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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
Contributed by Paul Digby
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.
Contributed by Susan Goldston
Cambridgeshire memories
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 Spaldwick & Cambridgeshire books
The village of Spaldwick lies at the centre of a medieval estate which included most of the neighbouring settlements. The church in the background is known as ‘the cathedral of the valley’.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Photographic Memories".
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".