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Great Shelford High Street 1885 OS mapGreat Shelford:
https://shelford.org/history.htm
Great Shelford Online:
https://www.greatshelford.online
Little Shelford History:
https://www.littleshelfordhistory.com
Little Shelford Online:
https://www.littleshelford.online
Mike Petty:
https://archive.org/details/ShelfordsScrapbook1897To1990
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The Great Shelford Arsonist – 1833
Contemporary Newspaper account:
John Stallan – Shelford Arsonist – 1833
Also see:
https://sites.google.com/site/greatshelfordhistory/village-stories-and-people/the-shelford-arsonist
The location of John Stallan’s home is unknown. After his execution his widow and their son were living in College Cottages, High Green, Great Shelford in 1841:
Elizabeth Stallan, 45
William Stallan, 9
Elizabeth died in 1848.
A poem believed to have been written by John Stallan lamenting his fate was sent to Capturing Cambridge in 2022 by BF, a descendant:
John Stallan poem pt1
John Stallan poem pt2
John Stallan poem pt3
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