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These days we don’t see much snow, if any, but in the 1960s it came frequently and sometimes deep. In this month's photo we see heavy snow being cleared from outside Berrycroft stores into a lorry! →

Last Month Alan Fawcitt's history piece talked about the "dissenters" who broke from the Church of England to form other churches in the village. Things came to a head in the 1800's over two issues: cemetery →

This looks like a scene from a horror film but it is taken in Willingham around 1935. At that time a group performed a “pantomime” as part of feast week each year. As you can see this involved costumes →

It‘s the winter of 1962/3 and work is starting, driving piles for a new concrete bridge that will span the river at Earith. This has always been an important crossing and we know there was a bridge →

If you look up at the roof in our medieval church you will see several carved angels like this. It’s worth walking round and looking at each one because they are all different. One is holding a hammer, →

We know little about the thatched house being demolished in this picture. It stood towards the south end of the High St. just down from the bus stop and red phone box. It was demolished in 1950's to make →

Parades were a popular feature of village life with the annual “field day” and “hospital day” parades. These were often used to raise money for the village in a time when there was no government →

In years past, with open fires and thatched roofs, fire was an ever-present danger. Many buildings along Church Street were lost to fire before improvements in safety in the early 20th century. This month →

This, of course, is the inside of our beautiful medieval church. You might think it looks the same today but this picture was taken around 1900 and there are some important differences. Although the pews →

This is quite an old photo – probably about 1900 and we see the White Hart pub on the right. But what is this building in the middle? It has a shop front but above is a wooden structure with open slatted →