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Church Farm House, Arrington, before 1930 (photo R H Clark) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Church Farm House, Arrington

History of Church Farm House

Approximate location

Vanishing Cambridgeshire, Mike Petty: In March 1930 the Church Farm House was almost destroyed by a fire. CDN (3/3/1930): The occupants were sound asleep in the upper rooms when they were awoken by the cracking of flames and smell of smoke. The stairs soon became a mass of flames but with great presence of mind the daughter erected a ladder against the window of the bedroom in which two of her brothers were sleeping and they were enabled to escape.

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