This event has been postponed until next year - date not yet available - Rachel Aucott and Jim Smith present the story of this Cambridge suburb and how they involved their community in their research, which is the foundation of a website, a local history trail and an exhibition at the Museum

 They will describe how a wooden windmill burned down in 1855 but was rebuilt in brick and stood until 1957. And you’ll hear about the farm that was also a laundry and which also nearly burned down, about a brickworks, a slaughterhouse, and how the streets developed between 1912 and the Second World War.

 There will be a two grocers, a missionary, a dentist, several millers, a brewer, a tailor, a nurseryman, two butchers, laundresses, a dairyman, a haymaker (who was also a publican), the man who lacquered the Cambridge Instrument Company’s instruments, numerous builders, a timber merchant, and a Robey Portable Steam Engine.

The event is run by Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Society and will take place in the the Pye Building. Free to members of CIAS and £3 for others - pay at door.

Photograph credits

Mill picture: The Mills Archive

Farm picture: The Leys School