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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
Eynesbury House
My first husband, David Beames, and I, moved into Eynesbury House in July, 1968, and our first son, Andrew, was born at Mill Road Hospital, Cambridge, a few weeks later. William was born in 1971, also at Mill Road. Both boys went to St. Mary's Primary School, Eynesbury. (They are now both married and living in America. I have two lovely grand-daughters, Mary and Catherine (Andy's children). Will married a nice girl called Janna two years ago, but so far no sign of children.) I joined the St. Neots Musicmakers a short time after Andrew's birth. We all found St. Neots a very friendly place, and were happy there. Unfortunately my husband had to move North when his office closed, and ...read more here
A memory of Eynesbury contributed by Jenny Given
My Parents Lived there
My sister and her husband Mr. & Mrs. E. Parkinson built a bungalow and shop on the corner of the main street and Pound Road. They kept it for many years and during that period my Mother and Father moved there and lived in Pound Road for a number of years before returning to Wales. My wife and I visited a number of times and we sometimes went out on the river in the punts that were moored at the Boat House. There was a small restaraunt in the Boat House. A very nice village on the side of the Ely river. We often walked to the adjacent village of Hemmingford Abbots, Houghton Mill and into Ely town. The Church is ...read more here
A memory of Hemingford Grey contributed by Roy Newton
Extracts From Offord D'arcy & Cambridgeshire books
Built around 1130, the Manor
is supposed to be the oldest
continuously inhabited house
in Britain. Lucy Maria Wood
Boston, born in December 1892,
bought the building in 1939
and spent two years restoring
it. During the Second World
War she kept open house for
the RAF officers stationed at the
nearby airfield at Wyton, and
arranged musical and literary
evenings. She used the Manor
as an inspiration for her series
of six children`s stories known
as the Green Knowe books.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
On non-market days, the centre
of St Ives was a quiet and
unhurried place. There are few
cars other than those parked
between the Cromwell statue and
the war memorial, and people
are able to pass the time of day
in the middle of the road. J W
Angood, the cycle and motor-
cycle repairer (right), seems to
have been busy: seven or eight of
his customer`s machines await
collection. Before he took over,
the shop had been owned by
Rowell & Sons, tailors. Next door
is Senescall`s animal and petfood
store - today the site is occupied
by a Help the Aged shop.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
Shortly before this
photograph was taken, the
Town Council approved
an expenditure of £850
to be paid to Frederick
Pomeroy RA for the design
and execution of a statue
of the Lord Protector.
It had originally been
envisaged that it should
stand in Huntingdon, but
the town had always had
Royalist inclinations and
there was little interest
from the people. Cromwell
had lived at St Ives from
1631 to 1635, and the
townsfolk took the project
to heart. The globes in the
photograph were made of
copper, and were part of
the original design. They
were removed in the 1970s
and never replaced.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
On non-market days, the centre
of St Ives was a quiet and
unhurried place. There are few
cars other than those parked
between the Cromwell statue and
the war memorial, and people
are able to pass the time of day
in the middle of the road. J W
Angood, the cycle and motor-
cycle repairer (right), seems to
have been busy: seven or eight of
his customer`s machines await
collection. Before he took over,
the shop had been owned by
Rowell & Sons, tailors. Next door
is Senescall`s animal and petfood
store - today the site is occupied
by a Help the Aged shop.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".
Along Station Lane, westwards
out of Offord Cluny, the mill is
silhouetted against the skyline.
We are looking across the
complex of locks and weirs on
the Great Ouse, and little has
changed today. The chimney has
been demolished, and during
the past few years the mill has
been renovated and restored by
Campbell Melhuish. Today it
comprises blocks of executive
apartments overlooking the
pleasure craft moored in
Buckden Marina. However,
surviving almost unchanged are
the Mill House and on the right
Mill Cottage, built in 1851.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives Photographic Memories".