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I am writing the history of my family, one branch of whom were the Manders who lived at Wimpole from the 1950s to the 1970s. If you have memories of any of them, and particularly of Daisy and Leslie, please get in touch. Kirsty Carse
Orwell Football Club's first home match this season ended in a 1-2 loss against visitors Fulbourn Inst "A", despite being one-nil up with only two minutes to go! J. Topsom scored the OFC goal. The next match is on 11 September away to Gt. Chishill on Gt. Chishill Rec with kick-off at 3.00 pm. Supporters and cheerleaders very welcome.
Orwell Parish Council are meeting on Wednesday 15 September in the back room of Orwell Village Hall at 7.30 pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend and may introduce and speak on local matters during an interval half way through the meeting. Enquiries to the Parish Clerk: Judy Damant (01767 631783).
Wimpole Parish
Council are meeting on Tuesday 14 September in Wimpole Village Hall Enquiries to the Parish Clerk: Mrs Joan Stammers (01223 207643).
The August stats for the Arrington, Orwell and Wimpole group of web sites were as follows:
The stats given include all visits to the sites including those from automated web search systems. The August figures for pages, hits and bytes have been omitted as the three sites were subjected to severely abnormal traffic just before month-end and became meaningless.
The Annual General Meeting of the above-named charity will be held at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 15 September 2004 at The Cottage, Coombe Grove Farm, Arrington. Agenda: All enquiries to the Clerk to the Trustees: Mrs , Foxhounds, 71 Cambridge Road, Wimpole, Royston SG8 5QD (Tel: 01223 208172)
An Orwell couple who have worked together restoring church organs throughout the country for more than 30 years celebrated their Golden Wedding on the 1st September. David and Audrey Miller, of Town Green Road, first got to know each other through their church and during the daily commute to work. "We both belonged to the Methodist Church in Orwell and we both worked in Cambridge and got the same bus in every day," said Audrey, 73. Audrey was a counter assistant at Eden Lilley and David worked in an accountancy office in the city when the couple got engaged. Soon after they began their working life together at Miller's Stores in Orwell, which had been run by David's father for more than 50 years, and where Audrey and David worked for about 20 years. After a stint as a painter and decorator, David turned his hobby of restoring and tuning organs into a full-time career. "It was a very fulfilling and exciting time. I got to travel all over the country. And Audrey was always there helping me," said David, 71, who was awarded the MBE for his service to the community. "We have had a wonderful marriage really. We have respect for one another and understanding. We have shared everything - our troubles and our pleasures and our money." The couple, who have two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, celebrated their special day with a meal and a party with their family at the weekend.
Pannier Market, run by local people for local people. Saturday 18 September Come and get your local produce - home made, home grown, arts and crafts, preserves and cakes, fresh fruit and vegetables. Original Christmas gifts. Refreshments available. If you are a home-producer, if you run a small local business or if you simply have some garden produce to spare, and you would like a stand or a basket at the market, then please contact Pauline Aslin on 01223 208035 or for further details. Markets are also being held on 9 October, 13 November and
11 December 2004.
If you would like to place advertising on this web site, the range of options can be found on the Site Advertising page. I can offer anything from free small-ads through the traditional banners to full-page advertisements, and all at extremely reasonable rates.... And you will be helping to support this non-profit community resource.
In 1710, Lord Radnor sold Wimpole to [John Holles], the 1st Duke of Newcastle. The new owner fell off his horse and died the following year and the Wimpole estate was inherited by his daughter Henrietta [Cavendish-Holles]. Henrietta married Edward Lord Harley [31 August 1713 at Wimpole] who inherited the title 2nd Earl of Oxford on his father's death in 1724. The Oxford family at this time owned a large estate in London and they named the new streets and squares after the family, their estates, their titles and their allies. Wimpole Street was named after the house. Oxford Street and Harley Street after Edward's titles. Five minutes with an A-Z will also give you Cavendish Square, Henrietta Place, Holles Street, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Street, Mortimer Street, Edward Mews and Queen Anne Street among others. Adapted from: Some Interesting Bits of Wimpole History.
ORWELL: No crimes reported last month WIMPOLE: Two crimes reported last month. One was criminal damage to a wall of a house and the other was a theft from a motor vehicle in Wimpole Hall car park. Taken from "The Sawston Heartbeat"
- Community Police Reports. (Word .doc format): Mobile (non-urgent): 07740 734977.
The July stats for the Arrington, Orwell and Wimpole group of web sites were as follows:
The stats given include all visits to the sites including those from automated web search systems.
Local landmark Majestic Motors has gone to that great forecourt in the sky! Over the past two days the shell of the building has been reduced to a pile of bricks. If the current planning application is approved, the garage will be replaced with three smart town houses (one detached and 2 semi-detached), with a design that neatly mirrors some of the visual characteristics of the 1845 Wimpole 'estate cottages' opposite. One thing still concerns me a little. How many years will it take to change all those thousands of bus timetables that still give "Majestic Motors, Wimpole" as the local destination?
The photographic archive pages on this site are being rebuilt. The archive holds over 100 high resolution digital copies of early photographs of Arrington, Orwell and Wimpole. Many of these photographs have been made available at full screen resolution on this website and more are being added on a regular basis.
This is an appeal for more early photographs. I am looking for identifiable local street scenes, local family groups, school pupil groups (Orwell, Wimpole, Wimpole Park and Arrington Schools), portraits of servicemen named on the local war memorials, and photographic records of local events. I would welcome the loan of images taken between 1890 and 1950 and it would help presentation if you could (hopefully!) provide names, date and location to each picture. If you think you can help, then please ring Steve on 01223 208202 or e-mail with details. I will collect the photographs and return them safely later the same day.
The four-page Business Directory on this site has been reworked with listings of local businesses, tradesmen and services. Take a look here or 'press' the button below:
If you have a local business or provide a service to the area, then please ensure you are included and that your entry is up-to-date. Small-ad style entries (name, address, contact details and up to four lines of advertising text) are FREE to all local businesses within a three mile radius of Arrington, Orwell or Wimpole. I am particularly keen to include website and e-mail links (all e-mail links are individually protected from 'trawlers').
The Arrington, Orwell and Wimpole Web Sites are looking for community correspondents. Could you write or report on any aspect of local life or history? Or run your own web page or mini web site relating to some aspect of your village community? All ideas and contributions welcomed. If you think you can help me to help you, then please contact Steve on 01223 208202 or e-mail with details.
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Two new shire horses have been given a warm welcome at Wimpole Home Farm. Henry and Alf were bought to add to the farm's current team of three Shire horses, which are used to pull the wagon that takes visitors to Home Farm from the stable block. Vicki Levesley, horse handler at Wimpole, said: "Marshall, one of our original four Shire horses, has retired to the Norfolk Broads where he is enjoying ploughing. We needed to replace him and fortunately Henry and Alf, at eight and 13, are an experienced pair, ideal for pulling the wagon." Visitors were able to see the new shires in action from Thursday 12th, when they pulled the wagon for the first time. Henry and Alf will also be used for the heavy horse driving courses and for harnessing demonstrations. The shire horses have been returned to the Wimpole Estate through a three-year sponsorship deal between the Saffron Walden, Herts and Essex Building Society and The National Trust. Richard Bolton, chief executive of the society, added: "The society is delighted to support the return of the shire horses to Wimpole."
This is Great Western steam locomotive number 5963 "Wimpole Hall" photographed at Bath Spa station in the early 1960's. The locomotive was a Hall Class 4-6-0 built in July 1936. Her first shed allocation was Swansea Landore. In August 1950 she was working out of Carmarthen and in March 1959 she was at Westbury. Her last shed allocation was St. Philip's Marsh at Bristol. Finally withdrawn from service in June 1964 she was scrapped at Bird's yard in Newport. The Hall Class were mixed traffic locomotives and the first production order placed by the GWR in 1928 was for 80 engines. They proved excellent and useful machines able to work all types of trains and ultimately 330 were built over a period of 26 years.
TITCHMARSH - Lewis William (Bill), passed away, on Friday, July 30th, 2004, at home in Arrington, aged 84 years, beloved husband of Ruby and a much loved father of David and Christine, Pat and David and grandfather to Donna, Carl, Ann and Julia, he will be greatly missed. Bill was very well known to all Croydon old timers having been born and bred in Croydon, not leaving until reluctantly needing to move to Clifton Close in Arrington. He worked for many years for the Law Brothers at Croydon Hill Farm and the success of his own allotment production was legendary. It was a familiar sight to see Bill plodding down the road from the allotments behind Bedlam carting home his runner beans by the sackful. His funeral service was held at All Saints on 9 August followed by cremation at Cambridge. Donations in memory to be sent to the Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC), care of Ashley Funeral Services, 59 Mill Street, Gamlingay SG19 3JS.
Remember the 2001 Census? These pages give the resulting census profiles for your parish: • Arrington:
389 population/165 households/549 hectares. Each two-page summary covers population characteristics, residents by age, households, accommodation type, economic activity, resident's employment, travel and qualifications. [The pages are in .pdf format and you will need
the Adobe
Acrobat Reader program installed
The aircraft parts above were auctioned recently on eBay at www.ebay.co.uk. The closing date for bids was Saturday 7 August. The event was described as follows: "On a summers night in 1943 a lone Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 medium bomber from KG40 based in Brest was picked up on radar flying north to south over Birmingham. It was again spotted by the Royal Observer Corps stationed in Croydon, South Cambridgeshire and reported through to the R.A.F. based outside the village of Bourn. In response the R.A.F sent out two Beaufighters that intercepted the lone bomber as it passed over the Wimpole Estate. The German pilot banked his bomber back north but was caught in more Beaufighter fire, and, out of control and on fire the bomber crashed and exploded in a field near the village of Orwell. Sadly none of the four young German pilots survived, the machine gunner's head was found 500 yards away in a ditch still wearing his helmet! The four airman's body parts were buried together in Bassingbourn until being given back to Germany after the war." Hmmm, methinks the geography and timeline given has the unfortunate Dornier going back and forth somewhat before being shot down. Anybody know anything about this?
The BBC
Cambridgeshire website has a selection of 360-degree photographs taken
on the •
Wimpole Hall (South Elevation)
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ORWELL: Two crimes reported last month, which were damage to the pavilion on the Rec and damage to a garden statue. I have increased my patrols in the village since we had these incidents and there have been no further reports of this sort. WIMPOLE: Six crimes reported last month, which were all thefts or attempt thefts from motor vehicles in the grounds of Wimpole Hall. Mobile (non-urgent): 07740 734977. Taken from "The Sawston Heartbeat"
- Community Police Reports. (Word .doc format):
After 18 years of loyal service, a familiar face at Wimpole Hall is retiring! Graham Damant, the estate property manager, is leaving the National Trust at the end of the month. Graham, 64, arrived at Wimpole in 1986 when much of the estate was in dire need of restoration. At that time, 80,000 people were visiting the hall, while a further 60,000 went to the farm. In 2003, 92,200 visited the hall while 137, 640 were attracted to the farm. Restoration work in recent years has included work on Capability Brown's serpentine lake and a walled garden project which saw the rebuilding of the Sir John Soane-designed glasshouse. Graham said: "When I first arrived here all those years ago I did not imagine that I would be here for that long and I thought I would be bored after five years, but so much needed to be done and the work was so interesting and varied." After his last day on July 30, Graham plans to take up a part-time job with the Cambridge Preservation Society.
May I first of all congratulate you on your recent
enhancement of the Wimpole website. Two years ago, it was already a very
useful website: now, in terms both of content and of presentation, it
must surely be considered outstanding! Edward Hudson
From the Cambridge Evening News of July 1979: "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother officially opened Wimpole Hall, the 17th Century mansion left to the National Trust three years ago. She paid tribute to Mrs Elsie Bambridge and her husband who had started restoration work when they acquired the house in 1936. Amongst the guests were Albert Mayo and his wife who worked on the estate for 62 years. "I did farm repairs and anything in the house. Mrs Bambridge was very nice and if anything went wrong she always send for me", he said. He also recalled a visit by Queen Mary when she was Queen Mother." From the Cambridge Evening News of July 1954: "Real American softball came to Cambridge Football Club ground when the US Air Force Hospital Wimpole Park beat a team from USAF Molesworth entirely against the form book. But for British spectators the game was a succession of shocks. They saw an umpire hustled and pushed by players disputing a decision, two players somersaulting as they tried to catch a ball and some magnificent hits and catches that made it look like cricket. The game seems to be a glorified rounders akin to baseball, but easy to follow." © Mike Petty and the Cambridge Evening News
My sister-in-law and I have
been doing a family history for many years and when we came across your
web site we thought we had hit the jackpot. In our two families the names
of Bullens, Wilmott, Merry, Pearce, Prime plus the Debenhams from Suffolk
and the Buttress/Platt from Fulbourne/Longstanton and Sanderson from Melbourn,
the families have crossed many time over generations and came to Australia
in the 1850's gold rush. The Orwell Chronicle's have put a lot of history
into our family history. Thank You. Great website!!! My uncle,
had he lived to see this, would be very proud and thankful, his name was
Randy Peterson, left waist gunner in B-17 'Flying
Fortress' Delta Rebel 2. His wife Lois is still alive and well
in Princeton, Illinois sends her many thanks to you for this memorial. Fond thoughts of Wimpole Park, Arrington,
Lady Bambridge and the Kipling Estates remain with me these 40-odd years
later. Those closing days at the base were strange brew indeed. I often
wonder of the whereabouts of my companions there and would love to hear
from any of them. I was born at
the USAF Hospital (Wimpole Park) in Oct. 1959. My parents recollection
of the area is a little fuzzy (and they didn't have any photos), so it's
was nice to find this website. I've always been curious as to what the
place looked like. Thanks for your efforts. Thank you for creating this beautiful
website. These are the first pictures I have seen of the Wimpole Park
USAF Hospital. I have been trying to find the records for my daughter
who was stillborn at the Wimpole Park USAF Hospital on December 10, 1957.
She is buried in Ascension Parish Burial Ground on All Souls Lane in Cambridge.
Any help would be appreciated. I have always wanted to know about the
place where I was born. It was exciting to find this website. All I knew
about my birth was that I was the first baby born in 1953 in [Wimpole
Park] hospital. My father was transferred back to the States when I was
13 months old, and I have never been able to visit my birthplace. I very much enjoyed viewing the pictures
of my mother in the Wimpole school photos. She is Joan Horsfield and appears
in the several of the photographs beginning with 1936. I have not visited
Wimpole in many years but hope to do so in the near future. Thank you
for a look into my family history. Very useful and informative, thanks
to this site I have found several mentions of my Great, Great Aunt and
Uncles, both in the Census Records and also in the school recitations.
The maps of the area and photos were lovely to look at and if I meet anyone
who has found relatives living in the Cambridgeshire area I will definitely
recommend this site. If you could let me know if Pearce Family living
in 2 Town Green Road's children would of gone to Wimpole School I would
be very grateful. They lived at this address in the 1881, 1891 and 1901
Census records. Speculum Gregis - a fabulous site -
Congratulations on what must have been a mountain of work. I can only
wish that my ancestors villages (The Mordens) had the same observations
available
A major new page has been added to the Wimpole web site. It is a reference page giving basic biographical details of the principal members of the Yorke Family, taking the lineage down through the five Earls of Hardwicke (above) who owned Wimpole from 1740 to 1894. Click on a picture above or enter via the five core marriages are as follows:
Members of the Yorke families are extensively cross-linked between entries. The list is not exhaustive and I have concentrated on family members who have clear links with Wimpole.
According to the BT web site, the Arrington telephone exchange (covers the villages of Arrington, Orwell and Wimpole) will be ADSL Broadband enabled this autumn with broadband service available locally from 15 December 2004. Further details and line test at www.bt.com/broadband.
Steve, I am researching a British soldier who served and survived the First World War by the name of M-348551 Pte Edwin C Aslin, Army Service Corps. From the enquiries I have made so far it appears he was born around 1879 in Orwell and grew up there before moving to Buxton, Derbyshire, where he worked as a gardener at an estate of some kind. (the 1901 census lists it as Harty Rd or similar). His family is listed on your site in the 1881 and 1891 censuses as the following: Rectory Farm Cottage [Now Rectory Farm.] George ASLIN, Head, Farm Bailiff, born Redbourn,
Hertfordshire The reason for this research is to try and locate a descendant of Aslin's because I believe I have his 'Victory Medal' and I would very much like to restore it to his relatives. I am not sure how my family came to be in possession of the medal, however I believe the link lies in Buxton as my Great-grandmother, Elizabeth Mycock, grew up there and worked as a maid at Haddon Hall. She married my Great Grandfather William English who served in the Highland Light Infantry and almost immediately after the war they brought their family to Australia (where I am now). Therefore, Edwin Aslin's medal has been with my family here in Australia for the past 80 odd years.
Being very interested in my own family history I know how much a possession like this can mean to family members (I'm still searching for my G-Grandfathers medals) so when I happened to come across this medal I decided to make enquiries and with a little luck, hopefully find a relative. I may be contacted bye-mail at and would be in your debt if you could assist me in this matter. Regards, Tim Lycett. [Additional research has found that Edwin
Charles Aslin got married
ORWELL: No crime reported. WIMPOLE: One crime reported last month which was criminal damage to the window of a vehicle parked at the car park of Wimpole Hall. Mobile (non-urgent): 07740 734977. Taken from "The Sawston Heartbeat"
- Community Police Reports. (Word .doc format):
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