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A view looking down railway tracks towards Isleham Station with brick buildings, platforms, and several distant figures.

Isleham Station, 1900

Isleham Station

History of Isleham Station

An 1886 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing the layout of Isleham Station with railway lines, buildings, and cattle pens.

Isleham, OS 1886

1901

Frank Sharman, 33, railway station master, b March

Jessie, 31, b Suffolk

Harold, 7, b St Ives

Claude, 6, b St Ives

Jessie, 5, b St Ives

Dorothy, 5, b St Ives

Maude, 3, b Stretham

Mary, 1, b Stretham


Ann Shepperson’s reminiscences of life in Isleham are in ‘Memory Lane’, Swavesey History Society (2004).

The family moved from Ickleton to Isleham in 1936 and he father was appointed station master in 1939. They lived at the Station House.


1939 Station Cottages

William Woodward, b 1908, railway clerk railway ARP

Mary, b 1909,

?

Janet, b 1934


In 1943 the family moved to Six Mile Bottom.

In 1948 her father was appointed Stationmaster at Swavesey.

 

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  • world war two

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