North End, Bassingbourn

History of North End, Bassingbourn

Exact locations as yet unknown

1905 03 07
Janet Mundy, the Bassingbourn district nurse appeared in court charged with riding a bicycle on the footpath. PC Frost said she told him ‘What am I to do. I can’t get about with the roads in such a state’. Next day he saw her again and he had received numerous complaints about her. The Rev Clarkson said she was a district nurse and had to ride a great deal. Sometimes the roads offered a choice of riding over unbroken stones or deep ruts so she simply took to the path. If she were acting in a private capacity it would be different. She was fined 2s.6d and the Chairman said that if the offence were repeated the full penalty would be inflicted. 05 03 07

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1911

Florence Maude Young, 33, District Nurse, b Bedford

Selina Sinclair Ablett, 16, servant, b Wimpole

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1939 Chapel Yard, North End

Harry Steeves Stacey (1916 – 2010), roadman

Sylvia M, b 1916

Malcolm S, b 1936

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1942 – 1945

Private Harry Steeves Stacey: Japanese prisoner of war

For more information about Pte Reginald Fortune see Sue Chandler’s book: The Fall of Singapore 1942: Four Men from Bassingbourn

Chandler, Sue 2021.  bassabooks.   ISBN 978-0-9926477-2-8   £10. 84 pages, A4 sized and with lots of black & white Illustrations. Contact bassabooks@btinternet.com