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A large group of formally dressed men and women standing and sitting in front of a brick building, several holding bouquets.

Wedding at Sutton, 1903

Sutton data

Sutton Data

Three women in long dark dresses stand outside a two-story brick shop covered in various Cadbury and Reckitt's Blue signs.

Frank Blake’s general store at Sutton c.1910 (MoC379/75) location unknown

A black and white photograph shows a large group of people walking down a street, including men in suits, children, and a horse.

Sutton hospital parade, 1920 (Cambs Collection)

Two open-top cars decorated with British flags drive along a street filled with children and adults in early 20th-century dress.

Peace Day, 1920, Sutton

Two people stand on a flooded road near a brick house, with one holding an umbrella while straddling a bicycle.

1947 floods, Sutton (Cambs Collection)

A steam engine pulls two carts loaded with sacks through flooded fields, with men standing among the cargo and bare trees.

Sutton fields, steam engine removing crops

A black-and-white postcard view of Sutton, Ely, showing a street winding between dense houses toward a flat, distant horizon.

Sutton

A two-story brick building sits beside a calm river, with outdoor tables on a lawn and a small boat moored at the riverbank.

Clayhithe Bridge Hotel c1900

Postcard to Miss Russell, Sutton

The back of a postcard document with handwritten cursive ink addressed to Miss Russell in Sutton, Ely, Cambs.

Clayhithe Bridge Hotel c1900

Mike Petty’s Scrapbook

https://archive.org/details/SuttonScrapbook

Sutton (16)

Sources

  • Cambridgeshire Collection
  • Museum of Cambridge
  • Photographs
  • Postcard

Projects

  • Sutton

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