Standon, High Street c.1965
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S377012
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In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different. The corn mill burned down in 1961, and then in 1964 Dr Beeching swung his axe and the pretty railway line from Buntingford to Ware was closed. All was set for Standon to slip into a decline. However, the village thrives today. It rarely looks back to the past and to the time when, for example, Daniel Clerk the grave digger kept a large basket of human bones in his kitchen, claiming that he knew whose remains each was. Maybe some things are best forgotten!
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