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

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

1915

Alfred Keeble fined 40s for driving motorcar without a licence. He was a farmer and coal merchant from Duxford and had been blind since the previous January. When he was caught the car was being steered by a girl of 11. Alfred said he would rather go to prison than pay the fine but the request was refused.

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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