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There has been a baker on the corner on Church Lane and Church Street for well over 100 years. An old thatched building was there until the early 1900’s but it burnt down. The current building was built →

If you go round to the back of the Parish Church you will find this little building. It is very old – built in the 1300’s and has an interesting history. Today it is called the “sacristy” but it →

Drama on Church St. around 1905 as the shop on the corner with Long Lane burns. Crowds have gathered to watch and the village fire pump is in action with a rather puny jet of water spraying on the building. →

This scene is easily recognisable as Berrycroft – taken about fifty years ago. Amazingly, with the exception of the houses on the far left which have gone to make way for Willingham Motors, all these →

Here is a wintery scene. Apart from the church in the background you wouldn’t recognize it as Willingham as none of the buildings in the foreground remain today. This photo is taken from the corner of →

This is one of the older pictures in the OldWillingham collection – estimated to be about 1900. It shows the large family of Mr. Ingle Few Thoday and his wife Emily. These are all well known Willingham →

If you went to Earith in the 1950’s you would have crossed over this suspension bridge. Nowadays you hardly notice the low concrete bridge that replaced it in 1963 but if you look to the right as you →

A young soldier stands on guard looking attentively for the enemy. Behind him, a couple of his compatriots along with an older man and a boy sit on a large consignment of gun barrels. Well, as often the →

This month we see a Romany Gypsy family taken in their caravan during 1930s. Or do we? Well you’d be forgiven for thinking so but an older village member told me that this picture was taken during a →

This photo seems to show a mother and her two sons outside one of the (then) three big barns in Willingham. The mother is in her VAD nurse uniform, probably working in the old church hall hospital. The →