When I was at the Old Infant School during WW2 the Pavillion on the New Rec was used as a gas shelter and we had to walk through with gas masks on to make sure we were safe if we had a raid.
Posted by Megan Claxton nee Robinson (guest) on Wed 26 Aug 2015 08:44:48 UTC
Jeeps butchers shop in George st
Jeeps butchers shop in George st there is another later photo with Mr.C.Jeeps standing in this doorway.
Posted by kim harding on Sat 14 Mar 2015 11:57:13 UTC
Mrs Hopkins lived in this house
Posted by kim harding on Sat 14 Mar 2015 11:53:03 UTC
The picture shows a house on Church Lane (still there today) which appears to be the local party headquarters for the Liberal Party. Signs outside declare “Vote for Montagu” and there are posters all over the front. This likely places the photo at 1910 when Edwin Montagu was re-elected as member of parliament for the Chesterton Division which covered Cambridge and the surrounding villages. During WWI Montagu became Minister for Munitions and was then appointed Secretary of State for India.
Posted by Old Will on Mon 05 May 2014 19:04:15 UTC
Arthur,Lillian, Florrie and Violet Searle
Arthurs Searle's house on the Green - great when it was Willingham Feast day on the doorstep !
Posted by Angela Wright (guest) on Fri 10 Aug 2012 15:49:03 UTC
Arthur Searle
My great grandfather, Arthur Searle in the house (now demolished) that I remember from my childhood.Grandmother Lillian May Careless, Grandfather Clarence (Mick) Careless,mother Queenie M S Careless (now Pettit)- never knew his nickname was Ponto !!
Posted by Angela Wright (guest) on Fri 10 Aug 2012 15:44:10 UTC
This is Jane Robinson nee Lack (my grandmother's grandmother) outside of her tavern. She ran the place even after her husband died. It had been in the Lack family for many years. My nan (Hilda Smith nee Waites)would spend Sunday afternoons sewing with the ladies in one of the rooms. I still have the drawn thread work sheets she made there.
Posted by Old Will on Tue 01 May 2007 06:43:25 UTC
From: Ray Gipp: Queenholme Farm as it was in 1947? My Brothers and I Were all born in that Farmhouse in the Early 1950s
Posted by Old Will on Tue 01 May 2007 06:42:06 UTC
Spelling - Langan
Posted by Alan John Robinson on Sat 01 Apr 2006 16:53:09 UTC
Mr Tibett, indeed, worked for my Grandfather Tom Langan. In later years he was the village roadsweeper.
Posted by Alan John Robinson on Sat 01 Apr 2006 16:50:36 UTC