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This month we see Green St. looking towards Rampton End, probably about 1950. The building furthest away is, more recently, “Rainbow Crafts” but the building on the left was the home of Dennis Jeeps →

Election fever 1910. Towards the end of the 1800’s Willingham’s MP (Constituency of Chesterton) was Conservative. But in 1906 Edwin Montagu won for the Liberal party (Labour was in its infancy). →

Although there were very few vehicles 100 years ago - mostly carts - the roads still had to be maintained and ruts and potholes filled up. From time to time a steam roller and crew would arrive to do →

Here, in the 1960s, we see Charlie Ingle who was station master at Longstanton station for many years. He is not at the botanical gardens – he is standing at the end of the east-bound platform! You →

With all the recent openings and closings of "Happy House" I thought I'd include this photo of the village Fish & Chip shop as it was in 1965. This ramshackle building was on the site where "Happy →

This is one of the few photos that shows my own house on the High St.! The date would be early 1950s and the most striking thing about the picture is the mass of greenhouses and outbuildings at the back →

It’s 1960’s and the children are loading on to a coach, presumably for an outing somewhere. The coach is a Crossley SD42 parked just by the cemetery gate on Church Lane. This type of coach was built →

In medieval times, to get from Willingham to the important town of St. Ives you had to take a ferry across the Great Ouse river at Over Cote. The ferry is first recorded in 1575 but it’s likely a crossing →

It’s about 1910 and a parade is moving up Church Lane. People are standing at their doors and gates to watch as a large troop of children accompany this float. Looking carefully we see that it carries →

A rather poignant picture this month. It is the day the Salvation Army moved to their new hall on Silver St. Originally the Salvation Army hut was on the east side of Long Lane, opposite Short Lane. Then →