A large group of people in long skirts and hats work across an open field, with trees lining the horizon in the background.

Sawston pea picking c.1901

Sawston data

970 Salsingetune (the farm of the family of Salse)

1086 Salsiton

Hand-tinted postcard shows a large, ivy-covered house with gables, chimneys, and a stone porch set within a lush green lawn.

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

A group of men stand around and inside a vintage omnibus marked Cambridge, with a man in uniform leaning against the rear wheel.

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

Newspaper clipping about Sawston with three photographs showing a church, stone carvings, and a street scene with a stone cross.

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

A newspaper clipping showing columns of printed text and two small inset photographs of a church exterior and an interior space.

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

A clipping from the Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal dated March 15, 1933, featuring text and local photographs.

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

A printed newspaper clipping containing multiple columns of text, four black-and-white photographs, and a caption.

Old Sawston Places and Family Names

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