Haddenham Data

Mike Petty's Haddenham Scrapbook

Charles Bester gives a detailed description of the village in the Lorna Delanoy archive. Much of the archive includes descriptions and references to Haddenham.

Other publications with detailed descriptions of the village include:

Rural Reflections by Valerie Bloye, 2005. Interviews with numerous peope including: William Hitch, Pam Turner, Kevin Wolstenholmes, David Goddard, Joan Wood, Phyllis Markwell, Barbara Fairchild, Joan Hamence, Jake Allsop, David Pollard, Mary Peck, Moe Summerfield, Dennis Sampford, Eric Allsop,  Trevor Ward, Terry Foster, Moira Goddard, Maureen Kerslake, Cecil Burton, Ray Cross, Sid Burgess, Edna Burgess, Joyce Foreman, Robert Norman, Janet Markwell, David Fairchild, Harold Freeman, Richard Battersby, Alan Battersby, Betty Riley, Joyce Thulbon, Kath Peacock, David Hammond, Richard Papworth, Norman Gillett, Jean Gledenning, Lorna Delanoy, Janie Gothard, Stephen Alsop, Shirley Connolly, Caroline Furlong, Erika Wedgwood, Kim Mitchell, Bernie Dennis, Freda Crofts, Richard Johnson …

Sid’s life story from 5-3-29, the biography of Sid Burgess 2020

Haddenham’s Heritage, Valerie Bloye 2004. This is largely  about the people and places associated with the Methodist church in Haddenham. It includes numerous interviews with many different ministers and members of the congregation.

Loyal Sons and True WW! WW2 Haddenham’s War Memorials, Rosemary Ann Gorman. List of victims of WWI and WWII can be found on entry Haddenham War Memorial.

Life and Memories, Ray Cross, 2012. Ray describes how he went to school in Haddenham during WWII before his parents moved to Elton. He moved back to Haddenham with his mother after the death of his father in 1949. Ray worked on the Salmons farm fro six years. He married in 1954 and carried on living in Haddenham.

1798 the Methodist preacher Thomas Pinder visited and received a very rough reception at the hands of a mob led by the local clergy. he was sheltered by the aunt of the noted attorney, Mr Serjeant Matthews and was able to move on to Histon. (See History of Methodism in Cambridge by F Tice, 1966)

Haddenham, cleaning pump engine drain 1897 (MoC18/66)

May Queen c.1925 in Hospital Sunday Parade, Haddenham.

The wagon belonged to Eliot Hugh Robinson of South Place, built by Fuller & Sons of St Ives for £18.

https://archive.org/details/HaddenhamScrapbook18971990

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Postcard sent to Miss Burton, High Street, Haddenham in 1911:

Postcard sent to Miss Burton, Haddenham, 1911.

Postcard sent to Miss Burton, Haddenham, 1911.

1951: Haddenham Ploughing Match, A Payne (MoC)

A Payne ploughing (MoC)

A Payne ploughing (MoC)

Urbs Camboritum, Haddenham

See chapter 8 of The Winter Fens, pub. 1993, by Edward Storey. There is reference to a booklet called ‘Recollections of a Country Woman, 1908-1980, by Mabel Demaine, who had spent most of her life in Haddenham.

See also chapter 12 about the 1947 floods at Haddenham.

John Burton, basket maker, High Street, Haddenham

Hepher, cheese maker, York Villa, Haddenham