Abbots Ripton
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Evacuation to Abbots Ripton 1939
My father, Gerald Blockley, originally from Derby, had just completed a degree in History from Unversity College, London and was appointed to teach at Bruce Grove School in Tottenham in 1939. He was evacuated with a lot of the children to Abbots Ripton in the autumn of 1939. He managed to find lodgings for all the children but none for himself, so the owner of the Manor House took pity on him and took him in to stay with him. It was a particularly bad winter with a lot of snow and they all used to meet up at the village pub. He had very happy memories of his time there. He volunteered to join the army from there.
Contributed by vivienne charrett
David and Julie Smith lived in Abbots Ripton 1987-1999.
walky talkys enabling the posse to catch him hidding in a storm drain very wet and cold and very frightend.
Hopefully this ended ...read more here
Contributed by David Smith
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Evacuation to Abbots Ripton 1939
My father, Gerald Blockley, originally from Derby, had just completed a degree in History from Unversity College, London and was appointed to teach at Bruce Grove School in Tottenham in 1939. He was evacuated with a lot of the children to Abbots Ripton in the autumn of 1939. He managed to find lodgings for all the children but none for himself, so the owner of the Manor House took pity on him and took him in to stay with him. It was a particularly bad winter with a lot of snow and they all used to meet up at the village pub. He had very happy memories of his time there. He volunteered to join the army from there.
A memory of Abbots Ripton contributed by vivienne charrett
David and Julie Smith lived in Abbots Ripton 1987-1999.
walky talkys enabling the posse to catch him hidding in a storm drain very wet and cold and very frightend.
Hopefully this ended ...read more here
A memory of Abbots Ripton contributed by David Smith
Extracts From Abbots Ripton & Cambridgeshire books
These beautiful gardens at Abbots Ripton Hall were created by Lady de Ramsey and her gardener. The Hall is the centre of the Abbots Ripton Estate; many of its timber-framed and thatched cottages and farmhouses date from the 16th century.
An extract from from"Cambridgeshire Villages Photographic Memories".
The parish of Abbots Ripton
lies a few miles north of
Huntingdon. At the time of
the Dissolution it was held
by Ramsey Abbey. The village
was called Ripton until it
was owned by the abbey,
when and the forename
`Abbots` was added. The
main wealth of the parish lay
in the high quality of the soil
and the extensive woodland.
This flower garden, with its
grass walks and sundials,
flourishes in the best soil in
the neighbourhood.
An extract from from"Huntingdon, St Neots and St Ives 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".