Whither Whittlesford Magasine – Through the Ages
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Front cover only |
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Coming events AGM; Memories:- Sheila Tofts + coach trips; Whitsers Jubilee; Public Footpath Map; Archive Project Years; Archaeology Group;-WW1 research project Cyril Jones; Wildlife: Hedgehog rescue. |
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Activities since last issue + coming events;
Ruby anniversary pt4; Archaeology; Project; Progress WW1+W00; News from WW school & both churches; Neighbourhood Plan; Village memories of 1920s. More on Poppy plaques. |
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AGM, Dr Evelyn Lord, Great Plague, Orbituary Eve Baldwin, Tractor & Trailer Tour, Margaret Spufford Memorial Tour, WW1 Cambs 876 Remembered, Tour of IWM North Site, Challis Trust, Whittlewomen Ruby Anniversary, Scout Group Celebration |
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Diamond Decades Exhibition, Orbituary Jack Sutcliffe; AGM with guest speaker Carl Warner, Edict of Milan, Guided Botanical Walk, Whittlesford's Neolithic Flint Axes, Roman Whittlesford, William Westley Day 40 year Celebrations, History of The Grove |
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Diamond Decades Exhibition rescheduled, Millennium Group Triumph,John Gurdon Nobel Prize Winner,History of The Grove, Orbituary Maurice Maling, Spotlight on Mill Lane and Mill House, Sir Hamilton Kerr, Oak House |
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The Village Grows; Boundary Change; Exhibition of Photographs; Bell Tower & Book Launch; Cycleway celebration; Duxford Chapel Reception; History of the Parish Church; History of Whittlesford Bridge part 1 |
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2009 Activities; Garden Party; Ashdon Museum; The Park Archaeology; Barn Owls; Evacuees by Sheila Sales; School Reunion |
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Highlights of the Year; Presentation to Syngenta; Coin Find; Remembering the Vicar Charles Jones; The Railway in Whittlesford; Stationmasters 1851-1963; Whittlesford Evacuees |
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Orbituary Dr Mike Arnold 1928-2009; Amateur Dramatics; Hanley Grange Development; How Many Birds; Roman Site Update; CCAN Project; Archive Photographs; Little Shelford Footpath; Mass Baptism in the River; Triple Wedding Mystery; Crib Festival; Posada |
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Whittlesford Society 30th Anniversary; Masseys of Whittlesford 1st Anniversary; Gospel Choir Concert; Archive Project Report; Perpetual Calendar |
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Summer 2002 activities; Golden Jubilee Celebration; Rayners Visit; Sanger Institute; Whittlesford on television; Guildhall Concert |
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WEA syllabus; University of the 3rd Age; Grantebrigge - The Archaeology of Early Cambridge; Art Exhibition; Cambridge Music Festival; Painting Romany Gypsies; More Gypsies - Diary of Sara Holland; Garden Watch Survey |
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AGM; Whittlesford on the Web; Ring in The Millennium; Domesday Project; English Bell RingingTravels with a Sketchbook; Village Capacity Study; The Fire Service in Whittlesford 1914 - 1971 |
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Whittlesford on the Web; Duxford Chapel; Local Plan Revision; Project 2000 Memorial Hall; Whittlesford's Listed Buildings |
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Memorial Hall Memorabilia; Nature Walk & Talk; Hamilton Kerr Institute; Update on Church Repairs; Village Memories - Postmen Past; Whittlesford on the Web |
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Swallowcroft 25th Anniversary; Summertime Riverside Walk; Village Memory - Swimming at the Red Bridge; New URC Opens; A History of the Hospice & Priory Chapel in the Hamlet of Whittlesford Bridge - The Red Lion Hotel & Chapel |
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A Summer Walk in Constable Country - Flatford Mill; New United Reformed Church; Horse Extravaganza; Village Dramatics - a peep into the past; Whittlesford Trees; Esso Treewatch |
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AGM; Village Postman Retires; The New United Reformed Church; Twentieth Anniversary Celebration; Chairmen of the Whittlesford Society; Memorial Hall Appeal; Village Drama - a peep into the past |
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Twentieth Anniversary Year; Heriage Appeal; Footpaths and Walks; Rayners Farmhouse; Local History Prize; IWM site development plans |
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Spicers; Spicers' Norfolk Horn Flock; Rural Walk; Childhood Memories - Whittlesford in Summer by Patricia Downes; Commotions & Confusions at Spicers Paper Mill |
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Childhood Memories - Spring in Whittlesford by Patricia Downes; Commotions & Confusions at Spicers Paper Mill |
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Water Pollution Control; Oak Trees; Norman Good - obituary; Childhood Memories - Magic Whittlesford part 1 by Patricia Downes; Christmas Memories |
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Swaffham; The Pubs of Whittlesford- The Village Blacksmith |
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Grassland Summer Flowers on The Devil's Dyke; Play Equipment Project; The Pubs of Whittlesford - The Village Blacksmith; Childhood Memories of the Village Blacksmith; The Little Place |
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The Pubs of Whittlesford - The Three Horseshoes; The Rise & Fall of Jack Frost's Cottage |
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Cabaret Evening Stapleford Drama Society; The UK Poisoness Plants & Fungi Project; The Pubs of Whittlesford - Red Lion; One World Week; Welcome to Hell |
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Breckland Excursion - part 2; St Martin's Church Thompson; Pollution; Whittlesford Crabs; The Pubs of Whittlesford - past & present |
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The Cambridgeshire Collection; Breckland Excursion & Wildlife; The Hamilton Kerr Institute; SCARE |
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Chairman's report; Second Book Out; Battle of Britain Memory - follow-up; Whittlesford Memorial Hall |
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Village Walks; The Golden Dock; Shenanigans in the Churchyard; Whittlesford Memorial Hall |
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Squire Kim Tickell - obituary; Whittlesford Saturday August 31st 1940; Guided Village Walk; Duxford Folly; Foster Owl; Neighbourhood Watch |
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Duxford Present & Future; Whittlesford's Wildflowers; Our Neighbours - Hinxton |
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Planning - SCARE, Phoenix site; Weather Wisdom; Our Neighbours - Ickleton |
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Guided Rural Walk; SCARE; Outward Bound from Whittlesford 1989; Earthworms |
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Barnaby Fair; Bees & Beekeeping - part 3; Planning Matters - SCARE; The Natural History of Our Lawn |
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100 years of Whittlesford Football; Bees & Beekeeping - part 2; AGM; Into the 1990's; The Grey Squirrel |
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Barnaby Fair; Village Memories - the Snowplough; Bees & Beekeeping - part 1 |
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Footpath Reopening - claypit belt walk; Village Memories - 70 years on; The Tawny Owls of Whittlesford |
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Guided Village Walk; The Role of the Whittlesford Society; Trees; Open Gardens Day; Recollections of Old Whittlesford; Gardening Club 10th Birthday |
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AGM; Whittlesford Landscapes - Fields; At Home on the Range; Whittlesford's School 1742-1859 part 2 |
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Anglian Water; Children's Hospice cookbook; Whittlesford Landscapes - Mill Lane; Hidden depths in Whittlesford's Woodland; Whittlesford's School 1742-1859 part 1 |
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Phoenix Warehouse development; Maynards Works; Holiday scheme; Whittlesford Landscapes - Station Rd & Royston Rd; William Westley School |
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The Garden Party; AGM; The 1987 Whittlesford Exhibition; Whittlesford Landscapes - Duxford Road; Memories of Mile Stones; Ida Sadler - Obituary; Whittlesford's new electric train service |
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Whittlesford Landscapes - Church Lane & The Lawn; The 1987 Whittlesford Exhibition; Chairman's report; Village memory |
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Visit to Hamilton Kerr Institute; Christmas remembered; The Duxford Connection; Whittlesford Landscapes - Middlemoor |
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The Garden Party; Public Transport; The Race against time - Sport Aid; Whittlesford Landscapes - West End; IWM Duxford |
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Whittlesford Landscapes - North Road; Village Memory - on the box; The Vicarage; The Whittlesford Indoor Bowls Club; Harry Douglas - obituary |
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GM; Letter from Keith Sykes; The Shape of Things to Come; Christmas Quizzes; Songs of Whittlesford; Whittlesford Landscapes - High Street; The BBC Doomsday Project, News from the Tree Group |
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Whittlesford Society 10th Anniversary 1975-1985; Who's Been Who; Ten Years of Whither Whittlesford; Village Walking Quiz |
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Whittlesford Society 1975-1985; Whittlesford Holiday Club; Painting Romany Gypsies; Fifty Years Working with Horses |
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Hung, Drawn & Painted - the Exhibition; Annual General Meeting; Village Memory - May Day 1; A Victorian Scrapbook May Day 2; Maintaining the Parish Church Building; Profile Tim Scott |
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Village Activities; Village Memory 1914; Impressions of Whittlesford; Profile - Keith Overton; Whittlesford Diary 1914 |
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Save the Children Fund; Profile - John Womack; Footpath Walk & Map; Whittlesford Diary Autumn 1913; Trees; Village Memory |
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Profile - Rev Colin Davison; Trees; Village Surgery; Summer 1913 - diaries of Rev George Britten; Village Memory - First World War |
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Annual General Meeting; Surgery; Whittlesford Diary Spring 1913; Weather Then & Now - Apocalyptic Happenings in Whitsur |
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Historical Exhibition; The School Project; Village Industry - CIBA-Geigy Agrochamicals Part 2; The Whittlesford Holiday Activity Scheme - Jazz Dance, Music, Athletics, Arts & Crafts |
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Our Village - The Inclosure of Whittlesford; Village Industry - CIBA-Geigy Agrochemicals Part 1; Historical Exhibition; Arts & Crafts - Dance Exercise & Jazz Ballet |
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Clerical Errors - The Parish Register; Whittlesford Church; Arts & Crafts - The Joy of Water Colours; Village Memory - Cambridgeshire Dialect; Weather - Then & Now - Witser & the Wider World |
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Village Memory - A Tyreing Day; Annual General Meeting; Whittlesford Pre-School Playgroup Halloween Party |
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Our Village - The Sad Tale of Samuel Rickard; Whittlesford Belfast Project - An Account by Two Host Families; Village Memory - The Little Place |
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Whittlesford Post Office in Stephen Lofts' Time; Arts & Crafts - Sketching; Village Memory - The Wall; Village Industry - Arndale Fuels Ltd.; Rolph's Motor Spares |
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Village Memory - Bar Lane; Arts & Crafts - Bargello Tapestry; The Lawn - Part 2; An Electrifying Experience - Battery Vehicle Society |
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Our Neighbours - Babraham; Annual General Meeting; Village Industry - The Whittlesford Christmas Decorations Factory; The Keep Fit Class; The Lawn Part 1 |
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Orbituary - Jane Elizabeth Douglas; Our Neighbours -Chrishall; What's in a Name; The Adventure Club; Village Memory 1915-1930; Village Industry - Dumbleton Studios Ltd. |
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Stansted Airport; Our Neighbours - Hinxton; In The First World War - Part 2; Village Industry - V A Pedley Ltd.; Adopt-A-Tree; The Garden Party |
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Our Neighbours - Stapleford; Know & Value Trees - part 3; In the First World War Part 1; Village Memory - Creek's Haven |
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Our Neighbours - Great Shelford; Know & Value Trees part 2; RAF Duxford 1920-1960 |
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Our Neighbours - Little Shelford; Know & Value Trees part 1; Place Names of Whittlesford - Whence Whittlesford?; Bees & Beekeeping part II; Whittlesford's Pre-School Playgroup |
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Our Neighbours Sawston Part 2; Place Names Whittlesford; Bees and beekeeping |
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Our Neighbours Sawston Part 1; The Village Sign; Ghost Story |
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Our Neighbours - Ickleton; Planning - opening of the M11 junction; Burning Winter Fuel; Ghost Story |
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Our Neighbours - Duxford; AGM report; Observations of Ley Grove Gravel Pit |
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Our Neighbours - Pampisford; Duxford Chatterbox; The Whittlesford Gardening Club |
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Our Neighbours - Newton; Whittlesford's Vanishing Milestones; Arts & Crafts - Ship Modelling; Easter Dialogue |
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Our Neighbours - Thriplow; Christmas past; Arts & Crafts - Embroidery; Work at Thriplow Farms |
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Arts & crafts - lacemaking; The Great Fields at Enclosure 1809; Whittlesford Landscapes - The Fields; The Women's Fellowship |
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Bell Ringing; Whittlesford Landscapes - The Parish Roads; Arts & Crafts - spinning, Formation of the Gardening Club |
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Whittlesford Landscapes - Mill Lane; Jubilee 1977 Remembered; The Village Sign |
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Whittlesford Landscapes - Icknield Way; Whittlewomen; Jubilee 1977 Remembered |
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Whittlesford Landscapes - Duxford Road; Whittlesford Charity School 1742-1859 Part 2; Nicholas Swallow and Other Charities Part 2 |
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Spring Summer 1977 - Coach Trip to Norwich; Whittlesford landscapes – Church Lane & The Lawn; The Jubilee, Whittlesford Charity School 1742-1859 Part 1; Nicholas Swallow and Other Charities Part 1 |
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Winter 1976 - Whittlesford Landscapes – West End; The Badminton Club |
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Autumn 1976 - Annual General Meeting; Village Trail; Whittlesford Landscapes – Middlemoor; The Football Club |
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Summer 1976 - Know Your Village Quiz; The Cricket Club; Whittlesford Landscapes – North Road |
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Spring 1976 - Friendship Club; Whittlesford Landscapes – High Street |
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Winter 1975 – Launch Issue |
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