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Here is a scene looking down the High St. with (until recently) the hair-dresser’s on the right. The car looks like a Morris Oxford which would place the photo in the early to mid 1950’s. Surprisingly, →

Compared to last month this photo is not very old at all. However, if you are new to the village in the last 25 years you might be surprised to see that there was a full size petrol station at Millberry →

This strange contraption is a fire pump which was operated by two people to pump water in the event that a fire broke out. Fire was a constant threat due to the number of thatched roofs and open fires. →

This large barn is situated on the corner of Church St. and Long Lane. It was built in the 1600’s but it looks pretty shabby here in the 1970s. However, while cladding has been replaced many times over →

Last month we saw the churchwardens holding the church weather-vane which had blown off the spire. But how did they replace it? Well in this month’s photo we see the new one being taken up to the top →

In the early 1960’s a storm blew the weather vane off the top of the church spire – which probably had been there since Victorian times. Here we see the churchwardens Alec Denson and Dr. James Flower, →

This picture was taken in Willingham 100 years ago in somebody’s back garden - we don’t know where. There are a couple of things that are striking. The first is the bike. We take them for granted, →

This is how you would build a corn-stack or hay-stack in the 1940’s. No automatic binding or hydraulic lifts – just a strong arm, a pitch fork and a head for heights. Forget health and safety: no hard →

If you talk to people that grew up in the village in the 1950s and 60s they will often have fond memories of Long’s shop in Church St. From this picture it is not hard to see why. The shop lists “confectionary, →

How many children can you get in a horse cart? Well I can count 29 faces not including the driver – mostly girls but with a group of lads crammed at the front. This photo is in the early 1900’s and →