High Street, Coton (Cambs Collection)Wall of pond visible in foreground next to churchyard wall. The smithy is to the right.
1870
Cambridge Chronicle 21 May 1870, ‘Coton Through The Ages’ quotes a newspaper story which probably revolved around the blacksmith’s shop in the featured photo. Frederick Robinson, fossil [coprolite] digger was committed to prison for a week with hard labour and to pay expenses, for an assault on Thomas Nash aged 70 of Coton.
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