Boxworth Data

History of Boxworth

1829 April 17th execution announced in Cambridge Chronicle of William Osborne, convicted on highway robbery, in front of county gaol. At the Summer Assizes in 1825 he was convicted of sheep-stealing and sentenced to death but his punishment was commuted to one year’s hard labour.

See: The Boxworth, Conington and Fen Drayton Chronicle (1991)

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3 September 1909

The Boxworth policeman, whose proportions border on the gigantic, was proceeding home when he heard a mysterious knocking noise near some cottages. He discovered a wild-looking man carrying a knob stick. He wore no trousers or no coat and was clothed only in a shirt and a pair of heavy boots. Fortunately the constable knew the man: he is a horsekeeper and was calling up the other horsekeepers, who at this time of year have to get up early. Also other interesting notes on harvesting. CWN 09 09 03 — Mike Petty, Boxworth Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, p. 3.

8 July 1910

There has been an exceptionally large attendance of show people at Boxworth feast, no less than 17 vans putting in an appearance. A roundabout, shooting gallery, cocoanut shies, stalls etc have all been well patronised. One inhabitant residing near the feast grounds cut his hedge so neatly and level that the proprietor of the roundabout asked permission to use it as a table on which to place cockshy bottles. The villagers and their friends have had a happy time, notwithstanding the unsettled weather. 10 07 08g — Mike Petty, Boxworth Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, p. 3.

16 January 1914

Next Please. A man at Boxworth last week was digging in his garden by moonlight, and had found that light from the moon was hardly bright enough for his : requirements. He called to his wife to bring his spectacles. When he had finished his work he found his wife had sent him the wrong pair, those which he had been wearing having no glasses in them. 14 01 16 — Mike Petty, Boxworth Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, p. 4.