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A black-and-white print showing a timber-framed farm building in Duxford with a tiled roof and an open-sided porch structure.

Farm building Duxford, 1926 (MoC135/57)

Duxford data

Duxford data

Duxford History Society:

https://www.duxfordhistorysociety.org

Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/DuxfordScrapbook1897To1990

A grainy, vintage monochrome photograph showing a group of people standing on a paved street in front of a brick building.

Duxford market scene, 1860, taken with small pocket camera


The following are mentioned in William Farrington’s diary:

1861 census: Duxford

Joseph Mansfield, 24, ag. lab.,

Elizabeth J[udith], 23, worker at paper mill, b Duxford

 

1861 census: Duxford

Swann Wallis, 34, carpenter, b Thriplow

Emma, 32, b Essex

William, 5, b Thriplow

Frederick, 2, b Thriplow

Henry, 2, b Thriplow


A low, concrete, hexagonal structure with wide firing slits sits in a field overgrown with tall grass and shrubs.

Pill box, World War Two, near Duxford

 

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  • world war two

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