Cambridgeshire was taken from nearby Adventurer's Fen and resited at Wicken Fen in 1956.

Caption For Castor, Peterborough Road C1955

Castor stands on the junction of the two main Roman roads in this part of Cambridgeshire, Ermine Street and King's Street.

Caption For March, Market Place C1955

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

Caption For Linton, Clappers Stile C1955

This one is the only example of a clapper stile in Cambridgeshire.

Caption For Gamlingay, Mill Street C1965

Situated on the Cambridgeshire border with Bedfordshire, Gamlingay was once a thriving market town.

Caption For Bourn, High Street C1955

The hall itself, an Elizabethan mansion, was built on the site of a former castle built by the Sheriff of Cambridgeshire after the Norman conquest.

Caption For Royston, General View 1929

The higgledy-piggledy development of this small country market town which resulted from its unusual position on the county border of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire until 1896 is evident in this overall

Caption For Fulbourn, The Old Mill C1950

This is a fine old Cambridgeshire smock mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail; it was built in 1808, and ceased work in 1937.

Caption For Old Weston, The Village C1955

It is a typical building of the Cambridgeshire countryside, three rooms long with an entrance opposite the chimney stack.

Caption For Castor, The Church Of St Kyneburgha 1890

The cruciform church of St Kyneburga is the most important Norman church in Cambridgeshire.

Caption For Bourn, Bourne Mill C1955

The mill has been in the care of the Cambridgeshire Preservation Trust since 1932.

Caption For Eynesbury, Church Of St Mary The Virgin 1897

The Royalist chaplain to Prince Rupert was rector in 1629-31, followed much later by William Cole, the Cambridgeshire antiquary, from 1768.

Caption For Eaton Socon, The Green And The War Memorial C1960

Less than ten years later, Huntingdonshire was merged with Cambridgeshire, and the residents could truthfully say that they were amongst the few that had lived in the same house but in three counties

Caption For Eynesbury, St Mary Street 1897

Eyensbury is now in Cambridgeshire but was formerly in Huntingdonshire.

Caption For Willingham, The Mill C1955

This is the largest smock mill in Cambridgeshire.

Caption For Peterborough, Long Causeway 1904

The Local Government Act of 1972 ended the old borough, and created a large district in its place, incorporating the old Soke and extending into Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

Caption For Royston, The Stone C1955

The town was 'carved' out of four parishes - Bassingbourn and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire and Therfield and Barkway in Hertfordshire.

Caption For St Neots, Poppyfields 2005

All these schemes mark a determination to make St Neots not only the largest town in Cambridgeshire but also the best and one of which all who live in it can feel proud.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St James' Cathedral Church, Interior 1922

This shows the early 16th-century nave and aisle designed by John Wastell, the architect of King's College, Cambridge. Sir