GORDON'S ALIVE! And I also enjoyed the reference to the Wetherspoons at Caernarfon - still the only place I've seen in Caernarfon.
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GORDON'S ALIVE! And I also enjoyed the reference to the Wetherspoons at Caernarfon - still the only place I've seen in Caernarfon.
My parents used these to explain pH scales to us when I was in primary school. Then my parents wondered why I'm a massive nerd.
A colour postcard of Girton College, with various ladies in hats walking in the grounds.
Had a great time at St Ives Library yesterday doing my women's suffrage talk. Big turnout - we had 46 people there. Here's a postcard of Girton College in the 1900s. Love the ladies in hats!
Yeah, in Cambs you're combining what used to be three very different counties and people still think of themselves with the old counties, not the current one. If you split out Hunts and asked them about Huntingdonshire you'd have got a different answer.
Don't you look fab! I went to Hills as well
He kept white rats which people said were his familiars. Once he died they wouldn't leave the house until they had been passed over running water. They ended up having to knock down his house cause nobody else would move in. For the rest you'll have to catch the talk!
I think it was a gift voucher - think i got a jigsaw puzzle with it
I'm related to Jabez Few, the witch from Willingham, so I always put him in my folklore of the Fens talk I do
£150k divvied up 72 ways is a mighty £2k each. Won't get a lot for that
Great to see Cambridgeshire Libraries on the shortlist for the Libraries Connected Awards for Information and Digital again this year. This time was for our Everyspace Project. Read more about it and see the rest of the nominees at www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/shortli...
Might have to give it a go!
Popular ones at my work - Where's Wally, a fairy, Queen of Hearts (with jam tarts), a pirate, Peppa Pig, a cat, various characters with big swords (this one's me, I made a huge cardboard sword over lockdown!)
Just been poking around on the Historic England site - found a report about one of the nuclear bunkers in Cambridge. This one is off Brooklands Avenue and was designed to be the regional seat of government. Got to love a good bunker! historicengland.org.uk/research/res...
A newspaper cutting, with a child's picture of a vampire wearing a cape. Heading "Spooky special is a winner for Mary" Six-year-old Mary Burgess of Cambridge is the winner of this week's Mail Box slot. Mary has drawn a spooky picture complete with a scary face, fangs and a black cape.
Did you know you have access to British Newspaper Archive at Cambridgeshire Libraries? It's got the Cambridge Evening News for 1969 to 1999 and you can use it for all kinds of things. You can even find a picture I drew of a vampire when I was 6!
Yeah, you have to go to the consultation itself to even find out what the different options are consult.communities.gov.uk/local-govern... The consultation itself isn't the simplest to fill in either
Ah, Ragdoll - they made Rosie and Jim and Brum as well. Great stuff.
Getting some sources ready for our Women's History Wikipedia Edit-a-thon next month. It'll be on Saturday 14th March and we'll be adding to or creating Wikipedia entries for women from Cambridgeshire. You can find out more or book a place at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-his...
Fast work!
The first page of a leaflet from Anna Smith standing for Coleridge for Labour
The second page - Anna standing next to weeds and potholes
The third page - attacking the Green Party
The back page, asking people to fill in a survey of their views
Very similar one from Anna Smith over in Coleridge, although rather worst photography on my part - hopefully it's still readable
The projection room of the Regal cinema - four large film projectors are in a row showing films. In the background there's rolls of film on some shelving.
Had a good time showing the Anglia Ruskin University Film students around the Collection today - here's the projection room of the Regal cinema in the 1940s to celebrate.
I was the only one on my course to live in a more deprived area at home than at university. Says more about doing chemical engineering at a Russell Group than about me to be honest.
I confuse the hell out of everybody cause I'm from Cambridge, so people think I'm posh, but my mum only didn't see the Toxteth riots cause she'd already moved to train to be a psych nurse. That and random bits of Brum from university don't help.
Yeah, this is one when I shrug and suggest a curry instead.
I hadn't realised they'd republished it - thanks for the heads up!
E. M. Barraud worked with the Land Army near Little Eversden in Cambridgeshire. We've got a copy of her book "Set my hand upon the plough" here in the Cambridgeshire Collection.
We've got a spreadsheet of their studio card index, which is currently being checked by one of our volunteers. We've also got over 200 of their portraits on Picture Cambridgeshire - here's an example cambridgeshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd... Click on Ramsey and Muspratt on the link to see the rest
For LGBTQ+ History Month, Cambridge Central Library will be hosting the BFI on Saturday 28th February 2-3:30pm - come along to their screening and mini zine workshop. You can book your ticket on Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-quee...
A selection of photos of Arbury Court library over the years laid out on a table
It's Arbury Day today - celebrating the 60th birthday of Arbury Court library. We're here till 2pm!
I did check that nobody else had got there first. Didn't want anybody thinking I was just winging it.
A picture of Dales Brewery seen from Gwydir Street, with the large metal cup on top, roughly person sized. Now it has been removed, but the large metal DALES sign is still there.
Do you remember when Dale's Brewery still had the cup on top? Here it is in the 1960s. The brewery was founded by Frederick Dale at the British Queen pub on Histon Road in 1898 and moved into the specially built brewery in 1902.