1798 the Methodist preacher Thomas Pinder visited and received a very rough reception at the hands of a mob led by the local clergy. he was sheltered by the aunt of the noted attorney, Mr Serjeant Matthews and was able to move on to Histon. (See History of Methodism in Cambridge by F Tice, 1966)
The wagon belonged to Eliot Hugh Robinson of South Place, built by Fuller & Sons of St Ives for £18.
https://archive.org/details/HaddenhamScrapbook18971990
Postcard sent to Miss Burton, High Street, Haddenham in 1911:
See chapter 8 of The Winter Fens, pub. 1993, by Edward Storey. There is reference to a booklet called ‘Recollections of a Country Woman, 1908-1980, by Mabel Demaine, who had spent most of her life in Haddenham.
See also chapter 12 about the 1947 floods at Haddenham.
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