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Buckden books (9 available)
- 9 photos on Buckden appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Buckden
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The Cromwell Museum
Better known today as The Cromwell Museum!!
A memory of Huntingdon contributed by Korina Morris
Michells Boutique
My first job as a 15year old was a sales assistant in a newly opened boutique just off Market Place. The shop was 'Michelles' and it had one foot in the fashion world where corsets abounded and the other in the exciting mini skirted fashion trend. There were two side windows that were often 'dressed' to appeal to holidaymakers walking up from the boat moorings. Roger and Pauline Wilkinson were the owners and the shop was opposite the Electricity Board Showrooms. I used to bike from Little Paxton to get to work, across the common. I would love to know what happened to the Wilkinsons as I lost touch when I moved from the area I ...read more here
A memory of St Neots contributed by Marilyn Messenger
The Cooper family
My family, the Coopers, lived in Spaldwick from 1800-1900 if not before.
My great-great-grandfather, Daniel Cooper, was a baker, corn seed merchant and the registrar for births, deaths and marriages in the Spaldwick area.
There are stained glass windows in Spaldwick church dedicated to him and his wife, Susan Jellis, and their children and four very prominent gravestones in the churchyard.
His son married Ann Horsford in 1881. Her father, James, a land owner, had a brother John who married Ann Belton.
In the 1857 census there was a three-year-old John Belton living with my great-great-great-grandfather John Horsford and his wife Ann Griffin. It was their son John who married Ann Belton.
A memory of Spaldwick contributed by Susan Goldston
Spaldwick Windmill & The Belton Family
The Belton family has a long association with Spaldwick as millers, witnessed by a hill being in the family name, (O.S. map 153), just north of the village.
My mother's sister Violet Bass, from nearby Kimbolton, was married to John Belton.
John, my uncle, inherited the windmill as well as a further windmill at Alconbury and a *water driven mill at Houghton, now owned by the National Trust. The Belton family had a very healthy corn milling business in this area of Huntingdonshire, (sad that it had to be gobbled up by Cambs.). I have documents associated with the business as well as John's 'verge' pocket watch, which formerly belonged to a "Charles" Belton, (father?). I have also, letters written ...read more here
A memory of Spaldwick contributed by Paul Digby
Extracts From Buckden & Cambridgeshire books
Here we see two fine old coaching inns - the Lion, on the left, dating back to 1500, and the 18th-century George Hotel on the right. It is the early days of motoring, and the hotels are clearly competing against each other with the facilities on offer, including inspection pits! Further down the street, we see a wonderfully-posed assortment of turn-of-the-century trades - a delivery boy in his striped apron, someone pushing a cart with a water barrel, and the village postman.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
The man with the horse and cart on the left is at the village pump, which is situated in front of the Methodist Chapel.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
Although the church of St Mary’s has many interesting points, clearly the main object of interest in this picture is the building next door, Buckden Palace. Although but a fraction of the original 15th century palace, this nevertheless impressive building was the residence of the Bishops of Lincoln up until 1842. Katherine of Aragon was imprisoned in one of the corner turrets for a year after her marriage to Henry VIII was annulled.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
The Great Tower, dating from the 15th century, has seen many different tenants, including, briefly, a post office! In 1957 it was taken over by the Claretian Missionaries, and under their care the Catholic church of St Hugh of Lincoln was built in 1959. Nowadays it is a Roman Catholic retreat, and it is also used by many different local groups as a meeting place.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Living Memories".
It is just over forty years after photograph No 55427, and doubtless the inspection pits are not quite the selling point they once were! And whilst the general level of signs outside has reduced, AA and RAC signs are prominent on both buildings.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".