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The Conduit 2013

In compiling The Conduit this year we have tried to be totally inclusive, but appreciate that someorganisations may have been omitted and note that some societies have not been able to finalisetheir 2012-2013 programmes at the time of publication. In this case, readers are advised to consultthe website of the relevant organisation. Email and website addresses, where known, are included inThe Conduit, and users of the online version can click on the relevant hyperlinks.

We aim to send The Conduit to every listed local society in Cambridgeshire, as well as to museumsand other relevant organisations. If you belong to an organisation whose details are not included, orwhich would like to receive copies of The Conduit next year, please contact the Editor, who will addyour organisation’s details to the next issue. Wherever possible the information has been checked bya responsible individual in the relevant organisation, and so should be up to date at the time ofprinting. Further details of the activities of listed organisations are often available on their websites.Web addresses are included where known.

I would finally like to thank the editor of The Conduit, Simon Barlow of the Haddon Library, for all hishard work in compiling and producing The Conduit this year. It is a considerable undertaking, but onethat is very greatly valued, both by members of Cambridge Antiquarian Society and by others whouse it to inform themselves of events and activities of interest across our richly historical county.

Alison Taylor BA, MIfA, FSAPresident, Cambridge Antiquarian Society

Contents

Cambridge Antiquarian Society 2

Cambridgeshire Association for Local History 3

Archive groups 5

Archaeology groups 8

Architecture & civic societies 17

Family history societies 22

Local history & other societies 26

Museums & museum societies 56

Education 75

Conferences 79

ISSN: 0144-8439

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Cambridge Antiquarian Societywww.camantsoc.org

President Alison TaylorSecretary Chris Michaelides

86 Harvey Goodwin Court, French’s Road, Cambridge CB4 3JREmail [email protected]

Registrar (Membership) Mrs Valory Hurst43 South End, Bassingbourn SG8 5NL

The Society was founded in 1840 to promote the study of history, architectural history andarchaeology, and the conservation of relevant features and objects within the county of Cambridge.Membership benefits include a programme of welcoming early evening lectures once each monthbetween October and June, reduced entry to day excursions led by experts, reduced entry to its twoall-day conferences (one in the spring and one in November) and a free copy of the Society’s journal,the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and of The Conduit.

Lectures are usually held on Monday evenings at 6 pm in the Faculty of Law on the University ofCambridge’s Sidgwick site, unless otherwise notified. There is plentiful free car parking.

Membership: ordinary members £12.50; families and affiliated societies £15.00. There is no chargefor visitors or guests at lectures. New members are warmly welcomed.

Programme1 Oct. Dr. Elizabeth Old Norse Traditions: Ivar the Boneless and Edmund

Ashman Rowe of East Anglia5 Nov. Professor Nicholas ‘Transforming the Museum: a talk about the redevelopment

Thomas & Imogen Gunn and new displays at the Museum of Archaeology andAnthropology’, followed by a reception(this meeting will be held at the Museum of Archaeology andAnthropology, and will end at 7.30pm)

24 Nov. Conference Recent archaeological work in Cambridgeshire(Saturday) (Details will be circulated)3. Dec. Professor Norman Early Maya Household Economy, Society and Culture at

Hammond Cuello, Belize7 Jan. Dr. Christopher Chippindale

Ancient violence: pictures of wars and warriors in theprehistoric rock-art of Aboriginal Australia and Alpine Europe

26 Jan. Dinner & Library Tour Corpus Christi College, Cambridge(Saturday) (Details will be circulated)4 Feb. Peter Studdert Looking forward – looking back: how contemporary

developments in Cambridge are drawing inspiration from thecity’s architectural past

23 Feb. Conference Cambridge Antiquarians and Archaeologists, 1870-1970(Saturday) (Details will be circulated)4 Mar (5.45) Annual General Meeting4 Mar (6.00) Alison Dickens & The Trumpington Cross in Context: New Light on

Dr. Sam Lucy the 7th Century

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8 Apr. Dr. Christopher De Hamel Archbishop Matthew Parker and his manuscript library atCorpus Christi College

13 May Jim Leary The Giants of Wessex: Silbury Hill, the Marlborough Moundand the Hatfield Barrow

3 Jun. Mark Knight The tip of the iceberg? Must Farm’s perfectly preservedFenland prehistory(in association with the Prehistoric Society)

The Atlas Grant Scheme : Loans towards publication

This scheme was launched by the Society in late 2011. Its name reflects its origins: in 2000, CAS madea grant towards publication of An Atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire History. Without this,it’s unlikely that the volume would ever have seen the light of day. In the end it made a small profitand the Editors, Sue Oosthuizen and Tony Kirby, felt it only appropriate that this should be returnedto the Society to help promote the publication of further work on the history, archaeology andarchitecture of the Cambridge region, whether carried out by individuals or societies. To this sum theSociety’s Librarian, John Pickles, generously added a further £500.

To this end, applications are invited for small loans (between £75 and £500) towards the costs ofpublishing such material: these can include both preparatory work (such as map-drawing, indexingor design of the publication) and those connected with printing or publication in digital format.

Loans will be made for two years, and are interest-free. Applications should be made to the Secretaryby 30 November each year, using the application form that can be downloaded from the Society’swebsite (www.camantsoc.org). There are relatively few conditions: the most important is that a copyof the publication should be given to the Society and a further copy lodged with the CambridgeshireCollection.

Cambridgeshire Association for Local Historywww.calh.org.uk

President Mike PettyTel: 01353 648106

Chairman Honor RidoutTel: 01223 870940

Secretary Andrew Westwood-BatePO Box 1112, Balsham, Cambridge CB21 4WPTel: 01223 892430 Email [email protected]

Membership Secretary Janice Adams19 Northfield, Cambridge CB3 0QGTel: 01223 514615 Email [email protected]

The Association was founded in 1951 as the Cambridgeshire Local History Council. Five years ago, itwas decided to change our name to the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (CALH) to re-emphasise the organisation’s founding principles and to highlight its important role of caring for thefuture of Cambridgeshire’s past. Apart from this umbrella role, the other main object of theAssociation is to encourage and support the study of Local and Social History in Cambridgeshire.Corporate membership of the Association by local and social history clubs, groups and societies, or

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any other organisation with similar aims is strongly encouraged, as the CALH acts as a representativebody for such organisations. The Association always endeavours to look after Cambridgeshiresocieties’ best interests and to act as an Information and networking hub for local and local history inCambridgeshire.

The CALH holds an annual spring conference, with a strong local history theme at various locationsaround Cambridgeshire. In normal years, this would be at the same venue where the awardsceremony was held in the previous summer. In 2013, we have chosen the theme of “The times are achanging – Cambridgeshire in uproar as riots and anarchy sweep the county” as at various timesCambridgeshire has been a hotbed of uproar and near revolution from the Littleport riots, throughdrainage to Captain Swing.

The Association also produces a range of publications and services as part of its membershippackage these include: An annual ‘Review’, a booklet with articles of local historical interest andreviews. A regularly updated online local society and event gazetteer called the ‘Preview’ which canbe found at www.calh.org.uk/preview.htm this online gazetteer complements the printed localsociety and event gazetteer the ‘Conduit’ a copy of which is posted to all our membership. Aregularly updated online comprehensive Cambridgeshire Speakers List, printed on a triennial basis,last printed in 2010. A bi-annual newsletter the ‘Bulletin’.E-News Network, the CALH also manages a countywide e-mailed based network for the distributionof information. This provides every county local, social and family history society with theopportunity to send news of its programme or any upcoming events to every other society, group,or club in the county via a central block email distribution. It also keeps all the county’s societies upto date with national and local news. To join this information network simply send an email [email protected]

Meetings: Monthly lectures start at 2.15pm; normally held on first Saturday of the month at the StJohn’s Hall, Blinco Grove, off Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2RN except for the joint meetings with othersocieties.

Membership: affiliated local societies or groups £10; individuals £8; families £10. Entry to meetingsfree for individual and family members, £2.50 guests and non-members.

The lecture programme gives you the opportunity to meet and sample some of the work of ourLocal History Award winners.

Programme6 Oct. Mike Petty Cambridge engravers (+ AGM)10 Nov. Andrew Westwood-Bate The red army is trounced by the blue army1 Dec. Jessica Davies The “complete” Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire5 Jan. Patrick Taylor The toll-houses of Cambridgeshire2 Feb. David Cleveland Village life in East Anglia2 Mar. Hughes Hall Archivist The history of Hughes Hall, Cambridge6 Apr. Spring Conference – The times are a changing (See above)4 May Chloe Cockerill Pomp & circumstance – royal ceremonies from coronations

to jubilees8 Jun. Annual Local History Awards Ceremony

Further information about the Programme is available from the Secretary.

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Archive Groups

Cambridgeshire Archives & Local Studieswww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/archives

Acting Manager Alan AkeroydCambridgeshire Archives,RES 1013, Shire Hall, Cambridge CB3 0APTel: 01223 699399Email [email protected]

Huntingdonshire ArchivesHuntingdon Library & Archives, Princes Street, Huntingdon PE29 3PATel: 01480 372738 Email [email protected]

The Cambridgeshire CollectionCambridge Central Library, 7 Lion Yard, Cambridge CB2 3QDTel: 0345 045 5225 Email [email protected]

We are carrying out or starting a number of projects. The Cambridge City Cataloguing Project,funded by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society, is now approaching completion, with nearly25,000 catalogue entries already on our CALM database. Much of this listing work has been carriedout by a team of regular volunteers under the supervision of Project Archivist Melissa McGreechan.The project has also encouraged the deposit of further records from the City Council, notably itssuperb series of building plans from 1880 onwards, which have been known of for years but havebeen difficult for the public to access.

The Manorial Documents Register Project, funded by The National Archives (TNA), is well under way .The aim is to achieve comprehensive and accurate information about all records of local manorsavailable on TNA’s website. MDR Project Officer Aaron Hope has added more than 1,000 entries fordocuments to the Cambridgeshire database, a high proportion of which are newly recognisedmanorial records, as this figure includes information from only 337 of the existing MDR paper slips.Systematic combing of catalogues by Aaron has uncovered large numbers of manorial records notcaptured by either the existing MDR or Cambridgeshire Archives’ own handlist of manorial records. Ahigh proportion is being inspected first-hand to clarify catalogue information. The project will moveon to records in the University Library, Cambridge colleges and national repositories during theAutumn.

Other projects are just beginning. We have made an appointment to the Archivist role in The FenOffice Revisited Project, funded by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme, the EnvironmentAgency and the Cambridgeshire Family History Society, and we hope that the project itself will beginearly in the summer. The project’s goal is to re-catalogue the nationally-important archive of theBedford Level Corporation, , incorporating the descriptive work that has been done over the years byarchivists and volunteers, as well as to digitise the series of 2,232 petitions to the Corporation fromthe 17th to the 20th centuries.

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The Local Studies side of our service has had a notable success at Wisbech, where the HLF-fundedUpstairs, Downstairs: Childhood in Victorian Wisbech project is working very well with local schools.This project enables schools to visit the Fenland Collection in Wisbech Library, the Wisbech andFenland Museum and Wisbech castle, so that children can make use of the resources in each. Weestimate that 1,700 schoolchildren will have taken part in the project when it finishes. Work is alsogetting underway on Cambridgeshire’s involvement in The Great War Between The Lines project,funded by the European Union’s Two Seas programme, which will research the impact of the 1914-1918 war on the lives of people living in various communities across England, France and Belgium.Much of this work will be carried out at the Cambridgeshire Collection, where we plan to startindexing local newspapers for the period.

Following last year’s inspection, The National Archives that has appointed the repository at the newHuntingdon Library and Archives as a place of deposit for public records and additionally agreed toaward Huntingdonshire Archives “TNA approval” status. TNA also noted that there have been anumber of valuable improvements at the Cambridgeshire Archives branch of the service, includingthe upgrading of the public searchroom and the introduction of the CALM cataloguing database.Nevertheless TNA concluded that new accommodation for the records held by the Cambridgeshirebranch of the service is necessary, and that continued use of Shire Hall basement for the storage ofpublic records cannot continue indefinitely. TNA were therefore only willing to extend theappointment of the current accommodation for a further three years, to allow time either foralternative accommodation to be found or for irreversible progress to have been made towardsacquiring such accommodation.

Cambridgeshire County Council welcomes the verdict of TNA in all these areas. It is helpful to begiven a clear timescale in which to work to relocate Cambridgeshire Archives. TNA will continue toprovide advice to support the County Council as we find a way to improve the archivesaccommodation, and work has started to analyse the options available to the County Council in thelight of the TNA’s recommendations.

Cambridgeshire Records Societywww.cambsrecordsociety.org.ukc/o Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, Box RES 1009, Shire Hall, Castle Hill, CambridgeCB3 0AP

President Professor Margaret SpuffordChairman Mrs Elizabeth StazickerGeneral Editor Dr Rosemary HorroxSecretary Dr Sarah Bendall

The Cambridgeshire Records Society was founded in 1972 by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Itspurpose is to publish editions of original documents from the middle ages to the present relating toCambridgeshire and the surrounding area in order to make them accessible to Cambridgeshirepeople interested in their local and family history, and to historians worldwide. The Society alsorepublishes unavailable printed works and historical maps. The work of transcription, translation, andediting of texts and the preparation of volumes is done voluntarily by editors with expertise in thesubject. The membership’s annual subscriptions finance the costs of preparing and publishing thevolumes. In some cases individual volumes have received grants towards costs.

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The Society aims to publish a volume a year. Members receive a free copy of every work publishedduring their period of membership.

Membership: The Society is open to all interested individuals, libraries, schools and other institutionsat an annual subscription of £14. In addition to their free volume, members can purchase volumes ata member’s price, usually two-thirds of the retail price.

The Society holds an annual meeting with a talk on a topic relating to the current publication or tolocal records and archives.

The Society has 20 publications in stock. See our website or Cambridgeshire Records Society onwww.genfair.com. The latest volume, published in 2011, is: The Topography of Medieval Ely, edited byAnne Holton-Krayenbuhl. ISBN 9780904323221. Softback, 248 pages. Price: £18, CRS Members £12,postage £2.50.

The Society also publishes three Cambridge map editions (covering the city of Cambridge from the16th to the early 20th century:Baker’s Map of Cambridge, 1830A Portfolio of 12 maps illustrating the changing plan of Cambridge 1574-1900Reprint of the Ordnance Survey 1:500 Town Plans of Cambridge 1886-1902

Volumes in preparation include:Ecclesiastical Census of 1851. Dr David ThompsonJonas Moore’s Mappe of the Fennes 1658. Dr Frances WillmothEarly Officers Accounts of Trinity College Cambridge 1547 – 1552. Ed. Adam GreenCambridgeshire Committee for Scandalous Ministers 1644-45. Ed. Graham Hart

Sales enquiriesEmail [email protected] Tel: 01223 699487

Little Downham Community Archive

Chair Mr. Gerald RogersSecretary Mr. John Clarke

6, Townsend, Little Downham, Cambs CB6 2TATel: 01353 699484 Email [email protected]

The group administers the village site in the CCAN online archive, holds irregular ‘drop-in’ meetingsand hosts one or two larger events annually.

The group can be contacted through either of the above contacts or at any session of the ‘Book Café’library access point.

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St. Neots Community Archive GroupSt. Neots Museum, New Street, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 7AYTel: 01480 476608 Email [email protected]

Chairman Pamela M. OstlerSecretary Eileen MeeksModerator Sue Jarrett

3 Collingwood Road, Eaton Socon, Cambs PE19 8JQTel: 01480 216065

The Group collects photos and films of scenes, events and people for the present town of St. Neotsand surrounding villages. The photos are added to the Cambridge Community Archive Network,(CCAN), website which allows free access. Local archive films are now being shown throughout thetown at local groups.

The group holds regular small displays of photos throughout the year at various places within thetown and at local events. The Group has strong links with the St. Neots Museum, the St. Neots LocalHistory Group, the Eatons Community Association and the University of the Third Age in St. Neots.

Committee meetings are generally held monthly at the St. Neots Museum.

There is no regular programme of talks but photo displays and film shows are arranged to fit in withlocal events and are advertised in the local newspapers.

Archaeology Groups

Archaeology RheeSearchwww.rheesearch.org.uk

Contact Dr Brian Bridgland22 Church Lane, Pampisford, Cambs CB22 3ETTel: 01223 832954 Email [email protected]

General Enquiries [email protected]

We are a small group which has been undertaking geophysical surveys in Cambridgeshire for over 12years, mostly in the south of the area. We use ground resistance and magnetometry equipmentalong with surveying tools. We have been awarded two grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund tosupport our work. We aim to be out surveying on most Sundays, and welcome new members tocome along and join us. We also invite enquiries regarding possible new sites to investigate.A membership fee of £60 per year covers insurance and travel. For more details please log on to ourwebsite.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unitwww.cau.arch.cam.ac.uk

Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CambridgeCB2 3DZTel: 01223 327802. E-mail [email protected]

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit was founded in 1989 by Christopher Evans and Dr Ian Hodderand operates out of the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge. On alltypes of projects the CAU offers a full range of archaeological services supported by the academicand scientific expertise of the University of Cambridge. Our pioneering landscape samplingtechniques have proven successful on motorway, new town, quarry, and inner-city developmentsites, providing a highly efficient practice complementary to industry.

With the aim of bridging the research and commercial sectors the unit believes development ofinnovative techniques are crucial to maintaining the highest standards of both academic andprofessional practice. Our service is designed to fulfill all planning requirements from desktopassessment through to full excavation and publication. Our proven record of delivering results withinan agreed time-scale and budget has enabled a continual growth into one of the leadingarchaeological contracting organisations in the United Kingdom.

Cambridge Archaeology Field Groupwww.cafg.net

President Dr Paul SpoerryChairman Barrie Fuller

Email [email protected] Susan May

94 High Street, Great Shelford CB22 5EHTel: 01223 843121 Email [email protected]

The Group was formed in 1978 to enjoy practical archaeology and add to the local archaeologicalrecord. Activities include field-walking, surveying, some excavating, landscape studies and findsprocessing. The Group also holds lectures and occasional workshops open to all. We are affiliated tothe Cambridge Antiquarian Society, the Council for British Archaeology and Jigsaw Cambridgeshire.

Lectures are held in the seminar room at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,Downing Street, Cambridge from October to June, normally on the 1st Wednesday of the month,starting at 7.30 pm. The lecture programme has not yet been confirmed, but details will be availableon our website.

On other Wednesday evenings throughout the year, unless we have an outdoor activity, we meet atthe Oxford Archaeology East premises at Unit 15, Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, from about 7.15 pm toprocess finds from our fieldwork.

Most of our fieldwork takes place on Sunday mornings, within about 15 miles of Cambridge. Fromautumn to spring this is largely fieldwalking. We have our own projects and will also undertake

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fieldwork at the request of other bodies. In 2012 we have taken a break from the 12 years ofexcavations at Wimpole Hall for the National Trust during the Festival of British Archaeology; but havecarried out a test pitting project in Haslingfield with local people and supported by Jigsaw and CBAEast.

Membership: £9 individual, £12 family. We ask for a contribution of £1 from non-members whoattend lectures or workshops. Application forms and further details are available from the secretary.Newsletters are sent to members several times a year.

The group’s Val Whittaker Memorial Prize offers up to £150 each year to those, (17 years old orabove and normally Cambridgeshire-based), who wish to pursue their interest in archaeology.Applicants need to submit, by 30th March, a report on an investigation they have carried out into anaspect of archaeology. This may be a report prepared for a course of study. For further details pleasesee our website.

Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Society

Chairman Ken AlgerTel: 01223 232711 Email [email protected]

Secretary Peter Filbey8 Sedgwick Street, Cambridge CB1 3AJTel: 01223 244305

Treasurer Nigel Balchin4 Fairfields, Sawston, Cambridge CB22 3DATel: 01223 832439 Email [email protected]

The Society’s aim is to study and record the industrial history and artefacts of Cambridgeshire. It isaffiliated to the Association of Industrial Archaeology (AIA), and is one of the founder members of theEast of England Industrial Archaeology Conference (EERIAC). The Society also commissions andpublishes occasional Monographs on Cambridge industrial subjects written by its members.Meetings, visits and conferences are open to everyone with an interest in industrial history.

Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of the winter months at the Friends’ MeetingHouse, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 6BA, at 7.45 pm

Membership: £10 yearly (October – September) due from October 1 (payments will NOT beaccepted before this date): visitors £2 each meeting.

Programme8 Oct. Mick Mason From Midland Red to Diesel Green and back to Steam12 Nov. Ken Alger From Steam to Bio Diesel, Cambridge to St Ives Trackbed10 Dec. David Hufford Godmanchester Portholme Aerodrome14 Jan. Photographic competition & members short talks (+ AGM)11 Feb. John Rolfe Tradesmen’s Tokens of the Industrial Revolution11 Mar. Tony Kirby Losing Track, Transport in East Anglia since 19008 Apr. Bob King Secret Wireless Reception in WW2 – how Bletchley Park

got its information

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VisitsA few visits to sites of interest may be arranged in the summer months; in 2012 we saw a Hurricaneaircraft in course of restoration.

EERIACThe East of England Regional Archaeology Conferences are fairly informal day meetings, and all arewelcome, even if not members of CIAS. EERIAC 2013 will probably be held in Maldon, on Saturday 15June.

To receive a programme (ready in mid-September) contact Dr. Nigel Balchin, (as above), with yourname, address and telephone number

Cambridgeshire Archaeology – Historic Environment Teamwww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology

Box CC 1008, Shire Hall, Cambridge. CB3 0APTel: 01223 728564 Email [email protected]

Historic Environment Quinton CarrollTeam Manager Tel: 01223 728565

Email [email protected]

Within Cambridgeshire’s modern landscape lie the remains of thousands of years of human activity.These archaeological remains, together with the vestiges of former landscapes, are the key tounderstanding the county’s past. They are a fragile, vulnerable and irreplaceable part of the localenvironment. We maintain the Historic Environment Record (HER) for the county (formerly the Sitesand Monuments Record or SMR). See our section on the CHER for more information.

Archives from investigative fieldwork in Cambridgeshire are held at the County Archaeological Store,where they can be accessed by researchers whilst being maintained for future generations. TheHistoric Environment Team protects and promotes this valuable resource. Guidelines fororganisations wishing to deposit archaeological archives at the store are available from our website.Our Planning and Countryside Advice archaeologists work to mitigate the impact of land use changeon Cambridgeshire’s rich archaeological heritage, ensuring its sustainability and long termconservation for future generations.

We are the advisory service for the Local Planning Authorities, developers and their agents on thepotential impact of land use change on archaeology and the historic environment. We can alsoadvise on environmental enhancement projects, agri-environmental schemes and the care ofancient monuments and historic landscapes. We also host the Portable Antiquities Scheme forCambridgeshire, which provides a finds identification service for the public and advice about theTreasure Act as part of a wider programme of outreach and public archaeology. See our section onthe Portable Antiquities Scheme for more information.

In partnership with Oxford Archaeology East (formerly the CCC Archaeology Field Unit), the HistoricEnvironment Team deliver public archaeology and outreach projects in Cambridgeshire. For many

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years Cambridgeshire Archaeology has been one of the country’s leading exponents of publicarchaeology. It actively promotes education and community projects, with the key aim of increasingunderstanding of the rich heritage of the county. See our section on outreach for more information.

Cambridgeshire Archaeology –Historic Environment Recordwww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/historicwww.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway

Box CC 1008, Shire Hall, Cambridge. CB3 0AP Email [email protected]

Senior Archaeologist Sally CroftTel: 01223 728569 Email [email protected]

Assistant Archaeologist Hazel WhiteTel: 01223 728570 Email [email protected]

The Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (CHER) is the most comprehensive source ofinformation on archaeological sites and finds in the modern county of Cambridgeshire. It forms partof a network of Historic Environment Records (HERs) across the United Kingdom. Formerly known asthe Cambridgeshire Sites and Monuments Record, we are continuously expanding the record toinclude information relating to all aspects of the historic environment. In particular, we areincorporating information about historic buildings and settlements, parks and gardens of historicinterest, industrial and twentieth century remains.

We currently have over 19,000 records concerning archaeological monuments, chancefinds, buildings and past fieldwork in Cambridgeshire. These are held on a computerised databaseand mapping system, where they can be easily searched by date, location and type of remains. Muchof the information on the CHER is now available online via the Heritage Gatewaywww.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway . The Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record is a public record, and we welcome enquiries fromanyone with an interest in Cambridgeshire’s past.

Enquiries can be made by any the following methods:• telephone;• email;• letter;• visit to our offices in Cambridge by prior appointmentWe will endeavour to deal with your enquiry within 10 working days. Please read our User Guidance & Pricing notes at www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/archaeology/recordPlease help us deal with your enquiry efficiently by letting us know:• the area you are interested in, for example parish or National Grid Reference with search radius;• the period you are enquiring about, for example Bronze Age or Late Medieval;• the type of site or find you are interested in, for example Roman villa or Bronze Age hoards; and• the purpose for which you will be using the information, for example local history study,undergraduate research, desk-based assessment.

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Cambridgeshire Archaeology – Portable Antiquities Schemewww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/historic/antiquities

Box CC 1008, Shire Hall, Cambridge. CB3 0AP

Finds Liaison Officer Helen FowlerCambridge Tel: 01223 728571Email [email protected] Tel: 01733 864703Email [email protected]

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a national programme hosted by Cambridgeshire County Councilfor Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, which assists with the recording of finds discovered bymembers of the public. The scheme aims to help finders have their objects identified and recorded,as well as providing specialist advice on conservation and storage. The finds are recorded centrally ona national database, which can be accessed on the online database available here http://finds.org.uk.The Finds Liaison Officer also works at Peterborough Museum one day a week. Finds can be broughtfor identification to any of the following:• finds identification events at local museums (see events leaflet for details);• by prior appointment with the Finds Liaison Officer, at the Cambridgeshire Historic EnvironmentRecord or at Peterborough Museum on Fridays.

Some of the objects that are brought to us fall within the definition of Treasure under the TreasureAct (1996), which provides museums with the opportunity to acquire finds made of gold or silver, orhoards of coins and prehistoric tools. East Anglia has more Treasure Act finds than any other part ofthe country, and we can provide advice on the process.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme operates in partnership with the British Museum, CambridgeshireCounty Council and Vivacity (Peterborough’s Cultural Trust). For all discoveries of gold and silverobjects, or groups of coins from the same findspot, which are over 300 years old, you have a legalobligation to report such items under the Treasure Act (1996). Prehistoric base-metal assemblagesfound after 1st January 2003 also now qualify as Treasure. The website also provides furtherinformation for finders of potential Treasure.

Cambridgeshire Archaeology – Outreachwww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/outreach

Historic Environment Team Manager Quinton CarrollTel: 01223 728565Email [email protected]

Senior Archaeologist Sally CroftTel: 01223 728569 Email [email protected]

Outreach Senior Project Manager Stephen MacauleyTel: 01223 850554Email [email protected]

Outreach & Learning Officer David Crawford-WhiteTel: 01223 850540Email [email protected]

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Cambridgeshire Archaeology is the umbrella name for public archaeology in Cambridgeshire. Itbrings together the Cambridgeshire County Council Historic Environment Team and OxfordArchaeology East (formerly the CCC Archaeology Field Unit) along with other public, private andvoluntary sector organisations to promote the county’s rich heritage. For many years CambridgeshireArchaeology has been one of the country’s leading exponents of public archaeology. It activelypromotes education and community projects, with the key aim of increasing understanding of therich heritage of the county. Few counties in Britain offer more public archaeology opportunitiesCambridgeshire, with over 7000 visitors participating in over 70 events during 2010.

We undertake or provide:• schools/college talks and projects; • educational resources and national curriculum advice; • resource handling packs for schools; • work experience and volunteer opportunities; • excavation open days; • ancient monument activity days;• guided walks around Cambridgeshire’s monuments; • tours for schools to archaeological sites in Cambridgeshire; • evening lectures and talks; • conferences and exhibitions; and• community archaeology projects.

Public events include guided walks on historic monuments, evening talks to local societies, familyand children’s archaeology activity days both on ancient monuments and at local libraries. Details ofall public events are available on the annual Archaeology Events programme, a leaflet for which isavailable on our websites.

We are also keen to develop further Community Archaeology projects in Cambridgeshire, havingsuccessfully completed lottery funded projects at Fulbourn, Sutton, Huntingdon, Godmanchester,Ramsey and Wisbech. Please contact us to discuss any ideas you may have for community projectsin your area. If you have an interest in participating in archaeology we continue to offeropportunities for volunteers. For further details please see our websites.

ProgrammeWednesday Landbeach Guided walk around the historic village including the1st August moated Bray’s Manor site. Meet at the Worts Meadow7pm moated site entrance near the Recreation Ground.

Free to join.Wednesday Giants Hill, Rampton Guided walk at the demolished medieval village and15th August partially constructed 12th century anarchy castle remains.7:00pm Meet at the monument entrance. Free to join.

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Saturday8th SeptemberVarious times between 10:00am - 4:00pm

Heritage Open Weekend -Cambridgeshire County Council Cold War Bunker

Come in and find out about the events that led to theconstruction of a bunker deep beneath central Cambridge.Meet outside Shire Hall main entrance, CB3 0AP.See the ‘Open Cambridge’ website for more details.Free to join but booking is essential

Saturday8th September, Various times between 10:00am - 4:00pm

Heritage Open Weekend - Cambridge CastleGuided walks of the medieval castle remains and more at theCounty Council Shire Hall site. Meet outside Shire Hall mainentrance, CB3 0AP.See the ‘Open Cambridge’ website for more details.Free to join, no booking necessary.

Saturday3rd November, 10:30am - 1:00pm

Ely Museum Finds Identification Day. Come and have your unknown findsidentified by a professional archaeologist and find out moreabout the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS).Ely Museum, Market Street, Ely CB7 4LS Free to attend

Jigsaw Cambridgeshire Community Archaeology Projectwww.jigsawcambs.org

Community Archaeology Officer Joanna RichardsTel: 01223 850541 Email [email protected]

Community Archaeologist Jemima WoolvertonTel: 01223 850542Email [email protected]

Jigsaw is an exciting opportunity for anyone who would like to get involved in archaeology. It is acountywide project supported by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant and a partnership betweenCambridgeshire County Council and Oxford Archaeology East. The project runs until 2016.

Jigsaw aims to train and support local communities to research, investigate and help protect thecounty’s archaeological heritage. The project will both help to set up new local communityArchaeology Action Groups and work with existing local groups who can become affiliated to theproject. These groups will then benefit from training and access to the ‘Community Resource’ ofequipment free of charge to help them run their own digs, surveys and other projects.

Jigsaw will also provide volunteer opportunities, schools resources and supports local involvement inheritage. The Jigsaw website provides information about the project and explains how to getinvolved.

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Ely & District Archaeological Societywww.elyarchaeology.org.uk

Chairman Steven Cole2a Church Lane, Ely CB7 4JGTel: 01353 669326 Email [email protected]

Secretary Susan Long16 Waterside, Ely CB7 4AZTel: 01353 668420 Email [email protected]

Treasurer Clive Hughes(Membership Enquiries) Email [email protected]

The Ely and District Archaeological Society (EDAS) was founded in 1980. The object of the Society is‘to advance the education of the public in their study of archaeology, history and kindred subjects’.EDAS promotes this through: a programme of lectures between October and May, visits to sites ofarchaeological or historical interest, and collecting and disseminating information about archaeologyand history of the local area.

Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday in the month (between October and May) at the MethodistChurch Hall, Chapel Street, Ely. The lectures deal mainly with local and regional archaeology orhistory, and include presentation of recent discoveries. There are also talks about archaeological sitesor history in a broader context.

Membership: individuals £8; joint membership £14; student membership £1; visitors £2.50 perlecture. Information about Membership and the future Programme is available from the Treasurer.

Programme15 Oct. Jennifer Watson-Bore Ely Place19 Nov. John Stanford Exploring a Romano-British fen edge settlementDecember No Meeting21 Jan. Simon Timberlake Prehistoric copper mining in Wales18 Feb. Richard Halsey ‘The painted churches of north west Ethiopia’18 Mar. Alison Dickens Excavations at Trumpington MeadowsApril No meeting20 May Jonathan House Recent excavations in the Ipswich area by Oxford

Archaeology East (+ AGM)June No meetingJuly No meeting

Fen Edge Archaeology Groupwww.feag.co.uk

Chair Alison DickensSecretary Darren Gallagher

28 Denmark Road, Cottenham, CB24 8QSEmail [email protected]

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The group aims to stimulate public interest in archaeology and promote further understanding ofthe archaeology of the villages of the Fen Edge area (serving the parishes of Cottenham, Rampton,Landbeach, Willingham and Waterbeach) by means of lectures, workshops and fieldwork includingcommunity digs. The group is conducting a long-term project, exploring a Romano-British site.

Membership: £10 per year, starting in January.

Meetings are held at 7.30pm at Cottenham Village College unless shown.

Programme19 Sep. Rachel Ballantyne Environmental Archaeology and the Roman Fen Edge28 Nov. Carenza Lewis The Archaeology of Medieval Children

Presidential Address (+ AGM)16 Jan. Mike Luke Life in the Biddenham Loop12 Mar. Peter Liddle The Hallaton Treasure - A Late Iron Age shrine in

Leicestershire7.30pm at Willingham Baptist Church

15 May Elizabeth Popescu The Medieval Leper: the Huntingdon and Norwich Evidence

Further information on all our meetings will be provided on our website.

Architecture & civic societies

Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trustwww.cambshistoricchurchestrust.co.ukEmail [email protected]

Chairman Richard Halsey MBEEmail [email protected]

Hon. Secretary David StazickerThe Willows, Low Bank, Mepal, Ely CB6 2AUTel: 01353 778129Email [email protected]

Membership Secretary: Jenny Lowles29 Millpit Furlong, Littleport, Ely CB6 1HTTel: 01353 861674Email [email protected]

The Trust was founded in 1983 to provide financial assistance to the churches of Cambridgeshirewhen they undertake repairs to the fabric, fixtures, furniture and ornaments of their historic churchesand chapels, or projects to improve facilities. The Trust makes grants and interest free loans from itsfunds to allow work to be undertaken without delay and to provide a cash-flow for larger scaleprojects and since its inception has awarded over two million pounds in loans. The Trust’s main fundraising event is the Annual Sponsored Ride and Stride, which takes place in September. Thecontinuing success of this event is crucial to the amount of funds available to be distributed to theHistoric Churches of Cambridgeshire.

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Membership benefits include the Newsletter in spring and the Annual Report in September, with aninvitation to attend the AGM in the autumn; there is an Annual Conference held on a Saturday inApril or early May with a theme related to the history, architecture, and artistic heritage of churchbuildings and their furnishings, with particular reference to Cambridgeshire. In the summer aprogramme of visits to churches is offered free of charge. Programme enquiries may be directed tothe Hon. Secretary.

Ely Society

Chairman Kevin Evans11 King Edgar Close, Ely CB6 1DPTel: 01353 614892 Email [email protected]

The Ely Society aims to encourage individual awareness of, and pride in, the City of Ely; safeguard thecharacter of Ely; and support the development of the social, economic and cultural potential of thecommunity.

Meetings are held at 7.30 pm on the 2nd Wednesday of the month in the Vernon Cross Room at ElyMuseum.

Membership: £14; visitors £2.50 per meeting.

Programme12 Sep. Sarah Macdonald The founding of Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir (+ EGM)

& Sue Freestone10 Oct. Francis Young The Bishop’s Palace: its history and development14 Nov. Ely Museum Staff How to exhibit and care for a museum pieceDecember No meeting9 Jan. Tom Hunt Ely from a young person’s perspective13 Feb. John Smith Thomas Parsons’ Charity and the City of Ely13 Mar. Pam Blakeman Victorian Ely, the privileged and the poor (+ AGM)10 Apr. John Yates The role of the City Mayor8 May Rodney Tibbs Cambridge colleges and their gardens12 Jun. Jim Kelly Ely, a novelist’s eye view10 Jul. Richard Braund Wildlife conservation measures in Ely

Hartford Conservation Group

Chair Dr. Angela Owen-Smith MBESecretary Gilly Perry

5 Old Houghton Road Hartford, Huntingdon,Cambs PE29 1YBTel: 01480 458678Email [email protected]

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Hartford Conservation Group is the local Civic Society for Hartford. It is a member of Civic Voice, thenew umbrella organisation for Civic Societies and is a registered charity, (Charity Number 1025575).The Conservation Group is established for the public benefit for the following purposes in HartfordConservation Area and the neighbouring area:• to promote high standards of planning and architecture in or affecting the area• to educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture of the area• to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic orpublic interest in the area

A members’ newsletter is produced six times a year. Notices of forthcoming meetings and copies ofthe newsletter are placed in the notice board in Sapley Road opposite the Barley Mow.

Meetings are held four times per year at Hartford Village Hall, from 7.30pm.

Membership: £6 per year, (Individual), £10, (Joint - two members, same household), Visitors £1 permeeting – all including tea, coffee and biscuits.

Programme18 Oct. Kevin Dalley The history of RAF Wyton and the Pathfinder force (+AGM)21 Feb. TBA TBA15 May TBA TBA23 Oct. Beth Davis Listing Buildings - Beth Davis (+AGM)

Littleport Societywww.littleportsociety.org.ukThe Barn, Main Street, Littleport, Ely, Cambs CB6 1PH

President Roger Rudderhamemail [email protected]

Chairman Grenville GoodsonTel: 01353 860377Email [email protected]

Secretary Ann Lightowlersemail [email protected]

Membership Secretary Bruce FrostTel: 01353 860889 Email [email protected]

The aims of The Littleport Society are to encourage individual awareness and pride in our town, tosafeguard the character of Littleport, and to develop the social, historical and cultural awareness ofthe community.

Meetings: All our meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month, except August, at 7.30pm atthe Village Hall, Victoria Street, and are free to members and non-members.

Family History: A vast data base of family history records, and village archives, are held by theSociety, and enquiries are welcome. Personal visits are also welcome by prior arrangement.

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Guided Walk: The Littleport Riot Trail is available to groups, at £1 per person, please telephone oremail to make arrangements.

Membership: UK annual minimum subscriptions: Adult £3(£45 Life), Seniors £2 (£30 Life), Family £5(£75 Life). Overseas: £15 (£150 Life). Corporate membership £15. Subscriptions are due on January 1st

and may be paid by standing order.

Programme2 Oct. Trevor Burlingham With a camera around Breckland6 Nov. Rodney Tibbs The Lost City of Petra4 Dec. Concert in St. George’s Church8 Jan. Chris Jakes Prickwillow and Beyond5 Feb. Film show – The Changing Face of Agriculture

featuring Highfield Farm (+ AGM)5 Mar. Roger Rudderham Denver Sluice – It’s Troubled History2 Apr. David White Lakenheath RSPB Reserve7 May Gordon Townsend History of the Fire Service4 Jun. Brian Jones England’s Kings, Queens & their Coronations2 Jul. Peter Ibbett A – Z of Victorian FarmingAugust No Meeting3 Sept Chloe Cockerill Church Curiosities

March Societywww.themarchsociety.org.uk

Chairman Jennifer LawlerCorrespondence Secretary Andrew ClarkeMembership Secretary Karen ChealeTreasurer Stanley RustContact details 10 Nene Parade, March Cambs PE15 8TD

Tel: 01354 657897 Email [email protected]

We are a civic society for the market town of March and were founded in 2007. We are involved inconservation and preservation and have monthly meetings where speakers are invited to talk onsubjects related to the past, present or future of March.

Our aims are to: support the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features ofhistoric or public interest in March; inform the public in the geography, history, natural history andarchitecture of March; promote high standards of planning and architecture in March; and topromote civic pride in March. We cooperate with the local authorities, planning committees,voluntary organisations, charities and people with similar aims to The March Society. We areinterested in any building of beauty or historic interest within March. Amongst our future plans:heritage walks & visits to local houses, exhibitions of photographs of March, and digital archive of thetown buildings. If you would like to join us, just come to one of the meetings featured on the homepage of our website, on our Facebook page, or Twitter, or fill in the form on our website and we willcontact you.

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We have historic walks in the summer

Meetings are held in March Library on the first Wednesday of the month from 7pm to 9pm.

Membership: Individual: £5; Joint at the same address: £8.00; Under 18: £0.00; Corporate: £20Membership runs from September to August.

Entrance to meetings is £2.50 for non-members and £1.50 for members. Tea, coffee and biscuitsprovided.

Peterborough Civic Societywww.peterborough.net/civicsociety

Chairman Peter LeeSecretary Patricia Stuart-Mogg

c/o 10 Robins Field, Wansford, Peterborough PE8 6JWTel: 01780 783678 Email [email protected]

The Society is a local civic and amenity voluntary group, financed by membership subscriptions. Weseek to provide independent views on civic, amenity and environmental matters in Peterboroughand the surrounding area. We seek to encourage public and local authorities to value and care for thelocal heritage of buildings and other features of historical and environmental interest and to promotelocal knowledge and pride of place. This is particularly important in our expanding and developingcity, whose residents are comparatively new to our area.

We publish an Annual Report, giving details of the previous year’s activities, and a spring Newsletter,giving an update on current activities and on summer visit arrangements. We also run an emailmeeting reminder service and use this to update members on any last-minute changes toarrangements.

Membership: £11 per individual, £6 per junior or senior citizen, £17 per couple or family includingchildren under 18, £10 per senior citizen couple, £5 per primary school, 310 per secondary school,£35 per corporate and £130 per corporate for five years.

During the autumn and winter we hold monthly talks at St. Mark’s Church Hall, Lincoln Road,Peterborough, (opposite the Tom Lock), at 7.30 and non-members are welcome to attend.

During the spring and summer we organise monthly visits to local places of interest to the Society.

Please consult our website for further information on our forthcoming programme.

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Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)www.spab.org.uk

Chairman David HeathDirector Matthew Slocombe

37 Spital Square, London EC1 6DYTel: 0207 377 1644 Email [email protected]

Deputy Director Sara CroftsEmail [email protected]

Courses Organiser Skye DillonEmail [email protected]

Press Officer Kate GriffinEmail [email protected]

SPAB is Britain’s oldest building conservation body. It was set up by William Morris to oppose thedestructive restorations of the Victorian era and promote the alternative of “conservative repair”. Bylaw it must be notified of applications to demolish listed buildings in England and Wales andcomments on hundreds each year. Today its broad remit is to advise, educate and campaign. TheSociety runs courses for homeowners and also trains architects and craftsmen. It produces a range ofhelpful publications

Membership: £36 individual; £65 corporateSPAB’s annual winter lecture programme begins in October – open to members of the public

Family History Societies

Cambridgeshire Family History Societywww.cfhs.org.uk

President Elizabeth StazickerEmail [email protected]

Chairman Terry Garner12 Little Green, Elmswell, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP30 9FBTel: 01359 241252 Email [email protected]

Secretary Muriel Halliday15 Castlehythe, Ely, Cambs CB7 4BUTel: 01353 654381 Email [email protected]

The Society exists to encourage the study of family history within the old counties of Cambridge andthe Isle of Ely. It offers a friendly point of contact for people worldwide who are interested in thesame names and families, and also provides a wide range of facilities to support their researches intogenealogy and the local area. The Society was founded in 1976 and now has well over 1,600members, mainly in the UK but also in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. Membership isopen to anyone with an interest in family history. Members are entitled to participate in any of theSociety’s activities and they receive a free quarterly journal, together with a Members’ Interests

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Directory which is updated at intervals.

Membership: UK: £9 (includes the member’s partner) Overseas: £13 (which gives airmail postage ofthe Journal)

Girton Glebe School MeetingsCambridge Road, Girton CB3 0PN2nd Saturday of each month except July & AugustVisitors Welcome. There is parking on the school playground. Take the lane to the right of theCommunity Centre car park. Free, donations welcome from non members

11:00 - 13:00 Computer Club13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break (Bring a packed lunch - tea and coffee available)

with Family History Assistance including access toAncestry.co.uk

Further details and future programme available from:

14.00 – 15.008 Sept. Melissa McGreechan Cambridge Records Office, Project Update13 Oct. Honor Ridout Cambridge Town and Gown11 Nov. Gill Shapland Fenland Basket Makers8 Dec. Members Telling our own stories - an informal gathering in which

members can share the highs and lows of Family HistoryResearch over a mince pie!

12 Jan. Mike Petty Topic not yet chosen9 Feb. Frank Agger Remembering the Regal Cinema9 Mar. Debra Lyons Cambridgeshire Police Archives13 Apr. Helen Harwood Chesterton workhouse

(this talk was cancelled last year due to illness)11 May Liz St Hill Davies Kill or Cure? - Dr T J Walker Victorian Surgeon

Cambridge City Branch MeetingsSt Laurence Church Hall, 91 Milton Road Cambridge CB4 1XB19:30 – 21:00. 3rd Friday of the month except July, August & December.There is ample parking, and refreshments are available.

Further details and future programme available from:Caroline Norton Tel: 01223 811901 Email [email protected]

21 Sep. Dave Edwards Researching Asylum Inmates

March Branch MeetingsMarch Library, City Road, March PE15 9LT18:00 – 20:00. 1st Tuesday of the month.Refreshments are available.

Helen Tarbox Tel: 01522 792832 Email [email protected]

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Further details and future programme available from:Maureen Nicholls. Email [email protected]

4 Sept. Brian Jones The Story the Censuses Tell2 Oct. Martin Edwards Finding Military Ancestors6 Nov. Maureen Nicholls Basic Family History4 Dec. Members Evening

Ely Branch MeetingsEly Library, 6 The Cloisters, Ely CB7 4ZH13:30 – 16:00. Last Saturday of the month.Refreshments are available.

Further details and future programme available from:Maureen Nicholls Email [email protected]

22 Sept. Stuart Orme Jack the Ripper27 Oct. Geoffrey Lee The Diseases which Killed your Ancestors24 Nov. Gill Blanchard Court and Criminal RecordsDec. [no meeting]

Fenland Family History Society

Chairman Bridget HunterWillowcroft, 70 Gorefield Road, Leverington, Wisbech, CambsPE13 5AT E-mail [email protected] [email protected]

Secretary Judy GreenRose Hall Farm, Walpole Bank, Wisbech, Cambs PE14 7JDTel: 01945 780238 E-mail [email protected]

The Fenland Family History Society was founded in 2001 to promote and encourage the study offamily, local and social history with particular reference to persons having lived in, or having beenassociated with, the historical area now known as Fenland. The society also aims to promote andencourage the preservation, security and accessibility of archival material. Our journal, “The Ag. Lib.Chronicles”, is posted to all members and contains reports of meetings, articles from members, bookreviews, bookstall publications available for purchase and extracts from “Star in the East”.

Meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of each month, (except for August and December), at 7.00pmin St. Peter’s church hall, Church Terrace, Wisbech, Cambs, (behind the parish church of St. Peter andSt. Paul, adjacent to the main car park).

Membership: £9 per year, (UK Single), £12 per year, (UK family), £12 per year, (Overseas Single).Visitors £2 per meeting.

2012-2013 programme being developed

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Huntingdonshire Family History Societywww.huntsfhs.org.uk

President The Lord HemingfordChairman Richard Cook

3 Mill Close, Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambs PE29 1YLTel: 01480 456323 Email [email protected]

Secretary & Publicity Caroline Kesseler42 Crowhill, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs PE29 2NRTel: 01480 390476 Email [email protected]

Membership Secretary Gill Thompson1 Hoo Close, Buckden, St Neots, Cambs PE19 5TXTel: 01480 811050 Email [email protected]

Huntingdonshire Family History Society (HFHS) was founded in 1985 to help people to find outabout their family history. It aims to provide links between people interested in families of the oldCounty of Huntingdonshire and to provide a forum for persons interested in genealogy generally,both the beginner and the experienced genealogist. It recognises the needs of those members whocannot easily travel to research in Huntingdon, and endeavours to make information availablewhether or not they have access to computer technology. The society actively supports theHuntingdon and English Fens Genealogy Mailing List. Our journal The Huntsman is published threetimes a year. The Society is a member of Federation of Family History Societies and is a supporter ofthe Genealogy UK and Ireland (GENUKI) information service.

Monthly lectures are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7.30 pm at The W.I. Centre, WaldenRoad, (The Ring Road), Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3AZ from September to July, where there is also abookstall with a wide range of genealogical and local history publications. Are talks are occasionallysubject to change. Please check our website before making a special journey.

Programme19 Sep. TBA17 Oct. David Edwards Lunatic Asylums21 Nov. Ann James Lady Juliana, Convict Ship, 178912 Dec. Maureen Nicholls Illustrating your Family History16 Jan. Brian Jones Non Conformity in the Fens20 Feb. Martyn Smith The Hunts Cyclist Battalions20 Mar. Caroline Norton Are they really missing from the census?17 Apr. Mike Petty Dickensian Great Gransden15 May Lesley Akeroyd The Whitney Archive19 Jun. June Barton Land Drainage17 Jul. TBA

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Peterborough & District Family History Societywww.peterborofhs.org.uk

President Olive AldermanTel: 01733 571565

Secretary Jan JohnsonTel 01778 341290 E mail [email protected]

Treasurer Jackie PrebbleTel 01733 203151 Email [email protected]

Membership David PrebbleTel: 01733 203151 Email [email protected]

Publicity Ewan CappittTel: 01733 343474 Email [email protected]

The June and August meetings are usually outings to local places of interest. A journal is published 4times per year.

Meetings are held the 1st Wednesday of the month at Westgate Church Hall, Westgate Peterborough,starting at 7.30pm. Non-members welcome. Any enquiries please contact the secretary - details asabove.

Membership: £8 per year. Family £10 per year

Programme4 Jul. Victorian Pupil Teachers1 Aug. Outing to Holmewood Hall1 Sep. Priestgate Folk3 Oct. The ex honorable member for Corby7 Nov. Family Heirlooms5 Dec. Christmas Party

2013 programme under development. Please see website for details.

Local History & other Societies

Abington History Group

Chairman Jennifer Hirsh34 High Street, Little Abington, Cambridge CB21 6BGTel: 01223 893352 Email [email protected]

The group, founded in 2000, exists to research the history of the villages of Great and Little Abingtonand to share their findings with those who are interested. A database of parish and census recordshas been built up together with a large collection of images, mainly photographs both old andrecent. References to land and people from other historical sources are also added to a database. Wehold copies of a collection of maps of the villages dating back to 1603.

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The group has published village history trails for both villages as well as an award-winning bookentitled World War 2 Memories of Abington and Abington People. In addition we have worked on thesale of the Abington Hall Estate; we conduct oral history interviews and research university andcollege archives seeking more information on early land ownership. Our most recent completedproject resulted in the publication of Memories of the Land Settlement in Abington 1936 to 1983. Wehave shown DVDs of 1980 Village Revues to audiences many of whom were in the originalproductions. Our current research efforts are directed towards the public houses in our two villagesand to the history of land use before and after Inclosure.

We are always keen to see and, if possible, scan pictures or documents relating to any aspect of Greatand Little Abington.

Barrington Society

Chair Diane Alderson49/51 High Street, Barrington, CB22 7QXTel: 01223 872332 E-mail [email protected]

Secretary Penny ClarkBleak House, Shepreth Road, Barrington CB22 7SBTel: 01223 871132 E-mail [email protected]

Monthly meetings are 8 pm on the 3rd Wednesday at Barrington Village Hall.

Membership: £10Programme26 Sep. Outing to Scott Polar Research Institute17 Oct. Opium Growing in the Fens16 Nov. A Stitch in Time18 Dec Christmas Party (Members only)16 Jan. Shepreth Wildlife Park20 Feb. Members’ Evening Talks20 Mar. Addenbrooke’s Hospital Archivist17 Apr. Country House & Kitchen Bygones15 May The Queen Bee19 May Archive Room Open DayMay Outing (to be arranged)19 Jun. AGM & BBQ

Brampton Historical Society

Chair Mr. Brian GebbelsSecretary Mrs. Pat Last

4 Hardy Close, Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 1RRTel: 01480 451514 E-mail [email protected]

The society was formed in 1979 and meets at 7.45pm in the Stocker Room, Brampton Institute, High

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Street, Brampton on the 4th Wednesday of every odd month starting in January. There is an annualouting, usually in July or August.

Membership: £5 per year. Visitor £1.50 per meeting

Programme26 Sep. Alan J Eade The history of the English timber-framed house28 Nov. Dr. Ken Sneath The beginnings of the consumer society23 Jan. Ron Lancaster Confessions of a firework Parson27 Mar. William Evans Ten years with Lord Mountbatten22 May. TBA TBA24 Jul. Katie Davenport-Mackey Medicine through time25 Sep. Roger Powell Royal mistresses27 Nov. Brian Jones Family Christmases through history

Buckden Local History Society

Chair Robin GibsonEmail [email protected]

Secretary Les Button13 Vineyard Way, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5SRTel: 01480 811323 Email [email protected]

Founded in 1979, the Society aims to promote the study and knowledge of local history in its verywidest sense, primarily by means of talks on all manner of topics in any way connected with thesubject and will be pleased to promote individual or group research into local history projects.Anyone interested in research is asked to contact the Chairman. Buckden Local History Society isaffiliated to Cambridgeshire Association for Local History. For more information please contact theChairman.

Meetings: Monthly except August. 7.30 pm 1st Wednesday, in the Conference Room at BuckdenTowers.

Programme5 Sep. Sue Jarrett Inns and Outs of Eaton Socon3 Oct. Alan Butler The Streets of Huntingdon7 Nov. Bridget Flanagan Artists Along The Ouse 1880 to 19305 Dec. Peter Ibbett Dickensian Buckden2 Jan. Dr. Matt Edgeworth Following the Katherine of Aragon Way6 Feb. Sarah Wilson The Story of Flag Fen6 Mar. Christine Morris Finding Your Ancestors3 Apr. Julian Evan-Hart Aviation Archaeology1 May John Wright Nelson and his Ladies5 Jun. AGM + “Do You Remember When?”July (Date TBC) Visit to Flag Fen and Peterborough Museum

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Burwell History Society

President Ann BriggsTel: 01638 741882

Secretary Sylvia McKinleyTel: 01638 742647 Email [email protected]

The Society was founded in 1993 to promote and encourage interest in, and knowledge of, Burwelland its surrounding area, to ensure the correct recording and safe keeping of archive material incounty collections and Burwell Museum and to encourage individuals and small groups in theirresearch.

Meetings are usually held at Burwell Village College on the third Wednesday in the month at 7.30pm(September to May).

Membership: £12 per annum, payable at the first meeting in September. Visitors are welcome toattend meetings at £2 per visit.

Programme19 Sep. Honor Ridout Life in Tudor Cambridge17 Oct. Mike Petty Hereward and other fighters21 Nov. Geoff Hales Mary Kingsley – Victorian lady traveller19 Dec. Fiona Lucraft Dining and Christmas through the ages16 Jan. Chloe Cockerill Heraldry – it’s all around you20 Feb. Polly Howat Wise and unwise women20 Mar. Mark Pardoe Inns and outs of pub names 17 Apr. Jim Paxton Walking Hadrian’s Wall (+ AGM)15 May Anthony Kirby Market towns since 1750

Cambridge Past, Present & Futurewww.cambridgeppf.orgTel: 01223 243830

President Nigel BrownChair Robin PellewSecretary Janet Cornish

Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, CambridgeCB22 3AE Email [email protected]

Head of Development Mary NealonEmail [email protected]

Cambridge Past, Present & Future (formerly Cambridge Preservation Society) was founded over 80years ago. We are a charity working to keep Cambridge and its surroundings special by positivelyinfluencing planning developments, delivering environmental education and managing the greenspaces and historic building in its care – for the benefit of all. We look after Wandlebury Country Park,the Coton Countryside Reserve, a working farm which we are developing as a green place to visit tothe west of Cambridge as well as the Leper Chapel on Newmarket Road, Hinxton Watermill andBourn Windmill. Membership of Cambridge PPF is open to all.

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Catworth Local History Society

Chair Mrs. Joan MeiklejohnSecretary Mr. Ian Meiklejohn

26 High Street, Catworth, Cambs PE28 OPFTel: 01832 710296 Email [email protected]

The Society is primarily concerned with research, but has at least one meeting a year, and usually oneouting. It is affiliated to JIGSAW.

ProgrammeSunday 7 October – Outing to Fitzwilliam MuseumTuesday 27 November – AGM and Update on Recent Research

Publications includeThe Church of St Leonard Ian MeiklejohnThe Impact of the Turnpikes Gordon ReffinFalling from the Sky (WWII Aircraft Collisions) Howard Plant

The Group meets once or twice a year at Catworth Village Hall at 7.30pm. Visitor fee: £1

Caxton Historical Society

Chair Val GapeSecretary Post temporarily vacantTreasurer Charles Peacey

The Old Grain House, 27 High Street, Bourn, Cambs CB23 2SQTel: 01954 718310; Email [email protected]

We are a small informal group (about 35 members) from Caxton, Bourn and neighbouring villages,with varied interests: antiquarian, archaeological and historical; also objetsd’art, family history, rurallife and pursuits, etc.

We usually meet on the 2nd Monday of February, May, September and November at 8pm at CaxtonVillage Hall, but this depends on availability of speakers. We occasionally arrange additional meetingsand visits to sites or museums.

Membership: £8 per year. Visitors £3 per meeting

Programme12 Nov. Alan Reed Time flies at Old Warden - Shuttleworth Collection2013 programme still under development

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Chatteris History Society

Chairman Jenny Furlong14 Church Lane, Chatteris, Cambs PE16 6JATel: 01354 696319 Email [email protected]

Secretary Julie SmithTel: 01354 694289

The society is open to anyone interested in the history of Chatteris and the local area of the Fens. Weenjoy lectures at the museum and trips out to other local museums and places of interest.

Society meetings are held in January, March, May, July, September and November on the 4th Friday(7.30pm-9.30pm). Refreshments served.

Membership: £12. Guests are always welcome to any of our meetings (£3).

Programme28 Sep. Visit to Wisbech Museum23 Nov. Mike Petty TBA25 Jan. TBA TBA (+ AGM)Remaining programme under development.

Cherry Hinton Local History Society

Chair Jenny TaylorProgramme & Excursions Officer Mo Child

20 Chartfield Road Cherry Hinton Cambridge CB1 9JYTel: 01223 210724 Email [email protected]

We are a friendly and approachable group interested in all aspects of local history and its affiliateddisciplines countrywide. Visitors and members alike are welcome to come to our monthly meetingswhich are usually held on the last Monday of the month at 7.30pm in St Andrew’s Church Centre. Wealso have around 3 outings a year. Talks cover all aspects of local history and related subjects. There isa display at each meeting to show some aspect of Cherry Hinton’s History, along with refreshmentsand a raffle.

Meetings: Once a month (except August & December). Usually the last Monday evening eachmonth at St Andrew’s Church Centre, High Street Cherry Hinton (just behind the Church) at 7.30pm.

Membership: £10 a year. Couple: £18. Visitors: £2.50

Programme24 Sep. Pippa Temple Power, Faith, Politics and Ambition – Elizabethan

Courtiers and what their gardens reveal29 Oct. Richard Mortimer Further excavations at the War Ditches, Cherry Hinton

- The Excavation of Superman!26 Nov. Members Social Event (+ AGM)28 Jan. Steve Temple The Restoration of Impington Mill

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25 Feb. Honor Ridout Stourbridge Fair25 Mar. Frank Agger Memories of the Regal Cinema29 Apr. Michelle Bullivant War Ditches, the History of Limekiln Hill20 May Hilary Ritchie The History of Addenbrooke’s’ Hospital24 Jun. Malcolm Busby Nancy the Waterman29 Jul. Chloe Cockerill Pomp and Circumstance

Chesterford Local History & Archaeology Society

Chair Ian DeatkerSecretary Elizabeth Marshall

3 Haggers Close, Great Chesterford, Cambs CB10 1QNTel: 01799 530265 Email [email protected]

The Society aims to foster interest in local history and archaeology.

Meetings are usually held at the Great Chesterford Congregational Chapel, Carmel Street, GreatChesterford and start at 8.00. There are usually four meetings a year, with speakers on relevant topics,plus an Annual General Meeting.

For further information and programme details, please contact the Secretary.

Chesterton Local History Group

Chairman David Stubbings229 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1NLTel: 01223 368279Email [email protected]

Secretary Doreen Furness

Chesterton was home to the company W. G. Pye which developed radio in the 1920 and producedwireless sets, and then black-and-white televisions – all that is gone. The group aims to promote aninterest in local history by talks and in the collection of photos and the recording of memories. Thegroup is using CCAN to further this aim. Enquire about the village walk which includes photos of pastscenes.

Meetings are held in St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Road, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1DH, on the 3rd

Tuesday in the month at 2.30.

If, due to circumstance, the adverted talk can not be given, the committee will endeavor to providean alternative talk/event.

Membership: £10; visitors £3 per session.

Programme18 Sep. TBA Projected Pictures16 Oct. Ian Nimmo-Smith Dog Trough

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20 Nov. Dr. David Brodie Being a GP in Chesterton15 Jan. Nick Moir Chesterton Hall19 Feb. Doreen Furness Rowing on the Cam19 Mar. David Stubbings Chesterton’s Vanishing Pubs16 Apr. TBA Chesterton Allotments21 May Alice Zeitlyn Jubilee/Coronation Reminiscence

Comberton Antiquarian Society

Chair Brian EverettSecretary Peter JohnsonContact address 73 School Lane, Toft, Cambridge CB23 2RE


Meetings are held once a month on the 4th Tuesday at 8.00 pm in Comberton Village Hall

Membership: £7, £4 if joining after the New Year. Visitors: £2

Programme25 Sep. Rodney Tibbs Fifty Years Behind the News23 Oct. Jane Gosling Boom and Bust in Medieval Lavenham27 Nov. Honor Ridout Stourbridge Fair - Cambridge big event22 Jan. Mike Petty Cambridge Engravers 1500’s - 1900’s26 Feb. John Sutton Palaces, Racecourses and Stables - Charles II and Newmarket26 Mar. Lyn Bootman Savage Fortunes - investigating 17th Century aristocrats23 Apr. AGM28 May TBA British Antarctic Survey25 Jun. Evelyn Lord Town, Gown and Loose Women

There will be outings in October and April. Dates and venues TBA.

Cottenham Village Societywww.cottenhamvillagesociety.ukfamilies.com

President Margaret BrierleyChairman Robert Clarke

Tel: 01954 250443Secretary Glynis Pilbeam

6 Cross Keys Court, Cottenham CB24 8UWTel: 01954 251544 Email [email protected]

Membership Anne WrightTel: 01954 250826

Cottenham Village Society was founded in 1971 and our aim is to encourage awareness andparticipation in our village community and the history of the village. Members attend monthlymeetings from September to April (usually on the 2nd Friday in the month) to hear speakers on a

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variety of subjects. There are social events held each year. During the summer the Committeearranges a visit to a place of interest and a barbeque; at Christmas, a party with good food and wine.

Meetings are at the Primary School, Lambs Lane, Cottenham at 7.45 pm where free parking isavailable.

Membership: £8; visitors £2 per session.

Programme14 Sep. Ralph Carpenter Local pictures recently added to the Community

Archive Website12 Oct. Gerald Gifford William Porter (1813-1854) Singer and Composer and his Life

in 19th Century Cottenham followed by SAUL ANDJONATHAN - a sacred cantata for four voices. Entrance byadvanced ticket only. Please contact Membership Secretary.

9 Nov. Andrew Higgins With the SAS and other Animals11 Jan. Mike Petty Vanishing Cambridgeshire8 Feb. Peter Carter The Last Eel Catcher8 Mar. David Taylor A History of Letterboxes19 Apr. Speaker from Amey Cespa Recycling. Where does your rubbish go?

Eatons Community Associationwww.escan.org.uk

Chair Mrs. Sue Jarrett3 Collingwood Rd, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambs PE19 8JQTel: 01480 216065Email [email protected] or [email protected]

Secretary Mrs. Julia Hayward11 Collingwood Rd, Eaton Socon, St Neots, Cambs PE19 8JQTel 01480 210097 Email [email protected]

The association was founded in 1978 as the Eaton Socon Community Association and was laterchanged to the Eatons Community Association to include both Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford. Wepromote activities within the Eatons, write history books and hold an annual history exhibition (1st

weekend in May in St Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon), at our popular May Day weekend (May Daycelebrations on Eaton Socon Village Green -1st Monday in May). There is an Open Gardens event, andwe open our village lock-up and church regularly during the summer. Walks can be arranged aroundthe village through the chairman. We also have a newsletter delivered free to all houses in the Eatonsthree times a year. We do not hold talks/lectures but we do liaise with nearby history and archivegroups and work with them in various projects. We have monthly committee meetings where eventsare planned. We now hold a large archive relating to Eaton Socon Parish and have written more than20 history booklets. As part of a very large project we researched all the buildings and their familieswithin the present areas of Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford from the enclosure in 1799 to 1965. Most ofEaton Socon archives are held in Bedford archives but our booklets are available in Bedford andHuntingdon archives, local libraries, St Neots Museum and in local schools. They can be bought fromESCA. We have 4 trails, 8 Heritage Boards and 14 blue plaques in the Eatons. There are no

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membership fees. We raise money at our May Day celebrations, other events and through writinghistory booklets. Committee meetings are held monthly.

Eltisley History SocietyTel: 01480 880268

President William TophamChairman Peter KingSecretary Mary Flinders

Heylock, Caxton End, Eltisley, St Neots, Cambs PE19 6TJEmail [email protected]

Eltisley History Society aims to research, record, preserve and publish family and local history.Monthly meetings are held with a variety of speakers. Current research is ongoing into Eltisley’s WorldWar 1 soldiers, a project to sound record and film elderly residents about their memories, a record ofthe residents of homes in the village, and a project to digitise and catalogue the Society’s collectionof photographs.

Meetings take place at the Cade Memorial Hall, The Green, Eltisley on the 4th Wednesday of themonth at 7.45pm for 8pm. Visitors are welcome at all meetings (£2 per meeting).

Programme22 Aug Bryan Lintott Captain Scott and the Terra Nova Expedition26 Sep. Tony Kirby Technology and the Victorians24 Oct. Ken Drake The History of the Covent Garden area of London28 Nov. Gilly Vose Guts, Determination and Good Friends

(Cambs County Farms estate)23 Jan. Ian Waller Rogues and Vagabonds Need Not Apply (life during WW1)27 Feb. Honor Ridout 800 Years of Cambridge University27 Mar. Amanda Tuck Local Magic, a view through the Victorian magic lantern24 Apr. Annual General Meeting

Fulbourn Village History Societywww.fulbournhistory.org.ukEmail [email protected]

President Richard TownleyFulbourn Manor, Manor Walk, Fulbourn CB21 5RJ

Chairman Ursula Lyons4 Stonebridge Lane, Fulbourn CB21 5BW

Secretary Glynis Arber28 The Haven, Fulbourn CB21 5BGTel: 01223 570887 Email [email protected]

Formed in 1999, the Fulbourn Village History Society aims to keep and maintain records of all aspectsof the village’s social and historical developments. Members and the general public are able to

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consult these for research purposes by appointment, or on Monday and Wednesday mornings from10 a.m. until noon, at the Archive Store situated in the Committee Room of the Fulbourn Centre,Home End, Fulbourn, CB21 5BS

Lecture meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month (October to May inclusive) in theFulbourn Centre. Doors open at 7.30 p.m.

Membership: £11 per year. Visitors £2 per meeting.

Programme18 Oct. Frank Agger & Sam Clift ‘Memories of the Regal Cinema’15 Nov. Peter Ibbett ‘Round Britain in 1951’14 Dec. Geoff Hales ‘The Love of Food’ (Social Event. By Ticket only)17 Jan. Arthur Brooks ‘American War Cemetery’21 Feb. Mary Dicken ‘Suffragettes’21 Mar. Brian Jones ‘Birth’s, Baptisms, Marriages and Death’18 Apr. David Couzens ‘Oliver Cromwell and his Family’

Gamlingay & District History Societywww.gamlingayhistory.co.uk

Chairman Peter Wright4 Church End, Gamlingay, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 3EPTel: 01767 652899 Email [email protected]

Secretary John ByeTel: 01767 650158

Treasurer Christine ColbyTel: 01767 651364

Publicity Betty DempseyTel: 01767 650118

Programme Peter SwannellTel: 01767 650825.

Webmaster David Allen

The Society meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, (except in July and August), at 7.30 pm inGamlingay Village College, Room 2.

Membership: £15. Visitors £3.

Programme10 Sep. Bridget Flanagan ‘Artists along the Ouse, 1880-1930’8 Oct. Alan E.J.Eade ‘The History of the Timber Framed House’12 Nov. Veronica Bennett ‘National Trust properties of East Anglia’10 Dec. Christmas social evening and archive display14 Jan. Jim Brown ‘An evening of Gamlingay History’11 Feb. Dr. Ken Sneath ‘800 years of Godmanchester History’

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11 Mar. Canon Nigel Morel ‘John Howard of Bedford – prison reformer’8 Apr. Nora Butler ‘1000 years of Kimbolton History’13 May Mike Petty ‘Ghosts and Witches of Cambridgeshire’10 Jun. Social evening (+ AGM)

Hemingfords’ Local History Society

President Pam DearloveChairman Sarah Power

Tel: 01480 463825 Email [email protected] Pat Douglas


The Society, formed in 1994, aims to increase knowledge of earlier times in the Hemingfords and thesurrounding area by research and exchange of information.Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of the month in the Pavilion, Manor Road, Hemingford Grey at7.30 p.m.

Membership: £14.00 per year. Guests and visitors £3 per meeting. New members always welcome.

Programme20 Sep. Paul Chamberlain Prisoners of honour – Norman Cross Napoleonic officers18 Oct. Stephen Upex The archaeology of the Nene valley15 Nov. Mike Petty The great flood – where it all went wrong12 Dec. (Wed.) Members’ Christmas party & Supper at

Hemingford Abbots Village Hall17 Jan. Gilly Vose The Norris Museum21 Feb. Judy Wilson A Cambridge grocer – Matthew’s of Trinity Street21 Mar. John Haden Cambridgeshire, England emigration to New England18 Apr. Members’ miscellany – pictures and anecdotes

from the Hemlocs archives (+AGM)16 May. Mary Dicken Medieval wool towns of Suffolk

Histon & Impington Village Society

Chair Alan EadeSecretary Barbara Parr

20 New School Road, Histon, Cambs CB24 9LLTel: 01223 233397 Email [email protected]

The Society was formed in 1979 to stimulate public interest in the history, care and preservation ofour villages.

Our lectures are usually held on the last Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm at Impington VillageCollege.

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Membership: £7 per year. Visitors: £2 per meeting. Please contact the Secretary for furtherinformation.

Programme25 Sep. Nick King (Amey Cespa) Recycling & model-making23 Oct. David Cozens The Edison Bell gramophone works in Huntingdon27 Nov. Peter Carter Poaching tales11 Dec. Christmas lunch (Members only)2013 programme under development

Houghton & Wyton Local History Societywww.hwlhs.org.ukTel: 01480 460329

Chair Sue FeakesSecretary Davina ScrivenerProgramme Secretary & Gerry FeakesResearch Officer Tel: 01480 469376 Email [email protected]

The Society was founded in 1988. In addition to a programme of meetings current activities include:revision and republishing of the village Guide Book, exhibitions of historical material about the villagein the village shop window and Houghton Mill, an annual historical walk round the village, recordingthe memories of long term residents and collecting archive material about the village.

Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesdays in September, October, November, February, March andApril at 7.30 in The Memorial Hall, Houghton.

Membership: £5.50 (plus £1.50 door fee at meetings, except at the AGM). Visitor fee £3 (except atthe AGM).

Programme25 Sep. TBA TBA (+ AGM)23 Oct. Visit to Huntingdon Archives27 Nov. Bob Burn-Murdoch What’s so special about Huntingdonshire?27 Feb. James Fairbairn The archaeological dig at Houghton School, the full story27 Mar. Liz Carter The Victorian childApr-Oct. An exhibition in Houghton Mill24 Apr. Alan Reed The Shuttleworth CollectionJun. An exhibition in conjunction with the church flower festivalJul. The traditional “crowning” of Potto Brown on his birthday

followed by a historical walk (TBC)25 Sep. TBA TBA (+ AGM)23 Oct. TBA TBA27 Nov. TBA TBA

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Huntingdonshire Local History Societywww.huntslhs.org.uk

President Dr. Simon ThurleyChairman Dr. Philip Saunders

Tel: 01954 250421 Email [email protected] Secretary Jean Burbidge

Wild Goose Leys, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon PE28 2LBTel: 01480 411202 Email [email protected]

Excursions Secretary David CozensTel: 01487 815229 Email [email protected]

The society exists to encourage and share research into the history of Huntingdonshire. Lectures areorganised for Thursday evenings in the winter, and excursions, including a weekend away, in thesummer. The society publishes a newsletter (Almanack) twice a year and a journal, Records ofHuntingdonshire (content details on the society’s website). Copies of Records are available price £3.00from Huntingdonshire Archives.

The society’s Goodliff Awards scheme is currently under review and it is not expected that awardswill be made in 2013.

The society meets, usually on a Thursday evening at 7.30 p.m. in The Methodist Church, High Street,Huntingdon.

Membership: Individual £10, Double £15. Visitor fee £2.00 (voluntary)

Programme18 Oct. Simon Thurley Presentation of Goodliff Awards,

President’s Lecture: The beginnings of English architecture8 Nov. Honor Ridout The rise and fall of Stourbridge Fair, Cambridge7 Dec. (Fri.) Christmas musical evening and social (Huntingdon Town Hall)10 Jan. Liz Carter In and out of Huntingdonshire workhouses14 Feb. Robin Standring Beavers, giant pelicans and burials, prehistoric secrets of

& Dr. Chris Evans the Needingworth Quarry14 Mar. Dr. Nick Barratt History and the media in the twenty-first century11 Apr. Jane Brown Capability Brown – the omnipotent magician9 May Annual General Meeting and Excursions Preview

Isleham Society

Chairman Vernon PlaceTel: 01638 780449 Email [email protected]

Secretary Mrs. Rosie EvansP.O. Box 183, Ely, Cambs CB7 5XJ

The Isleham Society is a group of friends interested in our village, its history, traditions, itspreservation and development. It is a non profit making Society registered with the Charity

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Commission. We meet regularly throughout the year, usually on the third Thursday in the month inthe Village Hall at 7.45 for 8pm. We have interesting speakers, often with special emphasis on topicsof local or East Anglian interest. The Society also organises outings each summer. Meetings arefollowed by a cup of tea or coffee and the opportunity to meet other village people and our guests.Though primarily a group of Isleham residents, the Society welcomes all visitors.

Membership: £10 per person or £15 per couple. Visitors £2 per session.

Programme20 Sep. Guided Tour, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds18 Oct. Jill Shapland Tharpe family of Chippenham and Jamaica15 Nov. Richard Ridby Magic Lantern Show17 Jan. Dr. Carenza Lewis Results of Isleham Archaeological Digs21 Feb. Christopher Garibaldi Royal Newmarket and Palace House21 Mar. Vernon Place Old Isleham photos – number 618 Apr. AGM, plus Liz Howes Update of my work in Romania

Kimbolton Local History Society

Chair Nora ButlerTel: 01480 861007

Secretary Pauline AgnewThe Martlets, 13 Hatchet Lane, Stonely, St. Neots PE19 5EGTel: 01480 860215 Email [email protected]

KLHS aims to encourage interest in the history of the local area through talks, visits, research andpublications. The Society usually meets monthly on Wednesday evenings, (at 20:00), in the Saloon atKimbolton Castle – by kind permission of the Headmaster. Access is via stairs with a handrail and ahearing loop is available

Membership: £7 per year, (Single), £12 per year, (Couple). Visitors: £2 per meeting.

Programme12 Sep. Honor Ridout 800 years of Cambridge University17 Oct. Susan Oosthuizen Cambridgeshire from the air4 Nov. (Sun) Kimbolton Castle open to the public14 Nov. Dr. Ken Sneath The history of Godmanchester5 Dec. Mike Petty Ghosts & witches2013 programme under development

Landbeach Societywww.landbeach.org.uk

Chairman Robert StripeSecretary Dr Margaret Steane

109 Waterbeach Road, Landbeach, Cambridge CB25 9FATel: 01223 860128 Email [email protected]

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Membership Secretary Joan RussellTel: 01223 441769

Activities include a programme of talks on Wednesdays in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm during theautumn and winter months, visits to places of interest in the spring and summer, social events, andcomments on appropriate planning matters.

Membership: £2. Admission to talks: £3 per head per meeting.

Programme19 Sep. Mike Petty Cambridge Market Hill 1200 to 200017 Oct. Alan Shipp Kaleidoscope of Spring (Hyacinths)21 Nov. Rodney Tibbs Cambridge Colleges and their Gardens2013 programme under development.

Landscape & Local History Group

Co-ordinator Lyn Boothman18 York Street, Cambridge CB1 2PYTel: 01223 323042 or 077 409 30778Email [email protected]

Are you interested in local or landscape history? Are you doing, or considering, your own research?Would you enjoy an occasional meeting of like-minded people? The Landscape and Local HistoryGroup (LLHG) is a meeting place for active researchers, those who have been active or are about tobe. Many members are working on topics or places in the local area, and others are researchingfurther afield. This very informal group meets four times a year, and has been in existence since 1993.Members share research findings, exchange ideas and information, and increase their knowledge ofthe range of records and resources available. Please contact the co-ordinator for more information, toget your name onto the email mailing list, or to get directions. New members are very welcome.

Meetings are at 7.30 pm at Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, normally in HelmoreRoom 251. We meet quarterly, usually September, December, March, June

Membership: £2 occasional fee to cover postage and copying costs.

Programme27 Sep. David Cozens The fate of the Ramsey Abbey estates4 Dec. Dr. Ken Sneath Godmanchester, a celebration of 800 years!14 Mar. Helen Harwood Presenting history – storytelling and facts4 Jun. Tony Kirby The orphans of English local history?

English market towns since 1750

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Linton & District Historical Societywww.lintonhistory.org.uk

Chairman Gareth CollardSecretary Andrew Westwood-Bate

P.O. Box 1112, Balsham, Cambridge CB21 4WPTel: 01223 892430 Email [email protected]

Treasurer & Frank AppleyardMembership Tel: 01223 892255

The Society aims to promote interest in Local History, the environment and the conservation of theLinton & District region. The Society Chairman alone has a photographic record of Linton containingover 3000 photographs collected over many years. The Chairman in association with the Society andthe local newspaper, the Linton News, has produced a comprehensive book of photographs of thevillage, entitled “Linton in Pictures”, see the website for details of how to get hold of your copy. TheSociety draws a circle of around five miles from Linton as its region and this encompasses many ofSouth Cambridgeshire’s heritage-rich villages.Meetings are held in Linton Village Hall at 7.30pm on the third Tuesday of each month from Octoberto June. So why not come and join us, and have a great evening amongst friends? There is alwayslots of news of what is happening locally in the history world and a chance to discuss your project beit Family, House or Local History with the experts.

Membership: £10 per year and £2 per meeting for visitors.Further information about the Programme is available from the Secretary

Little Shelford Local History Society

Chairman Ray Saich10 Hauxton Road, Little Shelford, Cambs CB22 5HJTel: 01223 842737 Email [email protected]

Secretary TBA

The society aims to research, record and collate the history of Little Shelford and to publish a book onthe subject, to hold open meetings periodically to hear speakers or to discuss historical material (orfor any other necessary purpose) and to arrange visits to places of interest and exhibitions.

Meetings are held three times a year, in November, February and April (AGM), at 7.30pm at LittleShelford Memorial Hall.

Membership: £7 per year. Visitors £3 per meeting

Programme14 Nov. Terry Holloway The History of Marshalls15 Feb. Honor Ridout Cambridge Town and Gown23 Apr. Veronica Bennett Sutton Hoo

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Longstanton and District Heritage Societywww.ldhs.org

Chairman Tony Cowley2 Lambs Lane, Cottenham CB24 8TATel: 01954 250819 Email [email protected]

Secretary Hilary StroudeThe Manor, Woodside, Longstanton CB24 3BUTel: 01954 782560Email [email protected] or [email protected]

The Longstanton and District Heritage Society was founded by local residents in 2007 to record thehistory of Longstanton, Oakington village, RAF Oakington and Oakington Barracks. Faced with theimminent disappearance of their rural villages, due to the development of Northstowe, localsdecided to create a record of what went before. LDHS members include existing, and former,residents and former service personnel living throughout the UK and abroad. LDHS is dedicated torecording a shared history and making it available for public enjoyment and education. The Society iscurrently monitoring the Northstowe development process and is lobbying the developers and localgovernment to help to protect the site’s heritage and hopes to ensure the establishment of aheritage centre/museum in the former Officers’ Mess building, located on Rampton Road,Longstanton. In addition, LDHS is dedicated to preserving the heritage that remains withinLongstanton and District and actively supports charities and projects in the area that protect,promote or restore our local heritage. LDHS members enjoy an annual newsletter summarising thework of the society over the year. The LDHS website provides both members, and non-members,with free world-wide access to samples of an ever growing archive. Members and non-members areencouraged to contact the society at any time. The society is always grateful to receive additionalinformation, memories and photographs of the existing villages and the airfield. New members withan interest in the villages or Oakington airfield/barracks are encouraged, and all members arewelcome to get involved with our work. There is much to be done and more help is required if weare to fully realize our potential.

LDHS holds a number of talks each year at the Village Institute, High Street, Longstanton. Details ofthese talks and other events can be found on our website or in the local village magazines.Alternatively details of the talks will be sent out via e mail, on request. Entry for visitors is £2 and lightrefreshments are served afterwards.

Madingley History Group

Chair Susan RawlingsSecretary Sue Baldwin

The Old Wood Mill, Church Lane, Madingley, CambridgeCB23 8AFTel: 01954 210766 Email [email protected]

We are a friendly and informal group that meets to learn more about the history of the village ofMadingley and to collect archive material, (written, photographic and oral), for future use as a sourcefor a publication about the village. We also arrange lectures and local visits.

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Meetings are usually held quarterly in Madingley Village Hall, starting at 7.30.

Membership: £5 per year. Visitors: £2

Programme25 Oct. Dr. Robin Glassock The diminishing size of villages in Cambridgeshire6 Dec. Mike Petty TBA2013 programme under development.

Melbourn History Groupwww.melbourn.org.uk

Chairman Colin Limming4 Chapman’s Close, Melbourn SG8 6AHTel: 01763 260072 Email [email protected]

Secretary Mrs. Mavis HowardThe Carlings, 23 Station Road, Melbourn SG8 6DXTel: 01763 260686 Email [email protected]

Melbourn History Group has no programme but exists to carry out research into the history ofMelbourn, to advise visitors who are undertaking family history research, and to keep the history ofthe village alive for future generations. The Group has published four books on Melbourn past andpresent that are available for purchase. The Group also conducts history walks around Melbourn, andmembers are always available to give talks to local history societies and other interested groups. Allapplications for walks and talks, and all correspondence should be addressed to the Chairman.

Meldreth Local History Groupwww.meldrethhistory.org.uk

Chairman Joan GaneTel: 01763 260129

Secretary Kathryn BettsTopcliffe Mill, North End, Meldreth, Cambs SG8 6NTTel: 01763 268428 Email [email protected]

Meldreth Local History Group is a community group and was formed in 2007. Its aims are to recordand research the history of the village and its environs, create an archive of local history which can bepassed on to future generations and to publish material, both in print and digital forms. The grouphas its own website and is also part of the Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network (CCAN).The Group does not have a regular programme of lectures but organises, or is involved in, severalevents each year.

Meetings are held most weeks on Mondays at the Sheltered Housing Community Room, Elin Way,Meldreth, from 9.30 am to 11.30 am. These are not talks, but are meetings to discuss and continuethe work of the Group. For example, we update our website and discuss other projects. Anyone whowishes to help the Group or to bring along photographs or other material is welcome to attend.

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Membership: Free. Membership enquiries should be addressed to the Chairman.

Newmarket Local History Society

Chair Eric DunningSecretary Rosemary Foreman

124 High Street, Cheveley, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9DGTel: 01638 730072Email [email protected]

Newmarket Local History Society aims to promote an interest in the history of Newmarket and itssurrounding area by inviting a variety of speakers to our monthly meetings, visiting local places ofinterest, and giving talks to other local groups. We liaise with local schools and have produced anInformation Pack for them; we have also published various books, including When Newmarket Went toWar, which is still currently available.

Meetings are held, once a month on the 3rd Tuesday (May–July local visits, no meeting in August) atThe Stable, High Street, Newmarket (Sep–April) at 7.30 pm.

Membership: £8 pa. Visitors: £2 per meeting

Programme18 Sep. Joe Moore Talk on Criswell’s Garage16 Oct. Peter Norman Slide Show20 Nov. Tim Cox Newmarket Vets18 Dec. Cheese & Wine Evening/Link Choir15 Jan. TBA TBA19 Feb. Brian Parsley Monastic Buildings at Ely Cathedral19 Mar. Roger Newman Postcards from Newmarket16 Apr. Sandra Easom Slide Show (+ AGM)15 May Visit to Ely Cathedral19 Jun. Visit to be arranged17 July. Visit to Lakenheath Church

Royston & District Local History Societywww.roystonlocalhistory.org.uk

Chair Mr N Chuck2 Lilac Cottages, Cottered, Buntingford, Herts SG9 9PUTel: 01763 281245 Email [email protected]

Secretary Mrs J Rueffer37 Kingston Vale, Royston ,Herts SG8 9UGTel: 01763 241215 Email [email protected]

Treasurer, Programme Mr D S Allard& Outings 8 Chilcourt, Royston, Herts. SG8 9DD


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Publicity Mrs S P Thrussell23 Priory Lane, Royston, Herts SG8 9DXTel: 01763 242002 Email [email protected]

The Society was formed in 1965 for the purpose of having a museum in the town. The Society hasproduced many publications which may be purchased at meetings, in Royston Museum or at theCave Bookshop. See the website for a complete list of publications or contact the Treasurer if youwould like to order a book by post.

The museum in Kneesworth Street, Royston is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays10am to4.45pm throughout the year. Admission is free. The Society is responsible for the opening of RoystonCave in Melbourn Street on behalf of Royston Town Council; Easter to September, Wednesdays inAugust, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays 2.30pm to 5pm. Last admission: 4.30pm. Volunteersare needed. Please contact James Robinson on 01763 243204. The cave is Grade 1 listed and believedto have been used by the Knights Templar. Adults £4, concessions £3, accompanied children free.

The Society meets on the 1st Thursday of the month, Oct – April, and the 2nd Thursday in May, in theHeritage Hall, Town Hall, Royston at 8pm (7.30pm in May). Talks last about an hour. There is plentifulparking which is free in the evening. Tea or coffee and biscuits are available afterwards except in Maywhen there is a free buffet and drinks.

Membership: £5 (under 18s £2.50) due 1st September. Visitors: £2.

Programme4 Oct. Ancestral Voices The Time Traveller, Daniel Defoe’s travels in East Anglia in 17221 Nov. Dr. Anthony J Cooper Planners & Preservationists –

Cambridge Past, Present and Future6 Dec. Chloe Cockerill Saint George- Patron Saint, Knight & Martyr3 Jan. Derek Jarrett Pirton - a village in Anguish7 Feb. Mark Pardoe London Underground Stations – the first 120 years

7 Mar. Steve Boreham Cambridge beneath our feet – geology ofCambridge & district

4 Apr. Tony Kirby Churches and Chapels since the Reformation9 May Lynne Broughton Interpreting Ely Cathedral (+ AGM)8 Jun. Coach outing to Lavenham and Melford Hall (details from Treasurer after February 2013)

Saffron Walden Historical Society

Hon. Life President Kenneth Neale OBE, FSAChairman Rev. Canon Michael SwindlehurstSecretary Kathryn Fiddock

6 Gallows Hill, Saffron Walden CB11 4DATel: 01799 500844 Email [email protected]

Membership Richard JemmettTel: 01799 527725

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Journal Jacqueline Cooper24 Pelham Road, Clavering CB11 4PGTel: 01799 550462 Email [email protected]

The Society was founded in 1933, as the Saffron Walden Antiquarian Society. Its name was changedto the Saffron Walden Historical Society in 1983, as it was felt that this most accurately reflected itsactivities.Meetings are held at 7.45 pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, High Street, Saffron Walden, usually onthe 4th Wednesday of the month from September to May, when a programme of talks is arranged.The Society also publishes the Saffron Walden Historical Journal, with articles on the town and thesurrounding villages, twice a year in the spring and autumn. Recently SWHS Publications has beenestablished by the Society, to help authors publish research on Saffron Walden and NW Essex. Themost recent publication is a book by Malcolm White, who retired as Town Clerk in 2010, called ‘ThePlace Names of Saffron Walden’.

Membership: £7; visitors welcome at £1.50 per session.

Programme26 Sep. Herbert Eiden The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in Essex24 Oct. Sarah Kirkpatrick Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth – the saviour of Audley End28 Nov. Claire Mulley The secrets and loves of Christine Glanville - a special

agent in WW212 Dec. Christmas social23 Jan. Dr. David Melford A history of the manor and parish of Strethall27 Feb. Kate Dumycz Great Dunmow and the English reformation20 Mar. Jeff Saward The Saffron Walden Turf Maze – history and context24 Apr. Julian Hart-Evans Hunting Griffins in Essex – the search for a lost WW2 bomber22 May TBA TBA (+ AGM)

Sawston Village History Societywww.sawstonhistory.org.uk

President Mary Dicken23 Princess Drive, Sawston CB22 3DLTel: 01223 833761 Email [email protected]

Secretary Liz Dockerill11 Paddock Way, Sawston CB22 3JSTel: 01223 835127 Email [email protected]

Publicity Bruce Milner8 Brookfield Road, Sawston CB22 3EHTel: 01223 570596 Email [email protected]

The Sawston Village History Society was founded in 1990 and provides a varied programme of bothlocal and wider interests, including an annual outing in July. We meet monthly, every 2nd Thursday(unless notified) at the Chapelfield Way Community Centre, Sawston. This is 60m past ChapelfieldWay further along Link Road, on the left (from High Street). The CWCC is at the end of the driveway,beyond the small car park.

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The SVHS is affiliated to the Cambridge Community Archive Network (CCAN) and a group ofmembers are involved in the regular uploading of mainly photos and documents on to the SawstonCommunity Archive section of CCAN (www.ccan.co.uk). We have a small Heritage Centre at theSawston Parish Council office, also in Link Road with archivists Bryan Howe and Andrew Littleavailable on Monday mornings from 9.30 – 12.30 pm. To arrange another time please ring Bryan on01223 833963.

Meetings are held monthly, usually on the 2nd Thursday, at Chapelfield Way Community Centre,(unnamed road 60m past Chapefield Way off Link Road) starting at 7.30pm with a tea/coffee break ofabout 20 -30 mins, allowing time for a raffle and a chat and/or gossip.

We have an archive in the Sawston Parish Council Office, Link Road where our archivists Bryan Howeand Andrew Little are available almost every Monday morning. They will be delighted to discuss anyquery relating to Sawston past and present and to invite visitors to browse through the collection ofphotos, postcards, maps, books etc

Membership: £7 pa. Admission to meetings is £2 for non-members.

Programme11 Oct. Colin Limming “The Story of a Village History Book”8 Nov. Victoria Bennett “East Anglian Properties of the National trust”13 Dec. John Saville “The History of Punch and Judy”10 Jan. Helen Harwood “Three Cambridge Heroes, Cambridge in the 1930s”14 Feb. Bruce Milner “John Neville, Sawston’s War Lord of the Roses?”14 Mar. Richard Mortimer “The War Ditches and other Iron Age Forts in South Cambs”11 Apr. Chloe Cockerill “St George, Patron Saint, Knight and Martyr”9 May Prof. John Parker “John Henslow and the Creation of Charles Darwin”

Sawtry History Society (SHS) & Sawtry Community Archivewww.sawtryhistorysociety.btck.co.ukEmails [email protected] & [email protected]

Chairman Alan BottellTel: 01487 832996

Secretary Marilyn GautreauxTel: 01487 834551

Publicity Sheila TibbsTel: 01487 830054 Email [email protected]

The Society aims to research, record and preserve a permanent archive of the history of Sawtry andother local villages – Conington, Glatton, Holme and Coppingford – for the benefit of bothcontemporary and future generations, and to stimulate public interest in local history by publishingmaterial and by holding meetings and exhibitions.

On the third Thursday of each month (except August and December), the Society meets at 7.30pm inThe Women’s Institute Hall in Gidding Road, Sawtry to enjoy talks from visiting speakers and informaldiscussions. Occasional visits to places of historic interest are also organised.

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In 2008 the Sawtry History Society was invited by the Cambridgeshire Libraries to initiate, operateand maintain an Internet digital archive as part of their Community Archive Network. The archiveaims to record and preserve photographs, documents and memories of local life on www.ccan.co.uk.The Sawtry Archive already contains almost 50 pages of old and modern photographs, documents,video and audio clips and is constantly growing.

Membership: £10 per year. Visitors £1.50 per meeting.

Programme20 Sep. Allan Bottell Fenland Arc, Floating Church slide show18 Oct. Richard Jones The Black Death & its effects on local villages15 Nov. James Fairbairn TBA (Archaeology talk)Dec. No Meeting2013 programme under development.

St Neots Local History Societywww.stneotslhs.org.ukEmail [email protected]

President David BushbyChair Elaine Donaldson (acting)

Tel: 01480 217492Meeting Secretary Elaine Donaldson (acting)Programme Secretary Don Hill

Tel: 01480 218805

The aim of the Society is to promote interest in local history through monthly meetings, research andsummer outings. Historical information is collected and archives are held in St Neots Library. Severalplaques to local celebrities are being erected throughout the town. A magazine is published fourtimes each year.

Meetings are held on the 1st Friday of each month at 7.30 pm in the hall of Eynesbury C.E.(C) PrimarySchool, Montagu Street, Eynesbury, St Neots PE19 2TD.

Membership: £12. Visitors always welcome - £2.50 for each meeting.

Programme4 Jan. Rodney Todman Postcards from St Neots1 Feb. David Bushby More Scenes from Yesterday’s Farm (+ AGM)1 Mar. Dr. John Baker Assemblies and Hundreds5 Apr. Mike Petty Ghosts and Witches of Cambridgeshire3 May Dr. Rebecca Casa-Hatton Roman and later Castor5 May Beating the Bounds A 14 mile walk around the St Neots parish boundary7 Jun. Dr. Peter Clarkson The Legacy of Captain Scott5 Jul. Roger Leivers Historical excursion – Godmanchester ‘Great War Walk’2 Aug. Philip Gorton Historical excursion – The Medieval Graffiti of

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6 Sep. Peter Walker Gamlingay Wood and the ancient woods of westCambridgeshire

4 Oct. Liz Carter In and out of the workhouse1 Nov. Stephen Macaulay Archaeology in Cambridgeshire - highlighting recent

discoveries6 Dec. Brian Jones In this Month in History – A look at things as well as

Christmas

Strethall Lectureswww.icknieldwayparish.com

Secretary Michael PearsonCatmere End, Saffron Walden CB11 4XGTel: 01799 521290 Email [email protected]

Strethall has a small church with complete Saxon nave written up at some length in Taylor and notedin the latest Pevsner as “one of the finest examples of Anglo-Saxon workmanship in smaller parishchurches”. The Strethall Lectures were first held in 2001 as part of the fund-raising campaign whenthe church at Strethall had a need to raise substantial funds for essential repairs to the decayingfabric, following recommendations in the Architects Quinquennial Report. They were one item in aprogramme of events at that time to support and encourage a wider interest in Strethall Church.Since then, we have spent in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds on fabric repairs.Subsequent Quinquennial Reports have recommended various minor works but of considerablecost, so the work goes on!

The lectures were such a success that they have been continued annually, in February and are givenon a range of art, architectural or historical subjects by leading academic speakers and hugelyenjoyed by a popular audience.

The venue is the Friends Meeting House in the High Street, Saffron Walden.

Programme1 Feb. Terry Molloy My life as an actor8 Feb. TBA TBA15 Feb. Anthony Penrose Hand grenades like Cartier clips22 Feb. Prof. John Burland Rescuing the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Lecture details will be published on the parish website and tickets are available from the TouristInformation centre in Market Place, Saffron Walden towards the end of each year.

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Thorney Society & Thorney Heritage Museumwww.thorney-museum.org.uk or www.thorneysociety.co.ukThorney Heritage Museum, The Tankyard, Station Road, Thorney PE6 0QETel: 01733 270908 Email [email protected]

Chairman Michael SlyEmail [email protected]

Secretary Dorothy HalfhideEmail [email protected]

The object of the Society is to encourage interest in, and knowledge of, the local and natural historyof the village and parish of Thorney, and to maintain the Museum for the interest and education oflocal people and visitors. The Society was founded in 1985, and opened the Museum in 1987. Weorganise events during the year for those interested in Thorney to meet each other, and also to raisemoney to support the Museum. We have an increasing involvement in local archaeological work, andare delighted to welcome pre-booked groups for tours of the medieval abbey, Victorian modelvillage and Museum. Information about membership and the future programme is available from theMuseum.

Meetings: AGM in the spring, occasionally at other times.

Membership: £10, concessions £5. Museum entry is free.

The Museum is open from Easter Sunday to the last Sunday in September, Sunday afternoons from2pm -5pm (slight variation at August Bank Holiday) – call to check.

Thriplow Society

Chairman Geoffrey AxeChapelfield, Fowlmere Road, Thriplow SG8 7QUTel: 01763 208457 E mail [email protected]

Vice-Chairman David EasthopeCochranes, 6 Lower Street, ThriplowTel: 01763 208 401 Email [email protected]

Hon. Secretary Dr Kevin ClarkeFreshfields, 25A Middle StreetTel: 01763 208727 Email [email protected]

The Society aims to promote interest in the local history, the environment and the conservation ofThriplow and the surrounding district. Membership is open to all, but, in order to encourage wideparticipation by people living in Thriplow, membership in the village is by households. The Societymakes use of the Thriplow Smithy which is operated by visiting smiths for the benefit of visitors tothe annual Thriplow Daffodil Weekend. The smithy is also used by the Society as the repository oflocal memorabilia, old tools and bygones which are on display when the smithy is open to visitors.We normally hold about nine meetings or other events each year, most of the meetings beingaddressed by visiting speakers. Members are carrying out local research which is published in itsJournal (distributed free to members). The Society has encouraged the publication of the memories

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of long standing residents. The Society has also published a guide to the village About Thriplow whichis sold to visitors.

Meetings are usually held at 8pm on Thursdays in Thriplow Village Hall.

Membership: £6 per household.

Programme20 Sep. Shirley Wittering Church & Chapel: Religious rivalry in Thriplow in the 19th

century18 Oct. Richard Mortimer Archeology of the South Cambridgeshire region19 Nov. Jane Hampshire Beyond the Common Stream17 Jan. Andrew Nottage Farming and Wildlife in the Duxford area16 Feb. (Sat) Exhibition of Thriplow’s Past in the Village Hall

11.00 am – 3.00pm16-17 Mar. Thriplow Daffodil Weekend - including working smithy &

exhibition21 Mar. Visit to Cambridgeshire Archives, Shire Hall, 8.30pm

(Please book with Secretary)18 Apr. Thriplow History Group ‘Feather Beds and Frying Pans’ (+ AGM).

Trumpington Local History Groupwww.trumpingtonlocalhistorygroup.org

Chair Howard Slatter82 Shelford Road, Trumpington, Cambridge CB2 9NFTel: 01223 701733Email [email protected]

We research the history of Trumpington and its environs. We organise meetings where members canshare the results of their research, and where outside speakers can present matters of local historicalinterest.

Meetings are held about four times a year mainly at Trumpington Village Hall, High Street,Trumpington, usually at 8.00 pm.

Membership: £2.50.

Programme11 Oct. Various Shops and Trades in Trumpington22 Nov. Various Trumpington Worthies (+ AGM)

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Upwood & the Raveleys Local History Group

Chair Ian Gaunt77 High Street, Upwood, Huntingdon, Cambs PE26 2QETel: 01487 710702 Email [email protected]

Secretary Freda Fotheringham

A group of individuals interested in learning about the history of the locality and in history morewidely. Two books on the history of the villages have been published and new projects are beingdeveloped.

Meetings are held every two months on the 3rd Wednesday at 7.45 pm in Upwood Village Hall.

Membership: £10 Visitors: £3 per meeting

Programme19 Sep. The Hunts cyclists battalions21 Nov. Dining at Christmas through the ages16 Jan. Members’ annual dinner20 Mar. TBA (+ AGM)15 May TBA17 Jul. TBA

Waterbeach Village Society

Hon. President David BentonChair Adrian Wright

Tel: 01223 861846 Email [email protected] Ray Rice

Varsity Farm, School Lane, Chittering, Cambridge CB25 9PWTel: 01223 860663 Email [email protected]

Treasurer David ArmstrongTel: 01223 861586 Email [email protected]

The Society aims to stimulate interest in and care for the attractiveness, history and character of thevillage and its surroundings.

Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month, (September to May inclusive), in the Libraryof the Community School at 7.45.

Membership: £15 per year. Visitors: £2

Programme18 Sep. Lois Baker Wicken Fen – past, present and future23 Oct. Frank Bowles A look behind the scenes of the University of Cambridge

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27 Nov. Mike Petty Cambridge engravers 1574-190018 Dec. John Parish Wine & wildlife in Little Thetford22 Jan. Social event (+ AGM)19 Feb. Hilary Richie The history of Addenbrooke’s Hospital19 Mar. Janet South Snap out of it – a slide show without slides23 Apr. Les Milgate The history of RAF Duxford21 May Peter Pilbeam A night in the life of a badger

West Wickham & District Local History Club

Chairman Andrew MorrisTel: 01223 290863

Secretary Janet Morris21 High Street, West Wickham CB21 4RYTel: 01223 290863. Email [email protected]

The aims of the Club are to foster interest and appreciation of the history of the local area. Please getin touch if you have a particular interest or are researching your family history, as we would love tohear from you and are happy to help in any way we can.

Our monthly meetings are usually held in West Wickham Village Hall on the second Monday of themonth at 7.30 p.m.

Membership: £10; visitors £1.50 per meeting.

Whittlesea Society

Chair Graham CoxellSecretary David Hancock

3, Vintners Close, West Parade, Peterborough PE3 6BTTel: 01733 753894

The society aims to promote interest in the history, archaeology, geology, architecture and traditionsof Whittlesea and the surrounding villages. It is open to anyone who is interested in such matters.Meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7.30 p.m. in the Town Hall, Market Street,Whittlesea.

Membership: £6 per year individual, £8 per year family

Programme8 Oct. Stephen Perry Second World War Peterborough12 Nov. Neil Mitchell A photo album of old Peterborough10 Dec. Lacy Anderson About the Cam14 Jan. Brian Holdich Stanground boy11 Feb. Kevin Harrison Market towns of South Lincolnshire11 Mar. Don Chiswell Oliver Cromwell – “God’s Englishman”

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08 Apr. Quinton Carroll The emergence of the fenland towns13 May Richard Jones The Black Death – the local connection9 Sep. Katie Davenport-Mackey Flag Fen – a Bronze Age mystery11 Nov. Polly Howat Wise and unwise women of the Fens

Whittlesford Societywww.whittlesfordsociety.info

President Sylvia MortonChairman Malcolm Turner

28 Ledo Rd, Duxford Cambridge CB22 4QWEmail [email protected]

Minutes Secretary Liz TurnerEmail [email protected]

Publications editor Meg Holland3 High St, Whittlesford, Cambridge CB22 4LTEmail [email protected]

The aims of the Society, founded in 1975, are: stimulating public interest in the history ofWhittlesford; securing preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of publicor historic interest in Whittlesford and the of Duxford immediately adjacent area and promoting highstandards of planning and architecture. The Society publishes its magazine Whither Whittlesford twoor three times a year, as well as other occasional publications and makes annual Ecological andPhotographic awards. Household membership is open to all resident and people interested in thevillage. Events in the Village include Guided Walks; Tractor and Trailer tours of the Village; an annualOpen evening/AGM with notable speaker; occasional Themed Exhibitions/focus days and naturalhistory/archaeological field work. We also organize liaison meetings with other Village Societies andinterest groups. A grant from the Local Heritage Initiative in 2006 enabled the creation of a localarchive on which the Society has digitized over 2000 images and has extensive Natural History andArchaeological records.

Publications available; The Anatomy of a Victorian Village, Whittlesford 1800-1900 £15 +P&P,Whittlesford Recalled (village history) £5, The History of the Parish Church £5, Whittlesford at War £2,Whittlesford Memorial Hall £2, also past copies of Whither Whittlesford, the Whittlesford MillenniumMap and ‘The Diaries of Whittlesford’ by Anne Barker nee Maynard (1837-1921). Two calendars of (A4size) Photographs of Old Whittlesford have been produced and the 2013 Calendar will have a similarformat and the theme “Photographs of Whittlesford’s Diamond Decades’. reflecting the November2012 Exhibition.

Available on line; Whittlesford War Graves information and The History of Maynard’s AgriculturalEngineering Works 1829-1960. The website is under development to incorporate more material on-line.

Programme10/11 Nov. ‘Diamond Decades Exhibition’ – photographs, memorabilia and other material reflectingthe Changes and Celebrations in Whittlesford in each of the decades of the queen’s reign – includingarchaeological finds made in the past ten years AND compilations of slide shows, video clips and

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photographs of the Diamond Jubilee Weekend, which members have been encouraged to share-ideally by email, or to submit as approx A4 size prints for a photographic competition. The 2013Calendar of Photographs of Whittlesford’s ‘Diamond Decades’ will draw on this material and will beon sale or to order then.

2013 Programme under developmentLikely to include at least one guided walk; a visit to part of IWM Duxford and the annual openmeeting with a notable guest speaker. For additional events and further details please see ourwebsite.

Museums & Museum Societies

Burwell Museum of Fen Edge Village Lifewww.burwellmuseum.org.ukMill Close, Burwell, Cambridge CB25 0LHTel: 01638 605544 Email [email protected]

Chairman Paul DawesTel: 01638 742847 Email [email protected]

Group Visits Margaret MossTel: 01638 741705 Email [email protected]

Friends Margaret MossTel: 01638 741705 Email [email protected]

The Museum depicts life on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens through the centuries. Opened in1992, it is housed in a collection of different buildings. Some are reconstructed from other sites, suchas the eighteenth-century timber-framed barn, and others are built in the local style using mainlyreclaimed materials, such as the wagon sheds / granary display area. The displays are set out asscenes, rather like stage sets, with lots of individual artefacts making each display in order to givevisitors a better idea of how, where and when items were used. Also on the site is a Grade II* Listedwindmill – Stevens’ Mill – which is currently under restoration.

Opening Hours: Sundays, Thursdays and Bank Holiday Mondays from Easter Sunday to the end ofOctober. Some special event days have extended opening hours. Pre-booked group visits arewelcome any day – daytime or evening. The Museum is closed from the start of November to justbefore Easter.

Admission: £4 per adult, (over 16 years), £1.50 per child, (5 – 16 years), Season ticket holders andunder 5’s are free.

Season Tickets: cost £10 and allow free admission to the Museum on any regular open day,including special event days, and is valid for an entire open season, (Easter Sunday to the end ofOctober). They are available from the Museum admission kiosk.

For further information, including 2013 programme and special events deetails, please see ourwebsite.

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Cambridge & County Folk Museumwww.folkmuseum.org.uk2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQTel: 01223 355159 Email [email protected]

Curator Polly HodgsonEmail [email protected]

Visitor Services Officer Susan MillerEmail [email protected]

Education Tamsin WimhurstEmail [email protected]

Collections’ Officer Sara BrownEmail [email protected]

Weekend Museum Assistants Erin O’GradyClaire Middleton

The museum, which was reopened in May 2005, after a complete refurbishment, covers the socialhistory of Cambridge and its region over the past several hundred years. In addition to an extensiveeducation programme, the Museum hosts a number of temporary exhibitions and eventsthroughout the year and offers regular family and children’s activities and trails.

Opening Times: Tues - Sat 10.30am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm. Closed Mondays except Bank Holidaysand pre-booked groups. Bank Holiday Mondays 2pm - 5pm. Please visit www.folkmuseum.org.uk forup-to-date information about holiday opening hours.

Admission: Adults £3.50. Concessions £2 (Seniors and Students). Child (5 – 12 years) £1 (1 child freewith every paying adult).

Friends of the Folk Museum: for information about membership or events, ring 01223 355159,check the website www.folkmuseum.org.uk or email [email protected].

Information about events and exhibitions is available from the Museum or via the Museum website.If you would like to receive information about events and exhibitions via email, please [email protected] or visit the Museum website www.folkmuseum.org.uk

Cambridge Museum of Technologywww.museumoftechnology.comPublic Entrance: The Old Pumping Station, Riverside, CambridgeTel: 01223 368650 (answering machine) Email [email protected]

Curator / Administrator Pam HallsCambridge Museum of Technology, The Old PumpingStation, Cheddars Lane, Cambridge CB5 8LD01223 361892 (Monday – Wednesday, 9am to 1 pm)Email [email protected]

The museum is based in Cambridge’s Victorian pumping station on Riverside. It exists to preserve and

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display the industrial heritage of Cambridge and the district. The collections range from the originalboilers, engines and pumps which were once used to pump the town’s sewage to delicate scientificinstruments produced by Cambridge Instrument Company and radios manufactured by Pye. A smallshop sells souvenirs and publications about the pumping station and other local industries.

Opening:Easter to October Every Sunday 2.00 to 5.00pmNovember to Easter 1st Sunday of the month 2.00 to 5.00pmPlus additional special events, see website for details.

Admission:Non-steam days Adults £3.50, Children £1.50, Concessions £2.00Steam Days Adults £5.50, Children £3, Concessions £3.50Children under seven: Free

Events7th Oct Model Railways Exhibition, 11am to 5pm27th/28th Oct Half-term steaming 11am to 5pm24th/25th Nov Art Show 11am to 5pm

MembershipMembers receive free entry to the museum, a regular newsletter, invitations to social events and thesatisfaction of helping to preserve Cambridge’s industrial heritage.Subscription rate 2012/13 Single: £10 a year Family: £15 a yearApplication forms available from the museum and on the website.

VolunteeringThe museum is run virtually entirely by a group of volunteers. We always welcome new volunteers tohelp with a range of tasks including working on the exhibits, maintaining the buildings and site,documenting and displaying the collections, guiding visitors and staffing the museum shop on opendays. For more information contact Gordon Chancellor, our volunteer co-ordinator by [email protected] or leave a message on the museum’s answering machine.

Group VisitsWe are happy to accommodate group visits from schools and societies outside our standard openinghours. We can provide guided tours.

Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropologywww.maa.cam.ac.ukDowning Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZTel: 01223 333516 Email [email protected]

Director Professor Nicholas ThomasOutreach and Publicity Sarah-Jane Harknett

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The Museum has extensive collections relating to world prehistory and archaeology of theCambridge region, plus anthropology from all parts of the world. The collections and their associatedphotographic and archival material are of outstanding research and historical value and are animportant national resource in archaeology and anthropology. The Museum reopened in May 2012with a new entrance on Downing Street, a new display of local archaeology and a new temporaryexhibition space.

The Museum’s outreach programme offers a variety of public activities throughout the year, as well asresources for schools. In addition, there are special events relating to exhibitions and ‘Touch Tables’ ofmuseum artefacts on some Saturday afternoons. The Museum also hosts the Cambridge Branch ofthe Young Archaeologists Club.

Public opening hours: Tuesday –Saturday 10.30–4.30pm.Closed: 1 week at Christmas and on bank holidays..Admission: Free.

The Museum has an active programme of temporary special exhibitions.

Chatteris Museumwww.chatterismuseum.org.uk14 Church Lane, Chatteris, Cambs PE16 6JATel: 01354 696319 Email [email protected]

Curator Jenny Furlong14 Pound Road, Chatteris, Cambs PE16 6RLTel: 01354 692801

Chatteris Museum is an independent charity run entirely by volunteers. The collections and displaysreflect life in Chatteris and the local fenland area from prehistoric times through to the present day.There are a small number of special events and a couple of temporary exhibitions run during the yearand the permanent galleries are still being developed.

Groups and societies are welcome to visit outside the advertised opening times by arrangement withthe Curator. Free parking is available in Church Lane and in Chatteris. There is disabled access to theground floor and a stair lift to the upper gallery.

For details of special events and temporary exhibitions please visit the website or contact theCurator.

Summer Opening Times (April – October): Thursday 13:00 – 16:30, Saturday 10:00 – 13:00Winter Opening Times (November – March): Thursday 13:00 – 16:30, Saturday 10:00 – 12:00Closed over Christmas and New Year.

Admission: Free

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Cromwell Museumwww.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/cromwellGrammar School Walk, Huntingdon PE29 3LFTel: 01480 375830 Email [email protected]

Curator John Goldsmith

The Cromwell Museum is the only museum in the country that focuses solely on Oliver Cromwell,1599-1658. In 2012 the Museum will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening in 1962.It is situated in the former town grammar school where Cromwell was a pupil, and contains portraitsand objects that help to illustrate the life and legacy of the Lord Protector.The Museum is open throughout the year everyday except Mondays.

Admission: Free

Opening hours: 1 Apr–31 Oct: Tues - Sun 10.30-12.30 & 1.30-4.00,1 Nov-31 Mar: Tues – Sun 1.30 – 4.00 & 10.30-12.30 on Saturdays

LecturesLecture on Wednesday 6th November 7.30pm at Huntingdon Library & Archive, Princes Street,Huntingdon – this is the annual Cromwell Collection lecture for 2011. Facts, lies and stereotypesThe Curator, John Goldsmith, will look at the collections of the Museum, and how much we knowabout them. Tickets on sale from 3rd September £3.00.

ExhibitionsUntil – 28 Oct. Perfumes for the Protector: an unwelcome gift to

Oliver Cromwell

One of the treasures of the collection is a 17th C Florentine cabinet that has been passed downthrough the family of Oliver Cromwell. This exhibition will investigate all aspects of the object andexplain its true significance.

6th November -27th January 2013 Stiletto heels be not allowed.THE CROMWELL MUSEUM CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS AUTUMN. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RE-APPRAISE WHAT WE

KNOW AND WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SINCE 1962.

Full details of the 2013 programme, including events and activities will be available from the NewYear

Ely Museumwww.elymuseum.org.ukThe Old Gaol, Market Street, Ely CB7 4LS

Chairman John Marshall01353 666655 Email [email protected]

Curator Elie Hughes01353 666655 Email [email protected]

Friends of Ely Museum 01353 666655

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Ely Museum, in the Old Bishop’s Gaol, is a bright and friendly local history museum. Displays includeoriginal prison cells, fossils that can be touched, Roman remains and an archive film of the fensincluding punt guns and eel catching. There are special events and exhibitions throughout the year.The museum has an active programme of temporary special exhibitions, day and evening events. Fordetails of future events and exhibitions, please contact the Museum or visit our website. The museumis open all year round for visitors and guided tours are available if booked in advance.

Summer Opening Times: Mon — Sat 10.30am — 5.00pm, Sunday 1.00pm — 5.00pmWinter Opening Times: Mon — Sat* 10.30am — 4.00pm, Sunday 1.00pm — 4.00pm*closed on Tuesdays except for school and group bookings

Admission: £3.50 adults, £2.50 concessions, accompanied children 5-16 years £1.00

The Friends of Ely Museum talksMembers £1.50, non-members £2 - all held at 7.30pm in the Vernon Cross room at the Museum.

Friends membership: Individual £6, Couple £10. Family £12.

Friends Programme4 Oct Will Schenck Recent Wok Out of Egypt1 Nov Mike Rouse & John Crowe A Fenland Miscellany3 Jan Pamela Blakeman Pam’s Pictures of Ely7 Feb Dr Mary Cherster-Kadwell Anglo Saxon Artefacts in Ely Museum7 March Christine Pownall Tales of the Militia4 April Annabel Reddick Burrows, Family and Business2 May Mike Petty Mr Pickwick’s Ely Scrapbook 18386 June Fiona Lucraft Dining with the Georgians

Fitzwilliam Museumwww.fitzwilliam.cam.ac.ukTrumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RBTel: 01223 332900 Email [email protected]

The Fitzwilliam Museum is the principal museum of the University of Cambridge. Its internationallyimportant collections span centuries and civilizations ranging from ancient Egyptian, Greek & Romanantiquities to the arts of the 21st century.

Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 – 19:00, Sundays & Bank Holidays 12:00 – 19:00Closed: Mondays (except Bank Holidays), Good Friday, 24 – 26 & 31 December and 1 January

Admission: Free.Visitors’ donations help keep the galleries open and are much appreciated.

ExhibitionsUntil 23 Sept 12 Ceramic art, craft and tales from Medieval CyprusUntil 11 Nov 12 The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China1 Nov 12 – 13 Jan 13 Calligraphy Today

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2 Oct – 13 Jan 13 Japanese Snow CountryUntil Jan 13 Sculpture PromenadeFeb – May 13 Quentin Blake: Drawn by HandMay – Sept 13 Markus DinkelJuly – Oct 13 African Hair Combs

Flag Fen Archaeology Parkwww.vivacity-peterborough.comThe Droveway, Northey Road, Peterborough PE6 7QJTel: 01733 313414 Email [email protected]

Archaeology Officer Sarah WilsonBusiness Operations Manager Teresa Patchett

Managed by Vivacity, Peterborough Cultural & Leisure Trust, Flag Fen is the most significant BronzeAge archaeological site in northern Europe. The site is based around the incredible remains of aprehistoric causeway discovered by Dr. Francis Pryor in 1982. Dating to c1350BC, the causeway wasconstructed of some 60,000 trees, cut down over a century to build a post alignment over akilometer in length with an artificial island half way across, the size of a football stadium. As well asthe preserved timbers, the site features a museum of finds, (including England’s oldest wheel),recreated period buildings, a visitor centre, a shop and a café. A programme of events and activitiestakes place over the year, as well as an onsite educational programme. Please check our website formore details.

Opening Times (April – October): Daily 10:00 – 17:00, (Last admission 16:00)Closed: 1 November – 31 March,

except for pre-booked groups and school parties

Admission: £5.00 Adults, £4.50 Concessions, £3.75 Children & Students, (Under 5s free), £13.75Families, (Up to 2 Adults & up to 3 Children over 5).

Opening Times & Admission Charges correct as at June 2012.

Kettle’s Yardwww.kettlesyard.co.ukKettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQTel: 01223 748100 Email [email protected]

Director Andrew NairneCurator Lizzie Fisher

A major collection of 20th century paintings and sculpture exhibited in a house of unique characterand, temporary exhibitions in the gallery with changing contemporary and modern art exhibitions,talks and discussions. An education programme and a regular concert series are held during theacademic terms. The Friends programme a series of national and international visits and events.Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house with a distinctive collection of modern art. Paintings and sculptures

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by Henry Moore, Alfred Wallis, Joan Miró, Constantine Brancusi and Barbara Hepworth are placedamong ceramics, furniture and natural objects in a unique domestic setting. Next door is anexhibition gallery with an international reputation for its changing programme of 20th century andcontemporary art exhibitions. There is also a wide programme of events including concerts, talks andworkshops. For up-to-date listings please see our website.

Admission: Free

Opening hours:House: Winter opening Tuesday to Sunday and bank holiday Mondays 2 pm – 4 pm; Summeropening (2 April-28 September) Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 1.30 pm – 4.30 pmClosed Good Friday.Christmas closure 2012: closed 22 December 2012 - 1 January 2013 inclusive

Gallery and Bookshop: Tuesday to Sunday 11.30 am – 5 pm

Note: the exhibition gallery is partially closed while we build a new education wing

Longthorpe Towerwww.vivacity-peterborough.comThorpe Road, Longthorpe, Peterborough, PE3 6LUTel: 01733 864663 Email [email protected]

Interpretation Manager Stuart Orme

Managed by Vivacity, Peterborough Cultural & Leisure Trust on behalf of English Heritage,Longthorpe Tower is a very well preserved example of a solar tower, built around 1300, containingthe private apartments of the owner of a fortified manor house. It boasts the finest medievaldomestic wall paintings in Western Europe. This varied ‘spiritual encyclopaedia’ of worldly andreligious subjects provides a window into the medieval mind and includes the Wheel of 5 senses, the‘three living and three dead’, the Nativity and King David.The Tower has a hands-on exhibition which explains the story of the building, paintings and Thorpefamily, as well as exciting weekend events. Please check our website for more details.

Opening Times: 1 April – 31 October - Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays 10:00 – 16:00.Pre-booked groups and school groups are welcome outside of these hours all year round.

Admission: £3.50 adults, £2.50 concessions, £2 children (under 5s free), £8 families, English Heritagemembers FREE.

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March & District Museum & Museum Societywww.marchmuseum.co.ukHigh Street, March, Cambs PE15 9JJTel: 01354 655300 Email [email protected]

Chairman Amanda Carlin44B Doddington Road, Wimblington PE15 0RB

Vice-Chairman Richard Munns1 Milner Close, March PE15 8LHTel: 01354 653714

The March Museum was established by a group of prominent March people in 1972. Set up as a localfolk museum, there are a number of displays showing the life and times of the late 19th and early20th Centuries with arrangements representing a kitchen, parlour and nursery bedroom while theoutside exhibits show a reconstructed Blacksmith’s forge, a Fenland cottage and privy. The medalsawarded to Benjamin Gimbert following the train explosion at Soham in June 1944 are on displaytogether with other records of the event. The large ASLEF Union (March Branch) banner is on display.A wide range of local history documents, including Local Council Rate Books, are available for thoseinvolved in serious research of their family or local history.A monthly lecture is held in St Peter’s Church Hall, opposite the Museum, on the second Friday ineach month from September to May, starting at 7.30 p.m.

Opening Times:Wednesdays & Saturdays: 10:30 – 15:30. Other times by arrangement.Closed: Christmas & New Year.

Admission: Free to the Museum but donations are welcome. Groups out of normal hours £1.00 perperson.

Society Meetings: £2.00 members; £3.00 visitors.

Programme14 Sep. Anne Holton-Krayenbuhl Vikings – farmers, raiders of traders?9 Nov. Garry & Sheila Frisby Kipling and the music hall (+ AGM)14 Dec. Punch & pies party (Members only)11 Jan. Edna Stacey The Hansart Brass and its forgotten history8 Feb. David Edwards The Rectors of Doddington and March8 Mar. Helen Fowler The Portable Antiquities Scheme12 Apr. Brian Hall A Pictorial History of the LNER’s B17s10 May Richard Jones The Longthorpe Fort & the disappearance of the 9th Legion13 Sep. Peter Carter The Last Eel catcher of the Fens11 Oct. Geof Lee Mills and Milling8 Nov. John Shaw Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson (+ AGM)13 Dec. Punch & pies party (Members only)

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Norris Museumwww.norrismuseum.org.ukThe Broadway, St Ives PE27 5BXTel: 01480 497314 Email [email protected]

Curator Bob Burn-MurdochAssistant Curator Gilly Vose

The Norris Museum displays the archaeology and history of Huntingdonshire. It is set in apicturesque riverside garden close to the centre of St Ives.

The opening of the Guided Busway has provided a wonderful new opportunity, a fast and scenicroute to the intellectual and cultural capital of East Anglia. Buy a return ticket and you can go backagain to Cambridge afterwards.

Encouraged by the new visitors the Busway is bringing us, the Norris Museum is taking the first stepsin applying to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant towards the cost of a major redevelopment. Wehope to make a substantial increase to the Museum’s display areas.

We’re already starting to prepare for this shake-up by clearing out some of the older items from theCurator’s office. There are things that have been there so long that no-one’s quite sure why we gotthem in the first place and what they’re supposed to do. But if it hasn’t worked for more than 30years, what’s the point of keeping it?

Opening hours: May to September: Monday to Saturday 10.00-5.00,Sunday 2.00-5.00October to April:Monday to Friday 10.00-4.00, Saturday 10.00-1.00

Admission: Free

Octavia Hill Birthplace Housewww.octaviahill.org7 South Brink, Wisbech, Cambs PE13 1JBTel: 01945 476358 Email Museum [email protected] Society [email protected]

Contacts Peter ClaytonRichard Clarke

Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House, a Grade II* listed building, celebrates the life of Victorian socialreformer Octavia Hill, (1838 – 1912), and fellow workers who continued her work after her death. The13 rooms of the public museum tell the Hill family story. The library and archive are currently beingreorganized. There is also a public garden as well as a gift shop and tea room. The “Our Place 2012Centenary Schools Project” is run by the Octavia Hill Society, which is also based in the Museum.

Opening hours: 13:00 – 16:30, (Last admission 16:00). Open daily, except for Fridays from the 3rd

week in March to the end of October. By appointment at other times.

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Admission: Adults £3.50, Children £1.50, Family, (up to 2 Adults & up to 2 Children), £8.00.Senior citizens, Octavia Hill Society members and National Trust members free.

Programme8 Oct. Octavia Hill Society Day

Memorial service in Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, SE1. Coach departs Wisbech 9:30.3 Dec. Octavia Hill Commemoration Day

Memorial lecture at 11:00, followed by Commemoration Day service

For further details of these and other museum events/ activities, please contact the museum or seeour website.

Papworth Heritage Centrewww.papworthheritagecentre.org.ukPapworth Hospital NHS Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambs CB23 3RETel: 01480 364245 Email [email protected]

Heritage Project Officer Becky Proctor

Papworth Heritage Centre celebrates the remarkable history of the people who have lived andworked in the village of Papworth Everard. Objects and displays reflect the pioneering work ofPapworth Village Settlement, founded in 1918 to treat and rehabilitate tuberculosis patients, and thesubsequent development of Papworth Hospital, the UK’s largest specialist centre for the diagnosisand treatment of heart and lung disease.For further information or to make an appointment please contact Becky Proctor, Heritage ProjectOfficer.

Normal opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm [closed 30 minutes for lunch]and Sunday 1pm to 4pm

We strongly recommend you telephone in advance if you are making a special journey to PapworthHeritage Centre.

Find us next to the hospital restaurant in the Ellen Kemp Building.

Admission: Free.

Peterborough Museumwww.vivacity-peterborough.comPriestgate, Peterborough PE1 1LFTel: 01733 864663 Email [email protected]

Heritage Service Manager Sarah StannageInterpretation Manager Stuart Orme

Managed by Vivacity, Peterborough Cultural & Leisure Trust, the Museum covers the history ofPeterborough and its surrounding area. Collections include internationally important collections of

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geology, (including Jurassic sea monsters), and Napoleonic POW work related to the camp atNorman Cross as well as archaeology, social history and art. The Museum has varied temporaryexhibitions, exciting weekend events and a busy education programme. Please check our website formore details.

The Museum is located in a historically significant Georgian building which has been restored as partof a £3M refurbishment, including the restoration and reopening of a rare Victorian operating theatredating to the period when the building was the city infirmary.

Opening Times: Tuesdays – Saturdays 10:00 – 17:00, Sundays & Bank Holidays 12:00 – 16:00,Mondays in school holidays 10:00 – 17:00.Closed: Mondays in school terms, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday andEaster Sunday.

Admission: Free (charges for certain temporary exhibitions and events)

Peterborough Museum Societywww.peterboroughmuseumsociety.org.uk

President Dr James DebooChairman Ms E. St Hill Davies

31 Audley Gate, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9PGTel: 01733 331388 Email [email protected]

Secretary and Publicity Mr R Melville7 Grange Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough PE1 4HHTel: 01733 561263

Membership Mrs. B Hirst8 Websters Close, Glinton, Peterborough PE6 7LQTel: 01733 252993

The Society aims to promote the study of local and natural history, archaeology, art, science andkindred subjects, and to promote the interests of the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery.

Meetings are held between early October and early April on alternate Tuesday evenings at 7.30 pm.The Museum has re-opened following a £3 million refurbishment and the Museum Society arepleased to be returning to the Martin Howe Room for the 2012 / 2013 Winter Lecture Programme.

Membership: £15.00 (pensioners £12.50; juniors and students £12.50); visitors £2.50 per meeting.

Programme2 Oct. Peter Pilbeam A Night in the Life of a Badger16 Oct. Sally Stafford Charles Darwin – A Life in Letters30 Oct. Alex Pickstone Itter Park – A Roman Playground?13 Nov. Geoffrey Hindley Dickens and the Theatre27 Nov. Mike Leonard Nursery Rama11 Dec. Steve Williams E G Swain and the Stanground ghosts

Email [email protected]

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15 Jan. TBA29 Jan. TBA12 Feb. Nicholas Watts Farming for the Birds26 Feb. Rob Kendall 78 Derngate, Northampton12 Mar. TBA26 Mar. TBA9 Apr. Liz Carter In and Out of the Workhouse

EventsDetails of Summer Outings for Members will be available from the Secretary

Prickwillow Engine Trust: The Museum of Fenland Drainagewww.prickwillow-engine-museum.co.ukMain Street, Prickwillow, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4UNTel: 01353 688360 Email [email protected]

Group Visit Organiser Les Walton32 Hall Street, Soham, Cambs CB7 5BWTel: 07801 050267 Email [email protected]

Treasurer Mrs Pauline DunhamTel: 01353 720737

Opening Times: April & October: Saturdays, Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Monday: 11.00 – 16.00hrsMay 1st to September 30th Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays: 11.00 - 16.30hrs

Admission: Standard: Adults £3, Children £1, Senior Citizens £2, Family £6Events & Run Days: Adults £4, Children £1.50, Senior Citizens £3, Family £10

Group visits welcome any time, subject to availability of volunteer guides. Group rates for 20 or more.

The museum is on the B1882 at the eastern fringe of Prickwillow village, by the bridge over the RiverLark, on the Hereward Way footpath. Large, free car park. Exhibits include several large vintage dieselpumping engines. Displays cover the historical and technical aspects of fen drainage over manycenturies. There are video clips of engines in operation and demonstration running of one or morelarge engines is usually possible for a group.

Events9 Oct. Farming ancient and Modern. Displays of Tractors and farming implements from the

last century.11 Dec. Christmas Special run day.

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Ramsey Rural Museumwww.ramseyruralmuseum.co.ukThe Wood Yard, Wood Lane, Ramsey, Cambs PE26 2XDTel: 01487 815715 Email [email protected]

Chair Mike Latchem37 Lode Way, Chatteris, Cambs PE16 6TNTel: 01354 694241 Email [email protected]

We are a registered charity, entirely run by volunteers. We are also an Accredited Status Museum. Ourpurpose is to preserve and display the history of the Fens in Ramsey and the surrounding villages.

Opening Hours: Start of April, (or Easter if this falls in March), to end of October.

Admission: £.50 per adult, £4 per senior citizen, £12 per family of up to 2 adults and up to 2 children.These prices are for normal opening hours as above. For special events, please see our website.

Royston & District Museum & Art Gallerywww.roystonmuseum.org.uk5 Lower King Street, Royston, Herts SG8 5ALTel: 01763 242587 Email [email protected]

Curator Carole Kaszak

A museum was first established in Royston in 1856, but local interest waned and the collection wasdispersed in 1901. In 1965 the Royston & District Local History Society was formed with the aim of re-establishing the museum. This was finally achieved in 1976 and some of the original artefactsreturned to the collection. The Museum moved to its current building in 1984 and now includes FineArt, local archaeology, a magnificent loan collection of 19th and 20th century ceramics and glass fromnineteenth century, the Royston Crow Printing press, and the Royston Tapestry Project.In addition to the permanent display there are also six temporary exhibitions each year.

Opening Hours:Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 am - 4.45 pm, all year round.Sundays and Bank Holidays, 2pm - 4.45 pm Easter to September only

Admission: Free

Royston Cavewww.roystoncave.co.ukMelbourn Street, Royston, Herts SG8 7BZ

Town Clerk Mrs. Susan Thornton-BjorkTel: 01763 245484Email [email protected]

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Situated underneath Melbourn Street, close to the Royse Stone and the Cross the Cave is owned byRoyston Town Council and is a Grade 1 archaeological site overseen by English Heritage. It is amedieval, man made structure hewn out of the chalk, lost and then rediscovered in 1742. During1790 the Cave was excavated and a passageway into it was dug out. This allowed visitors to see theunique medieval style carvings that now bring visitors from all over the world. Since 1996 muchrestoration work has been carried out with the help of grants from English Heritage, HertfordshireCounty Council, the Town Council and the Royston History Society. More work is needed to protectand restore this unique and ever intriguing ancient monument and there is currently a conservationplan in place that will take a number of years to complete. The Cave is managed by volunteers fromthe Royston and District History Society (see their entry).on behalf of Royston Town Council with theaim of preserving the Cave for future generations whilst ensuring limited and controlled access. TheRoyston Cave Trust is a registered charity working towards the same goals, currently with EnglishHeritage who are currently funding a programme of conservation works.

Opening times (Easter Saturday to the end of September): Saturday, Sunday and Bank HolidayMondays 2.30pm-5.00pm (last entry 4.30). The Cave is also open for the same hours everyWednesday in August. Individual tours for interested parties can be arranged. A candlelight openingis usually offered in December- see website for details nearer the time. Entry is by guided tour only(which lasts around 30 to 40 minutes) and only 18 people are allowed down at any one time. Duringbusy times, visitors may have to wait till the next tour starts. Please phone the Town Clerk or checkthe website for more details.

Admission: Adults £4, Over 60s £3. Accompanied children (under 16) are free. No entry forunaccompanied children.

Scott Polar Research Institute Polar MuseumMuseum www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum Friends www.spri.cam.ac.uk/friendsLensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ERTel: 01223 336540

Librarian and Keeper of Collections Heather LaneEmail [email protected]

Friends of SPRI Executive Secretary Celene PickardEmail [email protected]

When the Institute was founded in 1920, the nucleus of museum was the depot of polar equipment,(mainly from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition 1910–13), which was made available for loan to,or as research material for, polar expeditions. Much of this was superseded by new technologicaldevelopments and became obsolete, but has been regularly augmented by more recent equipmentand apparatus. A wide range of other material, from personal items, to scientific and natural historyspecimens, to artefacts from indigenous Arctic peoples has subsequently been collected. In addition,a selection of maps, paintings, drawings, photographs, manuscript, and many other items from theInstitute’s world renowned archives, library and picture collections, complement the objectsdisplayed. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Polar Museum at SPRI completed a £1.75million redevelopment in 2010. The galleries were reopened on 8 June 2010 by TRH The Earl andCountess of Wessex. Our new design increases the existing gallery space by 20% and has opened up

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the original Lensfield Road entrance. Many more of the Museum’s objects are now on view with newand exciting interpretation.

A programme of temporary exhibitions is held throughout the year and the Institute also holds aregular series of public lectures on polar themes. For details on future events and exhibitions, pleasecontact the Museum or visit our website.

Opening Times: Tues-Sat 10am - 4pm (except Bank Holiday weekends). Sundays & Mondays –closed,

Admission: Free.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Scienceswww.sedgwickmuseum.orgDowning Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQTel: 01223 333456 Email [email protected]

Administrator Sarah Hammond

The Museum is a treasure chest filled with thousands of rocks, minerals and fossils from around theworld. For over 100 years it has welcomed visitors, free of charge, and invited them to explore theamazing story of the Earth..

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10.00 – 1.00 and 2.00 – 5.00, Saturday 10.00 – 4.00Closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays

Admission: Free – but we accept donations and suggest £1 per person.

Soham Museumc/o www.soham.org.uk

Chair Donna MartinPO Box 21, Fountain Lane, Soham, Cambs CB7 5HTEmail [email protected]

Membership Secretary Joy AmesDorian, 12 Thorn Close, Soham, Cambs CB7 5EH

Soham Museum project is due to be moving to premises at Soham Library, Clay Street, Sohamduring the autumn / winter of 2012 / 2013. We will be working in partnership with the library serviceto improve access to local heritage. In the meantime, Soham Library will be hosting temporarydisplays and a regular coffee morning / drop-in session on the first Saturday of each month from10.00 to 12.00.

Soham Museum project has been running since 1998 with a view to creating a local history museumand archive facility. We have built up a huge collection of local artefacts, photographs and recordswhich will all make a significant contribution to the understanding of our heritage. We hold regular

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“History Group” talks and slide shows and have a membership scheme which runs annually from May.Access to the Museum collection is currently by appointment only but we hold regular local eventsand exhibitions.

Programme6 Sep. Oxford Archaeology Archaeology of the Fen Edge

(East) Berrycroft Church Hall, Soham, 7.30, Admission £2.50.15 Sep. Soham Museum Archaeological finds identification open day and seminar

Soham Library, Clay Street, Soham, 10.00. Free.1 Nov. Des Smith Wartime cookery

Berrycroft Church Hall, Soham, 7.30, Admission £2.50.28 Nov. Christmas Bazaar and entertainment

The Pavilion, Fountain Lane, Soham, 6.00.2013 programme under development.

St. Neots MuseumThe Old Court, 8 New Street, St. Neots, Cambs., PE19 1AEOur website is currently being updated.

Curator: Liz DaviesTel: 01480 388921 Email [email protected]

Learning Officer: Post vacantTel: 01480 388921 Email [email protected]

St Neots museum is a lively local museum that tells the story of a busy market town on the RiverGreat Ouse, from prehistoric times to the present day. The museum is situated in the centre of thetown and housed in St Neots Victorian police station and Magistrates Court, with a fascinatingEdwardian (1907) cell block. We have a regular programme of temporary exhibitions and familyactivities, with a Local History Month programme each May.

Opening hours: February – December Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00am – 4.00pm

Reception desk: Tel: 01480 214163

Admission: Free for local residents of contributing parishes. Other visitors - £2 adults, £1 children andOAPs

Programme5th Sept. – 29th Sept. St Neots Camera Club Exhibition3rd Oct. – 10th Nov. Tudor Times in St Neots14th Nov. – 22nd Dec. Christmas Crafts6th Feb. – 2nd Mar. Art Chicks6th Mar. – 13th Apr. St Neots Art Group17th Apr. – 18th May Melina Lafirenze Art22nd May – 15th Jun. TBC19th Jun. – 7th Sept. Between Two Worlds

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Group & School visits welcomeThe museum welcomes visits from schools and a wide variety of local groups. In our new communityroom we have the space for talks, craft activities and afternoon tea and we are happy to arrangeevening visits.Please contact the curator for further details.

Talks and WalksThe museum is now offering talks on a small number of local history topics, either at the museum orwhere your group usually meets. Please contact the museum if you are interested.Talk: The History of St Neots in Fifty ObjectsTalk: Tall Tales and Old BonesTalk: Magic and Myth in HuntingdonshireWalk: Discovering St Neots

Stained Glass Museumwww.stainedglassmuseum.comSouth Triforium of Ely CathedralTel: 01353 660347 Email [email protected]

Curator Sarah RobertsonEmail [email protected]

The Stained Glass Museum is housed aloft in Ely Cathedral’s South Triforium. One hundred examplesof the finest British and continental stained glass from the middle ages through to the 21st centuryare on show in a gallery stretching the length of the Nave. The Museum offers a unique insight intothe fascinating story of stained glass, an art-form that has been practised in Britain for at leastthirteen hundred years. The Museum Trust was set up in the 1970s to rescue and preserve stainedglass and now houses a national collection of British stained glass.

The Museum’s exhibits include an 18th century panel copied from a portrait by the artist Sir JoshuaReynolds. Also on display is work by Morris and Co. 20th Century work includes pieces by John Piper,Brian Clarke, and Evie Hone.

Opening Times: Daily from 10.30 to 5.00 (from noon to 6 pm. on Sundays in summer and 5 pm inwinter).

Group visits are welcome and guided tours are available on request. Annual Lecture in July in Londonand Autumn Lectures Series in Ely. Children can design patterns with glass on a light box; there aretrails and activity sheets.

Friends subscription: £25 - form available online.

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Stretham Engine Trustwww.strethamoldengine.org.ukGreen End Lane, Stretham, Cambridgeshire CB6 3LF

Visits Organiser: M Hensby2 King Cob, Stretham, Cambridgeshire CB6 3NA

Opening Times: Bank Holidays, (Easter to end August), 13.30 – 17.00 hrs and Second Sunday ineach month, (Easter to September), 13.30 – 17.00hrs.

Admission: Adults £3, Children £1. Group visits welcome by arrangement.

Besides the 1831 beam engine and scoop wheel, operated by electric drive, the complex includes aMirrlees, Bickerton & Day diesel engine driving a Gwyness centrifugal pump, an 1870 Easton, Amos &Anderson vertical centrifugal pump and an Archimedean screw pump. Numerous Fen-related handtools are displayed in the main Engine Room. The plant is scheduled as an Ancient Monument aswell as the building being listed.

Whipple Museum of the History of Sciencewww.hps.cam.ac.uk/whippleFree School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RHTel: 01223 330906 Email [email protected]

Chief Museum Assistant Claire WallaceSenior Museum Assistant Steven Kruse

The Whipple Museum holds a pre-eminent collection of scientific instruments and models, datingfrom the Middle Ages to the present day. The Museum’s collection includes microscopes, telescopes,sundials, early slide rules, teaching & demonstration equipment, pocket electronic calculators andlaboratory apparatus. The Whipple’s Main Gallery has been recently refurbished and the UpperGallery is to be transformed into a new, permanent Globe Gallery over the Summer and Autumn of2012.

Opening Times: Mondays – Fridays 12:30 – 16:30.Closed: Bank Holidays and between Christmas and New Year.

Admission: Free.

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Education

University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Educationwww.ice.cam.ac.ukMadingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge CB23 8AQTel: 01223 746262

The Institute of Continuing Education offers a wide range of part-time and short courses for personalor career development in subjects including archaeology, historic environment and local and familyhistory. Courses run at our headquarters, Madingley Hall, a 16th-century country house set in sevenacres of landscaped gardens. Our courses are all taught by experts in their field, and many lead toformal University of Cambridge qualifications.

Courses that may be of interest to members in 2012/13:

Undergraduate Certificates, Diplomas and Advanced DiplomasThese part-time courses are taught at undergraduate level, and offer credit within the nationalFramework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ). Certificates and Diplomas are taught over oneyear, and begin in October 2012. Advanced Diplomas are now taught over two years, and begin inNovember 2012, with a second intake of students in February 2013.

ArchaeologyThe Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology gives a solid introduction to the great civilisationsof the ancient world and is open to everyone regardless of previous educational experience. TheDiploma gives students an opportunity to extend and develop their knowledge and skills, focusingon the cutting edge of archaeological theory, the new field of Conflict Archaeology, and the publicface of the discipline: Archaeology and Heritage. The Advanced Diploma is a research-based courseof supervised independent study on a topic of the student’s own choice.

Historic EnvironmentThe Undergraduate Certificate in Historic Environment is designed for anyone with an interest inlandscape archaeology, the designed landscape (parks and gardens) and the interdisciplinary sourcesand methods that underpin all study of the historic environment. The Diploma offers an opportunityto extend archaeological and historical knowledge and skills, exploring the influence of culture onthe landscape, the effects of agricultural exploitation, and regional and local settlement patterns.. TheAdvanced Diploma is a research-based course of supervised independent study on a topic of thestudent’s own choice.

History of ArtThe Undergraduate Diploma in History of Art focuses on the history, theory and practice of keyaspects of the field in Northern Europe from the late 16th century to the mid-19th century. TheAdvanced Diploma is a research-based course of supervised independent study on a topic of thestudent’s own choice. (The Certificate course is expected to be available again in 2013-14.)

Local HistoryThe Undergraduate Diploma in Local History course offers a combination of theoretical andpractical approaches to local and regional history, covering parish life in the 16th and 17th centuries;

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poverty, disease and medicine c.1500–1914; and the opportunity to undertake a local history project.The Advanced Diploma is a research-based course of supervised independent study on a topic ofthe student’s own choice.

Weekend coursesWeekend courses run from Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime, and include meals from theInstitute’s award-winning kitchen. Students can choose to stay at Madingley Hall for the duration ofthe course or attend as a non-resident.

• Facing figures: the art of portraiture through time (7-9 September 2012)• Victorian myth and medievalism: the later Pre-Raphaelites (14-16 September 2012)• Art on the rocks: a survey of world rock art (21-23 September 2012)• Tracing the origins of the British using genetics, linguistics and chroniclers

(21-23 September 2012)• In and out the workhouse: Victorian and Edwardian poverty issues (21-23

September 2012)• Medieval castles and fortified houses (19-21 October 2012)• The inter-war garden: Roaring Twenties into Modernist Thirties (19-21 October 2012)• Drawing and painting autumn flowers, fruits and fungi (26-28 October 2012)• Royal Newmarket (26-28 October 2012)• Alexander the Great (26-28 October 2012)• Meet the Spartans (2-4 November 2012)• Art, architecture and society in the age of Hogarth (9-11 November 2012)• Did the Romans wear false teeth? (23-25 November 2012)• Villages and their fields (23-25 November 2012)• Dealing with the dead: ghosts and spirits from around the world (30 November -

2 December 2012)• Maya doomsday (7-9 December 2012)• Language: what is it, who has it and why did it evolve? (7-9 December 2012)• The life and times of Thomas Chippendale (18-20 January 2013)• In vino veritas: the history and archaeology of wine (25-27 January 2013)• Pompeii (8-10 February 2013)• Vienna: its history in its architecture (8-10 February 2013)• Art and poetry in the dream ship from Sutton Hoo (15-17 February 2013)• Cubism and the modern era in art (15-17 February 2013)• Surnames in the United Kingdom: origins, meanings and history (1-3 March 2013)• Reading prehistoric figurines (1-3 March 2013)• Chapel: in search of a lost culture (15-17 March 2013)• Medieval villages, pastures and fields (12-14 April 2013)• Churches and chapels of Cambridge (19-21 April 2013)• Signs of saintliness: the cult of saints (3-5 May 2013)• Modern British sculpture (31 May - 2 June 2013)• The early modern garden: from Beaux Arts to Modernism (31 May - 2 June 2013)• Portraits: from Roman generals to Freud’s children (14-16 June 2013)• Divided cities: fractured pasts, walls and buffer zones (14-16 June 2013)• Gardens 1943–2013: sustenance and showcase (14-16 June 2013)• Saints or sinners: the representation of women in Victorian art and fiction (28-30

June 2013)• The landscapes of Anglo Saxon England (28-30 June 2013)

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Short courses: the Madingley Weekly ProgrammeThis new series of short courses and seminar groups resumes in January 2013. Each course lasts forfive weeks, with one 2-hour session every week.

• Historic environment: seminar group (starts 8 January 2013)• Humps, bumps, buildings and hedges: walking through history (20 February 2013)• Apparitions: ghosts, angels and demons in modern Britain (15 April 2013)• Inventing childhood (16 April 2013)• Lock ‘em up (16 April 2013)• Faking it: forgery, fiction and truth (17 April 2013)• The architecture of ancient empires (17 April 2013)

Summer schoolsThe Institute’s summer schools have been welcoming people to Cambridge from all over the worldsince 1923 and attract around 1,000 students each year. The Ancient Empires programme bringstogether the expertise of Cambridge academics in Classics, Divinity, Philosophy, Archaeology andAnthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and History and Philosophy of Science, and runsfrom 7-20 July 2013.

University of the Third Age in Cambridgewww.u3ac.org.uk

Chair Charles BonneySecretary John House

First floor, 27-28 Bridge Street, Cambridge, Cambs CB2 1UJTel: 01223 321587 E-mail [email protected]

The U3AC has about 300 activities on offer, ranging from history to discussion groups, in fact anysubject that interests members and for which they are willing to act as tutors. Classes are held eitherat the Bridge Street premises or in venues around the city. Membership is open to those no longer infull-time employment and most activities take place during the day. The main aim of U3AC is to helpmembers spend their ‘third age’ in pursuit of new and old interests, to meet like-minded people andto keep this self-help organisation flourishing and growing. Look on the web site for up-to-dateinformation about the courses, just click on the link to the 2012-2013 brochure.

Membership: £63 per year plus a one-off enrolment fee of £5 and extra fees for a small number ofclasses. Telephone or visit the office, (10-2 Monday to Friday), and ask for a Membership pack whichincludes the Programme of Studies for 2012 to 2013.

University of the Third Age in Huntingdonwww.huntingdonu3A.org.uk

Chairman Bill QuintonEmail [email protected]

Founded 12 years ago, Huntingdon U3A is a lively organisation with some 400 members and over 40

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interest groups. As the U3A is all about “learning for pleasure” many members belong to severalgroups.

Groups that may be of interest:Archaeology Monthly except July and August 2nd TuesdayArchitecture (2 Groups) Monthly 4th Wednesday and 2nd Monday 2- 4p.m.Family HistoryLocal History Monthly Tuesdays 2- 3.30p.m January-June

Meetings: these are usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month in the Commemoration Hallin Huntingdon, and include: presentations by invited speakers and an opportunity to socialise andgather information on interest groups and activities.

Programme: including regular outings to places of interest such as gardens, museums, houses,historical sites, and theatres, to promote our life-long learning focus.

Membership: Currently £17 p.a. for basic U3A membership and there will be other (moderate)charges associated with individual groups.

Workers’ Educational Association Eastern RegionCintra House, 12 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JPTel: 01223 417321 Email [email protected]

Cambridgeshire Organiser Tanis Paulinfor Cultural StudiesAdministrator Henry Baker

The aim of the WEA is to extend access to education to everyone and to that end we run coursesacross the whole of the Eastern Region. Last year alone there were nearly 1600 enrolments on WEAcourses in Cambridgeshire and learners need no previous experience or qualifications, just an interestin the subject and a willingness to learn.

The WEA has 25 branches in Cambridgeshire and a brochure which listing all of our courses is widelyavailable by contacting our regional office or through the library service. The courses normally last for10 weeks (with 1.5 hours per session). The fees are low because each branch is run by its voluntarymembers. For example a 10-week course can cost as little as £45 - suggestions for new courses arealways welcome. Meetings are held weekly across the region membership of the WEA is free butcourses attendance has a fee. If you are interested in forming a Branch or getting involved pleasecontact Tanis Paulin.

WEA Cambridgeshire BranchesWe offer a great many courses in a variety of different topics. Some of the Courses offered for 2012 –2013 which may be of particular interest in Cambridgeshire include:

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Cambridgeshire’s Many TownscapesBottisham Branch – Contact Shirley Ellis 01223 811891The 18th Century Landscape GardenCambridge Branch – Contact Maggie Heywood 07592 359039Georgian CambridgeCambridge Branch – Contact Maggie Heywood 07592 359039Exploring CambridgeCambridge Branch – Contact Maggie Heywood 07592 359039Introduction to Ancient EgyptGreat Gransden Branch – Contact Les Davidge 01462 742121History of the English ParishHaddenham Branch – Contact Carol Whitlock 01353 740351

Workers’ Educational Association Upwood Branchwww.wea.org.uk/eastern

Chair Dr. Ian GauntSecretary Liz Carter

11 Church Lane, Upwood, Huntingdon, Cambs PE26 2QFTel: 01487 813008 Email [email protected]

Classes are held at Upwood Village Hall, High St. Upwood.Fee concessions for unwaged & dependents. Free car parking, refreshments served.

Courses for 2012-2013

9 Sep. Day School - Temples & Grove, 18th C Gardens with Clare Padfield 10 am – 4 pm £16.26 Sep. ‘The Art & Craft of Film Costume’ – with Karen Hore, 10 weeks 8.00 – 9.30 pm £456 Feb. ‘Do You Remember the 60’s?’ – with Lawrence Staig – 7 weeks 10 am – noon £4217 Apr. ‘Dickens’ with Fiona Lucraft – 8 weeks 8.00 – 10.00 pm £4810 Jul. Day School - Highlights from the History of Science’ with Dr. Woolston

10 am – 4 pm £17.50

Conferences

The Historic Environment Research Conferences, organised by the McDonald Institute ofArchaeological Research are not taking place in 2012 – 2013 and the Editor has not received detailsof any other Conferences.

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If you would like to find out more, send us your details or make amendments, please contact theEditor:

Simon J BarlowCambridge Antiquarian SocietyHaddon LibraryDowning StreetCambridgeCB2 [email protected]

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