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Kitchen at Ivy House, Willingham, (Cambridgeshire Collection)

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Life of a Boy by Thomas Dawkes of St Ives, is about a young child of remarkable proportions witnessed by Dawkes in Willingham in 1744. This account was reprinted in 1999; te original is held in the Cambridge University library.

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Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/WillinghamScrapbook1897To1990/mode/2up

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Enid Porter:

Her Cambridgeshire Customs and Foklore, p175, contains references to two inhabitants of Willingham who were considered to have magical powers.

Miss Disbury, who was still alive in 1900, was considered to be a witch with power over animals.

Jabez Few, who was living in Church Street in 1911, kept white rats which villagers called his imps. There are stories about his rats. At his death, no one could be found to live in the house.

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Rod peeling, Cole’s Yard, Willingham (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Osier processing, Cole’s Yard, Willingham (Cambs Collection)

Rod peeling involved women and children. It started in April for a month and involved the manufacture of ‘rods’ suitable for basket making.

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Willingham Passive Resisters 1905

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Willingham rec ground Jan 2024 (Elizabeth Trenchard 2024)

Willingham bowls club Jan 2024 (Elizabeth Trenchard 2024)

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The following publications have been put online by the the Old Willingham Society:

William Council School

The Fruit and Flower Industries of Cambridgeshire Willingham by D T Frost 1894

Survey and Extent of the Manor of Willingham 1251

Willingham Public Hall 1896

Spy (Harry Williamson)

Fen and Upland 2,000 Years of History

Pump House

St Mary and All Saints Church

My Village Heroes:

1914-1918

1939-1945

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