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A Capital Conviction
The article above appeared in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal on 17th March 1820. It states: Edward Coningsby (aged 17) and Thomas Wallon (aged 14) were capitally convicted of stealing a pony out of the parish of Meldreth, in Cambridgeshire, the property of Mrs Eliz. Maze, and received sentence of death, but were both reprieved. The case was heard at the Huntingdonshire Assizes. Postscript Edward Coningsby was transported to Australia for his...
1929 Fire
... The following report appeared in the Cambridge Daily News on 15th March 1929: Meldreth saw the scene of a big blaze in the early hours of Friday morning when the Old Farmhouse was completely burnt out. Our picture is of the back of the premises where the damage was most noticeable. The property was situated in the High Street, nearly opposite the Primary School and was owned by Mr. H. Ellis of The Grange. ...
Malton Lane
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Sylvia Gipson 1916 - 2011
The following obituary first appeared in the June 2011 issue of Meldreth Matters. Sylvia was born in the British Queen Public House in 1916, the third of five children. She lived in Meldreth her whole life. Sylvia attended Meldreth Primary School and always treasured a sewing box which was presented to her by Mrs Elin as a prize for good needlework when she was 10 years old. In fact her needlework skills remained with her all her life and until r...
West Way
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Unloading Sugar Beet at Meldreth Station Goods Yard
Click on the ‘play’ button on the adjacent sound bar to hear Dennis recall this amusing story. We used to load the sugar beet up there just beyond the goods shed; there was a ramp you could go up, where they park the cars now at Meldreth station. The trucks were along the side and you used to fork the sugar beet into the trucks. My father came up there one winter’s afternoon, about three or four o’clock I think it was with the last load of the da...
The Large Warehouse
This building (occupied until recently by Gocold) has a very chequered history and has been used for a most interesting hotchpotch of uses. The present building dates from c.1901 (see accompanying diagrams) but it appears to be a modification of an earlier, possibly smaller, building as the diagram refers to ‘present store’ and ‘old engine house’ etc. The north end of the building used to be a house, occupied over the years by various railway per...
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Jarman's Golden Ale Brewery
... Nik Galton I was researching A1 Stout, which I note is from your local brewery. I have two oil paintings on board in the naive style ... one titled A1 Stout, the second Two of Irish Hot. My great grandfather was born near Biggleswade and I wonder if there is a link. No other A1 Stout really get a mention on the web! The family moved to west London where I grew up. (Photos of Nik's two fascinating pictures can be seen above). ...
The Bowls Match, c. 1967
... Sue Miller I always enjoy looking at your website, but have particularly enjoyed Peter Robinson's memories. The 1960s seem like only yesterday to people of my age, but these reminiscences make me realise what a different world it was. Thank you. ...
The Changing Face of Meldreth Matters, 1988 - 2008
Meldreth Matters was started by Ann Barnes in 1988. After months of research and many letters and telephone calls, she felt that there was a need for a regular newsletter in the village. Ann is a member of the MM team to this day and has written the following article on the history of MM and how things have changed in those twenty years. Typically modest, Ann has neglected to mention the part she herself has played but it is true to say that with...
Meldreth Parish Council
Meldreth Parish Council comes under South Cambridgeshire District Council. The Parish Office is located in the Meldreth Sheltered Housing Scheme, Elin Way, Meldreth SG8 6LT. Office hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10.00 am to 12 noon and by appointment at other times. All queries on parish matters should be directed to the Parish Council Clerk, Mrs Judy Damant on (01763) 269928 or by email. The Parish Council usually meets on the first Thur...
Fieldgate Nurseries
Doreen and Arthur Ward came to Fieldgate, Station Road, Meldreth in 1969. Doreen was born in Oakham and later lived in Windsor. Arthur had been working for BEA at Heathrow and he and Doreen decided to escape the ‘rat race’ in London for a quiet country life with their two sons, David and Andrew. They never stopped working, however. On the first day of their new life in Meldreth they had the kitchen table out on their driveway selling seedlings th...
The Gables
The Gables is located in the High Street (see the map at the bottom of this page) and is believed to have been built on the site of two small farms. We don’t know when the house was built but a “modern” extension was added before 1904. Occupants Irvine In 1901, Archibald Henry Irvine, a retired civil engineer, lived there with two servants. He had lived there since at least 1898 (National Archives reference CR.1709/350). Rodgers The next occupant...
Addlestone Cottages
The Addlestone Cottages were located in Chiswick End. They were built in the eighteenth century and demolished in the 1950s. W M Palmer’s Account of the Cottages The following account is taken from W M Palmer’s lecture, “Richard Willowes Vicar of Meldreth 1692-1736” which was published in 1924. Amongst the property belonging to the parish of Meldreth, is a double tenement in Chiswick End, known as Addlestone Charity. From this way of describing i...
1905 Fire
The fire occurred on 22nd May 1905 and the following report appeared in the Herts and Cambs Reporter on 26th May: On Monday evening an alarming outbreak of fire occurred at Meldreth which resulted in the total destruction of four cottages and the greater part of their contents. The cottages were all thatched ones and were situate close to the road leading from Melbourn to Meldreth Station, on the opposite side to Sheene Farm, and were occupied by...
1891 Fire
On 29th May 1891 a fire was found raging in some out-buildings and pigsties at the rear of the Railway Tavern. The following report appeared in the Royston Crow on 5th June 1891: On Friday afternoon last, May 29th, a fire was discovered raging in some out-buildings and pig styes, at the rear of the Railway Tavern. Fortunately it was discovered in time, and the pigs were speedily removed, whilst the men who are engaged enlarging the platform of th...
John and Susannah Ransome
John Ransome was born in Stowmarket, Suffolk in 1860. Susannah Smith was born in Norfolk in 1861. In the census of 1880 John and Susannah were living with her family in the Gardeners’ Cottage at Manor Farm, Papworth Everard. They had a son Frederick age 6 months who died as a baby. His father in law, Thomas Smith, was working as a Gardener and John was employed as a Groom. John and Susannah Ransome then moved to Longstowe, where John worked as a ...
Beery Snippets from the Past
Meldreth Parish Records by William Mortlock Palmer M.R.C.S. With regard to the miscellaneous payments to people within the parish, it may be remarked that it was customary for the children to have 5s (25p) worth of beer when they went stone picking. This was an annual institution. Let us hope that it was ‘small beer’ which they had. “Beer was sometimes drunk in prodigious quantities in those days. Thus on August 4th, 1720, there was a fire at Mel...
Leverington's
The fire in my parent’s shop was in 1954. The date I think was 13th October. I remember it vividly. It happened about 1 o’clock in the morning – my parents being woken by what sounded like boxes being banged about. On looking out of their bedroom window they saw the end of the building on fire. I was woken up in a great panic and had to cycle to the telephone box, opposite Allerton Terrace, in my nightclothes. The telephone operator told me that ...
Liddiard's Shop
Liddiard’s shop sold everything you could think of. You could go and get two penn’orth of nails or you could go and get a gallon of paraffin and a pound of butter all over the same counter. They used to come round with a trade bike and take orders and then bring the goods to you, so it was a lot different from going to Tesco. They had a bicycle with a square frame at the front and you could stand a few boxes of stuff in it, but not a lot. Keith J...
The Worland Family
Members of the Worland family first arrived in the village during the seventeenth century. Early generations of the family were reputedly almost all very tall and well built, dark haired with distinguished features, striking countenance and straight noses. They were kindly and gentle of nature and most had large families. In addition to the branches of the family in Meldreth, there were many family members in nearby villages, particularly Melbour...
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School photographs from 1910 - 1919
... These are the only known photographs of pupils at the school during this decade. If you have any other photographs, or can put names to any of the faces in the group photograph below, then please add a comment to this page. Thank you. ...
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