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Sawston pea picking c.1901

Sawston data

Sawston data

970: Salsingetune (the farm of the family of Salse)

1086 Salsiton

Tudor House, Sawston (MoC4/4/54) location unknown

Ortona bus outside Collins’ teashop at Sawston, 1907.

Sawston Village:

http://www.sawstonhistory.org.uk

Vanishing Cambridgeshire p.159, notes that the Sawston pea-picking custom dated back to 1554 when John Huntingdon established a charity which obliged the owners of Huntingdon’s manor to sow two acres of peas ‘for the relief of the poor people.’

“Sawston as Seen,” edited by Mary Dicken and Audrey Lambart (2000)

This contains various reminiscences:

George Challis: Sawston in the 1860s and 70s

A Tyrant in Sawston about the life of Thomas Sutton Evans

Traviss Frederick Teversahm: Sawston between 1886 and 1942

Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/SawstonScrapbook1897To1990

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

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