Author: villaadmin
May 1, 2022
April 2022
Willingham is rightly proud of its Parish Church which is a Grade 1 listed building and contains an amazing amount of history – going back to the 1200s. The current church was built on top of an older →
March 29, 2022
March 2022
This splendid new building is Berrycroft Stores in the 1930s, very different from the building we know today. Sadly, the building was short lived as it caught fire and was completely gutted a few years →
March 29, 2022
February 2022
Here are nine lads ready in their make-shift boat to be part of the parade on "Hospital Sunday", probably around 1920. In those days there was no NHS. What were everyday people to do if they needed hospital? →
January 29, 2022
January 2022
There is lots going on in this picture from about 1910 in George St. on the corner of Love’s Lane. In the foreground is a well-dressed family in a pony trap with two young ladies wearing large hats. →
January 1, 2022
December 2021
One of the fixtures of winter in Willingham used to be skating on the frozen fen at Earith. The shallow flooding of the fens made perfect and safe skating when it froze over - as it did every year. It →
December 1, 2021
November 2021
In the late winter of 1947 there was major flooding throughout the country due to heavy rain and melting snow. Willingham and the surrounding villages were badly affected. Here is a diary entry for March →
November 1, 2021
October 2021
I have to eat humble-pie this month. In August we had a picture of Church St. by the baker and I said "none of these buildings remain today". I was corrected by Lou & Pete Evans as follows:
"the →