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LOOKING BACK
STORIES

Introduction

Each evening since March 1997 I have compiled a ‘Looking Back’ column in the Cambridge Evening News in which I feature intresting snippets from issues of the Cambridge News of 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. I have sought out unusual items relating to villages and areas of Cambridge not usually featured

These stories are from the papers of 1897-1908, 1922-1933, 1947-1957 and 1972-1983.

The dates given are those on which the article appeared in my columns between 1997 and 2007 and not the exact date that the original paper carried them. I have notes of precise dates and pages. Later entries include the date of the original story - thus 33 01 29 means 29th January 1933

I can supply actual copies of many of these articles – please contact me.

The newspapers are held in the Cambridgeshire Collection together with other Cambridge titles back to 1762. They have a variety of indexes including a record of stories for every village in Cambridgeshire between 1770-1900 and newspaper cuttings files on 750 topics from 1958 to date. I initiated much of the indexing and have many indexes of my own. Please feel free to contact me for advice and assistance.

For more details of newspapers and other sources for Cambridgeshire history see my website www.cambridgeshirehistory.com/MikePetty

This index was produced as a working part of my personal research resources and would benefit by editing. If you can make any of it work for you I am delighted. But remember you should always check everything! An acknowledgement to ‘Mike Petty’s Cambridgeshire News Index’ and a copy of your work would be welcome.

Searching the stories
These stories can be searched by any keyword. Later stories may have various numbers below them. Those such as ‘c.34.6’ are part of a separate classified sequence – contact me if you are doing subject searches. There si also a complete downloable PDF file so you can browse at your leisure (7mb in size)

 

Day:

Enter a 2 digit day

Month:

Enter a month in full, e.g. August

Year:

Enter a year, valid years are four digits

Weekday:

Weekdays only apply to 1972, enter in full e.g. Tuesday

Headline:

Any word contaned in the headline although many stories don't have a headline here

Story:

Enter any word or words to find in the story

Reference:

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Enter any or all of the boxes, leave them blank if you don't care about the contents, then press

Compilations
I have already produced ‘Looking Back’ compilations for a number of topics. If any of these are of assistance let me know.

ABINGTON
AGRICULTURE 1922-1930
ALDRETH
AMBULANCE # c.21.1
AMERICA # EMIGRATION
ARMISTICE # WAR MEMORIAL # c.45
AUCKLAND ROAD CIRCUS OF VARITIES # c.76
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION / R.A.C. # c.26.48
AVIATION # BALLOOONS # c.26.1
BALSHAM
BARTON – Hoops pub
BLUNTISHAM
BOL, Jerry
BONFIRE NIGHT # FAWKES # RAG
BOTTISHAM
BOURN
BRICKS # c.23
BROOKLANDS AVENUE
BURROUGH GREEN
BURWELL
CHESTERFORDS
CHRIST’S LANE
CHRIST’S PIECES
CINEMAS # c.76.9
CIVIC RESTAURANT # c.27.4
CLAYHITHE
COLDHAM’S LANE
CORN EXCHANGE
COTTENHAM
CYCLES – selection # c.26.485
DANCE # c.69
DOWNHAM
DOWNING COLLEGE – selection
ELEPHANTS # CIRCUS
ELSWORTH
ELTISLEY
EVERSDEN
FESTIVAL THEATRE # c.76
FORDHAM
FULBOURN (part)
GAMLINGAY
Gardening # c.18
GAS # c.24.4
GHOST, HAUNT
GRANSDEN, Gt & Lt – pam 343
GRUNTY FEN
GYPSIES
HADDENHAM
HARDWICK
HARSTON
HASLINGFIELD
HEMINGFORD GREY AND HEMINGFORD ABBOTS
HEYDON & CHISHILL
HISTON ROAD
ICKLETON
ISLEHAM (Edwardian)
JESUS GREEN # c.32.3
KING STREET
LIGHTNING # c.12
LINTON 1901-1905
LITLINGTON
LONGSTANTON
LONGSTOWE
MAMMOTH SHOW
MANEA – all My Documents
MELBOURN
MELDRETH
MIDSUMMER & STOURBRIDGE FAIR # c.27.3
MIDSUMMER COMMON / FAIR (century of News) # c.27.3 # c.32.3
MOCK FUNERALS # c.36.9 # RAG
MOTORING selection to 1909 # c.26.48
NEEDINGWORTH
NEWMARKET 1923
NIGHT CLIMBING # c.39

 OPIUM # c.21.1
PASSIVE RESISTERS # c.36 # c.82.03
PEAS HILL
POLICE HOUSES
RAMPTON
RAMSEY with ABBOTS RIPTON, COLNE, EARITH, KINGS RIPTON, PIDLEY, SOMERSHAM, UPWOOD, WARBOYS, WOODHURST
RATS # c.19
RIDGEON
RIVER CAM
RIVER OUSE
ROTARY
ST ANDREW’S STREET
ST BARNABAS CHURCH # c.83.01
ST IVES – 1997 stories # FLOODS 1947
ST IVES 1898-1948 selection plus others not edited
SAYLE
SHERIFFS
SIX MILE BOTTOM
SLEAFORD STREET
SMOKING, TOBACCO, CIGAR
SNAILWELL
SOHAM (stories carried in 2000)
SPEEDWAY # c.38 : motorcycle racing
STURTON
SUFFRAGE # WOMEN
SUTTON GAULT
SWAFFHAM BULBECK
TELEVISION, WIRELESS # c.27.8
THRIPLOW
TREACLE MINES # FEN DITTON
UNEMPLOYMENT # c.32.1 (Century of Daily News stories)
UPWARE
WEDDINGS, MARRIAGES
WEST WICKHAM
WEST WRATTING
WHEELER STREET
WHIPPET AND GREYHOUND RACING # c.38 # DOG
WICKEN
WILBURTON, GRUNTY FEN & TWENTYPENCE
WIMPOLE HALL AMERICAN HOSPITAL # c.21.4
WINDMILLS
WITCH, WITCHES, WITCHCRAFT
WOODEN SPOONS # c.39
WORKHOUSE # c.32.9
YELLING

M.J. Petty MBE, MA, ALA,
13a Reads Street, Stretham,
Ely, Cambs. CB6 3JT
 phone 01353 648106  
E-mail mikepetty@tiscali.co.uk

April 2009


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