AERIAL
ALDERS FARM
PHOTO, 1950 TO MID-1970s
Colour aerial photo showing Alders farm buildings, taken from the south - south-west. Date uncertain, between 1950 and mid-1970s.
AREA AROUND THE CROSS & VIEW SOUTH-EAST
CROSS KEYS; WEST ST 1-17; YARD BEHIND; CHURCH
DATED TO C1955
Aerial of area around the Cross, showing the Cross Keys & yard, south side of the narrow part of West Street, with barn and farmyard behind houses nos 1 to 15, church and churchyard behind. Dated to around 1955 (reason uncertain.)
BRIDGE STREET
AREA AROUND FORMER BOULDS' GARAGE
Aerial photo of Bridge Street at the bridge showing 'Tudor House', house opposite and uphill, former Bould's garage site, house beside bridge (where former Willowbrook houses stood until early 1960s) . Taken from the south-east..
FORMER BOULDS' GARAGE & BRIDGE HOUSE
Aerial photo of Bridge Street at the bridge showing 'Tudor House', adjacent former Bould's garage site and Bridge House c1958. Taken from the south.
F & A GEORGE, BLATHERWYCKE FARM
PHOTO, 1950 TO MID-1970s
Colour aerial photo showing farmhouse, stockyard with Friesian cattle, pigs in field down to lakeside, Taken from the N-NW. Date uncertain, between 1950 and mid-1970s.
SUMMER 1998
W/E, 50-14 WEST ST; S/N, 1 CHURCH WK - KINGSM
Colour aerial shot, dd to summer 1998, showing part Wood Rd, Part West St, Fineshade Close & part Church Walk. In build are houses on former Glebe Farm paddock, Wood Rd. Pantiled former wood-turner's workshop on Pytchle, bottom right of photo. 4455.1
WW2 AIRFIELD; NASSINGTON IRONSTONE QUARRY
1946
Aerial from Stamford Rd E across WW2 airfield & Nassington iron-stone quarry to Wansford; captions & key added from information supplied.
APETHORPE
ELECTRICITY GENERATION
ENGINE HOUSE
G Sansom (senior), Electrical Engineer at Apethorpe Hall in the early 1900s, standing in the electrical generation engine house there.
PEOPLE
GROUP OF ESTATE WORKERS
Apethorpe estate workers, date uncertain but believed c1900 - 1910.
VILLAGE VIEWS
4 VIEWS, POSTCARDS 1930s
4 pc views in Apethorpe village, printed for W Hakes general store in High Street, King's Cliffe.
ARCHAEOLOGY
IRON & WOOD POSS ETHNOGRAPHIC CEREMONIAL ITEM
DUG FROM GARDEN 19 WEST ST, 1984
One of two similar items dug up in garden at 19 West St (close to wall onto Church Walk) in 1984, from underneath roots of a lilac bush. Identified by Leics Museum as 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
One of two similar items dug up in garden at 19 West St (close to wall onto Church Walk) in 1984, from underneath roots of a lilac bush. Identified by Leics Museum as 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
IRON AND WOOD POSSIBLE ETHNOGRAPHIC CEREMONIA
DUG FROM GARDEN 19 WEST ST, 1984
NOTE FROM LEICESTER MUSEUM RE ITEMS, 1984
Initial report by Leics Museum Keeper re identification request about two items dug up in garden at 19 West St in 1984 (items 4457 & 4458). Suggested 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
POTTERY FRAGMENT
MEDIAEVAL
Fragment of pottery, pale terracotta in colour; approx 7cm x 7cm. Part of neck of jar or urn; found near KC wartime airfield memorial, south of King's Cliffe-Wansford road. Categorised as medieval.
ROMANO-BRITISH
Fragment of pottery, grey in colour, slightly dished in shape; wedge-shaped measuring 7cm x 7cm (wide end)/3cm (narrow end) x 1cm thick; found near KC wartime airfield memorial, south of King's Cliffe-Wansford road. Categorised as Roman/Romano-British.
TUNIC BUTTON, LATE 17TH-CENTURY
39 WEST STREET
Handmade tunic button with integral loop for stitching to garment. Made of bronze, believed late 17th-Century, with incised decoration in William and Mary style. Photo shows front of button.
YARWELL AND SURROUNDS INCL KC
Full page from St Mercury of 22 December 1950, 'Yarwell's Historic Backgroiund' but including several refs to King's Ciffe. Mrs Lucy Adela Lock's photo & caption.
ARCHITECTURE
PBORO SOCIETY TOUR OF KC, JUNE 1955
REPORT OF
Extracts from Peterborough Society's Annual Report for 1955, reporting on their tour of King's Cliffe village on 28th June 1955. 'Tudor House', Bridge St featured on front cover; dovecote at Manor Hse on p15.
ART & CRAFT
BASKET MAKING
SUE KIRK
Handbill advertising Willow Weaving classes throughout 2015 offered by King's Cliffe-based willow weaver Sue Kirk. Some classes held at King's Cliffe Village Hall, others at Fotheringay Village Hall.
DELLOW, DENIS ARTIST
VIEW UP MALTINGS LANE
Watercolour painting of Maltings Lane seen from Church Walk, with red kite overhead. Painted by late Denis Dellow.
ARTEFACT
'AQUA' GLASS BOTTLE, 'MELLOR & CO, WORCESTER'
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle (one of three the same) dated c1910, certainly between 1874 and 1920; 20cm H, embossed 'Mellor & Co, Worcester'. Bottle lips applied by hand until 1920; bottle mould 'seam' stops before lip. Maker's mark 'N9' on underside.
Bottle (one of three the same) dated c1910, certainly between 1874 and 1920; 20cm H, embossed 'Mellor & Co, Worcester'. Bottle lips applied by hand until 1920; bottle mould 'seam' stops before lip. Maker's mark 'N9' on underside.
Bottle (one of three the same; this one heaviest) dated c1910, certainly between 1874 and 1920; 20cm H, embossed 'Mellor & Co, Worcester'. Bottle lips applied by hand until 1920; bottle mould 'seam' stops before lip. Maker's mark 'N9' on underside.
'AQUA' GREEN GLASS BOTTLE, 'CATHEDRAL BRAND'
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle 9.5cm H, c1890s/1900s embossed 'Cathedral Brand'. Has a jagged top edge on neck, not broken but intentionally left as a 'burst lip' for better grip of cork stopper.
'BULLFINCH' GAS MANTLE
HOUSEHOLD USE
Bullfinch mantle no 1617, unused and in its promotional paper packet; for use with Bullfinch Handilight. 'Genuine British' made by Bullfinch Gas Equipment Ltd, Birmingham.
'GOLDEN' DAILY MAIL, 31ST DECEMBER 1900
COMMEMORATIVE NEWSPAPER EDITION
Newspaper, titled 'Golden Extra Daily Mail' published Monday 31 December 1900 to commemorate 'dawn of the the 20th century in 63rd year of Qn Victoria'. 8-sides printed in gold, front & back pages in poor condition, only front page scanned.
'SUNNY SPREAD' YEATMAN & CO GLASS JHAR
FROM OLD CO-OP SHOP, WEST ST
Moulded glass jar, no cap, with name 'Yeatman & Co Ltd' embossed on the underside. Jar for 'Sunny Spread'.
'ZEPHYR' BICYCLE LAMP, early 1900s
AS USED ON POLICEMEN'S BICYCLES
'Zephyr' oil lamp for bicycles, manufactured by Powell & Hanmer, Birmingham, early 1900s. Stands 135mm high, with glass magnifying lens and glass side 'jewels' in red and green. Decorative fitting to attach to shoe on bicycle.
AIR RAID WARDEN SIGN
USED IN WW2
Cast metal plate embossed "Air Raid Warden", a sign to be screwed on the door of the Wardens' post during WW2. Plate measures 8.75" wide x 1.5" high. Cast in light-weight alloy, painted black around rim.
ARCHAEOLOGY
BONE SPOON
Small bone/horn spoon approx 3" long, bowl 1" long x .75" across; bowl stained and end of handle broken off. Found in the early 1960s at 55/57 West St under a path from West Street which ran between the two original cottages. Spoon of unknown age.
POTTERY MUG
Fragment of pottery mug printed with Queen Victoria's image in oval, 'God bless our Queen' around base of oval & 'Mon dro(it)' visible on scroll to right.
AUTOGRAPH BOOK, IRENE BAILEY
DRAWINGS ETC BY WW1 BELGIAN REFUGESS IN KC
Irene Bailey's autograph book with Belgian refugees & others' contributions, dated between 1914 & 1920. Many drawings, some by Belgian refugees billeted in 'Rockbourne', King's Cliffe in 1914 and 1915, including names.
BAILEY FAMILY MEMORIAL VASE, 1957
Silver-plated cone-shaped vase inscribed "In memory of Bailey family, 1957". From the Congregational Chapel, West Street.
BAKER'S DELIVERY BASKET
Baker's delivery basket, sturdily-made from willow and ratan cane, two wooden slats or 'clogs' fixed to the underside. Brand name 'HOVIS' stencilled both ends. From the West Street bakery, well-used and smelling of baking! Photos taken September 2016.
BOOK
'BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES'
POEMS BY DOROTHY A BRICE
Book of poems for children, 'Buttercups and Daisies' published by Arthur H Stockwell Ltd, 1956, price 8s 6d. Poems written by Miss Dorothy A Brice; illustrated by Helen Lake. Yellow hard-back, green paper jacket: new condition. Jacket & cover scanned.
'FLESH & FLOWERS' POEMS BY ANNE LEWIS-SMITH
PUBLISHED BY MITRE PRESS 1967.
Hardback, A5 volume of poems by Anne Lewis-Smith, former resident of Manor Hse, King's Cliffe. Dust-jacket, title page and Contents scanned. Book itself in good condition; dust-jacket stained along spine & some tears along edges.
POEMS BY ALAN SEEGER
Hardback book 'Poems by Alan Seeger' publ Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917. Alan Seeger a young poet killed in 1916 whilst fighting in France. Inscribed 'Elizabeth F H Hallam, given to me by M Chavalier, Shanghai China 19/5/6' (sic).
BOOK, HAND- MADE BY PUPIL AT KC ENDOWED SCHOO
Hardback A5 size book, covers decorated with potato printing, made entirely by hand at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
BOOT HOOK
Boot hook with characteristic flat turn on the hook, a knob at the tip and a turned wooden handle. Overall length 8 inches (20 cm).
BOX OF 3 SPALDING'S WOOD DARTS
BELONGED TO HARRY BROUGHTON
Three darts, body of wood with lead weight and real feather flights coloured brown and pink. In original cardboard box, 'Spalding's Special Wood Dart' manu at 86a Pitt St, Norwich. Photographed.
BP LAMP OILS ENAMELLED SIGN
FROM A HARDWARE SHOP IN KC?
Blue, white and yellow enamelled sign, double-sided with 2" right-angle fixing strip on one side. 18" W by 12" H. 'White May' & 'Royal Standard' BP lamp oils. Enamel considerably damaged. Date uncertain but poss 1910-1930 era .
BRASS CARTWHEEL HUB-CAPS
STOKES & SON
Two brass cartwheel hub-caps engraved 'Stokes and Son, King's Cliffe: Builders'. The cart and wheel-wright works were founded in Park Street, King's Cliffe in 1860.
BROWN GLASS BOTTLE, 'BRANSON LTD, COFFEE EXTR
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle dated c1910, certainly before1920, embossed 'Branson Ltd' one side, 'Coffee Extract' the other. 18cm H. Bottle lips applied by hand until 1920; bottle mould 'seam' stops before lip. Maker's mark on underside, nos 15 and 99 & possible anchor betw.
CAST IRON WALL HANGING BRACKET
Cast-iron fixing, made to be screwed to a wall or fence: moulded with a ring into which the hook or handle of an unknown object could be inserted from above. Corroded.
CAST-IRON SHIELDS BEARING NUMBERS (PURPOSE UN
FOUND IN ATTIC OF KC ENDOWED SCHOOL IN PARK S
…… cast-iron shields measuring 6.2cm high x 7.5cm wide, each with a number on the front; screw-holes and recess on back, possibly to fit a post or similar. Originally blue ground, white numbers, but most traces of colour gone. Purpose unknown.
CO-OP CLUB CARD
MRS ELLEN BEEDHAM
Peterborough Co-operative Society Ltd Club Stamp card belonging to Mrs Ellen Beedham, date uncertain between 1950 and 1991.
COINS AND TOKEN
DUG UP BEHIND 32 PARK ST, 1960s
Five coins and token (item 4211) dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. Penny dated 1967 (very corroded); half-penny dated 1861 (very worn; penny dated 186? (worn smooth); two other corroded and unidentifable. Token see 4211.
COLEMAN ART SILK GAS MANTLE
HOUSEHOLD USE
Coleman art silk hi-power mantle no 999, made by Coleman Lamp & Stove Co Ltd, Toronto, Canada; unused and in its promotional paper packet.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL PRIZE BK,
"CHILD'S OWN BOOK OF PRAYERS AND HYMNS"
Book 'Child's Own Book of Prayers and Hymns" by S V Benson, presented in 1958 'from the Congregational Sunday School'. Front cover & book plate have been scanned.
"FAIRIES OF THE TREES",
Book 'Fairies of the Trees' publ Blackie & Son Ltd, presented in March 1953 for regular attendance and good conduct . Title page & book plate written by teacher, Mrs Haines, have been scanned.
CROSS
DUG UPBEHIND 32 PARK ST, 1960s
Crucifix, 5cm x 3.5cm, with ring as pendant, dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. Inscription above head & shoulders of Christ: 'MIZPAH' (watchtower). Inscription on cross: 'The Lord watch between thee and me when we are absent one from another'.
CRUCIFIX
DUG UP BEHIND 32 PARK ST, 1960s
Crucifix, 7.5cm x 3.5cm, with ring as pendant, dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. No inscription. Appears to have been used for devotions - the figure of Christ is worn smooth.
CWS 'FAMILY FARE' COOKBOOK PUBL 1950S
BOUGHT AT KC CO-OP SHOP
96-page recipe book "recommended by famous TV Cookery expert Jacqueline Rose". Colour & line illus. No publication date but c1955. CWS ingredients promoted in recipes. Card cover, front creased, spine worn & torn at top, otherwise in good condition.
DELEGATE BADGES FOR NORTHANTS WI MEETING
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Delegate badges, printed with Tudor rose and 'Northamptonshire WI', handwritten with 'President', 'Secretary', and 'Treasurer' for KC officer attending a County-level meeting. Cardboard with safety pin fixing. Date not known.
EARLY ELECTRIC FLAT IRON USED AT KC ENDOWED S
Flat iron with two metal posts with slots for electric wires. Iron weighs just over 8lbs & meausre 19cm x 9.5cm. Handle encased in wood.
EARTHENWARE DRAIN PLUG
FROM STABLES AT KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE
Two photographs of glazed earthenware drain plug from old stables at Kingscliffe House. Artefact also held.
EMBROIDERED WI TABLECLOTH
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
White tablecloth, embroidered in one corner with Women's Institute emblem surrounded by a wreath of foliage. Set of eleven photos, of which three have been scanned.
EMPTY PACKET OF 10 'PARK DRIVE' CIGARETTES
FOUND AT FORMER WHEATSHEAF INN, SEPT 2018
Empty cardboard packet for 10 Park Drive cigarattes (by Gallaher's of London and Belfast). Packet in worn state, lettering on front and one side almost obliterated. Date unknown but Gallaher's made Park Drive from 1902 and Belfast factory closed 1988.
FLAT IRON USED AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Flat iron embossed '8 700 K', found in attic at KC Endowed School in Park Street, January 2017. Used there in the past. Iron now rather corroded.
GLAZED STONEWARE BOTTLE
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Stoneware bottle, cream-coloured glaze, 11.5cm H; one of two identical items found in late Victorian midden in back left corner of yard, now paved hard-standing, at front of 19 West Street. See group photo of bottles and jars.
Stoneware bottle, cream-coloured glaze, 11.5cm H; one of two identical items found in late Victorian midden in back left corner of yard, now paved hard-standing, at front of 19 West Street. See group photo of bottles and jars.
HALF-GALLON BEER FLAGON, C1895
L H DIXON, GOLDEN BALL INN, KC
Image of a half-gallon beer flagon made for and embossed 'L H Dixon, Golden Ball Inn, Kings Cliffe'. Made by Lumley & Co, a London pottery, c1895.
HALF-PINT MILK BOTTLE
G WARD, HILL FARM SCRAPTOFT
Clear glass half-pint milk bottle, no cap, Printed in red 'G Ward, Hill Farm, Scraptoft' (near Thurnby, outskirts of Leicester). Date of bottle unknown.
HAND-PAINTED CHRISTMAS CARD, 1911
MISS MARY HOWES DENNIS
Christmas card for 1911, hand-painted by Miss Mary Howes Dennis (b 1841, d 1916), an accomplished artist. 'Park Villa', Bridge Street (now 'The Walnuts', was her family home. The card was addressed to Miss Annie Hawkes, also of King's Cliffe. .
HOOPS, FOUND IN KC ENDOWED SCHOOL PARK ST ATT
Hoops found in the attics of KC Endowed School in Park Street in February 2017; three plywood (55.5cm diameter, 1.5cm thick ply) and one bamboo (50cm dia). Photographed against garden wall at 40 West Street.
ICE BLUE GLASS MEDICINE BOTTLE, EMBOSSED MEAS
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Medicine bottle 17cm H, c1880s with embossed lines on one face for dosage measures; 'flared lip' on bottle. No markings as intended for use by chemists/druggists/doctors in selling or dispensing their own medicines. Dried cork still inside bottle.
ICE SKATES
BAILEY, ALBERT ROBINSON
Pair of ice-skates: wooden base with nails to grip sole of shoe to which applied; leather straps, paper name label stuck on one skate.
INK BOTTLES
LAW & HUTCHESON CHARITY BUILDINGS ON BRIDGE S
Small glass bottle, probably for ink, 5cm high, 4.5cm diameter, feint traces of label lettering. Dried up cork stopper, loose. Dried mud, not cleaned.
LAW & HUTCHESON CHARITY SCHOOLS, BRIDGE ST
Small glass bottle, probably for ink, 6cm high, 5cm diameter, moulded shoulders. Traces of label, no wording visible. Cork stopper inside. Dried mud, not cleaned.
IRON & WOOD POSS ETHNOGRAPHIC CEREMONIAL ITEM
DUG FROM GARDEN 19 WEST ST, 1984
One of two similar items dug up in garden at 19 West St (close to wall onto Church Walk) in 1984, from underneath roots of a lilac bush. Identified by Leics Museum as 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
One of two similar items dug up in garden at 19 West St (close to wall onto Church Walk) in 1984, from underneath roots of a lilac bush. Identified by Leics Museum as 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
IRON AND WOOD POSS ETHNOGRAPHIC CEREMONIAL AX
DUG FROM GARDEN 19 WEST ST, 1984
NOTE FROM LEICESTER MUSEUM RE ITEMS, 1984
Initial report by Leics Museum Keeper re identification request about two items dug up in garden at 19 West St in 1984 (items 4457 & 4458). Suggested 'ethnographic items, possibly ceremonial axes'. Further investigation ongoing 2017.
J & R CHAPMAN AXLE HUB-CAP
Brass axle hub-cap with internal screwthread; nine-sided outer rim; embossed 'J & R Chapman, Builders, King's Cliffe'. Used condition.
Brass axle hub-cap, internal screwthread; inside dia 2.75"; 8-sided outer rim; 'J & R Chapman, Builders, Kingscliffe' on face-plate; no decoration. Initials NH cut into underside rim; 3 small dots and the number 04 embossed in outside. Used condition.
KC & DIST NURSING ASSOC
COLLECTOR'S BOOK FOR SUBS
Collectors' book for KC Nursing Assoc members' subscriptions: kept by Mrs Harker, then Mrs Hercock for the years 1939 to 1948.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL WALL HANGING 'OUR SCHOOL',
Wall hanging made by Sue Rowland working with children from KC Endowed School, June 2011. Images by children show different features in the school and school gardens, and aspects of school life. Measures 200 high x 1.10 wide.
KSR REFRACTORIES SACK
White polyethylene sack made for KSR International Ltd, whose KC operation was on the Wansford road.
LEATHER ARMBAND INSIGNIA
KC FIRE BRIGADE
King's Cliffe Fire Brigade shield-shaped leather arm band with brass insignia 'KCFB', embossed with no 2. One strap missing, the other broken short. 'Armband badges' bought in 1894.
(misc)
Leather armband with brass insignia KCFB, embossed with no 14, both straps complete. Purchased by Fire Brigade committee in 1894.
LYONS CAKES ENAMELLED SIGN
FROM SHOP AT NO1 WEST ST
Blue and yellow enamelled sign, double-sided with 2" right-angle fixing strip on one side. 11.5" W by 15.5" H at centre point, tapering to 11.75" at each side. Enamel considerably damaged. Date uncertain but visible in photo from 1968.
MALTINGS FLOOR TILE
EAGLE LANE MALTINGS
Terracotta maltings floor tile from the former maltings down Eagle Lane. Tile approx 8" square, 1.75" thick, with holes 1" diameter x 1.5" deep in honeycomb pattern. Each hole end with tile surface perforated by cluster of 7 small holes.
METAL SCOREBOARD, 'BLENDED VIRGINIA'
FROM VILLAGE PUB OR CLUB?
Metal scoreboard, 16" x 24", black with white painted lines dividing into two columns; headed 'Blended Virginia'. Somewhat battered condition and bottom edge bent up. Date uncertain but poss early 20th century.
MORTAR HOD & 'SCRAPER'
FROM WILLIAM SHARPE'S FORMER WORKSHOP
Wooden hod, with two sides and a base forming a corner. Fitted with a strong metal chain and hook to attach hod to slater's roof ladder. Associated wooden 'scraper', assumed to be for pushing up the mortar in the hod.
NEEDLEWORK BAG MADE BY PUPIL AT KC ENDOWED SC
Needlework bag measuring …… 'D Sharpe' embroidered on flap.
OVERMANTEL MIRROR, A R BAILEY
WEDDING GIFT, 1906
Set of photos of, and notes about, oak over-mantel mirror, fitted with brass plaque, presented to Albert Robinson Bailey by King's Cliffe Cricket Club upon his marriage in April 1906.
P.O.SAVINGS MONEY BOX
EARLY 1900S
Post Office Savings Bank secure money box, 3,5"w x 2"d x 2.5"h with oval ends; engraved 'GR'; no 113661 on carrying handle. Split ring with 3 keys attached with original string. Lock in underside.
PAPILLON BEER BOTTLE
PAPILLON BREWERY, WEST ST, C1900
1-pint beer bottle moulded in green glass with brewery details: "Papillon Malt and Hops only, King's Cliffe".
PLAIN GLASS BOTTLE
FOUND AT FORMER WHEATSHEAF INN, SEPT 2018
Prescription bottle, clear glass with feint green colour; 4" high to shoulder, 1.5 " deep; flat-sided with sloping shoulders and neck approx 1", rim damaged. Hexagon embossed on underside with letters possibly 'V C Co'. Age unknown.
POSTMAN'S HAT
Royal Mail peaked baseball-type cap, issued to the postman in King's Cliffe c2003.
QE II SILVER JUBILEE, 1977
PRINTED PAPER NAPKIN
Paper napkin produced for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
QEII CORONATION MUG
ADAMIX CLAY
Commemorative mug for QE II coronation 2 June 1953, made by T G Green & Co Ltd using silica clay quarried in King's Cliffe.
QEII DIAMOND JUBILEE
COMMEMORATIVE MUG
Commemorative mug produced for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012; inscribed "Presented by Kings Cliffe Parish Council to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2012'.
Commemorative mug to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in June 2012. Official diamond jubilee image, crest & flags on one side; 'Presented by King's Cliffe Parish Council ...' on other side.
QEII SILVER JUBILEE CARRIER BAG
Plastic carrier bag printed with Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee flag and emblems, designs scanned from front and back of bag.
RAFIA AND FABRIC BAG, HAND- MADE BY PUPIL AT
Bag with circular base made of woven rafia and a fabric top with draw-strings. Made entirely by hand at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
RAIL TICKET
KC TO PETERBOROUGH, 1961
Return half of child's 2nd Class half-day excursion ticket East Peterborough to King's Cliffe, issued Sat 6 May 1961.
RAILWAY LAMP
Railway lamp, black, cylindrical: height overall 30cm. Base no LMS D69652, handle fitting no LMS D69677. Age uncertain, but from King's Cliffe station site, operating between 1879 and 1968.
RAILWAY SIGNALBOX TELEPHONE BOARD
FROM KC STATION SITE
Wooden board (45.5cm x 76.2cm x 24cm) mounted with 3 wooden boxes containing telephone 'works', each with black Bakelite handset hung on external metal hook. 2 with instructions labels. GEC box post-1921, Std Tel & Cables box post-1925. Original wiring.
RAILWAY SPANNER, LMS
Heavy steel spanner, 32.5cm long, measurment inside head 2.5cm. Embossed 'LMS' (London Midland & Scottish Railway and number 3/4 just below head.
RECKONING COUNTER
DUG UP BEHIND 32 PARK ST, 1960s
Reckoning counter made in brass, 2.1cm diameter, embossed both sides, bent across centre and corroded. Christian inscription in German around central designs on recto & verso, only partially legible. Undated.
SAMPLER
ALLICE LEWIS, 1817
Photo of sampler worked by Allice Lewis, aged 14 and dated 1817. Text difficult to read above, birds and animals below.
MONCK, MARY ELIZABETH, 1895
3 photos of sampler by 'Mary Elizabeth Monck, aged 13, King's Cliffe School', framed and hung in KC Rectory. Letter 'i' has been missed out of one line of alphabet. Date by ref to Census 1891.
SAMPLER BY ANNIE GRACE BURROWS, 1885
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Sampler worked by Annie Grace Burrows aged 12 (in 1885) whilst at King's Cliffe Endowed School. Some wool colours faded. Framed & glazed: wooden frame, (possibly elm?), measures 73cm by 68cm overall. Photos taken.
SAMPLER BY NICHOLLS, MARY ANN , 1884
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Sampler worked by Mary Ann Nicholls aged 11 in 1884 at KC Endowed School. Framed & glazed, lower side of frame has some damage. 2 handwritten labels on back with details. Letter 'I' missing from top row, as in other samplers worked at the school.
SAMPLER BY ROSE ELLEN SKINNER, 1884
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Photo of sampler worked by Rose Ellen Skinner in 1884 at King's Cliffe Endowed School when she was aged 12. The letter 'I' is missing from the top row: a mistake repeated in other samplers worked at the school: possibly an error in a template?
SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATIVE MUG
MADE BY GILL MEADOWS, KC POTTER
Mug made in King's Cliffe to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Transfer print design with the Queen's head surrounded by a garland & 'Silver Jubilee 1952 - 77, King's Cliffe'.
SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATIVE PLATE, 1977
MADE BY GILL MEADOWS, KC POTTER
Commemorative plate for Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, 1977. 9.5" diameter, glaze is grey with small charcoal area. Transfer print as for mug, item 1824.
SILVER W.I. TEASPOON
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Silver teaspoon with Women's Institute emblem engraved on handle. Still in its original cellephane packet. Date unknown.
SMALL BROWN STONEWARE BOTTLE
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Small brown stoneware bottle, 7.5cm H; among items found in late Victorian midden in back left corner of yard, now paved hard-standing, at front of 19 West Street. See group photo of nottles and jars.
SMALL BROWN GLASS MEDICINE BOTTLE, UNMARKED
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Small brown glass bottle c1910, 9.5cm H; maker's mark on underside, M or W in a square cartouche No markings; intended for use by chemists/druggists/doctors in selling or dispensing tinctures or small quantities of medicine.
SMALL PLAIN GLASS BOTTLE 'TIC SANO, LONDON'
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle c1910, 8cm H, embossed 'TIC SANO' one side, 'LONDON' the other. Unknown meaning but believed to be for a tincture or similar medicinal preparation.
SMALL PLAIN GLASS MEDICINE BOTTLE, UNMARKED
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle c1910 (one of two the same), 12cm H. No markings; intended for use by chemists/druggists/doctors in selling or dispensing tinctures or small quantities of medicine. Maker's mark on underside, 'D' in a diamond cartouche.
Bottle c1910 (one of two the same), 12cm H. No markings; intended for use by chemists/druggists/doctors in selling or dispensing tinctures or small quantities of medicine. Pearlescent effect on this bottle; chip & wear near base.
SMITH'S BEER BOTTLE, 1905
Green glass bottle with screw-cap, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and date 1905 on the base.
SMITH'S MINERAL WATER BOTTLE, 1929
Clear glass bottle, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and date 1929 on the base. A 'flat Hamilton' style of bottle, which would have been sealed with a metal ‘crown cap’.
SMITH'S OF OUNDLE
BEER BOTTLE DATED 1932
Green glass bottle with screw-cap, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and, on the underside 'R.B.B., 1932, 2259'. Otherwise as item 3982 from 1904.
SOUVENIR MUG
PURCHASED IN VILLAGE SHOP
Bone china mug decorated with roses and the legend 'A Present from King's Cliffe'. Uncertain date.
SPOON, U.S. SERVICE ISSUE
WHEATSHEAF INN
Metal desert spoon, pressed stainless steel, 7.5" long, oval hole in handle and engraved 'U.S.'
STEMMED WINE GLASS, WI GOLDEN JUBILEE 1915-19
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Stemmed wine glass, 'WI' one side, 'Golden Jubilee 1915-1965' on the other, painted in gold, rather worn. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Women's Institute nationally.
STOKES AND SON, BRASS PLATE
Small brass plate, 1.5cm x 6.5cm, engraved 'Stokes and Son, steam carriage works, King's Cliffe & Peterborough'.
STONEWARE MASTER INK 1 PT BOTTLE
Stoneware bottle, brown glazed, with pouring lip and pottery brand stamped 'Bourne, Denby'. This bottle would take 1 pint of ink.
TAPER AUGER
Taper auger, iron with a turned wooden handle, measuring 7 inches long overall with a maximum width of 1.5 inches.
TOWN CRIER'S BELL
POSS DATE 1896
Cast bronze hand-bell embossed 'W.H.' and '14' on the shoulders of the bell; wooden handle with brass collar.
TRACK-FIXING 'CHAIR'
One half of a cast-iron 'chair' used to fix railway track to sleepers, from King's Cliffe railway station site. Corroded.
TUNIC BUTTON, LATE 17TH-CENTURY
39 WEST STREET
Handmade tunic button with integral loop for stitching to garment. Made of bronze, believed late 17th-Century, with incised decoration in William and Mary style. Photo shows front of button.
TWINING CROSFIELD'S TEAS, PAPER BAG
FOUND IN WEST ST, BAKERY
Off-white paper bag measuring approx 7" by 9", printed both sides with 'Twining Crosfield's Teas ... Ask your Grocer for one of these packets: Nectar Tea, Blue Tips Tea and Mincing Lane Tea." Crumpled.
VE DAY 50TH ANNIVERSARY TEA TOWEL
COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE, 1995
Tea towel produced commercially in 1995 with images representing aspects of 'The Home Front' and on sale nationally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, 8th May 1945.
VERY SMALL PLAIN GLASS BOTTLE
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle, 7cm H, has a 'burst' top so pre-1910, believed to be for medicinal drops or a small quantity of tincture. Lip of this bottle is broken.
VERY SMALL PLAIN GLASS BOTTLE, ELONGATED NECK
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Bottle, 8cm H including an unusually elongated neck with 'burst' top so pre-1910, believed to be for medicinal drops or a small quantity of tincture.
WARWICKS NEWARK ALES BEER BOTTLE
BELIEVED FROM GOLDEN BALL INN
Brown glass half-pint beer bottle embossed 'Warwicks Newark' and on the underside 'A 886' '2' 'FCC'. . Outer surface is worn. Date uncertain, but possibly between 1910 and 1971.
WI & KC SHOP-BOUGHT ITEMS IN CUPBOARD AT HERI
WI MET IN OLD SCHOOLROOM, BRIDGE ST 1920s - 1
Photo taken April 2018 showing some items left by the WI in a cupboard at the 'Old Schoolroom' (25 Bridge Street) where the WI held meetings in the 1920s - 1963.
WI GRAMOPHONE
USED AT MEETINGS IN OLD SCHOOLROOM, BRIDGE ST
Photo taken April 2018 showing the old WI gramophone as displayed in the KC Heritage Centre, the 'Old Schoolroom' where the WI held meetings in the 1920s - 1963.
WIDE-TOPPED, WHITE GLAZED CERAMIC POT
FROM VICTORIAN MIDDEN AT 19 WEST ST
Circular pot, white 'Bristol' glaze, 6cm H, 5cm dia; poss for potted meat, meat/fish paste: among tems found in late Victorian midden in back left corner of yard, now paved hard-standing, at front of 19 West Street. See group photo of bottles and jars.
WOODEN TRAY, INLAID '1918 WI 1974'
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
Wooden tray, backed with green baize, handles at either end; inlaid with initials WI and dates 1918 and 1974. Believed made locally.
WOODWARE
3-TIER SPICE BOX
3-tier storage box for herbs or spices, approxc 9" overall height. Each tier, or 'lift' screw-threaded to fit one onto the next. Believed made in sycamore.
APPLE BY TOWELL, BARRY MADE 1998
Turned wooden apple made by the late Barry Towell.
BABY'S RATTLE
Baby's rattle with two wooden rings, one coloured orange the other green. Shaft of rattle is missing - hole to receive it is badly split.
BIRD-SCARING RATTLE
Wooden ratchet-type rattle, possibly a watchman's or for bird scaring. Handle and clacker strip have woodworm damage, clacker strip is also split and in fragile condition.
BOWL
Wooden bowl, approx 3.5 inches in diameter, undecorated. Stamped on base in blue ink with maker's name 'J V Green, maker'
BOWLS
Group of three wooden open-topped bowls, plain turned. Diameters, c 3", c4" and c5" respectively.
BREAD BOARD
Bread board, with three pumpkin-shaped feet, one missing. Much used.
BUTTER DISH, WILLIAM BOLLANS' TURNERY
Wooden butter dish, with carved decoration of flowers & leaves, central well to take glass or china dish; pencilled price 1s/9d (approx 8p).
BUTTER DISH, WILLIAM BOLLANS' TURNERY
Wooden butter dish, central well for glass liner, hole in centre, surround carved 'Butter' & leaves
BUTTER MOULD, PINEAPPLE SHAPE
Pair of carved food moulds with pineapple design, 4" x 3 1/2" x 2". Fitted with short dowel pegs to hold the two halves together when in use.
BUTTER MOULD, WILLIAM BOLLANS' TURNERY
Small tubular butter mould with retractable stem, plain face and turned bands on outside
BUTTER PRINT, WILLIAM BOLLANS' TURNERY
Small butter print with stem, face carved with rose design.
BUTTER PRINT, J BAILEY & SONS
Butter print head, no cup or stem, with carving of roses & thistles and word 'MODAL', a trade sample.
BUTTER PRINTS, J BAILEY & SONS
5 plain butter prints with stems, no cups (see inventory item 1581 for details)
BUTTER RUNNER HEAD, WILLIAM BOLLANS' TURNERY
Carved butter runner, print head only, with leaf design and grooved edge
CHILD'S CUP-AND-BALL GAME BY DAVID BERRY
Child's cup-and-ball game turned in wood.
CONTAINER WITH DROP-ON LID
Plain wooden container with drop-on lid, approx 3 inches diameter, height approx 2 inches.
CRUET SET BY DIXON, JAMES MADE 1860
2-piece cruet set with screw-on perforated tops, made by James Dixon of King's Cliffe, woodturner and carver. Set of photos taken to show tops off and on.
DECOY BIRD EGGS
Turned wooden egg, approx 5cm in length, unpainted, slightly pointed at one end & with narrow carved band at waist.
Two small decoy eggs, one smaller than the other, both painted. Turning marks obvious on the smaller one.
DICE SHAKER
Wooden dice-skaker, diameter approx 2 inches, height approx 5 inches. 'Waisted' and upper surface of inside ribbed to turn dice. Upper part cracked in two places. Maker & date uncertain.
EGG CUP
Wooden egg cup, cup cracked, base with faded circular patterning. Paper label written by John Bryan says 'Egg cup made by John Ventross Green, turner of King's Cliffe'.
Wooden egg cup, fragment of paper label partly printed or painted green still attached to cup. Base decorated with orange bands.
Plain wooden egg cup. Picture taken to show turning hole in base.
FINIAL FROM POLE FOR GOLDEN BALL FRIENDLY SOC
Wooden sphere, c4 inches dia, painted in gold and royal blue (underlying orange/scarlet paint showing in some places), with a hollowed out base to fit onto carrying pole.
GAVEL
Wooden gavel, overall length approx 8 inches. Made from wood which is gingery in colour (possibly boxwood?); head shows signs of wear from use and some damage.
MINIATURE WOODEN HANDBELL
Miniature wooden 'handbell', 2cm diameter at mouth of bell. No tang. Possibly for a child/dolls-house.
NUTCRACKER
Nutcracker: circular in shape, with deep well to take nut (probably hazelnuts, too small for walnuts). A screw-threaded key tightened onto the nutshell to crack it. Maker & date uncertain
Nutcracker, same design as 2689 but slightly smaller and of different wood, possibly box. Worn smooth from use.
PLAQUE CARVED BY BAILEY, ALBERT ROBINSON
J BAILEY & SON
Set of photographs of a wooden plaque with carved leafy sprig and seed pod. Carved by A Bailey c1894, for a county-wide carving competition. Label says '1st Prize: Best Carving from Cast, from all classes in county'.
Set of photographs of a wooden plaque with carved oak leaves and acorn. Known to have been carved by Albert Robinson Bailey. Fragment of label on back says 'liffe', ie part of King's Cliffe.
PLATTER
Plain, circular wooden platter, diameter 9 inches, with shallow rim and central turning hold visible. In used condition.
Circular wooden platter, dia 11 inches, straight-sided rim with black line of decoration. Half-round scoop in rim - either intentional or subsequent damage. Unsed condition.
ROLLING PINS, PASTE PINS
Two identical plain turned rolling pins (paste pins), each measuring 18.5 inches, with short pumpkin-shaped ends. Slightly dirty condition.
SMALL 4-LIFT SPICE BOX
J BAILEY & SON
Set of photographs of small 4-tier spice box, used in the household of Albert Robinson Bailey and family between 1906 and c2000. Turned in the workshop of J Bailey & Son, King's Cliffe.
SPOONS
Group of five small wooden spoons, one with flat handle, one with burn damage to handle. Two round-handled and the flat-handled spoon possibly made by one of the Dixon family. Others unknown.
TAP AND SPIGOT
Tap and spigot, approx length of tap 8 inches. Tap not screw-threaded.
TRICK WHISTLES
Two wooden trick flour whistles, similar but not identical, one used, the other not. Screw-on lid with whistle mouthpiece and several small holes, base could be filled with flour, soot, etc.
WHISTLE
Wooden whistle with mouthpiece and 4 stop holes. Undecorated. Approximately 5 inches long.
WOODEN CAP FOR OPENEING BOTTLES
Wooden bottle cap like item 2691 but unused. Stamped in blue ink on top 'English Make' and round sides 'J V Green, Maker, King's Cliffe'.
WOODEN CAP FOR OPENING BOTTLES
Wooden bottle cap for use with 'codswallop' bottles, central stem pushes in marble stopper. Appears to have been well used.
WOODEN GOBLET
Small wooden goblet, rim diameter 4.5cm. Roughly finished inside, possible traces of colour staining on stem of goblet. Maker and date uncertain.
WOODEN POT, SCREW-THREADED LID
Small wooden pot, screw-threaded, with lid. Decorated outside with painted bands of orange and green.
WOODEN RING
Wooden ring, like a large serviette ring, c2.5 inches in diameter and 1inch deep, plain, undecorated. Stained with ink and other marks. Purpose of ring uncertain.
WOODEN SPOONS
7 wooden spoons made in King's Cliffe late 1800s/early 1900s.
WOODEN WHISTLE MADE BY DAVID BERRY, 1970S OR
Small wooden whistle, 6.5cm long, producing a single note. Made by David Berry in the 1970s or 1980s when he was living at 12 West Street, King's Cliffe.
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Large wooden spoon for cooking use.
Carved wooden spoon, ornamental purposes. Design and style of carving very different from any other known King's Cliffe piece.
BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, BURIALS
CEMETERY
NOTICE OF CHARGES, 1969 & LATER UPDATES
Notice 'King's Cliffe Burial Ground' dated May 1969 listing fees for interment, graves, headstones etc & inscriptions agreed by KC Parish Council & approved by the Min of Housing & Local Govt. replacing fees from 1911. Increases to 1982 written by hand.
CEMETERY, BRIDGE ST
GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS
TRANSCRIPT
Typed record of gravestone inscriptions from KC cemetery on Bridge Street, read and recorded by KCH members. Covers dates 30.4.1911 to 2.6.2009, later gravestone inscriptions not included. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CEMETERY, BRIDGE STREET
KC PARISH COUNCIL RE GRAVE SPACE 225 FOR SMIT
KC Parish Council official Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial issued to Terence Smith on 14th August 1975 re grave space 225. Signed by George Sansom, PC Chairman; Fred Blake and Norman Embleton, Councillors; Eileen Gunn, Parish Clerk.
KC PARISH COUNCIL RE GRAVE SPACES 223
KC Parish Council receipt for interment fees re burial of Lily Smith in grave space 223. Mrs Smith buried 6 Jan 1972.
KC PARISH COUNCIL RE GRAVE SPACES 223 & 224
KCPC Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial issued to Execs of Lily Smith re grave spaces 223 & 224 & covering letter. Mrs Smith buried 6 Jan 1972. Signed by George Sansom, PC Chairman; Fred Blake and James Brown, Cllors; Eileen Gunn, Parish Clerk.
KC PARISH COUNCIL RE GRAVE SPACES 224
KC Parish Council receipt for interment fees re burial of Robert Smith in grave space 224. Mr Smith buried 13 August 1975.
KC PARISH COUNCIL RECEIPT FOR BURIAL FEES, SM
Printed KC Parish Council receipt made out to Mrs R Smith on 5th May 1934: fees for Interment, Minister & Sexton for bell. Her late husband Robert Smith was buried 1st May 1934.
KC PARISH COUNCIL RECEIPT FOR GRAVE SPACE, SM
Printed KC Parish Council (Burial) receipt made out to Mrs R Smith on 5th May 1934, for purchase of grave space no 255. Her late husband Robert Smith was buried 1st May 1934.
PLAN OF GRAVES, NOV 2001
Plan of the Bridge Street cemetery, with plots numbered and burials named up to November 2001 when the copy was made. Scanned in 3 sections.
CHURCHYARD
PLAN OF GRAVESTONES
Illustrated plan of KC parish churchyard, surveyed and drawn in 2003, all headstones & tombs numbered as per gravestones inscriptions book.
GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS, CHURCHYARD
TRANSCRIPT OF LEGIBLE INSCRIPTIONS
Transcript of gravestone inscriptions from KC parish churchyard. Earliest legible inscription dated 1670, most recent plaque recording cremated remains recorded in March 2003. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
MARRIAGES 1590 TO 1877
TRANSCRIPT
Marriage entries from the King's Cliffe Parish Registers between 15th September 1590 and 15th November1877; searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
PARISH CHURCH MEMORIAL TABLETS
H K BONNEY'S TRANSCRIPT, EARLY 1800S
Transcript of Henry Kaye Bonney's reading of memorial inscriptions inside the parish church, recorded by him between 1810 and 1862. Some of these memorials are no longer visible. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
TRANSCRIPT, 2003
Transcript of inscriptions from memorial tablets & windows in porches & inside KC church, illustrated with plan of church interior. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
BUSINESS
ART & CRAFT
CLASSES AT OLD BREWERY STUDIOS & WOODNEWTON P
Feature, Nene Living mag, Sept 2015 p 33: about learning something new, includes art classes at Old Brewery Studios, KC; and at Woodnewton Pottery. Photos of Jane Paige self-portrait & Rob Bibby at the wheel in his pottery.
GILL BARKE, ARTIST
Watercolour pen and wash painting by local artist Gill Barke of 'Tristan' (no 44) and no 46 West Street. Painted in 2006.
GILL MEADOWS, POTTER
PRESENTATION PLAQUE FOR MR HIBBS, JULY 1995
Circular presentation plaque made by local potter, Gill Meadows, for KC Endowed School to present to Mr Hibbs their music teacher in July 1995.
OPEN STUDIOS EVENT, SEPT 1999
Artists from King's Cliffe who took part in 'Open Studios' event, Sept 1999: John & Jane Paige (Old Brewery Studios); Peter Lloyd Bennett; Crispin Heesom; Sue Flemming; Julie Montgomery-Smith & Tim Betts.
SHOOSO, SEWING CLASSES
ADVERT IN GAZETTE OCT 2018
'ShooSo by Lucia' advert for Adult Sewing Classes held at KC Active on a regular weekly basis.
LABEL FROM BAG BOUGHT AT TRANSITION XMAS FAIR
Label from bag made by a community sewing bee group in the village under the guidance of Lucia Hyams of ShooSo.
WILLOW WEAVING CLASSES; WOOD CARVING CLASSES
Feature, Nene Living mag, Sept 2015 p 35: about learning something new, includes Willow Weaving classes by Sue Kirk at KC Village Hall; and wood carving classes by Glyn Mould at his Sacrewell Farm workshop.
BAILEY'S SHOP AT NO1 WEST ST
GROCERY, STATIONERY, DRAPERY ETC
Photo showing the frontage of Bailey's shop at no 1 West Street, as a grocery, stationery & drapery shop - no longer Post Office. Dates to after 1904 and before mid-1930s.
BAKER
E ELLIOTT, BRIDGE STREET
Billhead for E Elliott, Baker and Confectioner, also Dealer in Corn and Offals. Bill made out to Mrs H Schuleit Law's Lawn Farm for unspecified goods supplied in April 1961. Measures 8" x 5.5", masthead printed in black.
E ELLIOTT, BRIDGE STREET CORNER
Receipted bill from E Elliott's bakery on the corner of Bridge Street and Park Street. Bill dated 18 December 1958 is for mince pies and iced fancies supplied to King's Cliffe Endowed School.
FEATHERSTONE, JOHN THOMAS, WEST ST
Bill from J T Featherstone, Baker, on his billhead, dated February 1903, for purchases made by Mrs T Walker. Receipted 14th February 1903 by A T Featherstone..
HARRY WOODING, PARK ST
B & w photo showing H Wooding's bakehouse in Park Street, with HOVIS sign; and adjoining house, 'Boscobel; (12 Park St), estimated to date to early 1960s.
JACK CHOWN, WEST ST
BILLHEAD, OCT 1980
Billhead of J (Jack) Chown, Baker and Confectionery, 68 West Street, King's Cliffe. Receipted bill dated 31 October 1980.
MESSRS ELLIOTT, BRIDGE ST
Blank billhead printed for Messrs Elliotts, Bakers & Confectioners. Date unknown but pre-printed for use in the 1900s.
THOMAS KNIGHT, WEST ST
PROMO CALENDAR, 1948
Promotional calendar produced by T (Tommy) Knight, baker in West Street, for the year 1948. T Knight address & tel no printed above picture.
WEST STREET BAKERY
BAKER'S DELIVERY BASKET
Baker's delivery basket, sturdily-made from willow and ratan cane, two wooden slats or 'clogs' fixed to the underside. Brand name 'HOVIS' stencilled both ends. From the West Street bakery, well-used and smelling of baking! Photos taken September 2016.
BAKERY, WEST ST
FUEL SUPPLIES FOR BAKERY VEHICLES, 1987
Invoice from F Bould & Son Ltd garage to Mr O'Sullivan (the bakery, West Street) for supplies of 4-star petrol, 1 litre of Duckhams oil, MOT carried out for bakery vehicles during October 1987.
BASKET-MAKING
SHRIVE, WILLIAM THOMAS, 1920s
B & w photo of William Thomas Shrive, basket-maker, at work outside his workshop. He lived and worked at what is now no 39 West Street in the 1920s.
BREWING
BREWERY IN EAGLE LANE
Terracotta maltings floor tile from the former maltings down Eagle Lane. Tile approx 8" square, 1.75" thick, with holes 1" diameter x 1.5" deep in honeycomb pattern. Each hole end with tile surface perforated by cluster of 7 small holes.
EAGLE TAP
View down Eagle Lane with former 'Eagle Tap' buildings, with roof gables, on right. Picture taken in 2003.
KC BREWERY CO LTD
West street view past Wheel Inn (left) & King's Cliffe Brewery with Eagle Tap sign visible at the top of Eagle Lane.
KCB CRAFT ALES
BOTTLES
Information panel from bottle label for ale named 66 degrees. Gives details of malt and hops used.
Information panel from bottle label for ale named 5C. Gives details of malt and hops used.
Information panel about KCB Craft Ales, used on labels on all bottles. Signed by Jez (Jeremy) O'Neill, founder and brewer, King's Cliffe Brewery.'
Information panel from bottle label for ale named no.10. Gives details of malt and hops used.
Line-up of four bottled ales brewed and bottle conditioned by Jez (Jeremy) O'Neill, founder and brewer, King's Cliffe Brewery. Beers are P51, 66 degrees, 5C, No.10.
Information panel from bottle label for porter ale named P51. Gives details of malt and hops used and explains that names commemorates the P51 Mustang planes flown by USAAF airmen during WW2 from King's Cliffe Airfield.
OPENED 2014
Single-fold A5 leaflet produced for the opening evening of King's Cliffe Brewery, 30th April 2014.
Entry form for 'Name the beer' competition at the opening evening of King's Cliffe Brewery, 30th April 2014.
KETTON & KING'S CLIFFE BREWERY, WEST ST
Images of a stone flagon embossed with 'Ketton & King's Cliffe Brewery'. One view top-down showing name; the other showing flagon full height.
KING'S CLIFFE BREWERY, 1900-1910
ADVERT, 1904
Advertisement for G K Papillon's King's Cliffe Brewery (Eagle Lane) from Dolby's Stamford & Rutland Almanack for 1904. Items 841 & 2015 are similar, but this copy has the best quality printing.
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Advertisement for G K Papillon's King's Cliffe Brewery (Eagle Lane) from Dolby's Stamford & Rutland Almanack, p205 (year date uncertain)
KING'S CLIFFE BREWERY, STARTED MAY 2014
News item re King's Cliffe Brewery. Page 33 of 'Nene Vliving', December 2015. Includes photo of brewery owner, Jez O'Neill and line-up of pub beer pulls, including 5C, No 10 and P51. Fourth ale 66 Degrees.
PAPILLON
1-pint beer bottle moulded in green glass with brewery details: "Papillon Malt and Hops only, King's Cliffe".
PAPILLON BREWERY
Image of acid-etched beer bottle & screw-cap, 'G K Papillon, The Brewery, King's Cliffe'.
PAPILLON BREWERY, WEST ST
Group of 3 'Papillon King's Cliffe' beer flagons, one numbered 175.
Images of acid-etched beer bottle & screw-cap, 'G K Papillon, The Brewery, King's Cliffe', without screw-cap. One image lying; the other standing.
PUBLIC HOUSES
L H DIXON, GOLDEN BALL INN
Image of a half-gallon beer flagon made for and embossed 'L H Dixon, Golden Ball Inn, Kings Cliffe'. Made by Lumley & Co, a London pottery, c1895.
SMITH'S OF OUNDLE
BEER BOTTLE
Green glass bottle with screw-cap, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and date 1905 on the base.
BREWING/MINERAL WATER MANUFACTURING
SMITH'S OF OUNDLE
MINERAL WATER BOTTLE
Clear glass bottle, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and date 1929 on the base. A 'flat Hamilton' style of bottle, which would have been sealed with a metal ‘crown cap’.
BUILDING TRADES
A G DANN, PLUMBER
The Golden Ball Inn with 'Commercial Hotel' sign & adjoining Roman Catholic priests' house; and A G Dann's plumbing and decorating business premises.
C M PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
Promotional leaflet, C M Property Mainenance, King's Cliffe.
COLLYWESTON SLATERS
Wooden hod, with two sides and a base forming a corner. Fitted with a strong metal chain and hook to attach hod to slater's roof ladder. Associated wooden 'scraper', assumed to be for pushing up the mortar in the hod.
COLLYWESTON SLATING
SHARPE, HERBERT & WILLIAM
Sepia photo of seven Collyweston slaters, standing among slates removed from building behind (unidentified, probably a church). Ladder and scaffolding visible. Undated.
W A SHARPE
Wooden slater's bill and 6 iron pecks, made from metal files triangular in section, sharply pointed at both ends; of varying sizes.
E J HAWKES, PLUMBER ETC
Masthead from a bill prepared by E J Hawkes, preprinted for use in the 1910s.
HERBERT SHARPE, SLATER
Example of the letterhead stationery used by Herbert Sharpe, of 'Stoneleigh' (now no 102) West Street, KC. Describes himself as a 'Grey and Blue Slater'.
K W SHARPE, SLATER & CONTRACTOR
Samples of invoice paper printed for Kenneth W Sharpe, Slater & Contractor, at 'Tristan', West Street. Telephone n umber shown. Dated to 1950s.
RICHARD ROYCE, PLUMBER & GLAZIER, PARK ST
Richard Royce's handwritten account to Mr Bonser, Fotheringay Lodge, for work carried out between January 19th 1867 and January 22nd 1868. Stamped and receipted as paid on 23rd April 1872.
SKINNER & SON
BILLS FOR WORK AT CONGR CHAPEL
Envelope of papers from Kenneth Sharpe, Secretary and Treasurer of KC Congregational Church for many years. Paper cover years 1951 - 1968, including 'Church Statement of Case for 1951 & 1952 & Receipt & Pyts Accts 1951-64. Items listed as 4386.
UNDERTAKERS
SKINNER & SON
Billhead of Skinner & Son, used to invoice Mr J Dicks for interior work done in April 1922 at what is now 104 West St; dated May 1922 & receipted on reverse. Skinner & Son were 'Carpenters, Joiners, Painters, Paperhangers Glaziers, Undertakers'.
W A SHARPE, SLATER & CONTRACTOR
Samples of memo and invoice paper printed for W A Sharpe, Slater & Contractor, at 'Tristan', West Street c1900-1940. No telephone number is shown; dated to 1930s.
WM SHARPE, SLATER & PLASTERER
Studio portrait photo of William Sharpe, slater and plasterer. He was born 1856, died 1926. Date of photo uncertain, possibly c1900.
BUTCHER
A R BROWN & SON
BILL FOR COOKED MEATS, WEDDING SEPT 1955
Billhead A R Brown & Son, Purveyors of meat and bacon. Bill dated Sept 7th 1955, for cooked meats for a wedding feast: pressed beef, ham and tongue, total £6 19s 4d. Bill marked paid, Sept 9th.
A R BROWN & SON, 43 WEST ST
A R Brown & Son billhead with handwritten note promoting their 'best meat, local fed and home-killed on our premises'. Dated 6th December 1970 and sent to new occupants of nearby Manor House, West Street.
BROWN'S, WEST ST
Postcard view looking west along central part of West Street, past no 2 with thatched roof, where a delivery van is parked. Tradesman with his basket stands nearby and three women shoppers appear posed in the street. Date written on reverse April 1953.
BROWNS
Photo of Jim Brown and Arthur ‘Gaffer’ Kirby working in Browns’ butchers shop in West Street. Date between 1947 and 1976.
BROWNS'
St Mercury cutting with photo of James (Jim) Brown and his wife, Lily in the butcher's shop in West Street. Jim Brown retiring and butcher's business and shop to close, July 1986.
F W BROWN & SON
George Sansom with F W Brown & Son's butchers van outside F Bould & Son's garage in Bridge St, in 1936.
WALKERS
Black and white photo taken in Park Street, oblique view across the street to Walker's butcher's shop and house (now 41 Park St). Shop awning down over one bay windows; man in butcher's coat and striped apron approaching shop. Date believed 1950/60s.
CARRIER
KC TO STAMFORD, 1901
List of carriers to and from Stamford, including those serving King's Cliffe, taken from Potter's Almanac, Stamford, for 1901. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
CART & WHEELWRIGHT
F PORTESS, FORMERLY STOKES & SON
Stokes'/Portess' employees in yard of Park St works with newly-made timber drugg. Known names and occupations in caption. Photo from c1903.
Account from F Portess of Park Street, for transporting the tenor bell to and from King's Cliffe railway station, in April & May 1917.
J & R CHAPMAN, BRIDGE ST
FARM CART IN YARD, 1897
Farm Cart, 'No 14', made in 1897 by J & R Chapman, King's Cliffe, for JJ Brett & Son, Contractors etc, Hampton. Wagon standing in Chapman's yard, main workshop doors behind.
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Brass axle hub-cap with internal screwthread; nine-sided outer rim; embossed 'J & R Chapman, Builders, King's Cliffe'. Used condition.
Brass axle hub-cap, internal screwthread; inside dia 2.75"; 8-sided outer rim; 'J & R Chapman, Builders, Kingscliffe' on face-plate; no decoration. Initials NH cut into underside rim; 3 small dots and the number 04 embossed in outside. Used condition.
STOKES & SON
ADVERTISEMENT
Handbill/advert for Stokes & Son, Carriage Builders, printed on pink paper by W P Dolby, Artistic Printer, of Stamford. Advert boasts 'best in the market' with 1st Prize medals at Peterborough and Derbyshire Agricultural Shows in 1888.
APPRENTICESHIP
Framed letter on Stokes & Son letterhead, dated 13th August 1889, to Messrs Sherard & Capron (solicitors) confirming terms of apprenticeship to be offered to John Taylor from Apethorpe School.
APPRENTICESHIPS
Handwritten note dated May 1 1889 (written on reverse of a Stokes & Son advertising handbill), from Messrs Stokes to unnamed addressee re two of their apprentices named Taylor and Paine. Payment receipted May 5 1889.
F PORTESS
B & W photo of a 'carriage van' in Stokes' yard, with F Portess (manager), his two daughters and 4 staff, plus sign board, house behind (left), workshops behind (ctre & right)
(misc)
Two brass cartwheel hub-caps engraved 'Stokes and Son, King's Cliffe: Builders'. The cart and wheel-wright works were founded in Park Street, King's Cliffe in 1860.
Stokes & Son 2 cart advertisements from Pboro Agricultural Show catalogue, 1886 (top), 1890 (below).
Stokes & Son waggon and cartmakers, promotional handbill dating from the 1880s or 1890s..
Stokes & Son, illustration of their 'Noted general purpose cart', as reproduced in the Peterborough Agricultural Society's Show catalogue of 1890.
Stokes & Son advertisement from the Peterborough Agricultural Society catalogue of 1885, with prices for some of their vehicles.
Small brass plate, 1.5cm x 6.5cm, engraved 'Stokes and Son, steam carriage works, King's Cliffe & Peterborough'.
Advertisement for Stokes & Son from Kelly's Directory of 1893.
Advertisement for Stokes & Son from Bennett's Business Directory 1906
2 views of former Stokes/Portess' timber store building
Gate incorporating cartwheel, entrance to former Stokes'/Portess' cart and wheelwrights' works in Park Street.
4 views of former Stokes/Portess premises and yard, taken as they were in 1972.
Framed item of Stokes & Son business stationery with crest and awarded medals reproduced in letterhead. Hand-written with receipt for apprenticeship money for 'Payne', and mentioning 'the lad Taylor' on approval for apprenticeship; dated May 1889
Advertisement from Peterborough Agricultural Society's Catalogue showing premises in Park St, KC, and 'City' Carriage Works, Peterborough. Illus of tradesman's and showman's vans, by J & C Cooper.
Advertisement from Peterborough Agricultural Society's Catalogue showing premises in Park St, KC, and 'City' Carriage Works, Peterborough. Illus of 'noted general purpose cart' by J C Cooper.
Advertisement from Peterborough Agricultural Society's Catalogue showing premises in Park St, KC, and 'City' Carriage Works, Peterborough. 'Established 50 years'. Illus of a light-weight dog-cart, by J C Cooper.
Advertisement for Stokes & Son from 1885 uncertain but possibly Peterborough Agricultural Show Catalogue of that year.
Park St view north from outside Glebe Farmhouse (lt), past Stokes & Son's cart- & wheelwright premises (2 workmen standing at gates). Show old thatched cottage to right of Stokes' gate, demolished in the 1960s.
CART & WHEELWRIGHTS; WOODTURNING; TIMBER.
ACCOUNT OF TRADES BETWEEN 1890 & 1910
Thesis by Mrs June Basden entitled 'Industries of King's Cliffe at the Turn of the Century, c1890 - 1910', researched and written in April 1972, illustrated with photographs and sketchmaps.
CARTER
SMITH, MRS CHARLOTTE
Photo of Mrs Charlotte Smith in garden at (what is now) 94 West Street, her home. Date uncertain but Charlotte (nee Siddons, widow of Isaac Goodwin) was born in 1846 and looks elderly in this photo so possibly 1920s.
CHEMIST, DRUGGIST
J A ELLIS, PARK ST
Billhead of J A Ellis, Chemist & Druggist, Park Street, illustrated with 'Tower Tea' advert. Bill made out to Mrs Walker, Xmas 1902, receipted March 5 1903.
Billhead of J A Ellis, Chemist & Druggist, Park Street, illustrated with 'Tower Tea' advert. Bill on two sheets, made out to 'The late Mr J Walker', dated Xmas 1902, receipted March 5 1903.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY
BREAD TOKEN
Oval bronze token, 3cm long, 2.25cm wide, embossed on both sides: 'Northampton Cooperative Society Ltd' (round the perimeter) 'Bread' inside the border. Ardill, Leeds, the manufacturers' name in small lettering below.
COAL MERCHANT
SIDDONS & SONS
Advertisement for G Siddons & Sons, Coal, Timber & Slate Merchants, with depot at King's Cliffe railway station among others. Lists wide variety of goods they dealt in. Oundle & Thrapston Almanac & diary of 1889.
Bill from 1920 on printed billhead stationery og Siddons and Sons, from their King's Cliffe Coal Yard.
COOKERY
THE LITTLE SOUP KITCHEN
News item re The Little Soup Kitchen travelling van business run by Mrs Rachael Kelly from King's Cliffe. Includes photo of the van and menu board at Oundle Market.
DOMESTIC SERVICE
UNIFORM, WORKWEAR
APRON FROM KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE, 1930s
Apron made of fine cotton lawn, with broiderie Anglaise flowers and garlands in centre and around border edging; plain white ties to secure around the waist.
PINAFORE FROM KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE, 1930s
White, cotton lawn pinafore with bands of broiderie Anglaise detail across the skirt and top panel, plain white ties to secure around the waist.
EDGSONS, TAILOR, DRAPER, GROCER
NOTE ABOUT
Brief notes re Edward Edgson & family business at 4 Park Street from c1858 until 1934.
TILEWORK IN FORMER SHOP ENTRY, 2007
Photo taken in 2007; close-up of tilework with name 'Edgson' in entrance to former Edgson's shop at no 4 Park Street. Lettering now rather worn in places.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
SANSOM, GEORGE (SENIOR)
Billhead for G Sansom, Electrical Engineer, West Street, King's Cliffe. Date uncertain but after 1917.
F BOULD & SON, GARAGE; WHEEL INN; JEAN'S STOR
ADVERTS, 1955
Scanned pages from Oundle & Thrapston Rural District, The Official Guide, published in 1955. Includes descriptive text and statistics about King's Cliffe and adverts for F Bould & Son, Wheel Inn and Jean's Store.
FOOD, CATERING
PUDDING & PIE
BUSINESS CARD DETAILS, DEC 2018
Business card/slip for 'Pudding&Pie' in use December 2018. Baked goods, cakes, muffins, steamed puddings and sauces, tarts etc made for sale at various markets in the area.
GEORGE MILES, TIMBER MERCHANT; KC INSULATION
Rockbourne and adjacent derelict yard: George Miles' timber yard c1860-1912, later King's Cliffe Insulation Products' yard, making kiln-lining bricks. Photo from 1972.
HORTICULTURE
C H CHAPMAN, FLORIST & MARKET GARDENER, THE B
BILL FOR WEDDING FLOWERS, SEPT 1955
Billhead 'C H Chapman, Florist and Market Gardener' at The Butts (Back Way, now Wood Road). Bouquets, buttonholes and flowers for wedding in KC church and reception at village hall in September 1955. Total cost £8 19s 3d.
J A ELLIS, CHEMIST
CHEMIST & DRUGGIST, SHOP AT 20 PARK ST 1895-1
Sepia photo showing shop, fascia board reading 'J A Ellis, Chemist & Newsagent'; house to left (no 22) was Ellis family home. Photo taken in 1920s. Laura Ellis, one of 3 daughters of J A Ellis, standing outside the shop.
KC GAS LIGHT & COKE CO LTD
ANNUAL REPORT, 1896
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1896. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1897
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1897. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1898
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1898. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
(misc)
Copy of 2-page list of shareholding members of the King's Cliffe Gas Company Ltd, made at a meeting held on 6th September 1900, showing name, address and occupation of each shareholder.
KC INDUSTRIES c1890 - 1910
CART & WHEELWRIGHTS; WOODTURNING; TIMBER.
Thesis by Mrs June Basden entitled 'Industries of King's Cliffe at the Turn of the Century, c1890 - 1910', researched and written in April 1972, illustrated with photographs and sketchmaps.
KC TRADESMEN, 1847, 74, 98, 1924 & 1950
ANALYSIS FROM TRADE DIRECTORIES
Analysis of tradesmen listed in trade directories for King's Cliffe for selected years: 1847, 1874, 1898, 1924, 1950. Searchable pdf (Ctrol F or Command F to find).
MILK DELIVERY
KING'S CLIFFE DAIRY, WEST ST
Typed notice re Chemicals or Substances Hazardous to Health, posted on the door of the King's Cliffe Dairy building beside 45 West Street. It lists depots, including King's Cliffe. Undated but earliest date 1988, when COSHH regulations were introduced.
Name plate from King's Cliffe Dairy, removed from door of former dairy site when cleared in May 2016.
Set of 8 photos taken of the former King's Cliffe Dairy site beside 45 West Street, on 24th May 2016 following the clearance of vegetation from the site. Derelict dairy building, site for charging milk floats, nameplate and milk bottles found.
Four 1-pint milk bottles from former King's Cliffe Dairy site: found after site cleared of vegetationon 24th may 2016. Bottles from Dairy Crest; Express Dairy; Co-op and one unmarked. Imperial & metric vols on bottles.
MILLER, BAKER
FEATHERSTONE, JOHN THOMAS
BUSINESS CALENDAR C1900-1910
Business calendar produced for J T Featherstone, 'Miller & Baker, Kingscliffe'. Image probably illustrates verses printed below - too indistinct to read. Calendar months printed along bottom border, also impossible to read, c1900-14, framed later.
MOTOR TRADES
F BOULD & SON LTD
INVOICE FOR FUEL, 1987
Invoice from F Bould & Son Ltd garage to Mr O'Sullivan (the bakery, West Street) for supplies of 4-star petrol, 1 litre of Duckhams oil, MOT carried out for bakery vehicles during October 1987.
PETROL SALES CEASE IN 1995
St Mercury 20.10.1995, report with photo of Mr & Mrs Bould at the petrol pumps on their garage forecourt in Bridge Street. Petrol sales cease in October 1995 due to cost of converting pumps from gallons to litres.
F BOULD & SON LTD, GARAGE
Invoice from National Benzole Co Ltd to F Bould & Son Ltd, Bridge Street Garage, King's Cliffe, for delivery of motor fuels on 2nd October 1959. Reverse has Conditions of Sale.
Invoice from National Benzole Co Ltd to F Bould & Son Ltd, Bridge Street Garage, King's Cliffe, for delivery of motor fuels on 9th October 1959. Reverse has Conditions of Sale.
F BOULD & SON, GARAGE
Bridge Street uphill from the bridge past F Bould & Son's garage, with National brand on the petrol pumps.
George Sansom with F W Brown & Son's butchers van outside F Bould & Son's garage in Bridge St, in 1936.
FUEL SALES
Invoice from National Benzole Co Ltd to F Bould & Son Ltd, Bridge Street Garage, King's Cliffe, for delivery of motor fuels on 2nd October 1959. Reverse has Conditions of Sale.
Invoice from National Benzole Co Ltd to F Bould & Son Ltd, Bridge Street Garage, King's Cliffe, for delivery of motor fuels on 9th October 1959. Reverse has Conditions of Sale.
GARAGE, CAR MECHANICS
F BOULD & SON, BRIDGE STREET
Bill to Mrs R Smith on F Bould billhead, dated May 1934, for 'attendance at funeral' of Robert Smith who was buried on 5th May 1934..
KINGS CLIFFE GARAGE
Business card, Kings Cliffe Garage at Units 2 & 3 Elliotts Yard..
Promotional leaflet, Kings Cliffe Garage at Units 2 & 3 Elliotts Yard..
(misc)
Letter to customers of Bould's garage advising of their decision to stop selling petrol and diesel because gallons no longer legal after 30.9.1995.
PHOTOGRAPHER
(THOMAS) HENRY BAILEY
Decorative backing card for photograph, showing business details of (Thomas) Henry Bailey: 'H Bailey, landscape and portrait photographer, High Street, King's Cliffe. Dating to c1900.
J & H BAILEY
Early stamp on mount card for KC station photograph item no 1450, dated to c1879 (when railway line opened).
POST OFFICE/SHOP, NO1 WEST ST
SOUVENIR MUG SOLD THERE
Porcelain mug with gilded rim and transfer printed design in brown of 'The Cross' and 'Tudor House' King's Cliffe. Produced for sale at KC Post Office in the 1990s/early 2000s. 2 digipix of mug.
PUBLIC HOUSE
'MALTSTERS ARMS'
Former 'Maltsters Arms' public house, now no 16 West St. Photo entitled 'Whit Tuesday 1894'. Group of men around public water pump.
BREWING
Slide show entitled 'Old Pubs & Inns of King's Cliffe'. Includes ref to Cliffe Fair and 'bough houses', ale and beer, malting & brewing, information & pictures of the pubs & inns of past 150 years. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
CROSS KEYS INN
Collage of items from local papers & photos showing Cross Keys when Bill & Margaret Ward took over
'Buck' Richardson with his wife, Mary Ann, and dog, standing at the door of the Cross Keys, where he was listed as publican from 1898 until the early 1920s. Wooden gates visible at the entry to the yard and stables behind the Cross Keys.
Close-up of hanging lamp at front door of Cross Keys, showing 'Richardson Posting House' printed on lamp glass.
Ode to Ike (Isaac) Giddings, hangs in the bar of the Cross Keys Inn where he was a local. Dated 1974.
View across to church from Park Street at Cross Keys corner. Wrought-iron Cross Keys sign hanging out over corner, and 'H' of Holes Ales painted sign on wall. Hall Farm barn, No1 Hall Yard and stackyard wall beyond. Dated to c1960.
Sepia (poor quality) photo of William Henry Fane, wife & several children, with a pony cart in the yard of the Cross Keys Inn. 'Brewhouse' painted on wooden door behind. Believed to date to 1870s.
B & w photo of Mrs Ann Mason, born 1848, seated at desk/table, possibly taken in photographer's studio. Mrs Fane was wife of William Henry Fane, landlord of the Cross Keys Inn from 1873 to 1897.
Photo of William Henry Fane, his wife Ann (nee Mason) and several of their children, with a donkey cart, posed in the yard at the Cross Keys Inn. Date uncertain, but estimated as 1880s.
Colour photo of Ike Giddings drinking his pint of beer in the bar at the Cross Keys Inn, West Street, KC. Date uncertain but possibly the 1970s.
FORMER 'TRAVELLERS REST' & 'WHEEL INN', BOTH
B & W photo postcard, West St from no 104 looking E along north side, past old Travellers Rest Inn to old Wheel Inn. 'Greetings'
GOLDEN BALL INN
MR & MRS RANDELL, PUBLICANS C1950
Golden Ball Inn, Bridge Street, with tenant publicans Mr & Mrs H E Randell standing at the door.
SALE & DE-LICENSE, 1971
Sale particulars for the Golden Ball Inn, to be de-licensed and sold in March 1971.
(misc)
Sketchplans of former Golden Ball Inn, now no. 2 Bridge Street, King's Cliffe, showing ground, first & basement floors, c1970.
Brown glass half-pint beer bottle embossed 'Warwicks Newark' and on the underside 'A 886' '2' 'FCC'. . Outer surface is worn. Date uncertain, but possibly between 1910 and 1971.
PUBLICANS 1847 TO 1953
List of public houses and the licensees recorded mainly from trade directories between 1847 and 1953, with some added details from other sources.
RED LION INN
CLOSURE 1980
Photo taken on the evening when the Red Lion Inn closed, believed in 1980 (exact date uncertain). Phyl & John Miller, publicans, seated centre and right; pub regulars standing behind.
PARK STREET
Postcard showing frontage of Red Lion Inn in Park Street; the wife and daughter of publican A E King standing outside. Bunting on the building suggests this was either George V Silver Jubilee (1935) or George VI coronation (1937).
PUBLICANS
Photo and piece from St Mercury 21.12.1979, Phyl and John Miller, publicans at the Red Lion Inn since 1961, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
TENANT LICENSEES OF SMITH & CO KC PUBS, 1910-
List of tenant licensees of Red Lion, Travellers Rest, Wheatsheaf Inn, Wheel Inn and Windmill Inn between 1910 and 1956, from records of Smith & Co (Oundle) Brewery who owned the pubs.
TURNERS ARMS
Postcard view east from Forest Approach along narrow section of West Street and downhill into Bridge Street. Turners' Arms (rt) sign shows 'Phillips Stamford Brewery'. Dates to post-WW2.
WHEATSHEAF INN
Priced Catalogue after sale of household furniture and effects of C Adams, out-going tenant of the Wheatsheaf Inn, King's Cliffe, on 7th July 1953. Covering letter & account from auctioneers, Berry Bros & Bagshaw, Kettering.
Kettering & District Licensed Victuallers' Association, Ladies Auxiliary group visit to Guinness Park Royal brewery in September 1957. Martha Adams (front row, 3rd from left) former licensee of the Wheatsheaf Inn, King's Cliffe.
WHEATSHEAF INN, LANDLORDS
Photo of Charles and Martha Adams, standing beside their car on grass round the back of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Park Street, King's Cliffe, where they were licensess from 1940 until 1953.
WHEEL INN, WEST ST
LOWETH, JAMES; PUBLICAN 1854-1869
Photo of James Loweth, his wife and family standing outside the former Wheel Inn public house in West Street, King's Cliffe.
QUARRYING
ADAMIX LTD
LORRY
Photo of an Adamix Silica lorry caught in a traffic jam in St Mary's Hill, Stamford c1960.
IRONSTONE
Truck loaded with iron ore from Richard Thomas & Baldwin's quarry on the Wansford road, about to tip into railway trucks standing at the high dock at King's Cliffe station, early 1950s. The signal box can be seen in the distance, right of the truck.
Truck loaded with iron ore, standing on the weighbridge at King's Cliffe station, early 1950s, the roof and chimney of the weighbridge office is visible behind the truck.
KSR INT'L LTD
Shield from one of the mills at former KSR International works on Wansford Road, King's Cliffe; operations taken over by Vesuvius UK in late 1990s.
KSR INTERNATIONAL LTD
White polyethylene sack made for KSR International Ltd, whose KC operation was on the Wansford road.
QUARRYING OR IRONSTONE
RICHARD THOMAS & BALDWIN IRON ORE QUARRY, COO
Iron ore from Richard Thomas & Baldwin Wansford quarry (Cook's Pit) being tipped into wagon at KC high-level dock.
Brake van at high-level dock, see 548.
RETAIL
POST OFFICE/SHOP, NO1 WEST ST
SOUVENIR PLATE SOLD THERE
Porcelain plate with gilded rim and transfer printed design in brown of 'The Cross' King's Cliffe. Produced for sale at KC Post Office in the 1990s/early 2000s.
SADDLERY, PARK ST
BLAKE, FREDERICK
Saddlery adjoining 'Boscobel', no 12 Park Street: Frederic Blake (saddler) wife Caroline & children Reginald & Constance. Photo 1907.
BLAKE, JOHN LUCAS, C1900
Copy of bill-head for John Lucas Blake, Saddler & Harness maker, Park Street, King's Cliffe. Printed for use in 190… Horse's head with bridle and reins.
F BLAKE
Park Street view south outside J A Ellis' chemist & druggist shop and school to the Cross. Building beyond, end on to the street, was F Blake's saddlery workshop.
FREDERIC BLAKE, SADDLER
Photo (rather soft) showing Frederic Blake standing in the doorway of his saddlery business in Park Street, which he ran from 1906 to 1930.
SHOP
BAILEYS, GROCERS & STATIONERS
View west into West Street from the Cross, showing the grocery & stationer's shop opposite the Cross Key Inn, the unmade street and cobbled pavement.
CO-OP
NOTICE RE DIVIDENDS, 1958
Framed notice displayed in the Peterborough & District Co-op shop in West Street, re rules concerning payment of dividends on demand wef 20 October 1958.
(misc)
Photo of Peterborough & District Co-operative Society Ltd delivery van no 345, delivering to Frampoles bungalow on the Wansford road, 1950s.
CO-OP IN KC
Peterborough Co-operative Society Ltd Club Stamp card belonging to Mrs Ellen Beedham, date uncertain between 1950 and 1991.
CO-OP SHOP IN WEST STREET
Colour photo, frontage of Co-op shop in West Street with four staff members standing outside, enjoying a glass of wine as a toast to their final day at the Co-op shop, which closed in April 1996.
Colour photo, inside the Co-op shop in West Street showing two staff members working at the counter. The Co-op shop closed in April 1996; closing down offer of 20% off everything visible on counter.
Colour photo, inside the Co-op shop in West Street; view down one aisle of display units to the back wall of the shop with its high-level window in the office behind overlooking the shop.
E SMITH'S, HIGH ST (NOW WEST ST)
GROCER, CONFECTIONER, TOBACCONIST
Grocer, confectioner & tobacconist shop in High St (now no 11 West St), with name 'E Smith' on fascia. Dorothy Dolby standing outside.
LONDIS STORE, WEST ST, 2004
Packaging on fudge sold at Londis Store, West St, incorporating King's Cliffe postcard views.
MRS E SMITH's, HIGH ST (WEST ST)
Label from Aspro Limited , Slough, Bucks with goods addressed to Mrs E E Smith, High Street, King's Cliffe. Date c1927. Label on backing card for WI choir certificate from 1927. Mrs Smith, formerly Mrs Wootton, was a W.I. member.
MRS SHIELD'S SHOP, WEST ST
Shop at what is now 57 West Street, taken around 1920 (Kenneth Sharpe in photo, aged 10 - 12, he was born in 1907.
SOUVENIR MUG
Bone china mug decorated with roses and the legend 'A Present from King's Cliffe'. Uncertain date.
W HAKES GEN STORES, WEST ST
The grocery & tobacconist shop at No 1 West Street, with William Hakes, proprietor from 1936-1953, standing at the door and nos 3 & 5 beyond.
W HAKES' GENERAL STORES, NO 1 WEST ST
Front & back of envelope for set of 12 postcard views of King's Cliffe and Apethorpe, printed by Tuck's for W Hakes' General Stores, High St (now no 1 West Street), between 1936 and 1943.
SHOPS
GENERAL STORE AT NO 11 WEST STREET, HALLAMS F
View along narrow part of West Street from no 11 (Hallam's shop) to no 19, also shows women on pavement opposite, one with a goat. Hallams ran the shop at no 11 for several years from 1942.
SHOPS - CLOSES' LATER MRS SHIELDS', NOW 57 WE
LAUNDRY - MRS EMILY CLOSE, NOW 55/57 WEST ST
CLOSE, GEORGE (SHOP) & WIFE EMILY (LAUNDRY)
Postcard (number c1246 in white written bottom left) shows front of house, shop and outbuildings (presumed site of laundry) now 55 & 57 West Street. Mr George Close & Mrs Emily Close outside shop. PC unused, date uncertain, but later than 1907.
PUBLIC HOUSES
TRAVELLERS REST; WHEEL INN
Pc (5. King's Cliffe) written ctre bottom;(rt) house & shop now 55 & 57 West St; (lt) Travellers Rest front wall; E to Wheel Inn & beyond. Man at gate of 55/57 and horse-drawn cart. Decorator on ladder opposite. 4719.1 reverse.
SHOPS, TRADES
Slide show entitled 'Old Shops and Trades of King's Cliffe'. Pictures of old shops and business premises around the village, from late Victorian times up to the 1990s. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
STOKES & SON
GEORGE MILES' OWNERSHIP 1891
Memorandum handwritten by George Miles, timber merchant, to Revd Bagshaw, Woodnewton, notifying him that George Miles had bought 'the whole assets of Stokes & Son' and it was being run under his superintendence. Dated 4th December 1891.
TIMBER
MILES, GEORGE
Advertisement for George Miles' timber merchant business, from Kelly's Directory 1898. Miles' premises were in Park Street, King's Cliffe, and at the Midland Station yard, Stamford.
Studio portrait of George Miles, (properly William George Miles) possibly aged around 40.
SIDDONS, WILLIAM
Entry from London Gazette of 25 January 1859 recording the Bankruptcy of William Siddons, timber merchant of King's Cliffe, Northampton.
TIMBER-FALLING
6 timber-fallers at work with axes & saw, including Harry Weatherington (far right) from King's Cliffe. They are trimming bark from the base of the tree, prior to felling it.
TIMBER-HAULING
TIMBER DRUGG IN USE
Laden timber drugg with King's Cliffe timber hauliers, including George Smith snr and his son Arthur Smith, 10 horses in harness dragging a large felled tree. Location uncertain, possibly from Southwick Woods or Deene Park. Date c1920s.
TIMBER CARTING
GOODWIN, JOHN HENRY
John Henry Goodwin (lt), Alec Harker (boy), Arthur Smith (rt) with yoke & pails, in the yard behind what is now 64 West Street. They kept draught horses for timber hauling work.
MRS C SMITH
Business card printed with "Mrs C Smith, Timber Carter, King's Cliffe, Wansford".
TRADESMEN, SURROUNDING VILLAGES
D STAFFORD, IMPLEMENT & MACHINEMAKER, NASSING
Billhead for D Stafford, formerly J W & D Stafford, Nassington, iImplement and machine maker; account to Mr Thomas Bonser of Fotheringay for work carried out between January and August 1895.
THOMAS WELLS, SADDLER, ETC, WOODNEWTON
Billhead for Thomas Wells, saddler, collar & harness maker; account to Mr Thomas Bonser of Fotheringay for work carried out between July and October 1895.
TRANSPORT
P C HOWARD LTD
COMPANY PROFILE, NTS ET SEPT 2009
Full-page feature about P C Howard Ltd, King's Cliffe haulage firm; MD Andrew Howard interviewed, gives brief account of firm's 70-year history from 1939 as a family-run business.
(misc)
Report from Stamford Mercury 11 October 1985 on application by P C Howard Ltd to relocate their transport operations from Park Street to Westhay Farm.
St Mercury photo (Mrs Connie Howard) and article published on 8th January 1965 entitled "World of women - This family revolves round the wife". An interview with Mr Percy & Mrs Connie Howard re family and business.
P C HOWARD LTD, BUSES
Photocopy of timetable headed 'The King's Cliffe Bus' detailing services between King's Cliffe and Peterborough around October 1948. Annotated with approximate dates when services began.
UNDERTAKERS
F PORTESS
Bill on Fred Portess, 'late Stokes & Son' stationery, for funeral of Sarah Florence Harker in November 1934.
FRED PORTESS (LATE STOKES & SON)
BILL FOR HEARSE, FUNERAL MR R SMITH, 1934
Bill to Mr C Smith on Fred Portess billhead, dated May 1934, for loan of hearse for funeral of Robert Smith.
SKINNER & SON
Bill to Mrs R Smith on Skinner & Son billhead, dated May 1934, for coffin and attendance at funeral of her late husband, Robert Smith. Also wreath and Mr H Broughton for horse and hearse at funeral.
VARIOUS KC & SURROUNDING VILLAGES
FATHERS OF KC VILLAGE DIRECTORY, SUMMER 2009
A5,8-page, full colour 'Village Directory' 4th edn summer 2009. Comprised of adverts for local businesses in KC and surrounding villages, in support of 'Fathers of King's Cliffe' fundraising for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
WILLOW WEAVING
WORKSHOPS IN 2016
Leaflet promoting Willow Weaving Workshops at King's Cliffe and Fotheringhay Village Halls during 2016. Produced by Sue Kirk, ecological basket-maker and tutor. Full details of workshops, booking form and several photo illustrations.
WILLOW WEAVING, SUE KIRK
CLASSES 2015
Handbill advertising Willow Weaving classes throughout 2015 offered by King's Cliffe-based willow weaver Sue Kirk. Some classes held at King's Cliffe Village Hall, others at Fotheringay Village Hall.
WOODTURNING & CARVING
ARTICLE ABOUT CRAFT IN KC, 1872
Article from 'English Mechanic & World of Science' magazine, p402 & 403, issue No 380, July 5 1872. Author J H Holdich, details technical aspects of woodturning, incl diagrams of hook tools. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
ARTICLE ABOUT, PUBLISHED 1927
GREEN, JOHN VENTROSS
Article 'The Wood-turners of King's Cliffe, Only two Left', details of source believed to be Stamford & Rutland News, during 1927. Based on reporter's interview with Mr John Ventross Green, a King's Cliffe wood-turner and toy-maker.
BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY
Typed transcript of article in Stamford & Rutland News of 19th October 1937, re woodturning in KC 'A Dying Craft', based on interview with William Bailey (Turners Arms), the last working wood-turner in King's Cliffe.
Close-up photo of William Bailey's work bench, his hand. hand tools and pile of turned decoy eggs, made for gamekeepers to put under pheasant and partridge hen birds.
BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY, WOODTURNER
Photo of William H Bailey, at his lathe turning a full-length candlestick. Photo taken in 1936 in his workshop behind 'The Turner's Arms' pub in West Street, King's Cliffe.
BOLLANS, WILLIAM
Wooden butter dish, with carved decoration of flowers & leaves, central well to take glass or china dish; pencilled price 1s/9d (approx 8p).
Wooden butter dish, central well for glass liner, hole in centre, surround carved 'Butter' & leaves
Carved butter runner, print head only, with leaf design and grooved edge
Small butter print with stem, face carved with rose design.
Group of three wooden open-topped bowls, plain turned. Diameters, c 3", c4" and c5" respectively.
Bread board, with three pumpkin-shaped feet, one missing. Much used.
Plain, circular wooden platter, diameter 9 inches, with shallow rim and central turning hold visible. In used condition.
Circular wooden platter, dia 11 inches, straight-sided rim with black line of decoration. Half-round scoop in rim - either intentional or subsequent damage. Unsed condition.
Billhead and product list of Williams Bollans, wood turner and carver, whose Steam Turnery Works were in Park Street, King's Cliffe. Pre-printed for use in 1890s.
Copy of advert from Kelly's Directory of 1885, for William Bollans, Wood turner & Carver, steam works, King's Cliffe.
DIXON
Decorated sewing needle case, tubular body and push-on lid. Outside carved and decorated in black stained banding. Overall length 8cm, diameter 1.5cm.
DIXON & CO
Typed copy of advertisement, Dixon and Co, steam turnery, King's Cliffe, from Peterborough Advertiser 15th Feb 1890
DIXON, JAMES
2-piece cruet set with screw-on perforated tops, made by James Dixon of King's Cliffe, woodturner and carver. Set of photos taken to show tops off and on.
ESSAY, THE TURNERS OF KC, BY CANON BRYAN, 200
Essay by Canon John Bryan in 2006. Includes text of the Will of Laurence Scotney, turner, from 1598, but is largely based on local newspaper reports from the late 1800s and 1920s about the industry of woodturning in KC. 3 photos of William H Bailey.
EVENING CLASSES, 1894-5
B & w photo of wood carving class for men and boys, posed outside Old School Room in Bridge Street with examples of their work, with John James Bailey (tutor). Classes instigated by the Rector of King's Cliffe in the mid-1890s.
FEATURE ABOUT
Peterborough Advertiser of 21st December 1889, Local Industries VIII, feature about 'The Woodturners of King's Cliffe'.
FOOT-POWERED TREADLE LATHE
Sketch of a foot-powered treadle lathe as used in King's Cliffe by individual woodturners.
GREEN, JOHN VENTROSS
Wooden egg cup, cup cracked, base with faded circular patterning. Paper label written by John Bryan says 'Egg cup made by John Ventross Green, turner of King's Cliffe'.
Wooden bowl, approx 3.5 inches in diameter, undecorated. Stamped on base in blue ink with maker's name 'J V Green, maker'
Wooden bottle cap like item 2691 but unused. Stamped in blue ink on top 'English Make' and round sides 'J V Green, Maker, King's Cliffe'.
Typed transcript of article in Peterborough & Hunts Standard of 3.11.1922 'The last wood turner of KC', interview with John Ventross Green.
Newspaper photograph and brief caption: 'Decaying Village Industry - only two craftsmen out of 80 are left at Kingscliffe, near Peterborough, to practise the art of wood turning.' Photo of John Ventross Green with examples of his turned woodware.
J BAILEY & SONS
PIRCE LIST 1906
Wholesale price list for 1906, outer cover has promotional panels with Prize Medal details, letters of commendation from royalty etc. Price List includes great variety of items made and their wholesale price per dozen.
PLAQUE CARVED BY BAILEY, ALBERT ROBINSON
Set of photographs of a wooden plaque with carved leafy sprig and seed pod. Carved by A Bailey c1894, for a county-wide carving competition. Label says '1st Prize: Best Carving from Cast, from all classes in county'.
Set of photographs of a wooden plaque with carved oak leaves and acorn. Known to have been carved by Albert Robinson Bailey. Fragment of label on back says 'liffe', ie part of King's Cliffe.
SPICE BOX
Set of photographs of small 4-tier spice box, used in the household of Albert Robinson Bailey and family between 1906 and c2000. Turned in the workshop of J Bailey & Son, King's Cliffe.
(misc)
3-tier storage box for herbs or spices, approxc 9" overall height. Each tier, or 'lift' screw-threaded to fit one onto the next. Believed made in sycamore.
Butter print head, no cup or stem, with carving of roses & thistles and word 'MODAL', a trade sample.
Pair of carved food moulds with pineapple design, 4" x 3 1/2" x 2". Fitted with short dowel pegs to hold the two halves together when in use.
Billhead for the firm of J Bailey and Sons, printed for use in the 1920s. 'Under royal patronage' & note that had recently taken in the business of Hill & Co.
Letter to Messrs J Bailey and Sons dated 28 March 1887 from Major Cowell at Windsor Castle, ordering a butter print in box wood to be carved with Her Majesty's Arms.
Letter of thanks to Messrs J Bailey and Sons dated only '8th July' from White Lodge, Richmond Park, on behalf of the Duchess of York, re a butter print made for her.
Photos of two wooden egg-cups, believed turned in cherry wood, with carved bands of scolloped decoration and smooth finish inside and out. Dimensions: H 6cm (slightly 'squarer' profile to curve); H 6.5cm (rounder curve); W 4.5cm (cup), 4cm (base).
Double biscuit moulds with maple leaf & pineapple carving on rectangular base.
Butter print head, 4" diameter, carved for R G Tresley (name in carved decoration). Two views, one showing front face, the other a side view to show the stem or handle.
Condiment pot with pierced screw-on lid, simply decorated with red bands on top and base.
Small butter prints without cups, 5 plain, 5 carved, photographed in two groups.
Rectangular mould for butter, 71/2" x 31/2", deep carving of 2 leaves, corn stook, and 4 leaf sprigs.
J BAILEY & SONS
J V GREEN
WORKSHOP ON PYTCHELL
Colour photo of derelict building on the Pytchell, ground to west of King's Cliffe parish churchyard, taken in 1972. Building was workshop of John Ventross Green, toymaker and woodturner/carver, who died 1.1.1933.
LEVI DIXON
Peterborough Advertiser of 2.2.1907, obituary for Levi Dixon, woodturner and carver, died 23rd January 1907, aged 75. Gives some account of his life and aspects of his work.
LIST OF KC WOOD-TURNERS, 1841-1901
Searchable list of King's Cliffe wood-turners, carvers, spoon-makers, compiled from the village census returns from 1841 to 1901.
POLE LATHE
Drawing of a pole lathe as it might have been used in early mediaeval times.
POLE LATHE TURNING
Set of 8 photos of woodworking display and demonstration by KC Secondary Modern School pupils at the East of England Show in the late 1960s. Pole lathe built by them and in use.
WILLIAM BOLLANS
Small tubular butter mould with retractable stem, plain face and turned bands on outside
WOODEN WHISTLE BY DAVID BERRY
Small wooden whistle, 6.5cm long, producing a single note. Made by David Berry in the 1970s or 1980s when he was living at 12 West Street, King's Cliffe.
WOODWARE
BUTTER MOULD
Rectangular mould for butter, 71/2" x 31/2", deep carving of 2 leaves, corn stook, and 4 leaf sprigs.
DECOY EGG
Wooden turned decoy egg, plain, goose-egg sized.
DUMB-BELLS
Pair of wooden dumb-bells.
EGG CUPS
Photos of two wooden egg-cups, believed turned in cherry wood, with carved bands of scolloped decoration and smooth finish inside and out. Dimensions: H 6cm (slightly 'squarer' profile to curve); H 6.5cm (rounder curve); W 4.5cm (cup), 4cm (base).
FUNERAL BISCUIT MOULD
J BAILEY & SONS
SEWING-NEEDLE CASE
Decorated sewing needle case, tubular body and push-on lid. Outside carved and decorated in black stained banding. Overall length 8cm, diameter 1.5cm.
SLATER'S BILL & ELVE
Wooden slater's bill and 6 iron pecks, made from metal files triangular in section, sharply pointed at both ends; of varying sizes.
TURNED CLOTHES PEGS
Clothes pegs turned in King's Cliffe. Group of six including one dark & well-used; group of five unused, with 1d coin to indicate size.
WOODEN BEAKER
Wooden beaker, 'Worksop Charter Day 1931' (the year Worksop became a borough). Possibly turned in King's Cliffe.
WOODEN CASE WITH SPECTACLES
Wooden spectacles case made for John Thomas Bailey and carved with his initials. Set of photos show the case alone and with spectacles alongside.
WOODEN SPOONS
7 wooden spoons made in King's Cliffe late 1800s/early 1900s.
WOODEN YO-YO
Wooden yo-yo toy with short, frayed string. Made by a King's Cliffe wood-turner, possibly William H Bailey.
(misc)
Double biscuit moulds with maple leaf & pineapple carving on rectangular base.
Butter print head, 4" diameter, carved for R G Tresley (name in carved decoration). Two views, one showing front face, the other a side view to show the stem or handle.
Condiment pot with pierced screw-on lid, simply decorated with red bands on top and base.
Small butter prints without cups, 5 plain, 5 carved, photographed in two groups.
5 plain butter prints with stems, no cups (see inventory item 1581 for details)
Small wooden pot, screw-threaded, with lid. Decorated outside with painted bands of orange and green.
Two wooden trick flour whistles, similar but not identical, one used, the other not. Screw-on lid with whistle mouthpiece and several small holes, base could be filled with flour, soot, etc.
Turned wooden egg, approx 5cm in length, unpainted, slightly pointed at one end & with narrow carved band at waist.
Two small decoy eggs, one smaller than the other, both painted. Turning marks obvious on the smaller one.
Nutcracker: circular in shape, with deep well to take nut (probably hazelnuts, too small for walnuts). A screw-threaded key tightened onto the nutshell to crack it. Maker & date uncertain
Nutcracker, same design as 2689 but slightly smaller and of different wood, possibly box. Worn smooth from use.
Wooden bottle cap for use with 'codswallop' bottles, central stem pushes in marble stopper. Appears to have been well used.
Small wooden goblet, rim diameter 4.5cm. Roughly finished inside, possible traces of colour staining on stem of goblet. Maker and date uncertain.
Miniature wooden 'handbell', 2cm diameter at mouth of bell. No tang. Possibly for a child/dolls-house.
Wooden egg cup, fragment of paper label partly printed or painted green still attached to cup. Base decorated with orange bands.
Plain wooden egg cup. Picture taken to show turning hole in base.
Wooden ring, like a large serviette ring, c2.5 inches in diameter and 1inch deep, plain, undecorated. Stained with ink and other marks. Purpose of ring uncertain.
Wooden gavel, overall length approx 8 inches. Made from wood which is gingery in colour (possibly boxwood?); head shows signs of wear from use and some damage.
Tap and spigot, approx length of tap 8 inches. Tap not screw-threaded.
Wooden dice-skaker, diameter approx 2 inches, height approx 5 inches. 'Waisted' and upper surface of inside ribbed to turn dice. Upper part cracked in two places. Maker & date uncertain.
Plain wooden container with drop-on lid, approx 3 inches diameter, height approx 2 inches.
Wooden whistle with mouthpiece and 4 stop holes. Undecorated. Approximately 5 inches long.
Wooden ratchet-type rattle, possibly a watchman's or for bird scaring. Handle and clacker strip have woodworm damage, clacker strip is also split and in fragile condition.
Baby's rattle with two wooden rings, one coloured orange the other green. Shaft of rattle is missing - hole to receive it is badly split.
Group of five small wooden spoons, one with flat handle, one with burn damage to handle. Two round-handled and the flat-handled spoon possibly made by one of the Dixon family. Others unknown.
Large wooden spoon for cooking use.
Carved wooden spoon, ornamental purposes. Design and style of carving very different from any other known King's Cliffe piece.
Two identical plain turned rolling pins (paste pins), each measuring 18.5 inches, with short pumpkin-shaped ends. Slightly dirty condition.
Group of all items in the King's Cliffe collection in 1993, photographed by a visiting wooden spoon maker during a visit to the village.
(misc)
Slide show entitled 'The Wood-turners and Carvers of King's Cliffe', illustrating the importance of this craft trade in King's Cliffe over more than 300 years. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
CHARITIES
CORNFORTH HOMES
ARCHITECT'S DRAWING
Architect's elevation and plan for Cornforth Homes, Bridge Street, signed & dated 1891, J Corby.
FOUNDATION IN 1891
Peterborough Advertiser of 11 July 1891, report about the founding of the Cornforth Homes by Mrs Catherine Cornforth, nee Carrington, and the laying of the foundation stone.
FOUNDATION OF, 1891
Extract re the endowment, building in 1891 and opening in 1892 of the Cornforth Homes on Bridge Street (formerly known as School Hill), by Mrs Catherine Cornforth, a native of King's Cliffe.
RESIDENTS
Photo of one gentleman, thought to be Arthur Bullimore, and three unidentified ladies standing under the covered porches on the south side of the Cornforth Homes on Bridge Street, c1912. Presumed all were residents at the time.
LAW & HUTCHESON
ALMSHOUSE RESIDENT
Mary Harlock ("Blind Mary"), blind from the age of 2, a resident of the L & H almshouses in later life. Seen here knitting. She was a skilled knitter with a lovely singing voice.
BOYS WEARING CHARITY'S CLOTHING, C1873
Group of school boys at KC Endowed School in the uniform of the former Law & Hutcheson school. Date uncertain, but probably early 1870s, soon after school opened in January 1873. No names known.
BRIEF NOTES ABOUT
Brief notes on the King's Cliffe School Foundation and Almshouse Charity.
CALL FOR LARGER SCHOOL, 1869
Stamford Mercury of 7th May 1869, piece by unnamed correspondent urging the trustees of the Law & Hutcheson schools charity to enlarge the schools to provide more facilities for educating working-class children of the village.
CHARITY FARM, NORTHORPE
Black & white photo of the front of Charity Farm, Northorpe, taken in 1926.
CHARITY SCHOOLS
Small glass bottle, probably for ink, 6cm high, 5cm diameter, moulded shoulders. Traces of label, no wording visible. Cork stopper inside. Dried mud, not cleaned.
INK BOTTLE FROM BRIDGE STREET SITE
Small glass bottle, probably for ink, 5cm high, 4.5cm diameter, feint traces of label lettering. Dried up cork stopper, loose. Dried mud, not cleaned.
LAW'S LIBRARY
Printed report in A6 booklet form, entitled "Library at King's Cliffe, Report of the Committee, 22nd March 1880. Authors H St John Reade and R Massey.
SCHEME 1889
Printed letter from Charity Commission dated 13th September 1889 confirming new Scheme for the charity approved the previous month.
WILLIAM LAW'S LIBRARY
Entrance to Law's 'Library House' in Bridge Street, showing the inscription over door.
(misc)
Photo, group of girls at KC Endowed School, with two women, possibly teachers. Some girls are wearing former Law & Hutcheson charity school clothing. Date probably soon after KCES opened 1873.
LAW & HUTCHESON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF KC
CHARITY SCHOOLS
Stamford Mercury photo & coverage about pupils from KC Middle School wearing Law & Hutcheson charity school clothing for a film about William Law's life.
LAW'S LIBRARY
Rules of Law's lending library set up in 1752, rules written on sheet stuck into front of book recording books lent and returned, starting in 1752. Book continued into the mid-1800s.
Page 1 of lending library 'remembrance book' showing details of books lent out and returned by borrowers.
Page from lending library book, 1837, 'audit' sign-off by H K Bonney, Rector. The lending book was audited annually.
Page from lending library book, 1839 audit sign-off by H K Bonney, Rector.
THORPE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY
CORNFORTH HOMES CHARITY
Explanation of the existence of two memorial plaques on the Cornforth Homes almshouse buildings in Bridge Street: one originally from the Thorpe Almshouses in Park Street.
PLAQUE ON CORNFORTH HOMES WALL, BRIDGE ST
Stone inscription plaque, originally on gable of Thorpe Almshouses in Park Street, now on the north wall of the Cornforth Homes in Bridge Street.
CIVIL ADMIN
MANOR COURT RECORDS
MANOR COURT DOC DATED 1779
PROPERTY IN PARK STREET
Manuscript document 'Kings Cliffe Wm Falkner to Wm Wootton, Conditional Surrender for Securing £70 and interest, dated 1st October 1779'. A loan secured by Copyhold premises and ley ground in Park Street KC belonging to Wm Falkner.
CIVIL ADMIN & RECORDS
CENSUS 1841
TRANSCRIPT
Transcript of 1841 Census for King's Cliffe Parish. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1851
Transcription of 1851 census returns for parish of King's Cliffe, Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1861
TRANSCRIPT
Transcript of 1861 Census for King's Cliffe Parish. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1871
TRANSCRIPT
Transcript of Census Return 1871 for King's Cliffe Parish. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1881
TRANSCRIPT
1881 Census return for parish of King's Cliffe. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1891
TRANSCRIPT
1891 Census return for parish of King's Cliffe. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1901
TRANSCRIPT
1901 Census return for parish of King's Cliffe. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
CENSUS 1911
Transcript of all individual household returns for King's Cliffe Parish, in searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
EMPLOYMENT & N.I.
Receipt for Unemployment Book, issued by Ministry of Labour, Oundle, July 1932. 2 images of form, 640.1 (front), 640.2 (reverse)
EMPLOYMENT & NATIONAL INSURANCE
NI CONTRIB-UTIONS RECORD, MR N SMITH
'NEW SCHEME' RE SHORT-TERM BENEFITS, JULY 194
Ministry of National Insurance forms RF65, Contribution Record 35 weeks to 6 March 1949 for Mr N Smith, Park St, KC; and enclosed Form RF65c explaining 'new scheme upon which payment of sickness and unemployment and other short-term benefits depends'.
HEARTH TAX, 1669-70
TRANSCRIPT
Transcript of Hearth Tax return for King's Cliffe for the year 1669-70. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)
HIGHWAYS BOARD
MAKE-UP OF BOARD, 1886
Details of composition of Highways Board for King's Cliffe District in 1886. Taken from 'King's companion to the Almanacs 1886'. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
MAKE-UP OF BOARD, 1889
Details of composition of Highways Board for King's Cliffe District in 1889. Taken from 'King's companion to the Almanacs 1889'. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
MAKE-UP OF BOARD, 1891
Details of composition of Highways Board for King's Cliffe District in 1891. Taken from 'King's companion to the Almanacs 1891'. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
LAW & ORDER
POLICE
Poster for Vilage Security Event, 21 March 2016 at KC Ex-Servicemen's & Socila Club. Organised by Northamptonshire Police & Rural Action. A drop-in session for advice, comments, concerns.
MILITIA LISTS
MILITIA LIST 1762
Typed transcript of Millitia list for King's Cliffe men aged 18 to 45, taken on 26th November 1762. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
MILITIA LIST 1771
Typed transcript of Millitia list for King's Cliffe men aged 18 to 45, taken on 23rd November 1771. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
MILITIA LIST 1774
Typed transcript of Millitia list for King's Cliffe men aged 18 to 45, taken on 11th November 1774. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
MILITIA LIST 1777
Transcript of the Militia List for King's Cliffe parish dated 11th December 1777, containing the names of all men aged between 18 and 45 living in the parish. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
MILITIA LIST 1781
List of the men of King's Cliffe eligible for the Militia, made in 1781. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
MILITIA LIST c1600
Names of King's Cliffe men liable for militia & other military duties, c1600.
MILITIA LIST, 1638
List of Able-bodied men of King's Cliffe in Willybrook Hundred, 1638. Gives names and occupations.
PARISH COUNCIL MTGS
CHURCH CLOCK REPAIRS
St Mercury 2.4.1976 report of KC Parish Council meeting, topics included request for help with cost of repairing the church clock.
ENLARGED SEWAGE WORKS, 1973
St Mercury of 23.3.1973, reporting KC Parish Council discussions, including plans to increase capacity of sewage works 'to cater for a further 50 houses to be built in the village', and to take in Blatherwycke, Bulwick, Deene & Deenethorpe.
QUARRY TRAFFIC CONCERNS, 1976
St Mercury 5.3.1976 report of Parish Council meeting, including concern about traffic from proposed limestone quarrying on the Apethorpe Road.
PLANNING
EAST NORTHANTS DISTRICT LOCAL PLAN 1996
MAP OF KC & KEY
Map of King's Cliffe and related key; Inset 8 to the East Northants District Local Plan 1996 document.
ENLARGED SEWAGE WORKS, 1973
St Mercury of 23.3.1973, reporting KC Parish Council discussions, including plans to increase capacity of sewage works 'to cater for a further 50 houses to be built in the village', and to take in Blatherwycke, Bulwick, Deene & Deenethorpe.
LIMESTONE EXTRACTION, 1975
Public planning notice of application by G J Adams of Hall Farm, KC, for proposed extraction of limestone from OS nos 10, 11, 28, and part of 27. Notice dated 21.11.1975
NEIGHBOURBOOD PLAN
Handbill promoting the Neighbourhood Plan launch event, 13th December 2105 at KC Village Hall. Reverse lists FAQs re the Neighbourhood Plan.
PUBLIC OFFICES
TOWN CRIER
BELL
Cast bronze hand-bell embossed 'W.H.' and '14' on the shoulders of the bell; wooden handle with brass collar.
TAX
HEARTH TAX 1662-64
Typed transcript of Hearth Tax returns for years 1662-1664 for King's Cliffe, dated Michaelmas 1663. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
HEARTH TAX, 1674
Transcript of the list of those entered in the return for Hearth Tax in King's Cliffe IN 1674, giving names & number of hearths. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
LAND TAX 1824
Transcript of Land Tax returns for Parish of King's Cliffe, for the year 1824. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
LAND TAX 1910
Assessment form for Income Tax, House Duty & Land Tax for Apr 1909-Mar 1910. Land Tax assessed on John Thomas Bailey of no 1 West Street.
Receipt for payment of taxes (item 1106) due for tax year 1909-10, issued to John Thomas Bailey of no 1 West Street.
LAND TAX, 1748 & 1808
Article by Canon Bryan about relative holdings of various landowners in King's Cliffe between 1748 and 1808.
PARISH CHURCH LAND VALUATION (PROV) 1914
Letter from Inland Revenue to Revd H A Orlebar, KC Rector, enclosing Provisional Valuation of Parish church and churchyard under Finance Act 1910
COURTS
COURT LEET & COURT BARON
Transcript of Orders & Bylaws of the Court Leet & Court Baron of the Manor of King's Cliffe from 1698 to 1729, relating to regulation of open field agriculture.
GREAT COURT BARON (MANOR COURT)
SUMMONS TO ATTEND IN 1897
Summons to John Thomas Bailey of King's Cliffe to serve on the Jury of the Great Court Baron of the Marquis of Exeter, to be held on 1 June 1897 at the Cross Keys Inn, King's Cliffe.
(misc)
Wording of summons to, and dismissal from, the Great Court Baron held at the Cross Keys Inn, King's Cliffe.
Wording of summons to, and dismissal from, the Great Court Baron held at the Cross Keys Inn, King's Cliffe.
DRAWING
(BELIEVED) PORTRAIT OF JOHN ('BUZZ') NICHOLLS
Pencil portrait 14" x 16.5", border for mounting in frame, torn lower left. '23701' in blue pencil on reverse, also on tube (4328.1-.3) used to pack and post the portrait. Subject believed to be John Nicholls ('Buzz') a steam engine driver in KC.
ELECTIONS
'K CLIFFE, ELECTION 1910', GROUP IN WEST ST
POSTCARD
Group of children and a few adults, posed on a horse-drawn cart outside the bakery in West Street. Man on cart is holding a bakery basket aloft. Handwritten caption: 'Ks Cliffe, Election 1910'. Said to have been a Liberal Party treat.
CANDIDATE MR LEONARD BRASSEY, POSSIBLY 1906
Postcard printed both sides: 'Vote for Brassey and a Brighter Britain' one side; other side shows a scene of domestic misery (artist T B Kennington) with the slogan 'FREE TRADE' printed below. Printed & publ David Allen & Sons, Fleet St, London.
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'Either a Little Liberal or a Little Conservative: Elections & Electioneering in King's Cliffe', covering period 1832 - 1922. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
PARISH COUNCIL
REPORT OF RESULTS, 1979
Results of King's Cliffe Parish Council elections on 24th May 1979 as reported in the Stamford Mercury.
ENTERTAINMENT
'SHERWOOD'S QUEEN', 1924
VENUE, KC MEMORIAL HALL
Principal characters in costume, posed on-stage at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall where a production of 'Sherwood's Queen' was performed in February 1924 by an amateur cast of ladies and gentlemen of the village.
Members of the chorus in costume, posed on-stage at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall where a production of 'Sherwood's Queen' was performed in February 1924 by an amateur cast of ladies and gentlemen of the village.
Report from the Stamford Mercury of a production of 'Sherwood's Queen' performed in King's Cliffe Memorial Hall in February 1924 by an amateur cast of ladies and gentlemen of the village.
CINEMA
KING'S CLIFFE MEMORIAL HALL, VILLAGE HALL
Cinema programme poster for March and April 1947 film shows in King's Cliffe Village Hall. Printed in colour.
CONCERT PARTY, APRIL 1912
PROGRAMME FOR
Printed programme for a concert party held on 11th April 1912. Front cover and inside two-page spread.
COSTUME PAGEANTS
'EMPIRE'S HONOUR', 1915-17
Photo of two costume characters from a pageant entitled 'Empire's Honour': dated to between January 1915 and December 1917. Mr George Love (page), Mr A G Dann (Lord Kitchener).
Photo of group in pageant costumes representing different nations, Armed Forces, medical staff etc, posed in Endowed School yard. All are named on a separate printed sheet (item 2981). Dated to 1915-1917.
GROUP IN COSTUMES IN KC ENDOWED SCHOOL YARD,
Group of adults, teachers and others from the village, wearing pageant costumes and posed in the yard at KC Endowed School, c1918. All names listed in caption.
PHOTO, 1918-1920
Photo of two costume characters from a pageant dated to c1918-20. Mrs Adela ('Minnie') Love, as a V.A.D.; Miss Mary Powell as a Victorian lady.
Miss Mary Powell as a Victorian lady, side view. From pageant dated to c1918-20.
Mrs Kate Norman (the village District Nurse) as a 'nurse' from costume pageant c1918-20, treating unidentified 'patient'. Backdrop is yew hedge in Manor House garden.
Miss Ida Chapman as Queen of Hearts from costume pageant c1918-20, with Arthur Norman as 'Knave or Page of Hearts'. Backdrop is yew hedge in Manor House garden.
Young Elfreda Sharpe, as 'Little Dora' from costume pageant c1918 photo taken in Manor House garden.
Group in costume, photo taken at Manor House, presumed a school-inspired costume pageant. Miss Normanton (teacher), Susie Catlin (later married Walker), and Marjorie Sharpe (later married Woolley) identified. Dated to c1920.
DUFFY BROTHERS, COUNTRY MUSIC
LP ALBUM, 1975
LP 'Wild over Us' album of country music recorded by The Duffy Brothers, Ray and Leo Duffy and Dave Skews, and issued by Country Music Recordings in 1975.
KC PLAYERS
'ALLO 'ALLO, OCTOBER 2012
Poster advertising performances by the King's Cliffe Players of 'Allo 'Allo, 10-13 and 17-20 October 2012.
Programme for King's Cliffe Players's production of 'Allo 'Allo, 10-13 and 17-20 October 2012.
'LOOT' BY JOE ORTON, NOV 1992
Photo and caption, Stamford Mercuiry 13th Nov 1992: King's Cliffe Players put on production of 'Loot', a black comedy by Joe Orton in King's Cliffe Memorial Hall. Cast in photo are named.
ALI BABA & FORTY THIEVES, FEBRUARY 2016
PROGRAMME
Programme for KC Players' production of 'Ali Baba and Forty Thieves', performed at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall in February 2016. All pages scanned.
ARABIAN NIGHTS, 2001
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Arabian Nights, panto, in February 2001.
ARMS AND THE MAN, 2011
Poster for the King's Cliffe Players' production of 'Arms and the Man' in October 2011.
BABES IN THE WOOD, 2003
Programme for King's Cliffe Players' production of ''Babes in the Wood' panto in February 2003. Front cover scanned.
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, 2002
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Jack and the Beanstalk" panto, February 2002
MONTH OF SUNDAYS, 1998
Programme for KC Players' production of 'A Month of Sundays', play by Bob Larby in May 1998.
OFF THE HOOK, 2000
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Off the Hook', farce by Derek Benfield, October 2000
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, 2008
Poster for King's Cliffe Players' production of '''Oh What a Lovely War' April - May 2008
OLIVER, THE MUSICAL, 2012
Poster produced by the King's Cliffe Players to promote their production of 'Oliver, the Musical', 14th - 24th March 2012 at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall.
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MURDER, 2001
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Out of Sight, Out of Murder" mystery comedy by Fred Carmichael, in October 2001.
PANIC STATIONS, 2002
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Panic Stations" a farce by Derek Benfield, in October 2002
PANTO AT THE OK CORRAL, 2004
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Panto at the OK Corral" panto by Jim Sperinck, in February 2004.
RED RIDING HOOD, 1999
Programme for KC Players' production of 'Red Riding Hood', panto, in February 1999.
SNOW WHITE, 2000
Programme for KC Players' production of 'Snow white' panto, in February 2000.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, NOV 2014
PROGRAMME
Programme for KC Players' production of The Importance of Being Earnest, performed at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall in November 2014. All pages scanned.
TIME OF MY LIFE, 2003
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Time of My Life" a play by Alan Ayckbourn in October 2003
TREASURE ISLAND, 2011
Black and white poster for 'Treasure Island' pantomime production by the King's Cliffe Players, 17th - 26th February 2011. Poster designed and drawn by John Paige of Old Brewery Studio, King's Cliffe.
U.R.G.E., 1999
Programme for KC Players' production of 'U.R.G.E.' comedy, in October 1999.
MAGIC LANTERN SHOW
KC MEMORIAL HALL/VILLAGE HALL
Poster, designed by Robert Meadows, to advertise a Magic Lantern Show in the Village Hall at Christmas 2013. Proceeds to go to Village Hall improvements fund.
MUSIC
'SCRATCH' CONCERT, APETHORPE CHURCH, 1992
Poster for An Evening of Music by the vocal group 'Scratch', directed by Helen Wright, in St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe on Sat 29th February 1992. Organised by Apethorpe Music Society.
CONCERT 'SONGS OF EUROPE', APETHORPE CHURCH,
Poster for 'Songs of Europe' concert in St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe on Friday 26th October 1990. Organised by Apethorpe Music Society.
CONCERT, 1944
PROGRAMME
Programme, cover and inside, for King's Cliffe Revue Concert Company entertainment at the Memorial Hall (Village Hall) on December 15th 1944.
FENECH SOLER, BAND
Feature about local band 'Fenech Soler' written by Georgie Fenn for Nene Living magazine June 2015. Colour photo of 4-man band and news of their future plans.
GRAND CONCERT, 1946
Torn scrap of a ticket for a Grand Concert at King's Cliffe Village Hall (Memorial Hall) on 19th October 1946. Performers were a Male Voice Choir, proceeds to 'reconstruction funds'; other details lost.
JEZ HELLARD & DJUKELLA ORCHESTRA
Poster advertising the launch event for the new album 'Heavy Wood' by Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra, 4 March 2016 at KC Memorial Hall.
Poster advertising the launch event for the new album 'Direct from The Shire' by Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra, 4 November 20176 at KC Memorial Hall.
KC VICTORIA BAND, 1900
KC Victoria Band with instruments & hats, on tennis court at Hall Farm. Band formed in 1899. Band master was Mr Walter Woolley.
MAGPIE MINSTRELS
The Magpie Minstrels with their dog, Scamp, posed in costume in garden setting
THE STERADENTS
Poster advertising a gig by local group 'The Steradents' (and guests) at KC Ex-servicemen's & Social Club on 16th June 2012, including pictures of band members.
VARIETY CONCERTS, WW2
B & w photo of 6 young ladies and Mrs Mabel Sharpe in costumes for a variety concert in 1945; posed in garden, probably at 22 Park Street, home of Ellis family.
PAGEANT
GROUP IN PAGEANT COSTUME
Group dressed as pierrots, posed in a garden setting, possibly at King's Cliffe Endowed School where some of them were on the teaching staff.
VARIETY CONCERTS, 1940s
PHOTO, 1945
Mabel Sharpe (front), with six girls in costume for a variety concert of songs, dances and sketches; posed in a garden setting. Dated to 1945, garden believed to be at 22 Park Street.
EVENT
QE II CORONATION, 1953
COSTUME PAGEANT AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
GROUP OF ELEVEN CHILDREN AS TUDORS
Group of eleven boys and girls dressed as Tudors (except for boy on far left), posed against school garden wall. Names recorded on separate document.
Group of ten boys and girls dressed as Tudors, posed in school garden. Names recorded on separate document.
EVENTS
60TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
Report of King's Cliffe W.I. 60th birthday celebrations at the Endowed School, from Peterborough Standard of 24th March 1978.
ALBUM LAUNCH, 4 MARCH 2016
Poster advertising the launch event for the new album 'Heavy Wood' by Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra, 4 March 2016 at KC Memorial Hall.
ALBUM LAUNCH, 4 NOVEMBER 2017
Poster advertising the launch event for the new album 'Direct from The Shire' by Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra, 4 November 20176 at KC Memorial Hall.
BARROW RACE FOR SSAFA, JUNE 1982
STARTING POINT AT THE CROSS
Colour photo taken from Park Street looking to the Cross during a fundraising wheelbarrow race in aid of SSAFA in June 1982.
Colour photo (one of two) taken at the Cross during a fundraising wheelbarrow race in aid of SSAFA in June 1982, following the Falklands War.
Colour photo (one of two) taken at the Cross during a fundraising wheelbarrow race in aid of SSAFA in June 1982, following the Falklands War.
BEST KEPT VILLAGE 1987
TREE-PLANTING IN HALL YARD, 1988
Mrs Rose Lattimore planting a tree in Hall Yard at the centre of the village, to mark the village's achievement in winning the Best Kept Village competition for 1988.
BOER WAR
SPECIAL FORM OF SERVICE, 7.1.1900
Printed Form of Special Service for 7th January 1900 authorised by the Bishop of Peterborough for use in churches in the diocese "on behalf of our nation and countrymen in the present war".
BUNS & ORANGES, 1961
DISTRIBUTION TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Photo recording distribution of buns & oranges to children of the Sunday School, at the Parish Church, Easter 1961.
BUNS & ORANGES, 1967
DISTRIBUTION TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Children and mothers in King's Cliffe churchyard awaiting distribution of buns and oranges at Easter 1967.
BUNS & ORANGES, DISTRIBUTION ON EASTER MONDAY
PHOTO, 1955
Archdeacon of Oakham distributing buns and oranges and Sunday School prizes to children in the porch at King's Cliffe parish church. Picture dated to c1955. Stamford Mercury photo.
BUNS & ORANGES, EASTER 1899
DISTRIBUTION TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Photo recording the distribution of buns & oranges to children of the Sunday School at Easter 1899 at the rear of the (old) Rectory in West St.
CELEBRATION TEA IN OLD RECTORY GARDEN
POSSIBLY 1897
Large group of women and children in their best attire, enjoying a sit-down tea in the grounds of the (Old) Rectory, West St. View to right.
CELEBRATION TEA, OLD RECTORY GARDEN
QN VICTORIA'S DIAMOND JUBILEE?
Large group of women and children in their best attire, enjoying a sit-down tea in the grounds of the (Old) Rectory, West St. View to left, showing agapantha at foot of steps behind the rectory.
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK, COLLECTIONS
RESULTS OF COLLECTION IN MAY 2017
Christian Aid poster showing total of £2,056.74 collected in the village during Christian Aid Week, 14 - 20 May 2017.
CHURCH FETE 1962
'PEARLY QUEENS'
Church fete in Rectory garden, scene shows two Pearly Queens of London who came to open the fete and the coconut shie for men behind them, board showing prizes
PROGRAMME
Programme for King's Cliffe Fete, Whit Monday 11th June 1962, in Rectory garden, to be opened by Pearly Queen of London, Mrs J Marriott. Proceeds in aid of church organ restoration.
CHURCH FETE 1994
PLANT STALL
Colour photo of the plant stall run by KC Gardeners' Association members in full swing at the KC Church Fete in May 1994.
COMMONWEALTH DAY, 25 MAY 1962
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL COMMEMORATIONS
Note from Head Teacher, KC Secondary Modern School, 25th May 1962, to Nts Chief Education Office, describing school commemorations for Commonwealth Day. Written on Nts Ed Cttee paper stamped 'KC Secondary Modern School …) Loose inside Log Book (4092).
CRICKET CLUB ANNUAL CONCERT & BALL, 1896
HANDBILL & PROGRAMME
Handbill/poster and Programme for Annual Concert & Ball of KC Cricket Club, held on 28th December 1896. 'Magpie Minstrels' and others entertained - named on Programme.
CRICKET CLUB ANNUAL CONCERT & BALL, 1898
HANDBILL & PROGRAMME
Handbill/poster and Programme for KC Cricket Club Annual Concert & Ball, 26th December 1898, held in the Park Street schoolroom in aid of Cricket Club funds. Caterer: T F Richardson, Cross Keys landlord. Poster is item 1077.1, programme 1077.2.
DEDICATION, WW2 AIRFIELD MEMORIAL
INVITATION CARD FOR 25TH AUGUST 1983
Example of Invitation card sent to attend the ceremony of dedication of the KC WW2 Airfield memorial, 25 August 1983, in the presence of HRH the Duke of Gloucester.
ITINERARY, 25TH AUGUST 1983
Itinerary for the parade and dedication of the Airfield Memorial on Thursday 25th August 1983
PROGRAMME & ORDER OF SERVICE, 25TH AUGUST 198
Programme and Order of Service for Parade and Dedication Service of the Memorial Monument at King's Cliffe Airfield, (Station 367) on 25 August 1983. All pages in single pdf document.
DUCK RACE 1998
WILLOWBROOK BEHIND MALTINGS GREEN
Set of individual photos of the first annual Duck Race (1998) organised by the KC Community Association to raise £1,000 each year for them on August Bank Holiday Mondays. Ducks 'sold' for £1 each.
EDW VII CORONATION, 1902
MEMORIAL LAMP AT CROSS
Brief account of news reports of the King's Cliffe celebrations for Edward VII's coronation on 9 August 1902, and erection of a memorial lamp standard at the Cross.
ELIZ II CORONATION, 1953
COSTUME PAGEANT AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Whole group of Infants class, half dressed in red, half in white to represent the Wars of the Roses. Names in 4708.1.
EMPIRE DAY
Boys on parade in the yard at KC Endowed School, with drummer and standard bearer with Union Flag, possibly for Empire Day. Dated to 1916 by apparent age of Kenneth Sharpe, far left, born 1907.
Photo 290 from c1916 with names provided in year 2000.
EMPIRE DAY, 24TH MAY
COSTUME PAGEANT
Photo of group in pageant costumes representing different nations, Armed Forces, medical staff etc, posed in Endowed School yard. All are named on a separate printed sheet (item 2981). Dated to 1915-1917.
PROGRAMME FOR PAGEANT
Printed programme for 'Empire's Honour' costume pageant, listing all the characters and the people representing them. Accompanies photo of group, item 2980.
EXCURSION
HOWARDS COACH TRIP, c1950
Group photo from a seaside trip dated to 1950 or 1951, Howards' coach in centre background.
FEAST WEEK
24 V 12 FRIENDLY MATCH
KC Cricket Club team and visitors for the 24 v 12 friendly match during Feast Week, all wearing hats. Scoreboard shows date 1899. Versions in sepia and black-and-white.
FRIENDLY CRICKET MATCH
King's Cliffe ladies' cricket team wearing gorgeous hats. At the pavilion on the cricket field, the scoreboard shows the date 1906. Versions in sepia and black-and-white with hand-written title 'King's Cliffe Ladies Cricket'.
Mixed cricket group - KC Cricket Club & ladies wearing boaters. At the pavilion on the cricket field. Dated to the late 1890s.
FEAST WEEK 1925
NEWS REPORT
Peterborough Advertiser of 7 August 1925, report of KC Feast week incl cricket, picnics, garden fete in aid of Pboro War Memorial New Hospital, Cricket Dance, Flower Show, bowling match.
FEAST WEEK, 'CLIFFE FEAST'
NEWS REPORTS
Some extracts from the Stamford Mercury and Peterborough Advertiser from 1913 to 1925, giving accounts of 'Cliffe Feast' in its latter years.
FESTIVAL 1992
VILLAGE PHOTO IN HALL YARD
Photo of the village photograph taken in Hall Yard as part of the week-long Festival 1992 to replicate a similar photograph in June 1911. Coverage in the Stamford Mercury of 24th July 1992.
FESTIVAL WEEK 1992
PROGRAMME FOR WEEK
Programme of the week's activities, Festival Week 19th - 25th July 1992.
VILLAGE PHOTO IN HALL YARD
Village picture taken 19.7.1992 in Hall Yard, in colour. This is a casual shot of the assembled group prior to a formal photograph being taken.
Village picture taken 19.7.1992 in Hall Yard, sepia version of formal pose. Black & white print is item 2986.
Black & white photo showing large number of village residents posed in Hall Yard on 19 July 1992. An attempt to replicate the village photo taken in June 1911.
GARDEN FETE, 1923
FUNDRAISER FOR KC & DIST NURSING ASSOC.
Report from Stamford & Rutland News, 11th July 1923. Great attraction of a 'wireless installation' used at the garden fete to raise funds for the King's Cliffe, Apethorpe & Woodnewton District Nursing Association.
GARDEN FETES
BRITISH LEGION FETE, LATE 1920s
Fete in garden at 31 West St (King's Cliffe House, formerly called Windmill House). Possibly a British Legion fete, with military band, bowls on the tennis courts. Date unknown, possibly late 1920s.
GEO V CORONATION, 1911
KC VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Extracts from Peterborough Advertiser of 24th June 1911 giving details of King's Cliffe celebrations for the coronation of King George V on 22 June 1911.
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Children & teachers in nursery rhyme costumes on float outside Hall Farm. Part of the village celebrations for King George V's coronation on 22.6.1911.
Children, teachers & others in costume, some on H E Dixon's coal cart, in Hall Yard. This group was part of the costume parade for Kiing George V's coronation celebrations on 22 June 1911.
Children in Britannia tableau, in costume & with decorated cycles, posed as a small group in Hall Yard. Part of the village celebrations for King George V's coronation on 22.6.1911.
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St.. Children in costume on Kingston's cart & boy on white pony in the foreground.
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St. Band & friendly societies in foreground
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St. Carts with children and teachers in fancy dress in foreground.
Sepia photo of the village assembled in costume and with tradesmen, Fire Brigade and musicians, taken in Hall Yard for King George V's coronation celebrations on 22 June 1911.
The Magpie Minstrels with their dog, Scamp, posed in costume in garden setting
GEO V CORONATION, VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS IN JUN
Costume parade passing the Windmill Inn (with bay windows), West Street, as part of the village celebrations for the coronation of George V, 22 June 1911. Decorated bicycles in foreground.
GEO V SILVER JUBILEE, 1935
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Villagers gather in Hall Yard in fancy dress as part of the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6th May 1935.
Procession passing the Golden Ball Inn, Bridge St, with the Collyweston Silver Band & Wheel Inn Friendly Society members with their banner aloft.
Close-up of members of the Wheel Inn Friendly society with the banner as they process up Bridge Street past the Golden Ball Inn.
View down Bridge Street to the Willowbrook as the procession passes uphill towards the Cross, led by the organisers, Collyweston Silver Band and Wheel Inn Friendly Society.
(misc)
Villagers in fancy dress parading up Bridge St towards the Cross, as part of the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6th May 1935.
GEO VI CORONATION, 1937
COMMEMORATIVE ITEM
Picture of a commemorative square, printed in sepia brown on fine lawn. Heads of George VI and his queen, Elizabeth, crown and banner 'Coronation May 12 1937'; border of Empire country shields linked in design of rose, shamrock, thistle and daffodil.
COMMEMORATIVE SILK HANDKERCHIEF
Commemorative silk handkerchief, colours rather faded; ctre heads of George VI and Queen Elizabeth with scatter of '1937'; initials 'GR' in each corner, borders of crowns; sword, sceptre & orb, Tudor rose, thistles & shamrock leaves. (11.5 x 12.5")
COMMEMORATIVEPRINTED SILK HANDKERCHIEF
BELONGED TO MRS DOROTHY BROUGHTON, NEE HARPER
Delicate cream-coloured silk handkerchief measuring approx 13 inches square, printed with heads of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in centre, border with initials 'GR', date 1937, crowns, sceptres, swords, flowers etc (rather faded).
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
CHILDREN PRESENTED WITH MUGS & MEDALS
Set of three photos showing children being presented with commemorative mugs and medals in the school yard at KC Endowed School in Park Street.
POSTER
Large poster for 'coronation festivities' on 12th May 1937. Printed in bold red and blue on white. Lists programme of events and sports. Scanned.
(misc)
Powerpoint slide show of photos taken on 12th May 1937 to record the village celebrations organised for the day. Includes a copy of the 'Coronation Festivities' poster. Watch this through the Gallery, Events and Occasions.
View up Bridge Street to the Cross, past Mr Dann's plumbers with fascia board. F Bould workshop opposite. Flags & bunting for Geo VI coronation celebrations.
GEORGE VI CORONATION
KC BRITISH LEGION BRANCH PARADE
Photo of KC Branch members of British Legion parading with their standard outside the (old) Clubhouse at 33/35 West Street, on the day of George VI's coronation, 12th May 1937.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL
FIRST SUCH EVENT, 1980
St Mercury 19.8.1980 coverage of first King's Cliffe gymkhana and festival, held on Fishpools Meadow, naming organisers, attractions and winners.
Small ad in Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 29.8.1980, promoting the 1st King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival, to be held on 14 September 1980 in aid of Parish Church Restoration Fund.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1983
REPORT ABOUT
Peterborough Standard of 18th August 1983, photos and coverage of the fourth annual King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival held Sunday 14th August 1983.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1984
GRAND DRAW
Grand Draw ticket (no 4751) bought at the KC Gymkhana & Festival on Sunday 12th August 1984.
REPORT ABOUT
Peterborough Standard of 16th August 1984, photos and coverage of the fifth annual King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival held Sunday 12th August 1984.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1985
PHOTOS
Colour photo looking across the gymkhana field, cars, trailers, bouncy castle and stalls, no horse-riding in this picture.
Colour photo looking uphill over the Moors to Park Street with competitors' horseboxes, horses & riders in foreground. Taken during the King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival on 11 August 1985.
WHEELBARROW STEEPLECHASE
Poster for teams to take part in the 'Great Cliffe Wheelbarrow Steeplechase' at the King's Cliffe Festival & Gymkhana on Sunday August 11th 1985.
Two teams in action in the 'Great Cliffe Wheelbarrow Steeplechase' at the King's Cliffe Festival & Gymkhana on Sunday August 11th 1985.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1986
'RED BARROWS' DISPLAY TEAM,
The 'Red Barrows' wheelbarrow display team pictured at the King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival on 10th August 1986.
NEWSPAPER COVERAGE
Stamford Mercury coverage of the King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival, 10th August 1986, and photo of the 'Red Barrows' wheelbarrow display team.
PROGRAMME
Programme for the King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival held on Sunday 10th August 1986. Includes advertisements from local businesses of the time.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1987
POSTER
Poster for 8th Annual KC Festival & Gymkhana, Sunday 9th August 1987. All attractions listed
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1988
POSTER
Handbill/poster for 9th annual King's Cliffe Festival & Gymkhana, 14th August 1988.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1989
REPORT ABOUT
Local newspaper coverage, August 1989, annual King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival held August 1989.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL 1990
VIEW OF EVENT
General view across the KC Gymkhana & Festival in August 1990, showing some of the stalls and attractions.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL, 1981
POSTER
Handbill/poster for the 2nd King's Cliffe Festival & Gymkhana, to be held on 27th September 1981. Post lists all events and attractions planned.
GYMKHANA & FESTIVAL, 1983
NEWS REPORT
St Mercury photo and report of 4th KC Gymkhana & Festival held 14th August 1983; 2000 attended, £1,000+ raised.
HIGH DAYS AND HOLIDAYS
SLIDE SHOW
Slide show entitled 'High Days & Holidays'. Includes village feast, May Day & Empire Day, celebrations of royal occasions, Festival & Gymkhana, school pageants, fetes, Christmas, etc. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
KC GYMKHANA, 1961
Newspaper cutting, unidentified but possibly Pboro Advertiser: their report & two photos of young competitors in action at the 4th King's Cliffe Gymkhana. Undated, but believed to be 1961 event (26th August 1961).
KC HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW, 1925
PROGRAMME
Programme cover, Rules and Schedule for KC Horticultural Society 14th Annual Show, held 5th August 1925.
KC HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW, 1926
PROGRAMME & RULES
Programme cover and Exhibition Rules for KC Horticultural Society 15th Annual Show, held 4th August 1926,as part of Cliffe Feast Week. Lists Vice-Presidents & Committee members.
KC WW2 AIRFIELD MEMORIAL DEDICATION
BEFORE & AFTER UNVEILING
Two photos showing the memorial draped before unveiling, and after the dedication ceremony with many wreaths placed on the base.
KING'S CLIFFE GYMKHANA, POSSIBLY
Cutting from undated local newspaper, probably the Stamford Mercury, with part photo & caption re King's Cliffe Gymkhana. Believed to be c1965, and not later than October 1966.
MAY DAY
CROWNING MAY QUEEN AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Photo of the crowning of the May Queen at KC Endowed School, taken in the school yard. Parents & children crowding round; Mr Love (Headmaster) left foreground, Revd Marsh on right in background. Dated to 1918.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Marjorie Sharpe (later m Woolley), left, as May Queen; and Doreen Goodwin, May Queen in previous year, posed in costume probably in KC Endowed School grounds.
MANOR HOUSE GARDEN
Group of girls from KC Endowed School, with headmaster Mr George Love, on steps of the dovecote in Manor House garden. Girls in white dresses; thought to be May Queen and attendants. Dated to c1920.
Girls and boys from KC Endowed School standing with the maypole set up in Manor House Garden, yew hedge behind them. Miss Mary Powell to the right of the picture. Dated to c1920.
MAYPOLE DANCING AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Maypole dancing at King's Cliffe Endowed School, in the early 1950s. The Maypole is positioned in the centre of what was then the Headmaster's garden.
MAYPOLE DANCING, 1922
May Day dancing at the Cross, with large audience of adults. Girls dancing, boys standing in centre around base of maypole. Girl with coat and straw hat (back to camera) is Mary Bailey, born 1914.
SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS 1918
Small photo (damaged) showing May Queen and attendants on May Day 1918 at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
WEST STREET, OPP MANOR HOUSE
THATCHED COTTAGE & NOS 76-84
Girls and boys from KC Endowed School maypole dancing in West St, opposite Manor House. Thatched cottage in background, demolished in 1960s. Dated to c1920.
(misc)
The Maltsters Arms in West Street with children from King's Cliffe Endowed School dancing outside with their Maypole. An amateur photo believed to date to c1910.
MILLENNIUM
COMMEMORATIVE MUG FOR KC MIDDLE SCHOOL
Mug given to children of Oundle & King's Cliffe Middle School to mark the Millennium year, 2000. 3 views to show decoration in the round.
MILLENNIUM WOOD PLANTING
POST FOR, FEB 2000
Poster advertising Planting Day at King's Cliffe Millennium Wood on Saturday 12th February 2000.
NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN LAUNCH, 13 DECEMBER 2015
HANDBILL
Handbill promoting the Neighbourhood Plan launch event, 13th December 2105 at KC Village Hall. Reverse lists FAQs re the Neighbourhood Plan.
OPEN GARDENS, 1993
APPEAL RE 'JACK'S CHAIR' SEPTEMBER 1993
Stamford Mercury entry under Mercury Town and Country for King's Cliffe, advertising Open Garden Day to raise money to provide a special chair for a disabled child in the village. Event to be on Sunday September 5th 1993.
Poster advertising Open Garden Day to raise money to provide a special chair for a disabled child in the village. Event to be on Sunday September 5th 1993.
Leaflet produced for Open Garden Day on Sunday September 5th 1993, for visitors to the garden at Clockmaker's Cottage, 39 West Street. (2-sided A4.)
FUNDRAISER, CHAIR FOR DISABLED CHILD
St Mercury photo & report, 10 Sept 1993: Open Gardens held in KC on 5 Sept 1993 to raise money for a special chair for Jack Barratt, a village boy with cerebral palsy. His sister Gemma is in the photo.
PIANO BREAKING COMPETITION, EARLY 1970s
ON GLEBE FARM PADDOCK
3 photos of Young Farmers v. Cross Keys piano-breaking competition in the early 1970s, held on Wellington Farm paddock between Wood Rd and Forest Approach. Houses on Wood Road and bungalow in Forest Approach can be seen in the background.
3 members of the Cross Keys team taking part in a piano-breaking competition against the Young Farmers in the early 1970s.
The 5-man Cross Keys team 'posting' the remains of their piano through a car tyre at the end of a paino-breaking competition against the Young Farmers in the early 1970s.
POLICE 'VILLAGE SECURITY EVENT'
Poster for Vilage Security Event, 21 March 2016 at KC Ex-Servicemen's & Socila Club. Organised by Northamptonshire Police & Rural Action. A drop-in session for advice, comments, concerns.
QE CORONATION 1953
PAGEANT AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Large group of children posed in garden at KC Endowed School in costume for their pageant to celebrate the Queen's coronation in June 1953. Mr Ford, headteacher, far left back.
QE II 40TH
TREES PLANTED IN PARK STREET
Informal photo of ceremonial planting by Jim Brown of one of two trees on green behind Park Street bus pull-in, to mark the 40th year of Queen's reign in February 1992.
QEII 25TH, 1977
WI FLOAT IN VILLAGE PARADE
King's Cliffe WI members on board a red VW open-back van, decorated ddas a float for the Silver Jubilee carnival paradein June 1977.
QEII 60TH
PROGRAMME OF VILLAGE EVENTS, 3 JUNE 2012
Handbill detailing planned events in King's Cliffe to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on 3rd June 2012. (Stapled in centre-fold of Parish Gazette for June 2012.)
QEII CORONATION 1953
VILLAGE PARADE IN FANCY DRESS
AT JUNCTION WEST ST & PIG LANE (NOW FOREST AP
Villagers in fancy dress parading the streets, photo taken from upper window at no 14 West Street on the corner with Pig Lane, looking down and west. Mooltan House and 'Englands' no 19 opposite. Cottages beside no 19 no longer standing.
QEII CORONATION, 1953
COMMEMORATIVE MUG
Commemorative mug for QE II coronation 2 June 1953, made by T G Green & Co Ltd using silica clay quarried in King's Cliffe.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL PAGEANT
Fifteen pupils posed in the garden of King's Cliffe Endowed School in costume for a pageant, thought to be for Queen Eliz II coronation in June 1953.
PROGRAMME OF VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Scans of programme of village events to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2.6.1953. Two copies of the original printed programme are held, one in delicate condition (some insect damage), the other in good condition.
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
STREET PARTY
Group of King's Cliffe children, with their mothers (?) gathered on Back Way (now Wood Road). Believed to be from a street party on Coronation Day in 1953.
QEII DIAMOND JUBILEE
COMMEMORATIVE MUG
Commemorative mug to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in June 2012. Official diamond jubilee image, crest & flags on one side; 'Presented by King's Cliffe Parish Council ...' on other side.
VILLAGE CELEBRATION PLANNING
Poster, King's Cliffe Parish Council inviting village organisations and individuals to attend a planning meeting on 22nd September 2011 for village celebrations in June 2012.
QEII DIAMOND JUBILEE, 2012
COMMEMORATIVE MUG
Commemorative mug produced for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012; inscribed "Presented by Kings Cliffe Parish Council to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2012'.
VILLAGE CELEBRATION PLANNING
Poster, King's Cliffe Parish Council inviting village organisations and individuals to attend 2nd planning meeting on 2th October 2011 for village celebrations in June 2012.
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Bunting made by pupils at KC Endowed School to decorate the school hall as part of the school's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
QEII GOLDEN JUBILEE, 2002
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Programme of events in King's Cliffe to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee; events held over the weekend of 1st to 3rd June 2002.
QEII SILVER JUBILEE, 1977
CARNIVAL PROCESSION
Cross Keys customers on their carnival float, taking part in the village celebratios for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
COMMEMORATIVE ITEM
Plastic carrier bag printed with Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee flag and emblems, designs scanned from front and back of bag.
COMMEMORATIVE MUG
Mug made in King's Cliffe to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Transfer print design with the Queen's head surrounded by a garland & 'Silver Jubilee 1952 - 77, King's Cliffe'.
COMMEMORATIVE PLATE
Commemorative plate for Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, 1977. 9.5" diameter, glaze is grey with small charcoal area. Transfer print as for mug, item 1824.
PRINTED PAPER NAPKIN
Paper napkin produced for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
SPECIAL FORM OF PRAYER
Privy Council notice issued 4th March 1977 ordering Archbishop of Canterbury to prepare Special Form of Prayer & thanksgiving for Queen's Silver Jubilee to be used in churches on 5th June 1977.
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Programme of events in King's Cliffe to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee; events held on 27th May and 5th & 7th June 1977.
Programme for King's Cliffe Silver Jubilee Carnival on 7th June 1977.
Typewritten programme for King's Cliffe Endowed School Silver Jubilee Concert, performed on 1st and 2nd June 1977.
QN VICTORIA GOLDEN JUBILEE, 1887
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Photo from local paper (uncertain which) showing West Street decorated with a Jubilee arch high across street approx at no 39, and a group of men (none identified). Part of village celebration for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, July 1887.
REMEMBRANCE DAY, 2008
MEMORIALS AND WREATHS
Set of four photos taken on Remembrance Sunday 2008, showing the war memorial tablet in the north transept of King's Cliffe Parish Church, and wreaths placed by Parish Council, Scouts & KC British Legion branch.
TRANSITION CHRISTMAS FAIR 2015
HANDBILL
Promotional handbill for event on 29th November 2015 in King's Cliffe Village Hall. Includes details of all stallholders, bar café and visitng brass band. Both sides of handbill scanned.
TRANSITION XMAS FAIR 2018
BAGS MADE AT COMMUNITY SEWING BEE ON SALE
LABEL
Label from bag made by a community sewing bee group in the village under the guidance of Lucia Hyams of ShooSo.
TUG OF WAR
The Cross Keys team taking part in a tug-of-war against the Young Farmers, pulling across the Willowbrook behind the Rectory on New Year's Day 1973.
TURN OF 19TH - 20TH CENTURIES
COMMEMORATIVE NEWSPAPER EDITION
Newspaper, titled 'Golden Extra Daily Mail' published Monday 31 December 1900 to commemorate 'dawn of the the 20th century in 63rd year of Qn Victoria'. 8-sides printed in gold, front & back pages in poor condition, only front page scanned.
UNKNOWN VILLAGE EVENT BETWEEN 1890 & 1912
GROUP IN MILL FIELD
Event in Mill field, shows young horsechestnut trees, the church, watermill and bakehouse. George Miles, 1st KC Parish Council Chairman from 1895, in foreground (with bowler hat & button-hole.) A speaker on the podium?
VILLAGE MAP
OFFICIAL UNVEILING, MAY 2002
Photo and report, Stamford Mercury 10th May 2002: official unveiling on 5th May 2002 of the Millennium Village Map erected in Hall Yard as part of the 'Putting King's Cliffe on the Map' project.
VJ DAY
STREET PARTY
Corner between No1 West Street and No 1 Hall Yard, street party to celebrate VJ Day 1946. Women, children, Mr Gilder (Sub Postmaster), Mr Martin (Co-op shop manager) and two servicemen (possibly Americans?).
Black & white photo of street party with women, children and 1 man at table outside Thorpe Almshouses in Park St, Glebe farmhouse behind
Black & white photo of group at street party, mostly women and children, outside former Thorpe Almshouses in Park St.
Black & white photo of group, children in foreground, women behind, standing on Back Way (now Wood Road), at or after a street party to celebrate VJ Day.
VILLAGE CELEBRATIONS
Photo from VJ Day street party at the Cross on 15th August 1945. Mrs Maslin (then the oldest KC resident) with baby Sam Fenn (the youngest) on her lap. Others at party in background.
Photo from VJ Day street party at the Cross on 15th August 1945. Mrs Mabel Sharpe, ctre foreground, with some of those who were at the party.
VJ DAY REMEMBERED IN 1995
DISPLAY AND WARTIME MEAL IN KC MEMORIAL HALL
Newspaper report re VJ Day Remembered events in King's Cliffe Village Hall (Memorial Hall). WW2 display and wartime lunch served to villagers who remembered VJ Day 50 years before in August 1945.
WVS & ST MERCURY DISPLAY AT KC, FLOODS 1952
Stamford Mercury photo and caption, Feb 1952, showing 'Flood and Tempest Distress Fund' fundraising event at King's Cliffe. St Mercury special 12-page pictorial supplement being sold at a W.V.S. display of flood pictures.
FARMING
AGRICULTURAL WAGES
CRAFT CERTIFICATES
Letter to J T Roberts from Northamtonshire & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee, dated 27 July 1972, enclosing various Craft Certificates he had achiieved.
CRAFT CERTIFICATES, 1972
Craft Certificate for Beef Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Sheep Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Pig Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Machinery Operation & Maintenance, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Reverse of Craft Certificate issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948. States rule that future employer may require holder to undergo a re-test of proficiency.
OFFICIAL WAGES, 1949
Official Notice of wages effective 2nd March 1949 as ordered under the Agricultural Wages Act of 1948; published in Northants Advertiser, Kettering Leader and Guardian of 11th March 1949.
F & A GEORGE, BLATHERWYCKE
CROP & FERTILISER PLAN 1976
Hand-drawn plan of F & A George's farm at Blatherwycke showing the field acreages, Winter crops and fertiliser applications for 1976.
RECEIPT, H E RANDALL, 1951
Receipt from F & George to Mr H E Randall, dated 22nd November 1951: £12 paid for pig potatoes.
SPRING CROPPING PLAN 1976
Hand-drawn plan of F & A George's farm at Blatherwycke headed 'Spring Cropping 1976' showing the acreages of spring crops and fertiliser applications for 1976.
SPRING SEEDING PLAN 1976
Hand-drawn plan of F & A George's farm at Blatherwycke showing the Spring crops to be sown for 1976.
FARMLAND VIEW, 1963
FROM ABOVE MOREHAY LANE
Slide view from 1963: round bales in harvested field (foreground), flock of sheep in field behind and long view beyond, possibly including tree-lined Willowbrook.
GLEBE FARM
REAPER-BINDER IN USE, 1932
Photo showing reaper-binder in use, harvesting wheat on the fields to the south & above Morehay Lane.
RECTORY PADDOCK, 1964
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock, millrace bridge to left. Hall Farm outbldgs with pantiled roof; Bridge Street incl Boulds garage bldgs in background. Spring 1964.
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock. Barn outbuilding to former watermill & bakery. Spring 1964.
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock with former watermill & bakery buildings behind. Rectory in background. Spring 1964.
THRESHING WORK
Group of six involved in threshing work on Glebe Farm, all names known. Dated to late 1940s.
HARVESTING
GLEBE FARM, 1963
Bamford combine harvester, harvesting winter barley possibly on Glebe Farm. Slide dated to 1963.
Massey combine harvester off-loading grain into trailer, towed by tractor. Believed to be somewhere on Glebe Farm, slide mount dated October 1963.
HUSKINSON'S LODGE FARM
P & C HOWARD
Colour photo of glass 1-pint milk bottle, bearing name 'P & C Howard, Huskinson's Lodge, King's Cliffe', painted in white.
J R BROWN FARMER BUTCHER
SWINE MOVEMENT LICENCE, 1969
Movement Licence issued to J R Brown, King's Cliffe, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 3 March 1969, authorising movement of animals from Stamford Cattle Market.
MEN WITH WORKING HORSES & FARM CART
UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION AROUND KC
Photo showing two men with three heavy horses and a farm cart, with unidentified farm buildings behind them. Substantial stone-built with wide, Tudor-style arches and a pigeon loft.
MILK DELIVERIES
P & C HOWARD
Colour photo of glass 1-pint milk bottle, bearing name 'P & C Howard, Huskinson's Lodge, King's Cliffe', painted in white.
N CARDEW, FARMER
SWINE MOVEMENT LICENCE, 1971
Movement Licence issued to N Cardew, Blatherwycke, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 10 August 1971, authorising movement of animals from Melton Mowbray Cattle Market.
POSTCARD
FIELD, NOW WALKERS FIELD, WITH CATTLE, c1956.
Postcard scene, typewritten title 'The village of King's Cliffe', dated to c1956. Distant view of village from N-E across Walkers' field, north of Back Way (now Wood Road). Cattle in field, assume Walkers' (farmer/butchers).
POTATO CROP
GLEBE FARM, 1966
Photo showing a field of rowed-up potatoes, with a Fordson tractor in work, believed to be hoeing. Location uncertain, but probably on the Glebe Farm. Slide dated May 1966.
SWINE MOVEMENT LICENCE
ISSUED 1969
Movement Licence issued to J R Brown, King's Cliffe, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 3 March 1969, authorising movement of animals from Stamford Cattle Market.
ISSUED 1970
Movement Licence issued to T Walker, King's Cliffe, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 14 September 1970, authorising movement of animals from Stamford Cattle Market.
ISSUED 1971
Movement Licence issued to N Cardew, Blatherwycke, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 10 August 1971, authorising movement of animals from Melton Mowbray Cattle Market.
T WALKER, FARMER BUTCHER
SWINE MOVEMENT LICENCE, 1970
Movement Licence issued to T Walker, King's Cliffe, under Movement of Swine Order, 1959; dated 14 September 1970, authorising movement of animals from Stamford Cattle Market.
THRESHING
DRIVER, 'STEAMFIRE' JACK ANDERSON
Picture of John Anderson (left) and an unknown man, standing in a rickyard.on a farm in or around King's Cliffe. Date uncertain.
KC MEN AMONG A THRESHING TEAM AT WORK, POSS 1
'Threshing team at King's Cliffe' - location unidentified and date uncertain.
THRESHING MACHINERY
Photo of traction engines lined up on grass, at an unidentified event, Nearest camera is engine of (Mark) Henry Wootton from King's Cliffe. Lettering on top casing seems to read 'H W 51'. Mr Wootton beside his engine with another man?
TRACTION ENGINES IN USE
DRIVER, 'STEAMFIRE' JACK ANDERSON
Picture of John Anderson, known as 'Steamfire' Jack Anderson, on a traction engine used on farms in and around King's Cliffe. Date uncertain.
UNIDENTIFIED RICKYARD, POSSIBLY BLATHERWYCKE
1950 - MID-1970S?
Picture of a line of 5 well-built, substantial hay-ricks, seen behind a high stone wall beside a road. Location and date unknown.
WW2 LAND ARMY WORKER WITH HORSES IN SUGARBEET
Land Army girl leading the horses, working in a sugarbeet crop on farmland near King's Cliffe.
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Photo of farmyard scene at Huskissons Lodge Farm, with horse drawn cart and haystacks, early 1940s.
GENERAL ARTICLES ON KC
'GETTING TO KNOW KC', 1981
VILLAGE TRAIL BY CHILDREN FOR CHILDREN
'Getting to know KC - a Village Trail by children for children', spiral-bound A4, produced in December 1981. A Rural Schools Project, written and illustrated by eight pupils from schools at Apethorpe, Bulwick, Woodnewton and King's Cliffe.
'SHORT HISTORY OF KING'S CLIFFE' BY WILFRED W
PRINTED IN 1909
'A Short History of King's Cliffe by W. Wadd, aged 14 years', published in 1909 by Dolby Bros, Stamford, price fourpence. Wilfred Wadd was the youngest son of Thomas Wadd, the watermiller at King's Cliffe mill.
'VILLAGE LIFE 1982'
KING'S CLIFFE FEATURE IN PBORO EVE TEL
Feature on King's Cliffe with photo illustrations, part of series 'Village Life '82' in Peterborough Evening Telegraph of 30 October 1982.
OUNDLE & THRAPSTON RURAL DIST OFFICIAL GUIDE
ENTRY ABOUT KC
Scanned pages from Oundle & Thrapston Rural District, The Official Guide, published in 1955. Includes descriptive text and statistics about King's Cliffe and adverts for F Bould & Son, Wheel Inn and Jean's Store.
PBORO EVE TEL, ABOUT KC IN 1982
WRITTEN BY MRS MABEL SHARPE OF KC
Peterborough Evening Telegraph feature about King's Cliffe, using piece written by Mrs M L Sharpe, (Mabel Sharpe, nee Davies, born KC). Photo of church interior. Dated to 1982.
STAMFORD & RUTLAND MERCURY "BACK IN TIME" IN
Stamford Mercury Souvenir Supplment "Back in Time" Sept 1988 incl feature page about villages of Thurlby (Lincs) and King's Cliffe. Adverts for P C Howard, Cross Keys Inn & KC Bakery. (KC page scanned).
STAMFORD MERCURY APRIL 2001
Full-page feature about King's Cliffe; includes Barry Towel woodturning, Jim Brown; KC Players panto productions; Community Ctre on Middle School site; WW2 airfield memorial, Millennium Wood.
HAPPENINGS
CRANE ACCIDENT AT KC STATION, SEPT 1964
CONCRETE BEAM FOR A47 FLYOVER DROPPED & BROKE
Two photos taken by the late Gordon Woolf showing members of his family visiting KC station yard where a concrete beam destined for the A47 flyover at Wansford had broken when the crane lifting it fell sideways. Sept 1964.
4 photos of an accident at the KC railway station site when a large concrete bridge beam was dropped and broken. The crane lifting it off the train fell during unloading. Dated to September 1964
DEEP SNOW IN MARCH 1947
Photo of Arthur ('Gaffer') Kirby standing behind a waist-high drift of snow in West Street. Hand-dated on reverse 17th March 1947.
RADON GAS TESTING, 1992
St Mercury report 1st May 1992 re risk to health from radon gas, naturally occurring in the surrounding area. KC one of 12 villages affected; free testing kits available to all households.
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN, 11 AUG 1999
DRAWING OF, BY LOCAL ARTIST JOHN PAIGE
Timed drawings of the eclipse, made by local artist, John Paige, from observations taken at approximate 5-minute intervals between 10.05am and 12.40pm and recording the progress of the moon's shadow as it covered the sun.
REPORT ABOUT
Stamford Mercury of 6 August 1999, 'trailer' report ahead of total eclipse of the sun expected to be visible in the Stamford area around 11am on Wednesday 11th August 1999.
HISTORICAL ESSAYS
DAKIN, WILLIAM
'A KC ECCENTRIC, WILLIAM DAKIN, 1755-1840'
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'A King's Cliffe Eccentric - William Dakin', concerning the life of and legends about William Dakin, 1755-1840, a hawker of King's Cliffe woodware. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
EDUCATION
THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG IN KING'S CLIFFE
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Education of the Young in King's Cliffe', covering the period 1727 to 1929. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
ELECTIONS
'EITHER A LITTLE LIBERAL OR A LITTLE CONSERVA
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'Either a Little Liberal or a Little Conservative: Elections & Electioneering in King's Cliffe', covering period 1832 - 1922. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
GEORGE MILES, 1838-1912
TIMBER MERCHANT, KEY VILLAGE FIGURE
Essay by Canon John Bryan written in 1999 giving a brief biography of George Miles, an important figure in the business, public and social life of King's Cliffe from the late Victorian years until his death in 1912. With photo illustrations.
KC FIRE BRIGADE
HARK! THE FIRE BELLS ARE CLANGING.
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'Hark! The fire bells are clanging - The King's Cliffe Fire Brigade': fires in Victorian KC; Fire Brigade members and annual suppers. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
RAILWAY
THE RAILWAY COMES TO KING'S CLIFFE
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Railway comes to King's Cliffe', also including short mentions of other village matters in 1860s and 1870s. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
THE YEAR 1891
YEAR IN VILLAGE LIFE
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'A Year in the Life of the Village, 1891' including events in the village reported in the local newspapers of the day. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
WATERMILL, WINDMILLS OF KC
'THE MILLS OF OLD KC, WATER AND WINDMILLS'
Historical essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Mills of Old King's Cliffe - Watermill and Windmills', covering their history & descriptions; illustrated and in searchable pdf via Features menu.
WORLD WAR 1
KC AND THE FIRST GREAT WAR
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'King's Cliffe and the First Great War, 1914 - 1918' including reports of war casualties among King's Cliffe men. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
KC VILLAGE DIRECTORY
2ND EDITION BY KC PARISH COUNCIL, APRIL 1993
A4, 5 sides, yellow paper. Entitled 'Who, What, Where? - Useful names and numbers in King's Cliffe'. 2nd edition, dated April 1993, produced by King's Cliffe Parish Council.
LANDSCAPE & MAPS
BOUNDARY
BOUNDARY STONE
Revd H K Bonney's sketch of boundary stone on King's Cliffe/Blatherwycke boundary, with his caption and notes on opposite page, dated 1807.
FIELDS & FURLONGS
OPEN FIELD AGRICULTURE
Transcript of Orders & Bylaws of the Court Leet & Court Baron of the Manor of King's Cliffe from 1698 to 1729, relating to regulation of open field agriculture.
GEOLOGICAL MAP OF ENGLAND
KC OOLITIC LIMESTONE FROM JURASSIC AGE
Geological sketchmap of England from 'English Stone Buildin g' by A Clifton-Taylor & A S Ireson, publ Gollancz in 1983. King's Cliffe lies on stratum of oolitic limestone from Jurassic age 140 - 195 million years ago.
INCLOSURE AWARD 1813
LIST OF ALLOTMENTS
List of allotments grouped by 'old' open field or meadow, giving names to those receiving allotments, the areas and whether Copyhold or Freehold. Spreadsheet in searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find) .
MAP
STREET NAMES, OLD & NEW
Sketchmap of village streets and key features, based on one drawn in 1975 but revised at July 2010 to show up-dated features. Street names introduced in 1964 are shown, with the former names in brackets.
MAPS
MAP OF KC & KEY, EN DIST LOCAL PLAN 1996
Map of King's Cliffe and related key; Inset 8 to the East Northants District Local Plan 1996 document.
PLAN RE SEWAGE MAINS TO SEWAGE WORKS, 1949
Plan drawn up in February 1949, based on part OS Northants Sheet VI 16, showing proposed line of sewage pumping mains from the pumping station at Willowbrook bridge in Bridge Street to proposed sewage works site.
Letter from District Council dated 10 February 1949, accompanying plan showing proposed line of sewage pumping mains from the pumping station at Willowbrook bridge in Bridge Street to proposed sewage works site.
OS BENCHMARKS
ENGRAVED BM ON NE CORNER OF CHANCEL, ALL SAIN
Photo taken 28 August 2019 to record OS benchmark engraved on the north-east corner of the chancel wall of All Saints Parish Church, KC.
FLUSH PLATE BM AT OLD CONGREG'L CHAPEL, WEST
Photo taken 28 August 2019 to record OS flush-plate benchmark number S8746 in situ just above ground on the west face of the front corner of the chapel building.
RAILWAYS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, PUBL 1906
FROM BOOK 'NORTHAMPTONSHIRE' BY W DRY, PUBL 1
Map of Northamptonshire railways from book 'Northamptonshire' by Wakeling Dry, publ Methuen in 1906. Shows the line through King's Cliffe.
LOCAL NEWSPAPER COVERAGE
KING'S CLIFFE REFERENCES
INDEX COVERING 1700 - 1939
Index to King's Cliffe entries of all kinds, as found in local newspapers from 1800 to 1939 and transcribed by Canon John Bryan, Rector of KC 1955-1985. Some earlier additions from 1700 onwards subsequently made by KCH members.
NATIONAL SERVICE, 1949 - 1960
FORM N.S.6 RE MEDICAL EXAM
NOTES RE ALLOWANCES, ETC
Letter form N.S.6 from Ministry of Labour & National Service Allocation Local Office, Cambridge, to Terence Smith on 15 Nov 1956, re attending a medical examination in Cambridge re National Service. Notes re allowances, postponement etc on reverse.
ORGANISATION
KC CRICKET CLUB
H E DIXON TROPHY, 1964 - 1975
Trophy, silver plate on plinth, measuring 27cm H, 11.5cm dia, with handles. Engraved 'H E Dixon' (Harry Elijah Dixon, who gave the trophy) and with names of winners fof the years 1964 to 1975, except 1968, 1970. Photos taken.
ORGANISATIONS
KC EX-SERVICEMEN'S & SOCIAL CLUB
50 YEARS IN WOOD ROAD PREMISES, MARCH 2017
CERTIFICATE AWARDED TO TERENCE SMITH
Certificate awarded to Terence Smith by King's Cliffe Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club, re 'long-standing commitment' to the Club on the 50th anniversary of the Club being in their Wood Road premises.
ORGANISATIONS, BODIES
APETHORPE (LATER & KING'S CLIFFE) MUSIC SOCIE
Poster for An Evening of Music by the vocal group 'Scratch', directed by Helen Wright, in St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe on Sat 29th February 1992. Organised by Apethorpe Music Society.
Poster for 'Songs of Europe' concert in St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe on Friday 26th October 1990. Organised by Apethorpe Music Society.
BRITISH LEGION
BOXING TOURNAMENT, 1947
Ticket for boxing tournament held on 21st June 1947 in the grounds of Kingscliffe House: a fundraiser organised by King's Cliffe British Legion in aid of the British Legion Benevolent Fund.
BRITISH LEGION, KC BRANCH
APPLICATION FOR HON MEMBERSHIP
Paper form B/H headed 'British Legion, Honorary Membership, Branch Application', completed by H Giddings and dated 25th April 1975. Reverse has wording of Rule 1c of their Royal Charter, quoting their aims.
MEMBERSHIP RECEIPT, 1966
WYLES, JAMES
Receipt 402944 issued to Mr J Wyles (James), Park Street, King's Cliffe, on 1st October 1965 for British Legion membership subscription of 3 shillings for year to 30 September 1966.
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Photo of KC Branch members of British Legion parading with their standard outside the (old) Clubhouse at 33/35 West Street, on the day of George VI's coronation, 12th May 1937.
CHURCH CHOIR
PHOTO AT OLD RECTORY, 1904
B & W photo of KC parish church choir, posed on steps at rear of old Rectory in West Street, c1904. Good quality copy, though small.
COMMUNICARE
LEAFLET ABOUT, 2012
Leaflet produced in September 2012 by Communicare, the Patient Participation Group for the Wansford & King's Cliffe Surgeries; contains information about them and the doctors' surgery times, contact nos etc.
CRICKET CLUB
ANNUAL CONCERT & BALL 1898
Handbill/poster and Programme for KC Cricket Club Annual Concert & Ball, 26th December 1898, held in the Park Street schoolroom in aid of Cricket Club funds. Caterer: T F Richardson, Cross Keys landlord. Poster is item 1077.1, programme 1077.2.
CRICKET CLUB ANNUAL CONCERT & BALL, 1896
HANDBILL & PROGRAMME
Handbill/poster and Programme for Annual Concert & Ball of KC Cricket Club, held on 28th December 1896. 'Magpie Minstrels' and others entertained - named on Programme.
CROSS KEYS INN
YOUNG FARMERS
3 members of the Cross Keys team taking part in a piano-breaking competition against the Young Farmers in the early 1970s.
The 5-man Cross Keys team 'posting' the remains of their piano through a car tyre at the end of a paino-breaking competition against the Young Farmers in the early 1970s.
The Cross Keys team taking part in a tug-of-war against the Young Farmers, pulling across the Willowbrook behind the Rectory on New Year's Day 1973.
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Cross Keys customers on their carnival float, taking part in the village celebratios for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
FATHERS OF KING'S CLIFFE
FUNDRAISING GROUP IN KC
VILLAGE DIRECTORY, 2009
A5,8-page, full colour 'Village Directory' 4th edn summer 2009. Comprised of adverts for local businesses in KC and surrounding villages, in support of 'Fathers of King's Cliffe' fundraising for Marie Curie Cancer Care.
FIVE A'S: APETHORPE AGING ALCOHOLIC ATHLETIC
CYCLE 225 MILES FOR CHILDREN IN NEED, OCT 199
Peterborough Evening Telegraph photo and long caption re Five A's cycle ride of 225 from Newcastle to Apethorpe to raise funds for Children in Need.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
GOLDEN BALL INN
FINIAL FROM BANNER-CARRYING POLE
Wooden sphere, c4 inches dia, painted in gold and royal blue (underlying orange/scarlet paint showing in some places), with a hollowed out base to fit onto carrying pole.
WHEEL INN
Close-up of members of the Wheel Inn Friendly society with the banner as they process up Bridge Street past the Golden Ball Inn.
KC & AREA COMMUNITY SPORTS PROJECT
FOOTBALL FOUNDATION FUNDING
Report on Football Foundation funding of £122,700 presented to KC & Area Community Sports Project for pavilion & changing rooms. Stamford Mercury 24th December 2010.
Photo & report on Football Foundation funding of £122,700 presented to KC & Area Community Sports Project for pavilion & changing rooms. Nene Valley News publication, 22nd January 2011.
OPENING OF NEW PAVILION
Photo with caption, parachutist Simon Mayle delivers KC Active flag to representatives of KC & Area Community Sports Project at opening of £272,700 sports facility.
PAVILION
Photo with caption, Prince William students save the day by decorating the KC Active pavilion during Community Action Week in time for start of football season.
KC & AREA OLD BLOKES CLUB
INFORMATION LEAFLET
Handbill explaining purpose of this newly-formed club (started in April 2012), and their monthly meetings.
KC & DIST NURSING ASSOC
ACCOUNTS 1946-1947
Printed balance sheet for year 1946-47.
ACCOUNTS 1947-1948
Printed balance sheet for year 1947-48, its final year.
COLLECTOR'S BOOK 1928-1937
Collector's book kept by Mrs Richardson from april 1928 until July 1937. Members' names listed inside, with their contributions each month.
COLLECTOR'S BOOK 1939-1948
Collector's book kept by Mrs Bollans then Mrs Hercock from April 1939 until June 1948, when Association wound up. Members' names listed inside, with their contributions each month.
GARDEN FETE, 1923
Report from Stamford & Rutland News, 11th July 1923. Great attraction of a 'wireless installation' used at the garden fete to raise funds for the King's Cliffe, Apethorpe & Woodnewton District Nursing Association.
MEMBERSHIP CARD 1935
Membership card for Mrs George Giddings, Park Street,King's Cliffe printed for 1935 to 1941 but unused. Blue outer, with rules regarding use of nurse's services & handwritten names of Officers.
MINUTE BOOK 1927-48
Minute book 1927-48 for King's Cliffe & District Nursing Association, also covering Apethorpe & Woodnewton. Later the villages of Nassington and Yarwell were included. Summary notes made from minute book saved as 431.1.
RULES
Typed sheet (also transcription) setting out rules for using the services of the Nurse, and fees payable. Undated, but probably post-dating affiliation to the Northants Nursing Assoc in 1919. Some handwritten amendments made, also at unknown date(s).
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Collectors' book for KC Nursing Assoc members' subscriptions: kept by Mrs Harker, then Mrs Hercock for the years 1939 to 1948.
KC ACTIVE
Handbill promoting taster sessions of Walking Football for adults, at KC Active facility during January 2016.
KC AIRFIELD MEMORIAL TRUST
ADVERT FOR FUNDRAISER
Stamford Mercury advert for 1940's Remembered Dance on 24th March 1984 at Mirlees Blackstones Social Club.
APPEAL LETTER, 1982
Appeal letter written in December 1982 by Bernard Howard, Project Chairman for the KC Airfield Memorial Trust, explaining the purpose of the Trust and seeking donations towards the cost of erecting a memorial on the former airfield site.
CERT OF REGISTRATION, 1982
Certificate of registration on 6th September 1982 of the King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial Trust 1939-45 by Northants County Council under the War Charities Act, 1940.
INFO BOARD, AUGUST 1983
Photo showing information board of King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial Trust 1939-45, listing the squadrons which served from the airfield. Contact names of two Trust officers at time of dedication of memorial in August 1983.
WAR CHARITIES APPLICATION, 1982
Application for registration of the King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial Trust 1939-45 under the War Charities Act, 1940. Application dated 1st July 1982.
KC CLUB OR BRITISH LEGION BRANCH (UNCERTAIN)
GROUP PHOTO AT OLD CLUB, WEST ST
Press photo of group, in suits for an unknown occasion at the old Club in West Street. Date before 18th March 1967, when Club moved premises.
KC COMMUNITY ASSOC
NEW COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1995
Middle School Head hands over key to former Middle School canteen block to KC Community Association, October 1995.
OPENING OF COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1996
Opening of Community Centre in former KC Middle School canteen, by actor Geoffrey Hughes, October 1996.
KC EX-SERVICEMEN'S & SOCIAL CLUB
ANNUAL SUPPER, 1950s
Members of KC Ex-Servicemen's Club at an Annual Supper in the old Clubhouse at 33/35 West St.
Scene of Club members at their annual supper in the old Clubhouse in West Street, c1950. Corner of bar counter shows in bottom left corner; fireplace, and curtained bay window.
Names of those in photo 3755, annual supper at KC Ex-Servicemen's Club, c1950s
CLUB REFURBSHED 1989
Pboro Eveing Telegraph 22nd June 1989, three photos and coverage of refurbishment carried out at the Club in Wood Road.
COMMITTEE
Ten members of the Club committee, possibly at their first meeting in the new Club premises in Wood Road, cApril 1967.
DARTS TEAM
Cutting from undated local newspaper, probably the Stamford Mercury, with photo of Ex-servicemen's club darts team with names in caption (partly missing). Believed to be c1965, and not later than October 1966.
DARTS TEAM 1964/5
WINNERS, STAMFORD MERCURY CHAMPION OF CHAMPIO
Photo of Gilbert Markley, capt of KC Exservicemen's & Social Club Darts team 1964/5 receiving the Stamford Mercury Champion of Champions Shield 1965 on behalf of the Club team.
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Photo of KC Exservicemen's & Social Club Darts team 1964/5 with a table displaying the cups and trophies they had won in Stamford, Ketton & Dist & KC Darts Leagues. Names on 3989.1.
DOMINOES TEAM
KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club dominoes team. Trophy held by George Sansom, location unknown, date estimated to early 1970s.
LADY MEMBERS' KNEES-UP, CHRISTMAS 1973
B & w photo, lady members of the KC Ex-Serv & Social Club enjoy a knees-up at the Club on 18th December 1973.
TENDERS TO BUILD NEW CLUB, 1966
Schedule of tenders received from builders bidding to build new Club premises on Wood Road. Tenders received 12th January 1966. Portess & Richardson, Chartered Architects.
TRIP TO SKEGNESS, 1950s
Five men on a KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club trip to Skegness, believed 1950s.
Three men on a KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club trip to Skegness, probably same occasion as 1395.
KC EXSERV & SOCIAL CLUB
DARTS TEAM
Photo of Club darts team in the old club premises in West Street, posed with Mrs Gladys Blake, wife of Club Steward, and daughter holding the darts trophy just awarded. Date uncertain, c1963 or 64.
KC FRIENDLY & UNITED SOCIETY
WHEEL INN
Banner of KC Friendly & United Society, based at Wheel Inn, West Street; founded 1808, dissolved 1945. 576.1 & 576.2 are two photos taken to show design on each side. Dated to second half of 19th century.
KC GARDENERS' ASSOCIATION
Photo taken at Easter 1997, showing Mrs Kath Fenn (left) and Mrs Lizzie Smith, both Fineshade Close residents, sitting on the bench across the top end of Fineshade Close which had been given by the KC Gardeners' Association.
Photo taken at Easter 1997, showing Mrs Lizzie Smith, a Fineshade Close resident, sitting on the bench across the top end of Fineshade Close which had been given by the KC Gardeners' Association.
Stamford Mercury entry under Mercury Town and Country for King's Cliffe, advertising Open Garden Day to raise money to provide a special chair for a disabled child in the village. Event to be on Sunday September 5th 1993.
Poster advertising Open Garden Day to raise money to provide a special chair for a disabled child in the village. Event to be on Sunday September 5th 1993.
KC HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
ANNUAL SHOW, 1925
Programme cover, Rules and Schedule for KC Horticultural Society 14th Annual Show, held 5th August 1925.
BALANCE SHEET 1924
Balance sheet for KC Horticultural Society for year 1924, dated 29th April 1925.
BALANCE SHEET, 1925
Balance sheet for KC Horticultural Society for year 1925, dated 8th March 1926. From revers of Programme for KC Horticultural Show in August 1926.
OFFICERS & CTTEE MEMBERS, 1926
List of names from Annual Show programme in 1926, with extra information provided by Jim Brown in 2005.
RULES & SCHEDULE FOR 15TH ANNUAL SHOW, 1926
Programme cover and Exhibition Rules for KC Horticultural Society 15th Annual Show, held 4th August 1926,as part of Cliffe Feast Week. Lists Vice-Presidents & Committee members.
KC PLAYERS
ARABIAN NIGHTS, 2001
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Arabian Nights, panto, in February 2001.
ARMS AND THE MAN, 2011
Poster for the King's Cliffe Players' production of 'Arms and the Man' in October 2011.
BABES IN THE WOOD, 2003
Programme for King's Cliffe Players' production of ''Babes in the Wood' panto in February 2003. Front cover scanned.
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, 2002
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Jack and the Beanstalk" panto, February 2002
MONTH OF SUNDAYS, 1998
Programme for KC Players' production of 'A Month of Sundays', play by Bob Larby in May 1998.
OFF THE HOOK, 2000
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Off the Hook', farce by Derek Benfield, October 2000
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR, 2008
Poster for King's Cliffe Players' production of '''Oh What a Lovely War' April - May 2008
OLIVER, THE MUSICAL, 2012
Poster produced by the King's Cliffe Players to promote their production of 'Oliver, the Musical', 14th - 24th March 2012 at King's Cliffe Memorial Hall.
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MURDER, 2001
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Out of Sight, Out of Murder" mystery comedy by Fred Carmichael, in October 2001.
PANIC STATIONS, 2002
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Panic Stations" a farce by Derek Benfield, in October 2002
PANTO AT THE OK CORRAL, 2004
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Panto at the OK Corral" panto by Jim Sperinck, in February 2004.
RED RIDING HOOS, 1999
Programme for KC Players' production of 'Red Riding Hood', panto, in February 1999.
SNOW WHITE, 2000
Programme for KC Players' production of 'Snow white' panto, in February 2000.
TIME OF MY LIFE, 2003
Programme for KC Players' production of ''Time of My Life" a play by Alan Ayckbourn in October 2003
TREASURE ISLAND, 2011
Black and white poster for 'Treasure Island' pantomime production by the King's Cliffe Players, 17th - 26th February 2011. Poster designed and drawn by John Paige of Old Brewery Studio, King's Cliffe.
U.R.G.E., 1999
Programme for KC Players' production of 'U.R.G.E.' comedy, in October 1999.
KC WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
ACORNS TO OAK TREES, BOOK OF MEMORIES BY KC W
GIFT TO QUEEN FOR HER 80TH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 200
Letter from Buckingham Palace dated 20 June 2006 to KC Women's Institute, the Queen sending thanks for the letter and gift of 'Acorns to Oak Trees' book of KC WI members' memories, sent to Queen as gift for her 80th birthday.
DELEGATE BADGES FOR NORTHANTS WI MEETING
Delegate badges, printed with Tudor rose and 'Northamptonshire WI', handwritten with 'President', 'Secretary', and 'Treasurer' for KC officer attending a County-level meeting. Cardboard with safety pin fixing. Date not known.
EMBROIDERED WI TABLECLOTH
White tablecloth, embroidered in one corner with Women's Institute emblem surrounded by a wreath of foliage. Set of eleven photos, of which three have been scanned.
SILVER W.I. TEASPOON
Silver teaspoon with Women's Institute emblem engraved on handle. Still in its original cellephane packet. Date unknown.
STEMMED WINE GLASS, WI GOLDEN JUBILEE 1915-19
Stemmed wine glass, 'WI' one side, 'Golden Jubilee 1915-1965' on the other, painted in gold, rather worn. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Women's Institute nationally.
WOODEN TRAY, INLAID '1918 WI 1974'
Wooden tray, backed with green baize, handles at either end; inlaid with initials WI and dates 1918 and 1974. Believed made locally.
KC, APETHORPE & WOODNEWTON DIST NURSING ASSOC
MEMBERSHIP CARD 1937
Membership card for Mrs B Beale of King's Cliffe for 1937. Yellow outer, printed with rules regarding use of nurse's services. Inside, record card for member's contributions; completed by collector Miss Annie Hawkes.
Membership card for Mrs J Britten, Park Street,King's Cliffe for 1937. Yellow outer, printed with rules regarding use of nurse's services. Inside, record card for member's contributions; completed by collector Miss Annie Hawkes.
KING'S CLIFFE ACTIVE
INFORMATION LEAFLET
Leaflet produced by King's Cliffe Active in August 2012, advertising the sports and community facilities at Kingsmead, King's Cliffe.
KING'S CLIFFE SEWING BEE GROUP
FORMED IN SEPTEMBER 2018
Handbill explaining how and why the Sewing Bee formed and their community project to make bags for sale at the Transition Xmas Fair 2 Dec 2018 to raise money for Underground Centre.
KING'S CLIFFE VILLAGE CHOIR
OUNDLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 1980
Certificate of Merit, Second Class, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir in Oundle Music Festival of 1980 for singing 'Jesu, Word of God Incarnate' by Edward Elgar. Adjudicator was John Rutter.
Adjudication sheet completed by John Rutter about King's Cliffe Village Choir's performance at Oundle Music Festival of 1980 singing 'Jesu, Word of God Incarnate' by Edward Elgar.
Photo of King's Cliffe Village Choir with leader, Helen Wright, after performing at the Oundle Music Festival in 1980.
OUNDLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 1981
Certificate of Merit, First Class, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir in Oundle Music Festival of 1981. Adjudicator Wilfred Smith.
OUNDLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 1983
Adjudication sheet completed by Philip Cranmer about King's Cliffe Village Choir's performance at Oundle Music Festival of 1983 singing 'Linden Lea'.
Certificate of Merit, Second Class, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir at Oundle Music Festival of 1983 singing 'Linden Lea'.
OUNDLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 1984
Certificate of Merit, First Class, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir at Oundle Music Festival of 1984 singing 'My Love's an Arbutus' by Stanford.
Adjudication sheet completed by Lionel Salter about King's Cliffe Village Choir's performance at Oundle Music Festival of 1984 singing 'My Love's an Arbutus' by Stanford.
PETERBOROUGH & DISTRICT MUSICAL COMP FESTIVAL
Certificate of Merit, First Class, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir in Peterborough & District Musical Competition Festival of 1982. Adjudicator Malcolm Tyler.
Graeme Shield Certificate, awarded to King's Cliffe Village Choir in Peterborough & District Musical Competition Festival of 1982.
LAID BACK LADIES
1ST MEETING, MARCH 2012
Poster for the first meeting of 'Laid Back Ladies', on 20 March 2012.
Visitor's Voucher for the first meeting of 'Laid Back Ladies', on 20 March 2012.
NATURE CONSERVATION
LOCAL GROUP SET UP 1982
Notice: Open meeting 10 September 1982 re setting up a local King's Cliffe group of Northants Trust for Nature Conservation
NORTHANTS NURSING ASSOC.
KC & DIST NURSING ASSOC AFFILIATED
List of all District Nursing Assocs affiliated to Northants Nursing Assoc for the year 1933-4, including King's Cliffe, also covering Apethorpe and Woodnewton. Details of Nurse, Sec., and numbers of cases nursed.
PARISH COUNCIL
1ST KC PARISH COUNCIL, 1896
Members of the first King's Cliffe Parish Council, elected in December 1894, posed in courtyard of Hall Farm, home of Thomas J Law, one of the councillors.
Names and occupations of members of King's Cliffe's first Parish Council, in photo item no 958
(misc)
Notice of Parish Meeting, July 1898 to consider the amount to be spent on street lighting.
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION KC BRANCH
CHRISTMAS PARCELS
Mrs Florence Turnham at her house door (66 West St) receiving a Royal British Legion Christmas parcel from local RBL Branch committee members Gordon Woolf (ctre) and Ted Smith. Date no later than Christmas 1968.
Tom and Florence Pollard at their house door in West St, receiving a Royal British Legion Christmas parcel from local RBL Branch committee members Gordon Woolf (ctre) and Ted Smith. Date uncertain, but no later than Christmas 1968.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP
Printed certificate of membership of the Church of England Termperance Society Juvenile Branch, King's Cliffe branch; made out in the name of Elsie Weatherington, no 19 on the membership roll.
TOC-H
PHOTO, 1950s
Newspaper picture and caption showing members of Toc-H groups, including from King's Cliffe, on a visit to Rockingham Castle. Undated cutting, but believed to be from the 1950s.
UNDERGROUND CENTRE
PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOOSO TO CREATE COMMUNITY S
Handbill explaining how and why the Sewing Bee formed and their community project to make bags for sale at the Transition Xmas Fair 2 Dec 2018 to raise money for Underground Centre.
WASTEWATCHERS, LLNW PROTEST GROUP
Corby Evening Telegraph of 24 September 2009 report on petition against proposal by Augean plc for low-level nuclear waste to be dumped at the landfill site at Westhay. Protesters had formed a campaign group called Wastewatchers.
Corby Evening Telegraph of 5 October 2009 report on decision of East Northants Councillors to refuse permission for proposed low-level nuclear waste to be dumped at the landfill site at Westhay run by Augean plc.
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
60TH 'BIRTHDAY' 1978
Report of King's Cliffe W.I. 60th birthday celebrations at the Endowed School, from Peterborough Standard of 24th March 1978.
60th BIRTHDAY PARTY, 1978
B & w photo, showing KC Women's Institute members at a celebration tea at Endowed School, on the occasion of their 60th birthday in 1978. President, Mrs Sue Walker, stands behind the cake; six former Presidents in the photo. Names in caption.
AWARD FROM MUSICAL COMPETITION IN 1924
Printed certificate' for a Unison Song, 2nd Prize awarded to King's Cliffe Women's Institute Choir at the North Northamptonshire Musical Competitions in 1924. Border and surface of R/H top quarter of certificate badly damaged by insects.
AWARD FROM MUSICAL COMPETITION IN 1927
Printed 'First Class Certificate' for a Unison Song, awarded to King's Cliffe Women's Institute Choir at the North Northamptonshire Musical Competitions. Handwriting worn & faded but believed to be dated 1927.
AWARD FROM MUSICAL COMPETITION IN 1929
Printed 'First Class Certificate' for a Three-Part Song, awarded to King's Cliffe Ladies' Choir (W.I.) at the North Northamptonshire Musical Competitions in 1929.
FLOAT IN QUEEN'S SILVER JUBILEE PARADE, 1977
King's Cliffe WI members on board a red VW open-back van, decorated ddas a float for the Silver Jubilee carnival paradein June 1977.
GRAMOPHONE USED AT MEETINGS
Photo taken April 2018 showing the old WI gramophone as displayed in the KC Heritage Centre, the 'Old Schoolroom' where the WI held meetings in the 1920s - 1963.
MEMBERSHIP BADGE FROM 1918
Women's Institute membership badge, coloured enamel with legend 'for Home and Country' on border surrounding intertwined letters W & I
MEMBERSHIP CARD, MRS F BROUGHTON 1918
Membership Card issued to Mrs Broughton, a founder member of King's Cliffe WI in 1918. On the reverse are the Rules for the organisation and conduct of WIs as set down by the National Federation of Women's Institutes.
NEWS REPORT AT 21ST BIRTHDAY, APRIL 1939
Extract from Peterborough Standard of 21st April 1939 headed ''Cliffe WI, 21 years of Harmonious Working'. First Officers and activities during 1918.
POSTER FOR RE-FORMED WI, APRIL 2002
Poster originally for 1st meeting in April 2002, overwritten for 2nd meeting in May. Women invited to come along if interested in supporting a new WI in King's Cliffe.
PROGRAMME FOR 1936 MEETINGS
Printed programme for King's Cliffe WI meetings during 1936. One of four copies, printed on stout card and tied together. Each has a playing-card suit on the back - for use at WI Whist Drives.
PROGRAMME, 1ST MTG APRIL 1918
Programme handbill for King's Cliffe Women's Institute, inaugural meeting to be held 9th April 1918.
THE TRIARDS, WI ENTERTAINERS
ENTERTAINMENT AT KCES, DATE UNKNOWN
King's Cliffe WI members who formed an entertainment group called 'The Triards', led by Mrs Mabel Sharpe, entertaining at a celebration tea in the hall at KC Endowed School in Park St. Date unknown, possibly 1970s or 1980s.
King's Cliffe WI members hosting a celebration tea in the hall at KC Endowed School in Park St. Date unknown, possibly 1970s or 1980s. The Triards entertained at this event, see item 4551
WI BANNER DESIGN BY MISS M T POWELL, C1918
Watercolour of design for Women's Institute banner, by Miss M T Powell. R/H figure in Women's Land Army clothes, so thought to be from 1918.
WI CHOIR MUSIC CERT
Label from Aspro Limited , Slough, Bucks with goods addressed to Mrs E E Smith, High Street, King's Cliffe. Date c1927. Label on backing card for WI choir certificate from 1927. Mrs Smith, formerly Mrs Wootton, was a W.I. member.
WI ITEMS IN CUPBOARD AT OLD SCHOOLROOM, APRIL
Photo taken April 2018 showing some items left by the WI in a cupboard at the 'Old Schoolroom' (25 Bridge Street) where the WI held meetings in the 1920s - 1963.
YOUNG FARMERS
CROSS KEYS INN
3 photos of Young Farmers v. Cross Keys piano-breaking competition in the early 1970s, held on Wellington Farm paddock between Wood Rd and Forest Approach. Houses on Wood Road and bungalow in Forest Approach can be seen in the background.
YOUTH CLUB
FOOTBALL TEAM
Youth Club Football team photo from Stamford Mercury, with names beneath. Team captain, Sonny Broughton, is holding the Stamford Youth League Cup they had just won. Dated to 1949-1950.
PEOPLE
ADAMS, CHARLES & MARTHA
Priced Catalogue after sale of household furniture and effects of C Adams, out-going tenant of the Wheatsheaf Inn, King's Cliffe, on 7th July 1953. Covering letter & account from auctioneers, Berry Bros & Bagshaw, Kettering.
ADAMS, CHARLES AND MARTHA
PUBLICANS, WHEATSHEAF INN, 1940-1953
Photo of Charles and Martha Adams, standing beside their car on grass round the back of the Wheatsheaf Inn, Park Street, King's Cliffe, where they were licensess from 1940 until 1953.
ADAMS, MARTHA (MRS)
FORMER PUBLICAN, WHEATSHEAF INN KC
Kettering & District Licensed Victuallers' Association, Ladies Auxiliary group visit to Guinness Park Royal brewery in September 1957. Martha Adams (front row, 3rd from left) former licensee of the Wheatsheaf Inn, King's Cliffe.
ANDERSON, 'STEAMFIRE' JACK
TRACTION ENGINE-DRIVER
Picture of John Anderson, known as 'Steamfire' Jack Anderson, on a traction engine used on farms in and around King's Cliffe. Date uncertain.
TRACTION-ENGINE DRIVER
Picture of John Anderson (left) and an unknown man, standing in a rickyard.on a farm in or around King's Cliffe. Date uncertain.
ATTKINS, MRS ANN
MEMORIAL TABLET
Stone memorial tablet on west wall of north porch, commemorating Mrs Ann Attkins, 'relict' of Willis Attkins, apothecary-surgeon of St Neots, Hunts, d 1781.
Stone memorial tablet on west wall of north porch, commemorating Charles Attkins, apothecary at King's Cliffe for 33+ years, d1802; and his wife Mrs Ann Attkins junior, d1783.
BAILEY
Wording of summons to, and dismissal from, the Great Court Baron held at the Cross Keys Inn, King's Cliffe.
Wording of summons to, and dismissal from, the Great Court Baron held at the Cross Keys Inn, King's Cliffe.
BAILEY FAMILY
FAMILY REUNION C1899
Names of those in items 591
MEMORIAL VASE
Silver-plated cone-shaped vase inscribed "In memory of Bailey family, 1957". From the Congregational Chapel, West Street.
BAILEY FAMILY; BAILEY A E & E BRANSON (WEDDIN
WEDDING, A E BAILEY TO E BRANSON, 1925
Wedding of A E Bailey & E Branson, 6.6.1925 at Sawtry
BAILEY FAMILY; WILES FAMILY
BAILEY, ELIZABETH; WILES, THOMAS, MARRIED 190
Wedding of Elizabeth Bailey & Thomas Wiles, 13.9.1902, said to have been taken at the (old) Rectory, now 21 West Street, KC. Names on 593.1.
BAILEY, ALBERT ROBINSON
HIS ICE SKATES
Pair of ice-skates: wooden base with nails to grip sole of shoe to which applied; leather straps, paper name label stuck on one skate.
BAILEY, JOHN THOMAS
HIS SPECTACLES & CASE
Wooden spectacles case made for John Thomas Bailey and carved with his initials. Set of photos show the case alone and with spectacles alongside.
BAILEY, MISS KATE
PHOTO, C1920
Miss Kate Bailey as a young woman
BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY
WOODTURNER
Photo of William H Bailey, at his lathe turning a full-length candlestick. Photo taken in 1936 in his workshop behind 'The Turner's Arms' pub in West Street, King's Cliffe.
BAKENHUS, AUGUST
WW2 POW AT KC
August Bakenhus in 1939. Later captured and eventually came through King's Cliffe German P-o-W No 1 Holding Unit for repatriation in 1946. .
BAKENHUS, AUGUST (German P-o-W) & OTHERS
WW2 POW AT KC
Photo inside chapel on the German P-o-W camp at King's Cliffe, with a group of P-o-Ws who formed an orchestra. Third from left, back row is August Bakenhus.
BAKENHUS, AUGUST and A N OTHER
WW2 POW AT KC
August Bakenhus (seated left) with a fellow P-o-W and an as yet unidentified local woman, somewhere in or around King's Cliffe during his time at No1 Holding Camp from Dec 1946 and through 1947. There is snow on the ground.
BERKELEY, MILES JOSEPH (RENOWNED MYCOLOGIST)
PORTRAIT
Photo portrait of Revd Miles J Berkeley, seated with microscope (first acquired in Paris in 1846). Photo has brief caption.
Photo portrait of older-aged M J Berkeley, head and shoulders only.
BERKELEY, MILES JOSEPH AND FAMILY
PRESENTATIONS ON LEAVING KC, 1868
St Mercury account of leaving presentations to Mrs Berkeley & family in July 1868, when Revd Miles Joseph Berkeley left to take up position as Rector of Sibbertoft near Market Harborough.
BERKELEY, Revd MILES JOSEPH, 1803 - 1889
NOTABLE KC RESIDENT 1833-1868
FOUNDING FATHER OF MYCOLOGY (STUDY OF FUNGI)
Photo portrait of Revd Miles Joseph Berkeley, taken in the studio of Maull & Polyblank, Gracechurch St, London. Date estimated to 1850s. From the Wellcome Collection.
BLAKE, CONSTANCE (CONNIE)
COUNTY GIRLS' HOCKEY TEAM 1924
Photo from 1924 reproduced in 'Hobson's Choice' feature in Peterborough Evenint Telegraph of 1 October 2009. County girls' school hockey team, twelve girls including Connie Blake from KC, 3rd from right on back row.
BLAKE, FREDERIC
OBITUARY, 1930
Obituary of Frederic Blake from the Stamford Mercury of 28 February 1930. His photo included. Brief account of his life; Parish Clerk, bellringer, Fire Brigade member, great sportsman
SADDLER IN PARK ST
Photo (rather soft) showing Frederic Blake standing in the doorway of his saddlery business in Park Street, which he ran from 1906 to 1930.
BLAKE, GLADYS MAY (MRS)
SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING, JAN 2014
Front & back of order of Service of Thanksgiving for Mrs Gladys May Blake, 1919 - 2014. Service held on 14th January 2014 in King's Cliffe Parish Church. Includes head and shoulder photo, and photo of Gladys with her late husband, George.
BOLLANS, LILY
SAMPLER WORKED AT KCES, AGED 14 IN 1895
Photo of sampler in glazed frame. Colours still very strong; name, age and date all present.
BONNEY, HENRY KAYE
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Extracts from DNB Vol II, Earliest Times to 1900, re Henry Kaye Bonney, DD 1780 - 1862, Rector of KC 1810 to his death, 24th December 1862
PORTRAIT, C1860
Photographic copy of lithograph of Archdeacon Henry Kaye Bonney, Rector of KC 1810 to 1862, in later years. Left hand in leather glove: hand useless following a stroke in 1858. Background drape.
BONNEY, THOMAS KAY
PORTRAIT
Lithographic portrait of Archdeacon Thomas Kaye Bonney, Rector of Normanton, Archdeacon of Leicester. Brother of Revd Archdeacon Henry Kaye Bonney, Rector of KC 1810 to 1862.
BOUGHTON FAMILY, THORPE FAMILY
ARTICLE ABOUT, WITH PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS
AUTHOR R PAGE, MAY 2019
Detailed account of the Thorp(e) family in the 16th & 17thC; and Boughton family in the 17th to 19thC. Families connected to King's Cliffe and inter-connected by marriage. Researched and written by a descendant of both families; with illustrations.
BOULD, ARTHUR; BOULD, AUDREY
St Mercury 20.10.1995, report with photo of Mr & Mrs Bould at the petrol pumps on their garage forecourt in Bridge Street. Petrol sales cease in October 1995 due to cost of converting pumps from gallons to litres.
BRASSEY, MR (LATER SIR) LEONARD
ELECTIONEERING FLYER (POSTCARD) POSSIBLY FROM
Postcard printed both sides: 'Vote for Brassey and a Brighter Britain' one side; other side shows a scene of domestic misery (artist T B Kennington) with the slogan 'FREE TRADE' printed below. Printed & publ David Allen & Sons, Fleet St, London.
BRASSEY, MR (LATER SIR) LEONARD; LADY VIOLET
CHRISTMAS CARD C1904
Christmas card measuring 5" x 7.25"; front with greetings message; inside portraits of Mr Leonard Brassey and Lady Violet Brassey. Printed & published by Alfred King and Son, Oundle & Thrapston. Undated but no earlier than 1904. Style Edwardian.
BRICE, DOROTHY ANN
Book of poems for children, 'Buttercups and Daisies' published by Arthur H Stockwell Ltd, 1956, price 8s 6d. Poems written by Miss Dorothy A Brice; illustrated by Helen Lake. Yellow hard-back, green paper jacket: new condition. Jacket & cover scanned.
BRITTEN,VENETIA JOY (MRS)
SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING, SEPT 2013
Front & back of order of Service of Thanksgiving for Mrs Venetia Joy Britten, 1949 - 2013. Service held on 5th September 2013 in King's Cliffe Parish Church. Includes head and shoulder photo, and wedding photo with late husband David.
BROUGHTON, MRS DOROTHY (NEE HARPER)
WORKED FOR COL & MRS HODGKIN AT KING'S CLIFFE
White, cotton lawn pinafore with bands of broiderie Anglaise detail across the skirt and top panel, plain white ties to secure around the waist.
Apron made of fine cotton lawn, with broiderie Anglaise flowers and garlands in centre and around border edging; plain white ties to secure around the waist.
BROUGHTON; ROBERTS; MILLER; WYLES; CALPIN
PHOTO, LATE 1940s
Group of six involved in threshing work on Glebe Farm, all names known. Dated to late 1940s.
BROWN, ARTHUR FREDERICK
MARRIAGE TO EILEEN PALMER
Brief newspaper cutting (undated, but estimated to be 1945 or 1946), reporting the marriage in King's Cliffe Parish Church of Arthur Frederick Brown, son of Mr & Mrs A R Brown, and Miss Eileen Palmer.
BROWN, JAMES AND LILY
JIM BROWN'S RETIREMENT, 1986
St Mercury cutting with photo of James (Jim) Brown and his wife, Lily in the butcher's shop in West Street. Jim Brown retiring and butcher's business and shop to close, July 1986.
BROWN, JAMES; KIRBY, ARTHUR ('Gaffer')
PHOTO, 1947-1976
Photo of Jim Brown and Arthur ‘Gaffer’ Kirby working in Browns’ butchers shop in West Street. Date between 1947 and 1976.
BRYAN, CANON JOHN
RECTOR OF KC, 1955 TO 1985
B & w photo, John Bryan, Rector of King's Cliffe 1955-1985,(lt), with 2 students from Kelham Theological College working on conversion of former water mill into church rooms.
BRYAN, JOHN
RECTOR OF KC, 1955-1985
Colour photo of Canon John Bryan standing beside the medieval boundary stone which marks the boundary between the parishes of King's Cliffe and Blatherwycke. Taken in 1971.
BURROWS, ANNIE GRACE
SAMPLER, 1885
Sampler worked by Annie Grace Burrows aged 12 (in 1885) whilst at King's Cliffe Endowed School. Some wool colours faded. Framed & glazed: wooden frame, (possibly elm?), measures 73cm by 68cm overall. Photos taken.
CHAPMAN, MISS IDA; NORMAN, ARTHUR
Miss Ida Chapman as Queen of Hearts from costume pageant c1918-20, with Arthur Norman as 'Knave or Page of Hearts'. Backdrop is yew hedge in Manor House garden.
Miss Ida Chapman as Queen of Hearts from costume pageant c1918-20, with Arthur Norman as 'Knave or Page of Hearts'. Backdrop is a wide view of the yew hedge in Manor House garden, believed to be at least 250 years old.
CHILDREN ON BRIDGE ST BRIDGE, 1937
Photo and caption from Peterbrough Advertiser of January 15th 1937, showing a group of children at the bridge view up Bridge St with elderly man passing F Bould's garage.
Note & names of those in item 100
CLEAVE, THOMAS HENRY
ARTICLE ABOUT, 1923
Short article from 'Northamptonshire Independent' of 24 March 1923, re Thomas Cleave and the 'mystery' of the fortune he left in his will. Photograph included in report.
CLOSE, GEORGE
TREASURER OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
Letter from Prentice & Prentice, sols, to George Close, Treasurer of King's Cliffe Congregational Church, dated 4 September 1936; enclosing acct for appointment of new Chapel Trustee & confirming War Stocks held.
CLOSE, GEORGE; SHARPE, KENNETH W
Details from unused sheet of letterhead of King's Cliffe Congregational Church, 'Associated with Trinity Congregational Church, Peterborough'. Showing K W Sharpe as Secretary and G J Close as Treasurer.
COMPTON, BERNARD
PHOTO, 1934
Photo of young John Compton on a horse standing in the Glebe Farm paddock. Wooden hand-gate and stone wall in background. Dated to Christmas 1934.
COMPTON, BERNARD; SMITH, DAVID; GIDDINGS, ALF
'LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE'
Picture of the trio of friends taken in 1992 in Park St: L-R, David Smith ('Ernie'); Alf Giddings ('Tonker'); Bernard Compton ('Obner'). Seat on grass strip at bus pull-in.
COOK, THOMAS (BAPTIST MISSIONARY TO KC C1828-
ARTICLE FROM LEICS & RUTLAND HERITAGE MAG, 19
Three-page article about Thomas Cook's life and the travel business he established, from the Leics & Rutland Heritage Magazine, 1991. Mentions him coming to Barrowden and being a Baptist Church missionary 'in those parts', but no specific mention of KC.
CORNFORTH, CATHERINE, NEE CARRINGTON
FOUNDRESS OF CORNFORTH HOMES
Peterborough Advertiser of 11 July 1891, report about the founding of the Cornforth Homes by Mrs Catherine Cornforth, nee Carrington, and the laying of the foundation stone.
CUNNINGTON, MARY ANN
PHOTO, c1947
Sepia photo of Mary Ann Cunnington standing outside the Thorpe Almshouse where she lived, believed to have been taken c1947.
DAKIN, WILLIAM
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'A King's Cliffe Eccentric - William Dakin', concerning the life of and legends about William Dakin, 1755-1840, a hawker of King's Cliffe woodware. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
DANN, A G (LEADING FIREMAN DANN)
Letter (1307.1) with envelope (1307.2) addressed to Leading Fireman Dann, Fire Station King's Cliffe, enclosing supply of forms (1307) inviting ex-firemen to join Pboro & Dist Fire Services Comrades Assoc. Dated February 1946.
DENNIS, ELIZABETH SARAH
OBITUARY 1928
Obituary from Stamford & Rutland News of 26th June 1928 for Miss Elizabeth Sarah Dennis, born 1842, died 1928.
DENNIS, MISS MARY HOWES
Christmas card for 1911, hand-painted by Miss Mary Howes Dennis (b 1841, d 1916), an accomplished artist. 'Park Villa', Bridge Street (now 'The Walnuts', was her family home. The card was addressed to Miss Annie Hawkes, also of King's Cliffe. .
DICKS, J H
SIGNALMAN AT KC
John Henry Dicks at work in the King's Cliffe signalbox. Photo dated to about 1920.
John Henry Dicks on steps of KC signalbox
DIXON, GAMBLE
PARISH CLERK & SEXTON
Photo portrait of Gamble Dixon, date unknown. He died in 1892.
DIXON, LEVI
OBITUARY 1907
Peterborough Advertiser of 2.2.1907, obituary for Levi Dixon, woodturner and carver, died 23rd January 1907, aged 75. Gives some account of his life and aspects of his work.
DIXON, LIBBEUS
OBITUARY 1927
Pboro Advertiser of 18.2.1927, obituary for Libbeus Dixon, died 14.2.1927 aged 69. Lists family mourners & others and all floral tributes. Gives account of his various roles in the village and mentions his inheritance from a cousin, Thomas Henry Cleave.
PHOTO, 1909
Libbeus Dixon, head and shoulders, from a King's Cliffe Feast Week cricket match photo dated 1909.
DIXON, MRS ROSE
MEMORIES OF WORK AT OLD RECTORY & WHEATSHEAF
Photo and brief piece quoting memories of Mrs Rose Dixon, aged 96 in 1982, the oldest resident in King's Cliffe. Pboro Eve Tel feature page on King's Cliffe, 30th October 1982.
DIXON; BAILEY; VENTROSS GREEN; BOLLANS; HILL;
WOODTURNERS & CARVERS OF KC
Essay by Canon John Bryan in 2006. Includes text of the Will of Laurence Scotney, turner, from 1598, but is largely based on local newspaper reports from the late 1800s and 1920s about the industry of woodturning in KC. 3 photos of William H Bailey.
DOLBY, MIKE
Small photo showing part of frontage of 40 West Street, with young Mike Dolby standing on the door-step, front door open behind him. Dated to c1950/51.
DUFFY BROTHERS
LP RECORDED 1975
LP 'Wild over Us' album of country music recorded by The Duffy Brothers, Ray and Leo Duffy and Dave Skews, and issued by Country Music Recordings in 1975.
EAST, DR BRIAN
LEAVING KC, 1968
Stamford Mercury cutting, April 1968: presentation of farewell gifts to Dr Brian East, G.P. and his wife, Jane, by G J Wagstaffe on behalf of the community he had served for nine years. Dr East and his family emigrating to live and work in Tasmania.
ELLIOTT, JAMES
SECRETARY OF CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
Copy of ms note by James Elliott in 1931, then Secretary of KC Congregational Church, explaining how the former Calvinist Baptist Chapel & cottage were sold and funds invested in War Stocks for the benefit of the KC Congregational Church. Also typed.
EMPLOYEES NAMED
Stokes'/Portess' employees in yard of Park St works with newly-made timber drugg. Known names and occupations in caption. Photo from c1903.
FANE, MRS ANN NEE MASON
WIFE OF FANE, WM H CROSS KEYS PUBLLICAN 1873-
B & w photo of Mrs Ann Mason, born 1848, seated at desk/table, possibly taken in photographer's studio. Mrs Fane was wife of William Henry Fane, landlord of the Cross Keys Inn from 1873 to 1897.
FANE, WILLIAM HENRY & FAMILY
PUBLICAN AT CROSS KEYS, 1873-1897
Sepia (poor quality) photo of William Henry Fane, wife & several children, with a pony cart in the yard of the Cross Keys Inn. 'Brewhouse' painted on wooden door behind. Believed to date to 1870s.
FEATHERSTONE, J T, MILLER
AT TOWER MILL, WEST ST
Tower mill, West St, with members of the Featherstone family on balcony. Date uncertain.
Brief note written by Canon John Bryan in 1970 about the tower mill and the last miller, Mr Featherstone.
FIRST PARISH COUNCIL, 1896
NAMES
Names and occupations of members of King's Cliffe's first Parish Council, in photo item no 958
(misc)
Members of the first King's Cliffe Parish Council, elected in December 1894, posed in courtyard of Hall Farm, home of Thomas J Law, one of the councillors.
FORD, ARTHUR WILLIAM
OBITUARY, 1979
Obituary of Mr Arthur William Ford, died 17.4.1979, formerly Headteacher at King's Cliffe Endowed School (from April 1952 to July 1976).
GEORGE MILES
HIS THATCHED COTTAGE IN BRIDGE ST
B & W photo from 1930 of tumbled-down thatched cottage on left of Bridge St, where bungalow (no 11) now stands. This was first home of George Miles when he came to King's Cliffe in 1858 as a wood sawyer.
GIDDINGS FAMILY
WOOD ROAD RESIDENTS, 1973
Narrow eastern end of Wood Road before it was widened in 1973, members of the Giddings family in foreground.
GIDDINGS, ERNEST
RAF CIVILIAN PASS, 1947
Small orange identity card numbered 163671, single-fold, photo and details inside and issued on 21 March 1947. RAF Civilian pass issued post-war to Ernest Giddings of King's Cliffe, as Fitter's labourer at 'Kingscliffe' airfield.
US ARMY CIVILIAN PASS, 1944
Small blue identity card numbered 12, single-fold, photo and details inside and issued on 11th November 1944. United States Army Civilian pass issued by the Office of the Provost Marshall to Ernest Giddings of King's Cliffe, as Groundsman.
GIDDINGS, ERNEST & FREDA BEATRICE (NEE SMITH)
PHOTO, 1950s
Sepia photo of Ernest and Freda Beatrice Giddings nee Smith, date unknown, poss 1950s. Parents of Mrs Marie Munford.
GIDDINGS, H
BRITISH LEGION MEMBER
Paper form B/H headed 'British Legion, Honorary Membership, Branch Application', completed by H Giddings and dated 25th April 1975. Reverse has wording of Rule 1c of their Royal Charter, quoting their aims.
GIDDINGS, IKE
ODE TO HIM AT CROSS KEYS INN, 1974
Ode to Ike (Isaac) Giddings, hangs in the bar of the Cross Keys Inn where he was a local. Dated 1974.
GIDDINGS, ISAAC ('IKE')
OBITUARY 1978
Obituary for Isaac (Ike) Giddings, from the Peterborough Standard of 23.12.1978.
PHOTO, 1970s?
Colour photo of Ike Giddings drinking his pint of beer in the bar at the Cross Keys Inn, West Street, KC. Date uncertain but possibly the 1970s.
GIDDINGS, MRS PHYLLIS
PHOTO, c1940
Photo showing the front door and two bay windows of what is now part of no 29 Park Street, previously a separate cottage. Mrs Phyllis Giddings (wife of Isaac), her sister Evelyn & niece Barbara outside the door. Date c1940.
GIDDINGS, WILLIAM ('Tilda')
PHOTO, PRE-1956
Photo of William Giddings, at an unidentified outdoor show event. Date also not known, but cannot be later than September 1956.
GILDER, COMPTON, GIDDINGS
Three men on a KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club trip to Skegness, probably same occasion as 1395.
GILDER, J H ('JACK')
POEM BY HIM, 1943
Poem entitled 'Legioneer's' (sic), written by J H Gilder, King's Cliffe, 30/6/1943 and printed on a postcard. Unused postcard.
GIMBER, ELLEN
PUPIL AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL, 1873
Map of Europe, publ by John Heywood of Manchester, for 'King's Cliffe New Schools'; worked by pupil Ellen Gimber & dated March 26th 1873, two months after the schools opened in Park Street. Map (c9.5" x 7.75") mounted in glazed wooden frame.
Map of Asia, publ by John Heywood of Manchester, for 'King's Cliffe New Schools'; worked by pupil Ellen Gimber & dated April 10th 1873, three months after the schools opened in Park Street. Map (c9.5" x 7.75") mounted in glazed wooden frame.
GOODBODY, HARRY
Harry Goodbody standing at the Glenn Miller memorial. 2 photos: one shows memorial base with four posts probably in 1994 when he built the stonework for his employers KSR International Ltd; the other photo is from a later visit.
GREEN, ARTHUR WILLIAM SAUNDERS
PHOTO, 1914
WW1 LINCOLNSHIREREGT
Photo of Arthur W S Green in his WW1 uniform, photo dated on back to 1914. He had enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment.
GREEN, ARTHUR WM SAUNDERS
WW1, SURVIVED; KILLED IN WW2
Field Service Pocket Book 1914, reprint 1916, fabric/paper slip cover. Issued to Arthur Green of King's Cliffe, Lincolnshire Regt. Photos: cover & title page with photo of Arthur Green. (Cover has green paint & black marks; inside some insect damage.)
GREEN, JOHN VENTROSS, 1857 - 1933
WOODTURNER OF KC
NEWS PHOTO FROM 1920S
Newspaper photograph and brief caption: 'Decaying Village Industry - only two craftsmen out of 80 are left at Kingscliffe, near Peterborough, to practise the art of wood turning.' Photo of John Ventross Green with examples of his turned woodware.
GROUP IN MILL FIELD
UNKNOWN VILLAGE EVENT BETWEEN 1890 & 1912
Event in Mill field, shows young horsechestnut trees, the church, watermill and bakehouse. George Miles, 1st KC Parish Council Chairman from 1895, in foreground (with bowler hat & button-hole.) A speaker on the podium?
GROUP IN PAGEANT COSTUME
Group dressed as pierrots, posed in a garden setting, possibly at King's Cliffe Endowed School where some of them were on the teaching staff.
GROUP OF VILLAGERS IN COSTUME
PHOTO IN HALL YARD FOR GEO V CORONATION, JUNE
Sepia photo of the village assembled in costume and with tradesmen, Fire Brigade and musicians, taken in Hall Yard for King George V's coronation celebrations on 22 June 1911.
HALLAM, ELIZABETH
BOOK A GIFT
Hardback book 'Poems by Alan Seeger' publ Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1917. Alan Seeger a young poet killed in 1916 whilst fighting in France. Inscribed 'Elizabeth F H Hallam, given to me by M Chavalier, Shanghai China 19/5/6' (sic).
HARE, JOHN NIBLOE
PHOTO, 1909
John Nibloe Hare, head and shoulders, from a King's Cliffe Feast Week cricket match photo dated 1909.
HARLOCK, MARY
PHOTO, EARLY 1990s
Mary Harlock ("Blind Mary"), blind from the age of 2, a resident of the L & H almshouses in later life. Seen here knitting. She was a skilled knitter with a lovely singing voice.
HARTLEY, DORIS NEE CHEESMAN
LAND ARMY AT KC
Hand-tinted photo of three Land Army girls sitting on the gate at Fenn's farm, King's Cliffe. Doris Cheesman (centre), others as yet unidentified.
HAWKES, ANNIE; LOVE, GEORGE R; LOCK, FRANCES;
Group of four believed to be teachers at KC Endowed School, dated 'c1931' on reverse. Seated L - R: Miss Annie Hawkes, George R Love, Miss Frances Lock; standing behind, Mr Cudmore.
HEYS FAMILY
RICHARDSON, KENNETH
Watercolour with paper surround painted to look like wood and poem below - presumed biographical by the artist 'K W Richardson'. Date uncertain but between 1911 and 1958.
HEYS, JAMES HENRY
WW1 UNFORM, 1ST HERTFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY
James Henry Heys, photo in WW1 uniform. He served in the 1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry.
HEYS, MISS KATHLEEN DAISY
21ST BIRTHDAY DANCE, KC VILLAGE HALL, 24 MAY
INVITATION & DANCE CARD
Invitation card and dance card ('Programme') for 21st birthday celebration of Miss K D Heys held in King's Cliffe Village Hall on 24 May 1920.
HEYS, MRS ELLEN
LIVED 1 BRIDGE ST, THEN 50 WEST ST
Mrs Ellen Heys, in the porch at 50 West Street, her home from c1935 until the mid-1970s.
LIVED AT 50 WEST STREET
Mrs Ellen Heys, photo taken at Christmas 1957 when she was 94 years of age.
HILL FAMILY
AGNES, BEATRICE, NELLIE, JAMES
Photo portrait, mother Agnes Hill with children Nellie (lt), Beatrice (back), James (front rt). Photo dated to 1914.
HOUSE, JOHN (1830-1914)
SOFT DRINKS MAKER
STONE GINGER BEER
Photo of stone bottle made for 'House's celebrated stone giner beer, Peterborough'. John House (1830-1914) of King's Cliffe.
HOUSE, JOHN AND WIFE
HOUSES LIVED AS 'ROSARY FARM', PARK ST
Mr John House and his wife riding their horses along West Street, passing Hazel House (now no 54), thatched cottage to east, thatched workshop on street edge & properties beyond with bay windows demolished c1900.
HOWARD, PERCY & MRS CONSTANCE AND FAMILY
St Mercury photo (Mrs Connie Howard) and article published on 8th January 1965 entitled "World of women - This family revolves round the wife". An interview with Mr Percy & Mrs Connie Howard re family and business.
HOWARD, PERCY; HOWARD, ROY; & OTHERS
Group photo from a seaside trip dated to 1950 or 1951, Howards' coach in centre background.
HOWES FAMILY
FURNISHINGS SALE, WINDMILL HOUSE, MAY 1924
Catalogue produced by Messrs Richardson, auctioneers, for sale on 21 & 22 May 1924 of 'the valuable furnishings' of Windmill House, King's Cliffe, (970 Lots in all), on instructions of Mrs Howes, leaving KC to retire to her London residence.
HOWES, JOHN GROOME
OBITUARY 1904
Obituary from Peterborough Advertiser of 16th January 1904 for John Groome Howes, died 6th January 1904, aged 69. Greatly missed as a quietly generous benefactor to King's Cliffe people and causes.
HOWES, MRS ELLEN
OBITUARY 1929
Obituaries from Stamford Mercury of 15th & 22nd November 1929 for Mrs Ellen Howes, aged 81. A generous benefactor to many village causes.
IRELAND
IRELAND, ELIZA (MRS)
FUNERAL CARD, 3 FEBRUARY 1930
Printed card with funeral details for Eliza beloved wife of Thomas Ireland. Eliza Ireland died 29 January 1930 aged 83, funeral in Apethorpe Church 3rd February 1930. Card addressed from Kirks Lodge, King's Cliffe. .
IRELAND, THOMAS AND ELIZA (POSSIBLY)
Man and woman in late Victorian/Edwardian dress seated in front of door in brick wall of a building, as yet unidentified, but could be Thomas Ireland and his wife Eliza. Location & date also unknown. Eliza Ireland died 29 January 1930 aged 83.
JAMES, REVD CUTHBERT
OBITUARY 1968
St Mercury 13.12.1968, obituary for Revd Cuthbert James, died at Oakham aged 77, Rector of King's Cliffe from 1932 to 1939.
KC HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
OFFICERS & CTTEE MEMBERS, 1926
List of names from Annual Show programme in 1926, with extra information provided by Jim Brown in 2005.
KELLY, RACHAEL
News item re The Little Soup Kitchen travelling van business run by Mrs Rachael Kelly from King's Cliffe. Includes photo of the van and menu board at Oundle Market.
KING, A E
PUBLICAN AT RED LION INN, C1935-7
Postcard showing frontage of Red Lion Inn in Park Street; the wife and daughter of publican A E King standing outside. Bunting on the building suggests this was either George V Silver Jubilee (1935) or George VI coronation (1937).
KIRBY, ARTHUR ('GAFFER')
PHOTO, 1947
Photo of Arthur ('Gaffer') Kirby standing behind a waist-high drift of snow in West Street. Hand-dated on reverse 17th March 1947.
KIRBY, MRS WENDY
SCHOOL PATROL OFFICER AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Notice from KC Endowed School noticeboard advertising a vacancy for school Crossing Patrol Officer, as Mrs Kirby wished to give up. Notice undated, possibly from 2008?
KIRK, SUE - WILLOW WEAVER; MOULD, GLYN - W
Feature, Nene Living mag, Sept 2015 p 35: about learning something new, includes Willow Weaving classes by Sue Kirk at KC Village Hall; and wood carving classes by Glyn Mould at his Sacrewell Farm workshop.
LATTIMORE, MRS ROSE
Mrs Rose Lattimore planting a tree in Hall Yard at the centre of the village, to mark the village's achievement in winning the Best Kept Village competition for 1988.
LAW FAMILY
ARTICLE ABOUT FAMILY IN KC
'The Law Family and King's Cliffe' article & 2 photos, Peterborough Standard 12.10.1928. Photos of rear of Hall Farm & late Thomas James Law. Article refers to William Law & last links to King's Cliffe through his brother George's family line.
LAW, WILLIAM
HIS HOME AT HALL FARM
Christmas greetings card, photo showing William Law's study window at Hall Farm from window across courtyard; William Law quotations inside card. Made & sent by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
Photo in courtyard at Hall Farm showing William Law's study window above door where he distributed clothes & food to the needy. Photo by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
Photo in courtyard at Hall Farm showing William Law's study window above door where he distributed clothes & food to the needy. Photo by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
PRIVATE ORATORY CHAPEL
Two photos taken 22 March 2016 to show upper front elevation & west side wall of the private oratory chapel William Law had built after moving to Hall Farm in 1741. Pediment and ashlar stonework on front wall. Former chapel now part of no 4 Bridge St.
LAW, WILLIAM 1686-1761, THEOLOGIAN & WRITER,
ARTICLE ABOUT
Article entitled 'Who was William Law?" written by Canon John Bryan for the King's Cliffe Parish Gazette in August 1981.
LAW, WILLIAM; GIBBON, HESTER; HUTCHESON, ELI
TOMBS IN KC CHURCHYARD
Writing-desk tomb of William Law, Sarah Law and Hester Gibbons; Mrs El;izabeth Hutcheson's tomb alongside. KC parish church in background. Photo taken in 2000.
LAW, WM; GIBBON, HESTER; HUTCHESON, ELIZABETH
TOMBS IN KC CHURCHYARD
INSCRIPTIONS
Transcript of the inscriptions on the writing-desk tomb of William Law, Sarah Law and Hester Gibbons; and the separate tomb of Mrs El;izabeth Hutcheson alongside.
LAWRENCE-LAW, CHARLES
PHOTO ON FARM, 1890s
Charles Lawrence-Law driving a binder in the field, 3 horses in harness.
LEWIS, ALLICE
SAMPLER WORKED IN 1817
Photo of sampler worked by Allice Lewis, aged 14 and dated 1817. Text difficult to read above, birds and animals below.
LEWIS-SMITH, ANNE
'FLESH & FLOWERS' BOOK OF HER POETRY, PUBL 19
Hardback, A5 volume of poems by Anne Lewis-Smith, former resident of Manor Hse, King's Cliffe. Dust-jacket, title page and Contents scanned. Book itself in good condition; dust-jacket stained along spine & some tears along edges.
LITTLE, AGNES
SCHOOL GOOD ATTENDANCE MEDALIONS, 1890s
Photo of front and verso of 3 medalions awarded by Northants County Council for good conduct and punctual attendance at KC School.
LITTLE, THOMAS H B
SERVED & KILLED WW1
Photos of framed collection of Belgian souvenir greetings envelopes from WW1, embroidered with flowers and greetings in English, mounted around photo of L/C Thomas H B Little and his war medals. He was killed in action 26th March 1918.
LOCK, ADELA MARY
2ND WIFE OF G R LOVE, HEADMASTER OF KC END SC
GRADUATION CERTIFICATE, BA HONS ENGLISH, BIRM
Certificate issued in 1946 confirming Adela Lock's graduation on 29th June 1929 with BA Hons in English Class II from Birkingham University.
(misc)
Portrait of Adela Lock as a young woman, possibly when graduating in 1929.
LOCK, LUCY ADELA
Sepia photo of Lucy Adela Lock (nee Dixon) of Manor Farm, Yarwell, 1875 to 1961, aged about 30 years old.
LOCK, MISS FRANCES
TEACHER AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL, 1930S
Miss Frances Lock (teacher) standing in garden of KC Endowed School school-master's house, part of school buildings in Park Street. Probably taken in the 1930s.
(misc)
Miss Frances Lock in uniform, photo stamped with date 24 March 1944. Miss Lock was a teacher at KC Endowed School from June 1931 to 30th Sept 1935.
LOCK, MRS LUCY ADELA
'Memories of a Villager' recalling King's Cliffe & other villages in the Willowbrook valley from 1880 on. Written by Mrs Lucy Adela Lock aged 83. Typewritten, typed date on final page: 24th February 1958.
LOCK, MRS LUCY ADELA OF YARWELL
Full page from St Mercury of 22 December 1950, 'Yarwell's Historic Backgroiund' but including several refs to King's Ciffe. Mrs Lucy Adela Lock's photo & caption.
LOCK, PRIVATE E B, IST NORTHANTS REGT, C CO.
UNDATED NEWS CUTTING 'MISSING'
Two undated cuttings, photo and text, one seeking information about Private E B Lock, son of Mr & Mrs James Lock of Woodston, Peterborough, described as missing; the second as reported killed in action. 'One of Werner's Own, in action on 9th May.'
LONGBOTTOM, CHARLES
WW1 SERVICE
PHOTO ALBUM
Album (5.5" x 3.25") containing eleven sepia photos (1.75" x 2.5") showing soldiers and early tanks in unidentified location with extensive dunes, poss Egypt. Album inscribed 'My father, 1st World War, Charles Longbottom' by his daughter Clara.
LOVE, GEORGE (HEADMASTER OF KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Group at KC Endowed School, June 1951 (Pboro Std cutting has date 22 June 1951); with Mr Love (Headmaster) and his wife in school gardens on Scholarship Day. Mr Love an "Old Pete", having trained at St Peter's Practice School & College, Pboro.
LOVE, GEORGE R
HEADMASTER AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL 1915 - 1952
BEE-KEEPING MEDALS AWARDED
Bronze medal of the British Bee-keepers' Association awarded to G R Love, but not inscribed. Date unknown.
Silver medal of the British Bee-keepers' Association awarded to G R Love, but not inscribed. Date unknown.
RECRUIT, 1ST VOL BATTALION, NORTHANTS REGT, 1
Bronze medal, Northants Regt 1st Volunteer Battalion insignia on front; engraved on reverse 'The embers Medal for Recruits, Peterborough Coys. Presented by GG Greenwood Esq M.P. Won by Pte G R Love, 1907'.
(misc)
Board of Education Teacher's Certificate for Educational Handwork, for Senior Scholars, awarded to George R Love in November 1919. Stamped 'Passed with Distinction'.
George R Love, Headmaster 1915 to 1952, with two of his beehives in school gardens in Park Street. School roofline partly visible behind.
LOVE, GEORGE RICHARD
ARMY GROUP AT CAMP, DATE UNCERTAIN, POSS 1ST
Photo of group in Army uniforms at a camp, undated but George Love is young man.
AT OPENING OF NEW KC SEC MOD SCHOOL, JUNE 196
Pboro Eve Tel of 21 June 1961, report of official opening of KC Sec Mod School. Mr G R Love, retired former Head of KC Endowed Schl, greeted by new KCSM Head, Mr G M Jackson. Dr Stopford, Bishop of Pboro (lt) & Mr D L High, Asst County Ed Office (rt)
HEADMASTER AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL 1915 - 1952
BEE-HIVES AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
Photo showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, tending his bee-hives behind the schoolmaster's house (his home) and school buildings. Date unknown.
DEACON'S SCHOOL REPORT AS PUPIL TEACHER, 1905
School report from Deacon's School, dated 1905. Headings includes abbreviation 'P.T.' meaning Pupil Teacher.
REFERENCE, FEB 1917
Handwritten letter of reference by F Edgson, Manager at King's Cliffe Endowed School and Chairman of the District Committee, dated February 23 1917. G R Love 'would be missed, after 2 years as Head'.
SCHOOL & COLLEGE REFERENCES, 1908 - 1917
Text of letters of reference for G R Love; Eye School; Deacon's School, St Peter's College (all 1908), College School & Training College, Peterborough (1910), King's Cliffe School (1917).
SCHOOL GARDENS
Newspaper photos (undated source, but possibly 1930s or 1940s) showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, with boys at work in the school gardens. Distant view to railway embankment?
Photo showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, in his flower garden behind the schoolmaster's house (his home) and school buildings. Date unknown but possibly in the 1920s.
(misc)
Studio portrait photo showing youthful George Love, later Headmaster of KC Endowed School, wearing teacher's mortarboard and Members' Medal for Recruits (item 4309) won in 1907. Signed 'Yours sincerely G R Love.' Date appears to read '07.08'.
OBITUARY, JUNE 1964
Newspaper obituary for George Richard Love, died 30th June 1964. Retired former Headmaster of KC Endowed School.
SKETCHES DONE BY HIM, 1919
Copies of two sketches drawn by George Love, both signed 'G R Love, 19'
LOVE, GEORGE RICHARD & 1ST WIFE MINNIE
SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE, KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
George Love (Headmaster) and his 1st wife Minnie, in the garden of the Schoolmaster's House (their home), part of the KC Endowed School buildings in Park Street. Dated to 1920s - 1935.
LOVE, GEORGE; DANN, A G
Photo of two costume characters from a pageant entitled 'Empire's Honour': dated to between January 1915 and December 1917. Mr George Love (page), Mr A G Dann (Lord Kitchener).
LOVE, MR GEORGE & 1ST WIFE, MINNIE
KCES HEADMASTER AND WIFE
Picture showing the garden at King's Cliffe Endowed School with George Love (Headmaster) and his 1st wife, Minnie.
LOVE, MRS ADELA
OBITUARY JULY 1996
Newspaper obituary for Mrs Adela Mary Love, died 13 July 1996 aged 87. Widow of Mr George Love, Headmaster at KCES from 1915 until 1952; Mrs Love herself taught at the school.
LOVE, MRS ADELA (NEE LOCK); BABY DAUGHTER ROS
Mrs Adela Love with baby daughter, Rosemary, born 1937, standing in garden of KC Endowed School school master's house (their home), part of school buildings in Park Street.
LOVE, MRS ADELA; POWELL, MARY
Photo of two costume characters from a pageant dated to c1918-20. Mrs Adela ('Minnie') Love, as a V.A.D.; Miss Mary Powell as a Victorian lady.
LOVE, MRS MINNIE, NEE OLDHAM
1ST WIFE OF G R LOVE, HEADMASTER OF KC END SC
Half portrait signed 'Best Love, Minnie', date uncertain but style of hat Edwardian.
LOVE, ROSEMARY, BORN 1937
Rosemary Love as a baby in garden of KC Endowed School school-master's house, with view to countryside behindd her including part of gardens and the bowliing green pavilion.
LOWETH, JAMES & FAMILY
PHOTO
Photo of James Loweth, his wife and family standing outside the former Wheel Inn public house in West Street, King's Cliffe.
LUCAS, MARGARET
Photo of young Margaret Lucas c1946, standing across the street from her mother's grocery shop at what is now 39 West Street. View includes no 41, then Browns', and view east as far as Forest Approach corner in background.
MARSH, REVD JAMES WILLIAM
RECTOR OF KC, 1918 TO 1925
Photo in garden of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now the Old Rectory, number 21 West Street). Revd James Marsh with a pair of step-ladders in the garden. He was Rector from February 1918 until September 1925.
Revd James Marsh, KC Rector 1918-1925, with a punchball and his dog in garden of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now the Old Rectory, number 21 West Street). Glazed conservatory in background.
MASLIN, MRS FRANCES
100TH BIRTHDAY IN 1948
Mrs Maslin and a group of her friends, at Mrs Maslin's 100th birthday celebration in 1948 in the garden of her home, Drayton House, 42 West Street.
MASLIN, MRS FRANCES; FENN, SAM
OLD & YOUNGEST VILLAGERS ON 15 AUGUST 1945
Photo from VJ Day street party at the Cross on 15th August 1945. Mrs Maslin (then the oldest KC resident) with baby Sam Fenn (the youngest) on her lap. Others at party in background.
MASON, ARTHUR EDWARD
MASON, JOHN TREVOR
Photo of Arthur Edward Mason with his young son, John Trevor.
WW1, SERVED & SURVIVED
Photo of Arthur Edward Mason in WW1 uniform, with details of his life and WW1 service.
Photo of Arthur Edward Mason with other servicemen, convalescing during WW1. He is seated far left.
Photo of Arthur Edward Mason with other servicemen, convalescing after being wounded at Ypres in 1917. during WW1. He is seated middle row, second from right.
MASON, GEORGE
WW1, SERVED & SURVIVED
Photo of George Mason in WW1 uniform, with brief details of his life.
MEEKS, CHRIS
Promotional leaflet, C M Property Mainenance, King's Cliffe.
MILES, GEORGE
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan written in 1999 giving a brief biography of George Miles, an important figure in the business, public and social life of King's Cliffe from the late Victorian years until his death in 1912. With photo illustrations.
MILES, GEORGE (WILLIAM GEORGE MILES)
TIMBER MERCHANT IN KC
Studio portrait of George Miles, (properly William George Miles) possibly aged around 40.
MILES, GEORGE & FAMILY
PHOTO
B & w photo showing George Miles and members of his family in an open carriage in front of the 3-storey house c1700 in Park St which was later demolished to make way for 'Rockbourne', built for George Miles in 1900. The stone gate piers still stand.
MILLER, PHYL & JOHN
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY, 1979
Photo and piece from St Mercury 21.12.1979, Phyl and John Miller, publicans at the Red Lion Inn since 1961, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
PUBLICANS SINCE 1961
Photo taken on the evening when the Red Lion Inn closed, believed in 1980 (exact date uncertain). Phyl & John Miller, publicans, seated centre and right; pub regulars standing behind.
MOISEY, WILLIAM & SARAH NEE BRUDENEL
FAMILY HISTORY
Phillips' family history, resident in King's Cliffe c1844 to 1890 and elsewhere. Incl refs to other families: Harker, Moisey, Brudenel, Spire. Researched and written by a descendant of the family. Searchable pdf (Ctrol F or Command F to find).
MONCK, MARY ELIZABETH
3 photos of sampler by 'Mary Elizabeth Monck, aged 13, King's Cliffe School', framed and hung in KC Rectory. Letter 'i' has been missed out of one line of alphabet. Date by ref to Census 1891.
MUNFORD, WILLIAM
CERT OF WW1 SERVICE
Certificate of service issued in 1917 to William Munford, as member of 1st Battalion, Rutland Volunteer Regiment from 23 April to 18 December 1917.
MUNFORD, WILLIAM & FAMILY
PHOTO 1917
William Munford, his wife Margaret (nee Parks) sons Johnny (left) and baby Sidney. William wearing WW1 military uniform, as member of 1st Battalion, Rutland Volunteer Regiment.
NICHOLLS, JOHN ('BUZZ') C1900
Pencil portrait 14" x 16.5", border for mounting in frame, torn lower left. '23701' in blue pencil on reverse, also on tube (4328.1-.3) used to pack and post the portrait. Subject believed to be John Nicholls ('Buzz') a steam engine driver in KC.
NICHOLLS, MARY ANN (MARRIED NAME SMITH)
SAMPLER, 1884
Sampler worked by Mary Ann Nicholls aged 11 in 1884 at KC Endowed School. Framed & glazed, lower side of frame has some damage. 2 handwritten labels on back with details. Letter 'I' missing from top row, as in other samplers worked at the school.
NOBBS, MARGARET
LAND ARMY FOREWOMAN AT KC
WLA Forewoman, Margaret Nobbs, driving the truck she used to transport the Land Army workers to and from various farms in the KC area. Probably taken in 1944.
NORMAN, MRS KATE
Mrs Kate Norman (the village District Nurse) as a 'nurse' from costume pageant c1918-20, treating unidentified 'patient'. Backdrop is yew hedge in Manor House garden.
NORMANTON, MARGARET; CATLIN, SUE; SHARPE, M
Group in costume, photo taken at Manor House, presumed a school-inspired costume pageant. Miss Normanton (teacher), Susie Catlin (later married Walker), and Marjorie Sharpe (later married Woolley) identified. Dated to c1920.
OBITUARIES OF KC PEOPLE
BETWEEN 1850 AND 1934
Transcript of the obituaries of King's Cliffe people and a few from surrounding area, printed in local newspapers between 1850 and 1934. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find). Some photo portraits & names of family & other mourners.
OLD RECTORY, DOMESTIC STAFF
GROUP PHOTO AT OLD RECTORY, 1880s
Domestic staff of Rectory (later Old Rectory) 21 West St, posed on steps at rear c1880-1890. Photo taken by "A & G Taylor, Photographers to the Queen".
ORLEBAR, MISS DOROTHY
DAUGHTER OF RECTOR OF KC, 1905-1918
Photo showing path along eastern side of the former 'lower garden' at the Old Rectory in West Street, with H K Bonney's 'market cross' on medieval base, and behind an archway from Fotheringay.
PAIGE, JANE; BIBBY, ROB
Feature, Nene Living mag, Sept 2015 p 33: about learning something new, includes art classes at Old Brewery Studios, KC; and at Woodnewton Pottery. Photos of Jane Paige self-portrait & Rob Bibby at the wheel in his pottery.
PAPILLON, GODFREY KEPPEL
PAPILLON BREWERY, WEST ST
Advertisement for G K Papillon's King's Cliffe Brewery (Eagle Lane) from Dolby's Stamford & Rutland Almanack, p205 (year date uncertain)
Advertisement for G K Papillon's King's Cliffe Brewery (Eagle Lane) from Dolby's Stamford & Rutland Almanack for 1904. Items 841 & 2015 are similar, but this copy has the best quality printing.
PHILLIPS FAMILY
PHILLIPS, ROBERT & RUTH NEE HARKER
FAMILY HISTORY
Phillips' family history, resident in King's Cliffe c1844 to 1890 and elsewhere. Incl refs to other families: Harker, Moisey, Brudenel, Spire. Researched and written by a descendant of the family. Searchable pdf (Ctrol F or Command F to find).
POLLARD, THOMAS & (MRS) FLORENCE; WOOLF, GORD
CHRISTMAS PARCELS FROM KC BRITISH LEGION
Tom and Florence Pollard at their house door in West St, receiving a Royal British Legion Christmas parcel from local RBL Branch committee members Gordon Woolf (ctre) and Ted Smith. Date uncertain, but no later than Christmas 1968.
POWELL, MARY
Miss Mary Powell as a Victorian lady, side view. From pageant dated to c1918-20.
PRESCOTT, SARAH ANNE (M SHARPE)
STUDIO PORTRAIT
Studio portrait photo of Sarah Anne Prescott, date uncertain but professional photo mount card shows silver medal awards up to 1882. Sarah Anne married William Sharpe of King's Cliffe.
REVD ORLEBAR, RECTOR OF KC
NAME OF CONSIGNEE ON PORTERS BILLS, DEC 1912
Two Porters Bills (one stamped 'Kingscliffe Goods') dated Dec 1912, the other not stamped, dated Nov 1912; for goods transported for Revd Orlebar, Rector of KC (1905-1918). Gives weight and cost of each consignment.
RICHARDSON, TOM FRYER
PUBLICAN
Close-up of hanging lamp at front door of Cross Keys, showing 'Richardson Posting House' printed on lamp glass.
RICHARDSON, TOM FRYER ('BUCK')
RICHARDSON, MARY ANN (MRS)
'Buck' Richardson with his wife, Mary Ann, and dog, standing at the door of the Cross Keys, where he was listed as publican from 1898 until the early 1920s. Wooden gates visible at the entry to the yard and stables behind the Cross Keys.
ROBERTS, HARRY (Jnr)
Identity card number 49, printed on blue, single-fold card, headed "AAF Stn 367' ie King's Cliffe Airfield, issued to Harry Roberts and dated 30th December 1944. Photo stapled inside.
ROBERTS, JOHN AND CHARLES
FOOTBALLER IN KC
'Improved T' Thomlinson's leather football cover with lace but no rubber bladder. Pair of brown shin pads.
ROBERTS, JOHN THOMAS
EMPLOYEE, F & A GEORGE, BLATHERWYCKE
Craft Certificate for Beef Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Sheep Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Pig Production, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Craft Certificate for Machinery Operation & Maintenance, achieved by John Thomas Roberts of King's Cliffe; issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948.
Reverse of Craft Certificate issued in July 1972 by Northants & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee under Agricultural Wages Act 1948. States rule that future employer may require holder to undergo a re-test of proficiency.
(misc)
Letter to J T Roberts from Northamtonshire & Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Wages Committee, dated 27 July 1972, enclosing various Craft Certificates he had achiieved.
ROBERTS, MISS HILDA; BLAKE, MRS GLADYS
PHOTO AT SKEGNESS
Colour photo taken on Skegness seafront, probably on a day outing there from King's Cliffe. Hilda 'Polly' Roberts (left) and Mrs Gladys Blake. Date unknown. Paper wallet printed 'Walfred Studios, Prince George St, Skegness'.
ROBERTS, PRIDMORE, GIDDINGS, COMPTON
Five men on a KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club trip to Skegness, believed 1950s.
ROBERTS, PTE S
WW1 PTE S ROBERTS 203002 2ND ESSEX REGT.
Postcard wth message written to Private S Roberts by his wife ' and daughter 'D & V', when he was in the Brook War Hospital after being injured in France.
SANSOM, GEORGE (Senior)
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Billhead for G Sansom, Electrical Engineer, West Street, King's Cliffe. Date uncertain but after 1917.
G Sansom (senior), Electrical Engineer at Apethorpe Hall in the early 1900s, standing in the electrical generation engine house there.
SANSOM, GEORGE JNR; GOODWIN, JOHN HENRY
Photo of George Sansom jnr and John Henry Goodwin with George's motorbike at the back of 94 West Street. Barn behind them was a Zionist Baptist Chapel in the 1830s. Date of photo uncertain, possibly late 1920s or up to January 1934 latest.
SANSOM, GEORGE JNR; SMITH, ARTHUR
Photo of George Sansom jnr and his cousin Arthur Smith (as pilion) sitting on George's motorbike in the garden of 94 West Street. Date uncertain, possibly late 1920s or 1930s.
SARDESON, MRS C & DAUGHTER LILY (MARRIED SMIT
MATERNAL GRANDMA & MOTHER OF SMITH, TERENCE
Studio photo portrait of mother and daughter. Mrs C Sardeson (first name not known) and daughter Lily who would later marry Neville Smith.
SCHULZE, GEORG ERICH REINHARD
SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING, MAY 2012
Front of order of Service of Thanksgiving for Georg Erich Reinhard Schulze, 1925 - 2012, held on 21st May 2012 in King's Cliffe Parish Church. Includes head and shoulder portrait photo.
SHARPE FAMILY
83 (NOW 102) WEST ST
Full front view of no 83, now no 102 West Street, which was known as 'Stoneleigh House'. House originally built by William Sharpe and his two sons, Herbert and William Alfred, and lived in by several generations of the family up until c1990.
GROUP PHOTO, FIVE GENERATIONS, 1955
Five generations of the Sharpe family pictured, with story, in St Mercury of 13 May 1955.
SHARPE, FAMILY
LINKS WITH ALBERT BOHLEN, GERMAN WW2 POW
Typewritten letter of thanks from German PoW Albert Bohlen (no A500406, held at King's Cliffe camp) to Herbert Sharpe and his family for all their kindness to him. Folded inside envelope addressed to Mr Herbert Sharpe, Stoneleigh House, West St, KC.
SHARPE, HERBERT
'GREY AND BLUE SLATER'
Example of the letterhead stationery used by Herbert Sharpe, of 'Stoneleigh' (now no 102) West Street, KC. Describes himself as a 'Grey and Blue Slater'.
CERT FOR WW1 SERVICE
Certificate issued to 37559 Pte H Sharpe commemorating his services in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during WW1. (Name inserted by hand has faded very badly.)
WW1 MEDALS INDEX CARD
Medals index card for Herbert Sharpe, Pte 50752 Suffolk Regiment and Pte 37559 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
WW1 WAR MEDALS
Photo of WW1 war medals awarded to Herbert Sharpe, Pte 50752 Suffolk Regiment and Pte 37559 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
SHARPE, HERBERT & EDITH, NEE GILBERT
WEDDING PORTRAIT
Studio portrait photo of Herbert Sharpe and his bride, Edith Gilbert on their wedding day.
SHARPE, HERBERT & FAMILY
STUDIO PORTRAIT, 1916?
Studio portrait photo of Herbert Sharpe, in his WW1 Army uniform, with his wife, Edith (nee Gilbert) and their daughter Marjorie, born 1906. Date uncertain; pencilled on reverse, '1916?'.
SHARPE, HERBERT AND WILLIAM
COLLYWESTON SLATERS IN KC
Sepia photo of seven Collyweston slaters, standing among slates removed from building behind (unidentified, probably a church). Ladder and scaffolding visible. Undated.
SHARPE, HERBERT; DICKS, LOUISA, RALPH & FRANC
FAMILY HOME WAS 85 WEST ST
Small tin for Ucal indigestion tablets, found in boundary wall between 104 & 106 West Street, with note inside re wall repairs in November 1945.
SHARPE, MABEL & OTHERS
Photo from VJ Day street party at the Cross on 15th August 1945. Mrs Mabel Sharpe, ctre foreground, with some of those who were at the party.
SHARPE, MARJORIE
AT KC ENDOWED SCHOOL, 1914
Marjorie Sharpe at King's Cliffe Endowed School around 1914, the year she started school there.
PHOTO AT SCHOOL, C1921
Studio portrait photo of Marjorie Sharpe as a girl, possibly aged 15 or 16.
SHARPE, MARJORIE; GOODWIN, DOREEN
MAY QUEEN & PREDECESSOR, 1918
Marjorie Sharpe (later m Woolley), left, as May Queen; and Doreen Goodwin, May Queen in previous year, posed in costume probably in KC Endowed School grounds.
SHARPE, MISS ELFREDA
PICTURE WITH NURSERY CHILDREN, 1965
Miss Elfreda Sharpe and children from her Nursery School in Stamford, on an outing to the Fire Station in Stamford during 1965.
(misc)
Young Elfreda Sharpe, as 'Little Dora' from costume pageant c1918 photo taken in Manor House garden.
SHARPE, MRS MABEL NEE DAVIES
ARTICLE ABOUT KC, PBORO EVE TEL 1982
Peterborough Evening Telegraph feature about King's Cliffe, using piece written by Mrs M L Sharpe, (Mabel Sharpe, nee Davies, born KC). Photo of church interior. Dated to 1982.
SHARPE, MRS SARAH ANNE
OBITUARY, 1957
Obituary of Mrs Sarah Anne Sharpe, nee Prescott, who died from Asian flu in October 1957 a few months after her 100th birthday. Cutting from local paper (believed to be Stamford Mercury).
SHARPE, SARAH ANNE (nee PRESCOTT)
100TH BIRTHDAY, 1957
St Mercury photo and story about Mrs Sarah Anne Sharpe (nee Prescott), whose 100th birthday was 30 March 1957.
SHARPE, THOMAS
PHOTO IN WW1 UNIFORM, MARCH 1917
Studio portrait photo of Thomas Sharpe, in Army uniform, inscribed by him ' Best wishes from Tom, somewhere in France, 31 March 1917'.
SHARPE, WILLIAM
PHOTO c1900
Studio portrait photo of William Sharpe, slater and plasterer. He was born 1856, died 1926. Date of photo uncertain, possibly c1900.
SHARPE, WILLIAM & SARAH ANNE, NEE PRESCOTT
WEDDING PORTRAIT, 1917
Studio portrait photo (badly 'silvered') of William Sharpe and his wife Sarah Anne, nee Prescott. Dated in pencil on the reverse 'March 1917'.
SHARPE, WILLIAM ALFRED
PHOTO C1900
Studio portrait of William Alfred Sharpe, by Harrison, photographer, of 168 High Street, Lincoln. William was born 1881. Photo undated but believed c1900.
SIDDONS, WILLIAM
REMEMBRANCE CARD, DIED 5TH JULY 1876
Small card in remembrance of William Siddons, died 5th July 1876, aged 63. Card edged in black and mounted on a decorative paper backing, black above above with silver-foil covered paper cut in the shape of a gothic church window with angel & cherubs.
TIMBER MERCHANT
Entry from London Gazette of 25 January 1859 recording the Bankruptcy of William Siddons, timber merchant of King's Cliffe, Northampton.
SKINNER, HENRY BINDER
COACHMAN AT BURGHLEY HOUSE
PHOTO OF CARRIAGE IN USE
Photo by Stamford photographer G F Hinson; carriage driven by Henry Binder Skinner from King's Cliffe, coachman & chauffeur at Burghley House for 60 years. Outside Stamford Town Hall, occasion uncertain, but costume appears Edwardian.
OBITUARY & PHOTO, MAY 1951
Newspaper cutting with brief obituary & photo of Henry Binder Skinner from King's Cliffe, coachman & chauffeur at Burghley House. Cutting undated, but he died in May 1951.
REPORT OF DEATH, MAY 1951
Newspaper cutting announcing death of Henry Binder Skinner from King's Cliffe, coachman & chauffeur at Burghley House for 60 years. Cutting undated, but he died in May 1951.
WW1 MEDALS
Envelope with cardboard box containing two WW1 medals addressed to 'Mr H B Skinner, 42 West St, KC, near Peterborough'. Service no writtten at top of envelope: 245336. Sent from RASC Medals Section, Woolwich.
(misc)
Full-length studio portrait of Henry Binder Skinner from King's Cliffe, as a young man. Wearing pin-striped suit with double-breasted waistcoat. No photographer's name or date.
SKINNER, ROSE ELLEN
SAMPLER, 1884
Photo of sampler worked by Rose Ellen Skinner in 1884 at King's Cliffe Endowed School when she was aged 12. The letter 'I' is missing from the top row: a mistake repeated in other samplers worked at the school: possibly an error in a template?
SMITH FAMILY
STORY OF ENOCH SMITH 1871-1953 & FAMILY
Enoch Smith, his gypsy family in King's Cliffe, an account written by his great grandson in 2011.
SMITH, ENOCH
PHOTO, 1890s
Small oval photo of Enoch Smith, head and shoulders only, to fit a locket. Believed to date to early 1890s.
SMITH, GEORGE 'PAPPY'; DICKS, RALPH & OTHERS
Photo showing three men and two boys standing alongside a burnt-out railway truck at King's Cliffe Station yard. Date estimated as c1925.
SMITH, GEORGE (SNR); SMITH, ARTHUR
TIMBER-HAULIERS EARLY 1900S
Laden timber drugg with King's Cliffe timber hauliers, including George Smith snr and his son Arthur Smith, 10 horses in harness dragging a large felled tree. Location uncertain, possibly from Southwick Woods or Deene Park. Date c1920s.
SMITH, LILY
KCPC RECEIPT, INTERMENT FEE SPACE 223, JAN 19
KC Parish Council receipt for interment fees re burial of Lily Smith in grave space 223. Mrs Smith buried 6 Jan 1972.
SMITH, LILY NEE SARDESON
DEATH CERT 2 JAN 1972
Certified Copy of Death Certificate re Lily Smith nee Sardeson, born 19 May 1906 at Pilsgate, Lincs, died 2 January 1972. Completed by Dr J W Holland.
PBORO & DIST CO-OP BILL FOR FUNERAL 6 JAN 197
Bill from Peterborough & District Co-op Socy Ltd, Park Road, Pboro 25 Feb 1972 to Mr N Smith 4 Station Rd, KC, for coffin & funeral arrangements for his late wife, Lily, buried 6 January 1972.
SMITH, LILY; SMITH, NEVILLE
BILL FOR DOUBLE CURBSTONE, SPACES 223&4
Bill from G R Dickens & Son Ltd, Peterborough, to Terence Smith, 4 Station Road, KC, 13 Feb 1976: for supply and fitting extra curbing & corners, new inscription and chippings. Re parents' grave spaces 223 & 224.
KCPC GRANT OF EXCL RIGHT OF BURIAL, SPACES 22
KCPC Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial issued to Execs of Lily Smith re grave spaces 223 & 224 & covering letter. Mrs Smith buried 6 Jan 1972. Signed by George Sansom, PC Chairman; Fred Blake and James Brown, Cllors; Eileen Gunn, Parish Clerk.
SMITH, MRS C
Business card printed with "Mrs C Smith, Timber Carter, King's Cliffe, Wansford".
SMITH, MRS CHARLOTTE (NEE SIDDONS, WIDOW GOO
Photo of Mrs Charlotte Smith in garden at (what is now) 94 West Street, her home. Date uncertain but Charlotte (nee Siddons, widow of Isaac Goodwin) was born in 1846 and looks elderly in this photo so possibly 1920s.
SMITH, NEVILLE
DEATH CERT 9 AUG 1975, COPY FOR FRIENDLY SOCY
Certified Copy of Death Certificate re Neville Smith, born 15 February 1902 at KC, died 9th August 1975. Completed by Dr J W Holland as being for the purposes of 'Friendly Society Acts'.
KCPC RECEIPT, INTERMENT FEE SPACE 224, AUGUST
KC Parish Council receipt for interment fees re burial of Robert Smith in grave space 224. Mr Smith buried 13 August 1975.
PBORO & DIST CO-OP BILL FOR FUNERAL 13 AUGUST
Bill from Peterborough & District Co-op Socy Ltd, Park Road, Pboro 25 Feb 1972 to Mr Terence Smith 4 Station Rd, KC, for coffin & funeral arrangements for his late father, Neville, buried 13 August 1975.
SMITH, ROBERT
F BOULD BILL FOR ATTENDANCE, FUNERAL MAY 1934
Bill to Mrs R Smith on F Bould billhead, dated May 1934, for 'attendance at funeral' of Robert Smith who was buried on 5th May 1934..
FRED PORTESS BILL FOR HEARSE, FUNERAL MAY 193
Bill to Mr C Smith on Fred Portess billhead, dated May 1934, for loan of hearse for funeral of Robert Smith.
PARISH COUNCIL RECEIPT FOR BURIAL FEES, 5 MAY
Printed KC Parish Council receipt made out to Mrs R Smith on 5th May 1934: fees for Interment, Minister & Sexton for bell. Her late husband Robert Smith was buried 1st May 1934.
PARISH COUNCIL RECEIPT FOR GRAVE SPACE, MAY 1
Printed KC Parish Council (Burial) receipt made out to Mrs R Smith on 5th May 1934, for purchase of grave space no 255. Her late husband Robert Smith was buried 1st May 1934.
SKINNER & SON BILL FOR COFFIN, HEARSE ETC 193
Bill to Mrs R Smith on Skinner & Son billhead, dated May 1934, for coffin and attendance at funeral of her late husband, Robert Smith. Also wreath and Mr H Broughton for horse and hearse at funeral.
SMITH, ROBERT, AND WIFE SELINA
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS OF SMITH, TERENCE
Studio photo portrait of couple identified as Robert Smith and his wife (Ann) Selina, appearing to be in late middle age. Date uncertain but probably late 1920s/early 1930s.
SMITH, TERENCE
AWARDS WON FOR RUNNING, N NORTHANTS SCHOOLS'
Certificate printed on card, Terence Smith placed 2nd in Boys' 880yds for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1951.
Certificate printed on card, King's Cliffe placed 2nd in Boys' Relay for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1951. Terence Smith was one of the relay team.
Certificate printed on card, Terence Smith placed 2nd in Boys' 880yds for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1952.
BIRTHDAY CARD FROM 'LESLIE & THE P.O.'
Birthday card written by Leslie Gilder who ran the Post Office at no 21 Park Street between 1941 and 1961. Card among family papers of Terence Smith; family lived nearby at 11 Park Street.
BUS DRIVER FOR EASTERN COUNTIES 1960s - 1990s
Notes by Mark Doggett, with 7 photos, from his research into the history of Eastern Counties buses in KC. Refs to P C Howard buses in late 1940s, then Eastern Counties with refs to Terence Smith, bus driver from KC who drove EC buses for over 40 yrs.
BUS DRIVER WITH EASTERN COUNTIES BUS CO
SAFE DRIVING DIPLOMA AWARDED IN 1960
Diploma awarded to Terence Smith by the Road Operators' Safety Council for having been free from accidents whilst driving for Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited during the year 1960.
SAFE DRIVING DIPLOMA AWARDED IN 1961
Diploma awarded to Terence Smith by the Road Operators' Safety Council for having been free from accidents whilst driving for Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited during the year 1961.
SAFE DRIVING DIPLOMA AWARDED IN 1962
Diploma awarded to Terence Smith by the Road Operators' Safety Council for having been free from accidents whilst driving for Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited during the year 1962.
BUS DRIVER WITH STAGECOACH VISCOUNT
40-YEAR LOYAL SERVICE AWARD, PERSENTED 17TH N
Certificate awarded to Terence Smith by Stagecoach Viscount (bus company for whom Terence worked, formerly Eastern Counties Bus Co Ltd). Recognising his 40 years of loyal service. Presented on 17th November 1999.
CHRISTMAS CARD FROM PETER & KATHLEEN FENN
FENNS, NEIGHBOURS AT WELLINGTON FARM
Christmas card sent to the Smith family by Peter and Kathleen Fenn who were nearby neighbours at Wellington Farm. Card among family papers of Terence Smith; family lived at 11 Park Street.
EMPLOYMENT WITH EASTERN COUNTIES BUS CO.
Letter from Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Ltd to Terence Smith (11 Park Street, KC) offering him a position as Conductor with them from 2nd June 1958. Training to begin on that date.
KC EX-SERVICEMEN'S & SOCIAL CLUB
AWARD 2017 RE COMMITMENT DURING CLUB'S 50 YRS
Certificate awarded to Terence Smith by King's Cliffe Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club, re 'long-standing commitment' to the Club on the 50th anniversary of the Club being in their Wood Road premises.
KCPC GRANT OF EXCL RIGHT OF BURIAL, SPACE 225
KC Parish Council official Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial issued to Terence Smith on 14th August 1975 re grave space 225. Signed by George Sansom, PC Chairman; Fred Blake and Norman Embleton, Councillors; Eileen Gunn, Parish Clerk.
NATIONAL SERVICE, MEDICAL EXAM
Letter form N.S.6 from Ministry of Labour & National Service Allocation Local Office, Cambridge, to Terence Smith on 15 Nov 1956, re attending a medical examination in Cambridge re National Service. Notes re allowances, postponement etc on reverse.
RECEIPT FOR PRAM BOUGHT BY HIS MOTHER, 18 OCT
Pedigree pram purchased by Mrs Smith from Joseph Woods & Son, Ironmonger St, Stamford. Price £3 19s 6d, receipted bill signed over two 1d postage stamps.
SCHOOL REPORT, JULY 1949
School exams report for Terence Smith for term ended July 1949. Name, subjects and marks appear written in pupil's hand; teacher, Mr G Maccoy, wrote his remarks below.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PRIZE BOOK, 1948
Hard-cover book, 'Nikkal Seyn' by Ernest Gray, publ Collins 1947. 1st Class boy's prize awarded to Terence Smith for good attendance and conduct, Easter 1948. Bookplate signed by Rector A Tindall Hart. Front cover, bookplate and title page scanned.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PRIZE BOOK, 1949
Hard-cover book, 'The Wolf River' by E E Ellsworth, publ Lutterworth Press 1949. Prize awarded to Terence Smith for good attendance and conduct, Easter 1949. Bookplate signed by Rector A Tindall Hart. Bookplate, publication and title pages scanned.
STAFF AT TIME OF CLOSING, APRIL 1996
Colour photo, frontage of Co-op shop in West Street with four staff members standing outside, enjoying a glass of wine as a toast to their final day at the Co-op shop, which closed in April 1996.
TAYLOR, JOHN (APETHORPE SCHOOL)
Framed letter on Stokes & Son letterhead, dated 13th August 1889, to Messrs Sherard & Capron (solicitors) confirming terms of apprenticeship to be offered to John Taylor from Apethorpe School.
TENANT LICENSEES OF SMITH & CO KC PUBS 1910 -
List of tenant licensees of Red Lion, Travellers Rest, Wheatsheaf Inn, Wheel Inn and Windmill Inn between 1910 and 1956, from records of Smith & Co (Oundle) Brewery who owned the pubs.
TURNHAM, MRS FLORENCE; WOOLF, GORDON; SMITH,
CHRISTMAS PARCELS FROM KC BRITISH LEGION
Mrs Florence Turnham at her house door (66 West St) receiving a Royal British Legion Christmas parcel from local RBL Branch committee members Gordon Woolf (ctre) and Ted Smith. Date no later than Christmas 1968.
TWO MEN IN UNIDENTIFIED UNIFORMS
AT 1 BRIDGE ST, HOME OF MRS ELLEN HEYS & FAMI
The front door on Bridge Street, with two men in uniform - possibly military. Date uncertain but not before 1910 or after 1935.
UNIDENTIFIED
WEDDING GROUP IN GARDEN BEHIND UNIDENTIFIED H
Large family wedding group, lawn with standard roses behind house. Names and location unidentified.
WADD FAMILY, C1910
THOMAS WADD, WATERMILLER AT KC
Wadd family members outside Mill House, King's Cliffe, where father Thomas Wadd was miller and baker from 1904 until late 1910.
WADD, WILFRED
AUTHOR OF 'A SHORT HISTORY OF KING'S CLIFFE'
'A Short History of King's Cliffe by W. Wadd, aged 14 years', published in 1909 by Dolby Bros, Stamford, price fourpence. Wilfred Wadd was the youngest son of Thomas Wadd, the watermiller at King's Cliffe mill.
WALKER, JOHN THOMAS DECD
Poster advertising Auction sale on 28th September 1904 of agricultural land formerly belonging to John Thomas Walker, known as Rush Close and Deacon's Common.
WALKER, MRS SUSAN
FIRST AID CERTIFICATE, WW2
Certificate for First Aid training by the St John Ambulance Association, issued to Mrs Susan M Walker (nee Catlin) in March 1939. On the back is written: 'Susan Walker, WVS 1939, King's Cliffe ARP Post'.
WARD
PUBLICANS AT CROSS KEYS, 1974
Collage of items from local papers & photos showing Cross Keys when Bill & Margaret Ward took over
WEATHERINGTON FAMILY
LESLIE WEATHERINGTON; ELSIE WEATHERINGTON
31 girls & boys of King's Cliffe Endowed School, beside school wall, 'KCES' on small slate. Dated to c1909 by ref to known children's ages.
WEATHERINGTON, ELSIE
MISSIONARY NURSE, WW1
Studio portrait photo of Miss Elsie Weatherington in white dress and hat, believed taken when she was c18 years of age.
PHOTO WHEN YOUNG
Sepai photo of Elsie Weatherington, possibly 3 or 4 years old, seated with a book at a table with carving visible. Photo (3.75" x 5.5") by W J W Stocks of Stamford & Uppingham, mounted on card.
PHOTO, 1916
Studio portrait photo of Miss Elsie Weatherington in uniform as a nurse during WW1.
WEATHERINGTON, HARRY
TIMBER-FALLER
6 timber-fallers at work with axes & saw, including Harry Weatherington (far right) from King's Cliffe. They are trimming bark from the base of the tree, prior to felling it.
WILLIAM HENRY FANE & FAMILY
PUBLICAN AT CROSS KEYS, 1873-1897
Photo of William Henry Fane, his wife Ann (nee Mason) and several of their children, with a donkey cart, posed in the yard at the Cross Keys Inn. Date uncertain, but estimated as 1880s.
WILLIAM LAW
TOMB IN KC CHURCHYARD
Black & white photo of desk tomb of William Law, Sarah Law and Hester Gibbon, surrounded by iron railings topped by a gas lamp.
WINDOW AT EMMANUAL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Window commemorating William Law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. KC parish church and part of Hall Farm, his home in KC, visible behind him. Not a likeness of William Law himself, but said to be one of his brothers.
WOOD, ROGER (APOTHECARY)
MEMORIAL TABLET
Stone memorial tablet on east wall of north porch, commemorating Roger Wood, apothecary, d 1818; his wife Elizabeth d 1814; their son John d 1816.
WOODING FAMILY
PHOTO c1943
Photo giving view of yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with corner of house far right. Mrs Alice Wooding with son Peter in arms, Granny Kate Wooding holding another child, behind twin either Arthur or Gordon Wooding. Dated to c1943 (same day as 4137).
PHOTO c1944
Photo taken in yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with children on the ladder up to the barn door: a girl as yet unnamed, probably a friend; twins Arthur and Gordon Wooding, younger brother Peter below. Dates to c1944. Barn later demolished.
PHOTO, c1943
Photo giving view of yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with stable / workshop building (since demolished). Mrs Kate Wooding (mother of Harry Wooding) and either Arthur or Gordon Wooding (twin grandsons). Dated to c1943.
WOOLLEY FAMILY
GROUP PHOTO c1925
Woolley family group, location unknown, dated to c1925.
PHOTO, EARLY 1920s
Photo showing cap and sails of the tower windmill south of West Street, with members of the Woolley family in the foreground possibly in the garden of King's Cliffe House.
WOOLLEY, RAYMOND
FEATURE ABOUT, 1953
Photo with caption from 1953 showing Mr Raymond Woolley's front garden at Clive House, West Street, full of flowering annual plants. 'Popular Gardening', 26th December 1953.
WOOLLEY, RAYMOND & MARJORIE, NEE SHARPE
WEDDING PORTRAIT
Studio portrait photo of Raymond Woolley and his bride Marjorie Sharpe on their wedding day.
WOOTTON FAMILY, UNKNOWN CONNECTION
Group photo, three rows of WW1 soldiers, entitled 'Regimental Police', but so far unknown, though believed to include someone with Wootton family connections.
WOOTTON, (ALBERT) GEORGE
WW1, SERVED, INJURED & SURVIVED
Portrait photo of George Wootton in WW1 Army uniform, standing in front of corrugated wall, probably part of an Army camp building.
Group photo from WW1. 17 Army servicemen including George Wootton (seated, front left), posed in front of Army camp building.
WOOTTON, CHARLES THOMAS M.M.
WW1 SOLDIER, KILLED IN ACTION NOVEMBER 1916
Picture of Charles Thomas Wootton, son of Mark Henry and Eliza Wootton, as reproduced in the Peterborough Standard newspaper in November 1916. He was killed in action on 6th November 1916 shortly after being awarded the Military Medal for bravery.
WOOTTON, ELSIE
AT WW1 COLLYWESTON AERODROME CAMP
Photo of Elsie Wootton, seated with a small dog on her lap against the wall of wooden hut on Collyweston aerodrome camp, where she worked in the canteen during WW1. At her feet a small fir tree with shoes, etc tied to it: the meaning of this is unclear.
WOOTTON, ELSIE; BRITTEN, EMMA
AT WW1 COLLYWESTON AERODROME CAMP
Group of canteen staff at Collyweston aerodrome camp during WW1, including Elsie Wootton (1st woman on left) and Emma Britten (last woman on right), both from King's Cliffe.
WOOTTON, GERTRUDE
PHOTO, 1917
Photo portrait of Miss Gertrude Wootton, aged 22. On the back is written: 'To Mother and Father with fondest love from youir affectionate daughter, Gert.' In pencil '11th June 1917'. Parents were Henry and Eliza Wootton.
WOOTTON, MARK HENRY
OWNED AND RAN TRACTION ENGINES ON FARMS
Photo of traction engines lined up on grass, at an unidentified event, Nearest camera is engine of (Mark) Henry Wootton from King's Cliffe. Lettering on top casing seems to read 'H W 51'. Mr Wootton beside his engine with another man?
WOOTTON, WILLIAM; BILLAGE, WILLIAM; DIXON, FR
Manuscript document 'Kings Cliffe Wm Falkner to Wm Wootton, Conditional Surrender for Securing £70 and interest, dated 1st October 1779'. A loan secured by Copyhold premises and ley ground in Park Street KC belonging to Wm Falkner.
WYLES, FREDERICK ERNEST
REME SERVICE & DEATH IN SINGAPORE, 1961
Peterborough Evening Telegraph cutting, photo and story about Corporal Fred Wyles under heading "Adventure in South Malaya". Cutting is undated other references indicate August 1961.
WYLES, JOHN ROBERT (BOB)
SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING, DEC 2013
Front of order of Service of Thanksgiving for John Robert Wyles (Bob), 14 August 1926 - 8th December 2013. Service held on 23rd December 2013 in King's Cliffe Parish Church. Includes head and shoulder photo.
WYLES, MARY or GIDDINGS, MAVIS; LOVE, ROSEMAR
MAY DAY AT KCES C1945
Four girls in KC Endowed School garden, dressed as May Queen and attendants. Date c1945.
WYLES, TOM; WYLES, MRS VIOLET
PHOTO, 1950s
Photo of Tom Wyles mending a bicycle in the yard behind no 9 West Street. Mrs Violet Wyles (his sister-in-law) is also in this picture.
WYLES, WM HY; HAMERTON, CHARLES; IRESON, JOHN
FIRST TRUSTEES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH I
Extracts typed from partial copies of the Deed, undated but referring to a Surrender of even date, probably of 27th May 1846, re the land to be built on with chapel and schoolroom Signed by first Trustees of the Congregational Church in King's Cliffe.
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Partial list of wills of King's Cliffe people registered at Peterborough Consistory Court from 1541 to 1646.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
'MEMORIES OF A VILLAGER' BY MRS LUCY ADELA LO
WILLOWBROOK VILLAGES INCL KING'S CLIFFE, 1880
'Memories of a Villager' recalling King's Cliffe & other villages in the Willowbrook valley from 1880 on. Written by Mrs Lucy Adela Lock aged 83. Typewritten, typed date on final page: 24th February 1958.
'MEMORIES OF WILLOWBROOK VILLAGES' BY LUCY AD
Sepia photo of Lucy Adela Lock (nee Dixon) of Manor Farm, Yarwell, 1875 to 1961, aged about 30 years old.
ROBERTS, JAMES
MEMORIES OF KC FROM 1880s ONWARDS
5-part series of memoirs transcribed by Canon John Bryan from handwritten mss of James Roberts recalling KC childhood 1883-1906, and Canon Bryan's notes from walking KC streets with him in early 1973.
PLACES
AIRFIELD
GLENN MILLER MEMORIAL
GOODBODY, HARRY (INVOLVED IN BUILDING OF)
Harry Goodbody standing at the Glenn Miller memorial. 2 photos: one shows memorial base with four posts probably in 1994 when he built the stonework for his employers KSR International Ltd; the other photo is from a later visit.
AROUND THE CROSS, WEST ST (S SIDE, NOS1-17),
AERIAL PHOTO DATED TO C1955
Aerial of area around the Cross, showing the Cross Keys & yard, south side of the narrow part of West Street, with barn and farmyard behind houses nos 1 to 15, church and churchyard behind. Dated to around 1955 (reason uncertain.)
BACK WAY, WOOD ROAD
VJ DAY STREET PARTY
Black & white photo of group, children in foreground, women behind, standing on Back Way (now Wood Road), at or after a street party to celebrate VJ Day.
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Photo, road mending/maintenance gang including King's Cliffe men, possibly standing on Back Way, perhaps outside The Butts?
BEES ROAD, NOW CHURCH WALK
WHY SO CALLED
Article explaining 'Bees Road', the historic name for part of Church Walk; the mediaeval embankment which dammed the Willowbrook to create fishpools and flood grazing meadows; and 'Bee Well'.
BLATHERWYCKE RD
BOUNDARY STONE
Revd H K Bonney's sketch of boundary stone on King's Cliffe/Blatherwycke boundary, with his caption and notes on opposite page, dated 1807.
BOUNDARY
BOUNDARY STONE
Revd H K Bonney's sketch of King's Cliffe / Blatherwycke boundary stone, with his caption. From his 'Commonplace book' and dated 1807.
BOUNDARY STONE
BLATHERWYCKE RD
Colour photo of Canon John Bryan standing beside the medieval boundary stone which marks the boundary between the parishes of King's Cliffe and Blatherwycke. Taken in 1971.
BRIDGE STREET
'TUDOR HOUSE', NO 13
News cutting with photo, source unidentified, describing house, then owned by the Brown family, partly occupied and needing restoration. Dated to 1933 or 1934. Earlier occupation by managers of KC Gas Works on neighbouring site.
BRIDGE & VIEW W UPHILL
Photo and caption from Peterbrough Advertiser of January 15th 1937, showing a group of children at the bridge view up Bridge St with elderly man passing F Bould's garage.
BRIDGE & VIEW WEST UPHILL
View from Law & Hutcheson almshouse gardens, across 'new' bridge (1862) & up Bridge St, with Hall Farm and the parish church in centre distance.
BRIDGE, SCHOOL HILL
B & W view from rear of Hall Farm looking NE across field to Bridge St bridge and Law & Hutcheson properties in 'School Hill'.
CALVEHAY COTTAGE
Postcard showing view of Cornforth Homes & Calvehay Cottage from the south-east across Dovecote Close meadow behind.
CHILDREN ON BRIDGE ST BRIDGE, 1937
Note & names of those in item 100
CORNFORTH HOMES
FORMER THORPE ALMSHOUSE PLAQUE
Stone inscription plaque, originally on gable of Thorpe Almshouses in Park Street, now on the north wall of the Cornforth Homes in Bridge Street.
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Architect's elevation and plan for Cornforth Homes, Bridge Street, signed & dated 1891, J Corby.
Postcard showing view of Cornforth Homes & Calvehay Cottage from the south-east across Dovecote Close meadow behind.
Photo of one gentleman, thought to be Arthur Bullimore, and three unidentified ladies standing under the covered porches on the south side of the Cornforth Homes on Bridge Street, c1912. Presumed all were residents at the time.
Explanation of the existence of two memorial plaques on the Cornforth Homes almshouse buildings in Bridge Street: one originally from the Thorpe Almshouses in Park Street.
Set of 11 external views taken at the Cornforth Homes in August 2005, showing buildings, foundation stone, commemorative slate plaque and view south across Dovecote Close from behind the homes.
Extract re the endowment, building in 1891 and opening in 1892 of the Cornforth Homes on Bridge Street (formerly known as School Hill), by Mrs Catherine Cornforth, a native of King's Cliffe.
ELLIOTTS BAKERY
'Cross Keys Hotel', West Street, and Mr Elliott's bakery displaying HOVIS signs, on corner of Park Street and Bridge St.
FORMER GOLDEN BALL INN & ADJG RC PRIESTS' HSE
Drawing of south side of Bridge Street looking east from the Cross. Scene includes the (former) Golden Ball Inn and adjoining small house used by Roman Catholic priests up to 1855.
FORMER LAW & HUTCHESON CHARITY BOYS' SCHOOLRO
B & w photo of wood carving class for men and boys, posed outside Old School Room in Bridge Street with examples of their work, with John James Bailey (tutor). Classes instigated by the Rector of King's Cliffe in the mid-1890s.
GOLDEN BALL INN
The Golden Ball Inn with 'Commercial Hotel' sign & adjoining Roman Catholic priests' house; and A G Dann's plumbing and decorating business premises.
Sketchplans of former Golden Ball Inn, now no. 2 Bridge Street, King's Cliffe, showing ground, first & basement floors, c1970.
View up Bridge Street to the Cross, past Mr Dann's plumbers with fascia board. F Bould workshop opposite. Flags & bunting for Geo VI coronation celebrations.
Sale particulars for the Golden Ball Inn, to be de-licensed and sold in March 1971.
Golden Ball Inn, Bridge Street, with tenant publicans Mr & Mrs H E Randell standing at the door.
LAW'S LIBRARY
Entrance to Law's 'Library House' in Bridge Street, showing the inscription over door.
LAW'S LIBRARY HOUSE
B & w postcard, oblique view of frontage of Law's Library House, with garden and part of adjoining schoolroom in foreground. Title 'Library House, King's Cliffe' typewritten in white, bottom left.
Black & white photo of Law's Library House and adjoining single-storey boys' school founded by Mrs Elizabeth Hutcheson in 1745. Photo taken in 1968.
NO 1 BRIDGE ST
Watercolour with paper surround painted to look like wood and poem below - presumed biographical by the artist 'K W Richardson'. Date uncertain but between 1911 and 1958.
The front door on Bridge Street, with two men in uniform - possibly military. Date uncertain but not before 1910 or after 1935.
OLD MEDIAEVAL BRIDGE, PRE-1862
Photographic copy of drawing showing the old pack-horse bridge, replaced in 1862, with cottages, school house & dovecote behind. Date uncertain, but possibly the 1840s.
OLD THATCHED COTTAGE, SITE OF NO 11
EARLY HOME OF GEORGE MILES, TIMBER MERCHANT
B & W photo from 1930 of tumbled-down thatched cottage on left of Bridge St, where bungalow (no 11) now stands. This was first home of George Miles when he came to King's Cliffe in 1858 as a wood sawyer.
PHOTOS FROM 'NOSTALGIA' FEATURE
Peterborough Eve Tel 20 May 1989, 'Nostalgia': photos from c1905 & 1989 comparing view east down Bridge Street from the Cross.
Peterborough Eve Tel 22 June 2000, Bridge Street photo from c1905 triggers memories.
POSTCARD
View east from the Cross down Bridge Street, showing Edward VII coronation memorial lamp, people & carts, distant view of houses alongside the Willowbrook
Bridge Street uphill from the bridge past F Bould & Son's garage, with National brand on the petrol pumps.
Garishly-tinted view down Bridge Street from the Cross to the Willowbrook. The Edward VII memorial street lamp has a curved top and electric light. Shiny fire hydrant to the right.
View down Bridge Street, looking east from the Cross. Finger signpost and Edward VII memorial lamp on corner, muddy unmade road. Houses on far bank of Willowbrook, old dovecote building on skyline.
Bridge Street east from below the Cross, showing Golden Ball Inn sign and view to the Willowbrook. Houses on the far side of the river facing uphill, centre distance.
Bridge Street view, looking east from outside Golden Ball Inn past Dann's plumbing shop, with stock on the pavement. Tinted postcard.
View uphill in Bridge Street, looking to the Cross and beyond into West Street. Taken from below Dann's premises and Golden Ball Inn (left). Edward VII memorial lamp and telegraph poles visible.
In Bridge Street, hand-coloured postcard showing full frontage of Golden Ball Inn, Mr A G Dann's plumbers, thatched cottages below the Wesleyan Chapel. A horse-drawn cart and man in decorator's overalls
View down Bridge Street to Willowbrook from above 1909 Wesleyan chapel extension, old thatched cottages beyond, and houses on east bank of Willowbrook.
Bridge Street view east past the Golden Ball Inn (rt), house called 'Market Cross' (lt) to the Willowbrook & houses along its banks (demolished in early 1960s).
POSTCARD, C1950
B & W view down Bridge Street from Cross, past Golden Ball with hanging sign, to Willowbrook; with thatched houses both sides below chapel; row of houses on Willowbrook bank (Morehay Lane).
View down Bridge Street from the Cross to the Willowbrook. The Edward VII memorial street lamp has a curved top and electric light. Shiny fire hydrant to the right. Postcard written by American Girl Guide staying at KC YHA, posted 8 Sept 1950.
TUDOR HOUSE, NO 13, C1930
Black & white photo of Tudor House (no 13 Bridge Street), showing frontage as two dwellings, in rather poor repair.
VIEW EAST FROM CROSS
ELLIOTT'S BAKERY
View east in narrow part of West Street past Cross Keys Inn and Hakes' shop at no 1, Elliott's bakery at Bridge St/Park St corner and view down Bridge Street, both sides. Dated to 1950s.
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL
EXTENSION 1909
Poster for Stone-laying Ceremony for new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel , 19 Oct 1909 (extension to original chapel built in 1823).
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Close-up colour photo showing date stone 1823 above window in original Wesleyan Methodist chapel building.
Printed letter headed 'Kingscliffe New Chapel, Oundle Circuit', dated February 1910, appealing for contributions towards the costs of £465 for the new chapel built in Bridge Street, King's Cliffe. First service to be held there on April 19th 1910.
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View up Bridge Street, past 1909 extension of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Bottom Chapel) to the Cross.
Villagers in fancy dress parading up Bridge St towards the Cross, as part of the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6th May 1935.
View down Bridge Street to the Willowbrook as the procession passes uphill towards the Cross, led by the organisers, Collyweston Silver Band and Wheel Inn Friendly Society.
CALVINIST BAPTIST CHAPEL
REAR OF NO 36 WEST ST
Sepia postcard with hand-written title 'Calvinistic Chapel, Kingscliffe' showing wall of chapel with two large windows, seen above garden wall, probably taken from the west. No door visible. Behind 36 West St.
CHURCH WALK
MALTINGS GREEN
Report on plans to create pocket park between Church Walk & Willowbrook, subsequently called 'Maltings Green'.
MALTINGS TERRACE
Colour photo of former site of Maltings Terrace, along Church Walk, showing remains of back wall of houses in the embankment below the West Street gardens.
Colour photo looking east along Church Walk past the site of former Maltings Terrace houses (left) and Fishpools Meadow (rt), with the Memorial Hall building in the background (far rt).
Colour photo, close-up of western corner of former Maltings Terrace site on Church Walk, looking north-west to houses on Blatherwycke Road.
CHURCHYARD
PLAN
Illustrated plan of KC parish churchyard, surveyed and drawn in 2003, all headstones & tombs numbered as per gravestones inscriptions book.
POSTCARD, pm 1903
Postcard 'All Saints, King's Cliffe', pm 1903. Print from a drawing of the church from the S-W corner of the churchyard - a hummocky jumble of tombstones. Pre-1898 when a clock-face was added on the S side of the tower. Drawing possibly from 1862.
TOMB OF WILLIAM LAW
Black & white photo of desk tomb of William Law, Sarah Law and Hester Gibbon, surrounded by iron railings topped by a gas lamp.
TOMBS
Writing-desk tomb of William Law, Sarah Law and Hester Gibbons; Mrs El;izabeth Hutcheson's tomb alongside. KC parish church in background. Photo taken in 2000.
CLOCKMAKER'S COTTAGE, 39 WEST ST
'WELCOME TO THE OPEN GARDEN' LEAFLET
Leaflet produced for Open Garden Day on Sunday September 5th 1993, for visitors to the garden at Clockmaker's Cottage, 39 West Street. (2-sided A4.)
CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, WEST ST
EXTRACT FROM DEEDS
Extracts from the deeds of the old Congregational Chapel, West St, between 1846 and 1936, giving names of the Trustees of the chapel at various dates.
KEYS TO OLD CHAPEL
Large mortice-type key to front door and Yale key, probably originally to schoolroom at rear of chapel.
CORNFORTH HOMES, BRIDGE ST
ARCHITECT'S BILL OF QUANTITIES, 1890
Bill of Quantities for proposed Almshouses, The Cornforth Homes, King's Cliffe. Drawn up by J B Corby, Architect & Surveyor, Stamford, March 1891. Pages 19 to 27, plus preamble and summary.
DOVECOTES
DOVECOTE AT RECTORY, FORMERLY MILL FARM
Set of photos January 2018 showing the dovecote to the north-west of the Rectory; exterior from all sides, interior of upper space, still with nesting boxes. Access for birds through three holes visible on the north & south sides of the wooden lantern.
EAGLE LANE
VIEW DOWN, 2003
View down Eagle Lane with former 'Eagle Tap' buildings, with roof gables, on right. Picture taken in 2003.
ELLIOTTS YARD
Business card, Kings Cliffe Garage at Units 2 & 3 Elliotts Yard..
Promotional leaflet, Kings Cliffe Garage at Units 2 & 3 Elliotts Yard..
FARMS
ALDERS FARM & OTHER LAND
Auction sale particulars (15 pages in all) of the property of Arthur Howes, including Alders Farm, The Moors, 'accommodation' pasture and arable land on the Blatherwycke road & 3 cottages in Park Street.
BROWN'S FIELD OFF BRIDGE ST
Colour photo looking across the gymkhana field, cars, trailers, bouncy castle and stalls, no horse-riding in this picture.
Colour photo looking uphill over the Moors to Park Street with competitors' horseboxes, horses & riders in foreground. Taken during the King's Cliffe Gymkhana & Festival on 11 August 1985.
HALL FARM
Charles Lawrence-Law driving a binder in the field, 3 horses in harness.
HUSKISSONS FARM
Photo of farmyard scene at Huskissons Lodge Farm, with horse drawn cart and haystacks, early 1940s.
UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION AROUND KC
Photo showing two men with three heavy horses and a farm cart, with unidentified farm buildings behind them. Substantial stone-built with wide, Tudor-style arches and a pigeon loft.
FARMS, FARMLAND
ALDERS FARM
Colour aerial photo showing Alders farm buildings, taken from the south - south-west. Date uncertain, between 1950 and mid-1970s.
BLATHERWYCKE FARM
Colour aerial photo showing farmhouse, stockyard with Friesian cattle, pigs in field down to lakeside, Taken from the N-NW. Date uncertain, between 1950 and mid-1970s.
DIXONS YARD END, 1970
Friesian cattle in field, old name Dixons Yard End, west of The Butts to north of Wood Road, photo from 1970. Field subsequently built on: Fineshade Close & Millwood Way.
RECTORY PADDOCK
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock, millrace bridge to left. Hall Farm outbldgs with pantiled roof; Bridge Street incl Boulds garage bldgs in background. Spring 1964.
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock. Barn outbuilding to former watermill & bakery. Spring 1964.
Ewes and lambs in Rectory paddock with former watermill & bakery buildings behind. Rectory in background. Spring 1964.
FINESHADE CLOSE
BENCH GIVEN BY KC GARDENERS' ASSOC, 1997
Photo taken at Easter 1997, showing Mrs Kath Fenn (left) and Mrs Lizzie Smith, both Fineshade Close residents, sitting on the bench across the top end of Fineshade Close which had been given by the KC Gardeners' Association.
Photo taken at Easter 1997, showing Mrs Lizzie Smith, a Fineshade Close resident, sitting on the bench across the top end of Fineshade Close which had been given by the KC Gardeners' Association.
FORMERLY 'DIXONS END YARD'
Friesian cattle in field, old name Dixons Yard End, west of The Butts to north of Wood Road, photo from 1970. Field subsequently built on: Fineshade Close & Millwood Way.
GLEBE FARM PADDOCK
Photo of young John Compton on a horse standing in the Glebe Farm paddock. Wooden hand-gate and stone wall in background. Dated to Christmas 1934.
HALL FARM
VIEW FROM REAR
B & W view from rear of Hall Farm looking NE across field to Bridge St bridge and Law & Hutcheson properties in 'School Hill'.
HALL FARM GROUNDS
Photo of tennis group in 1895, probably KC Tennis Club members, posing with their racquets in Hall Farm grounds, where there were tennis courts. Names unknown.
HALL YARD
CHURCH FROM SE POSSIBLY SHOWING POUND WALL (L
Markham series, postcard image entitled 'Kingscliffe Church'. Man in chyd, boys & girls on chyard wall & below. Gas lamp-standard has no glass - possibly c1920 after KC gas company failed. Corner of stone wall on left could be village pound.
FANCY DRESS GATHERING, 1935
Villagers gather in Hall Yard in fancy dress as part of the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V on 6th May 1935.
FORMER TELEPHONE BOX
The former telephone kiosk in Hall Yard converted to accommodate a defibrilator for use in emergency resuscitation. Two photos, one of box, the other of it in its context beside the King Edward VII coronation memorial lamp.
HALL FARM
WILLIAM LAW'S HOME, 1740 - 1761
Christmas greetings card, photo showing William Law's study window at Hall Farm from window across courtyard; William Law quotations inside card. Made & sent by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
Photo in courtyard at Hall Farm showing William Law's study window above door where he distributed clothes & food to the needy. Photo by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
Photo in courtyard at Hall Farm showing William Law's study window above door where he distributed clothes & food to the needy. Photo by George Clarkson, visited KC when studying Wm Law in the 1970s.
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Front view of Hall Farm, across Hall Yard, showing courtyard entrance arch to the right, believed taken c1900.
Hall Farm, the rear garden lawn and closer view of house, with deckchairs on lawn, believed taken c1900.
'The Law Family and King's Cliffe' article & 2 photos, Peterborough Standard 12.10.1928. Photos of rear of Hall Farm & late Thomas James Law. Article refers to William Law & last links to King's Cliffe through his brother George's family line.
HALL FARM, C1900
Front view of Hall Farm, with woman and young boy at front gate, possibly members of the Law family, believed taken c1900.
Rear view of Hall Farm, with its garden terrace and stone steps, believed taken c1900.
View of side garden (north) at Hall Farm, believed taken c1900.
No1 HALL YARD
1904 & 1990
Nostalgia item from Pboro Eve Telegraph of 6th October 1990: comparing two photos looking to church from Cross, past no1 Hall Yard.
PARISH CHURCH
NO 1 HALL YARD
'Nostalgia' feature from Peterborough Evening Telegraph o f6 October 1990. Photos of King's Cliffe parish church from the Cross, from c1905 and current in 1990. Shows No1 Hall Yard being rebuilt October 1990.
PARISH CHURCH; No 1 HALL YARD
View across to church from Park Street at Cross Keys corner. Wrought-iron Cross Keys sign hanging out over corner, and 'H' of Holes Ales painted sign on wall. Hall Farm barn, No1 Hall Yard and stackyard wall beyond. Dated to c1960.
RECTORY
CONVERSION FROM FORMER MILL FARM
Photo and story re purchase and conversion of former Mill Farm house and watermill buildings to Rectory and Church Room, to be dedicated by Bishop of Peterborough on 25 July 1959.
FORMER WATERMILL CONVERSION
B & w photo, John Bryan, Rector of King's Cliffe 1955-1985,(lt), with 2 students from Kelham Theological College working on conversion of former water mill into church rooms.
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Item from Corby Evening Tel during 1960, re completion of work to new Rectory, formerly Mill Farm and mill buildings.
Set of four photos recording the dedication & blessing of new Rectory & church hall by Robert, Bishop of Peterborough, on 26th July 1959.
Postcard view entitled 'The Rectory, King's Cliffe', with the Parish Church in background. Taken from the south, across the mill stream c1980
RECTORY, FORMER MILL FARM
RECTORY & DOVECOTE
Set of photos January 2018 showing the dovecote to the north-west of the Rectory; exterior from all sides, interior of upper space, still with nesting boxes. Access for birds through three holes visible on the north & south sides of the wooden lantern.
RECTORY, RIVER WALL
Two students from Kelham Theological College digging foundations for the river wall behind the Rectory garden at the start of a rebuilding project in 1959. Rectory garden, Rectory and barn in background.
B & w photo, showing the early stages of the rebuilding of the river wall along the mill race behind the Rectory garden. Dated to 1959.
B & w photo, showing a Kelham Theological College student back-filliing behind the river wall along the mill race behind the Rectory. Work is well advanced. Dated to 1959.
THE CROSS
PARISH CHURCH
Charcoal or soft pencil sketch from postcard view into Hall Yard (item 66, tinted version), entitled 'KC 1904', signed T Cunnington. Shows part of Hall Farm barn, Parish Church, yard with hayricks, small house at The Cross.
VILLAGE MAP
Photo and report, Stamford Mercury 10th May 2002: official unveiling on 5th May 2002 of the Millennium Village Map erected in Hall Yard as part of the 'Putting King's Cliffe on the Map' project.
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Printed colour postcard, view to the Parish Church from the Cross, with hayrick in stackyard, cart and man; Hall Farm barn (lt); house no 1 Hall Yard (rt).
B & w photo of Parish Church from the south-east across Hall Yard grass triangle, with telegraph wires & cars. Dated to early 1980s.
Garishly-tinted postcard view of Parish Church from the east. Telegraph pole & wires in Hall Yard, iron railings around tomb of William Law, so photo dates to pre-WW2.
HILL & HOLES
POSTCARD, 1956
Postcard scene, typewritten title 'Parish Church from the Meadow, King's Cliffe', dated to c1956. Parish church spire centre, framed by mature trees in the Hills and Holes, with cattle lying in their shade.
HORSEWATER
POSTCARD
View of the Horsewater, a public watering place allotted under the Inclosure Award of 1813, with the Parish Church in background & reflected (tinted).
Sepia postcard view showing the Horsewater being used by a man with 2 horses, the 'Hall Yard Well' spring stands above the waterline. Parish Church and churchyard in background.
HOWARDS MEADOW
VIEW BEFORE DEVELOPMENT BEGAN, JULY 1989
View across former Howards' transport yard and farm site on Park Street, looking towards Bridge Street, before development started. July 1989.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
BOWLING GREEN BELOW SCHOOL
Large group of men posed beside the bowling green behind King's Cliffe Endowed School. These are members of the village Bowling Club and, presumably, visiting opponents.
KC MEMORIAL HALL
DANCE ON 24 MAY 1920
Invitation card and dance card ('Programme') for 21st birthday celebration of Miss K D Heys held in King's Cliffe Village Hall on 24 May 1920.
EXTEND CLASS GROUP PHOTO IN HALL
Photo taken September 2010. Group from Extend class held in KC Memorial Hall on Tuesday afternoons. Names recorded on separate document.
GRAND CONCERT, 1946
Torn scrap of a ticket for a Grand Concert at King's Cliffe Village Hall (Memorial Hall) on 19th October 1946. Performers were a Male Voice Choir, proceeds to 'reconstruction funds'; other details lost.
REVUE CONCERT, 1944
Programme, cover and inside, for King's Cliffe Revue Concert Company entertainment at the Memorial Hall (Village Hall) on December 15th 1944.
KC RAILWAY STATION
TRUCK BURNT OUT
Photo showing three men and two boys standing alongside a burnt-out railway truck at King's Cliffe Station yard. Date estimated as c1925.
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL
IN BUILD, 1960
Village view from field above (south) of Morehay Lane. Centre towards skyline: scaffolding poles on site where KC Secondary Modern School is being built (opened April 1961). Also demolition & alteration work on old watermill buildings beside Rectory.
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL SITE
King’s Cliffe Cricket Club 6-a-side team on the KC Secondary Modern School playing-fields, part of school buildings in background. Date uncertain, possibly late 1960s: no later than 1972.
KC WW2 AIRFIELD MEMORIAL
DAMAGE TO, 1991
Report from Peterborough Evening Telegraph in August 1991: 'Vandals attack war memorial': one wing on memorial broken off. Photo with Bernard Howard (Chairman KC War Memorial Trust 1939-45) and Geoffrey Wagstaffe (KC Parish Council)
ESTIMATE FOR BUILDING
Estimate from Messrs J G Cross, stonemasons, for building the King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial. Dated 26.1.1983.
ORIGINAL DESIGN, NOT USED
Drawing & specification for original airfield memorial design' a grantie boulder on a plinth. In two parts.
REPAIRED, 1992
Report from Stamford Mercury of 7.2.1992: airfield memorial repaired after damage in previous year.
REPAIRS, 1991
Report from Stamford Mercury of 6 September 1991: 'Villagers rally round to repair war memorial' war memorial': one wing on memorial broken off in previous month.
REVISED PLANNING APPN.
Revised planning application for change to design of airfield memorial from 'a grantie boulder' top on a plinth. In two parts.
KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE, WEST ST
WW2 LAND ARMY HOSTEL
Group of Land Army girls in the garden of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe House, West Street, King's Cliffe, on VE Day, May 9th 1945.
KING'S CLIFFE MEMORIAL HALL, VILLAGE HALL
CINEMA SHOWS
Cinema programme poster for March and April 1947 film shows in King's Cliffe Village Hall. Printed in colour.
KING'S FOREST
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL
B & w photo showing main school buildings, taken looking east past the main entrance with hall to left. Early photo, believed taken soon after school opened in April 1961.
B & w photo showing school buildings, taken looking south to rear? Early photo, believed taken soon after school opened in April 1961.
WOOD ROAD
COUNCIL HOUSES IN BUILD, C1940
Photographic copy of torn b&w snapshot of Council houses being built on west side of King's Forest, scaffolding on corner property.
KINGSMEAD IND EST
PROPOSALS FOR, 1987
Report on plans for developing old station yard for industrial use.
LAW'S LANE
WILLIAM LAW'S ORATORY CHAPEL
Two photos taken 22 March 2016 to show upper front elevation & west side wall of the private oratory chapel William Law had built after moving to Hall Farm in 1741. Pediment and ashlar stonework on front wall. Former chapel now part of no 4 Bridge St.
MALTINGS GREEN
'THE BAY', MEDIAEVAL EMBANKMENT
Article explaining 'Bees Road', the historic name for part of Church Walk; the mediaeval embankment which dammed the Willowbrook to create fishpools and flood grazing meadows; and 'Bee Well'.
MALTINGS LANE
PAINTING BY DELLOW, DENIS
Watercolour painting of Maltings Lane seen from Church Walk, with red kite overhead. Painted by late Denis Dellow.
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Drawing of Maltings Lane ('an ancient lane')
MANOR HOUSE, WEST STREET
PHOTO, 1918-1920
Miss Ida Chapman as Queen of Hearts from costume pageant c1918-20, with Arthur Norman as 'Knave or Page of Hearts'. Backdrop is a wide view of the yew hedge in Manor House garden, believed to be at least 250 years old.
MARKET CROSS/'THE CROSS'
NOTES ABOUT
Notes written by Canon John Bryan regarding the details to be seen in a drawing made by Revd Henry Kaye Bonney, Rector of King's Cliffe, on 19th May 1834. The drawing depicts the mediaeval market cross and buildings around it at The Cross, King's Cliffe.
MARKET CROSS/THE CROSS
MEMORIAL LAMP, EDWARD VII CORONATION
Brief account of news reports of the King's Cliffe celebrations for Edward VII's coronation on 9 August 1902, and erection of a memorial lamp standard at the Cross.
POSTCARD
Postcard entitled 'The Cross, Kings Cliffe, No 2' taken from Hall Yard, looking north into Park Street. The Edward VII coronation lamp erected 1903 stands on the right.
SKETCH, 1834
Copy of Revd Henry Kaye Bonney's sketch of the mediaeval Market Cross at 'The Cross' in the centre of King's Cliffe. His sketch dated 19 May 1834.
METHODIST CHAPEL
DATE STONE 1823
Close-up colour photo showing date stone 1823 above window in original Wesleyan Methodist chapel building.
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View up Bridge Street, past 1909 extension of Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Bottom Chapel) to the Cross.
OLD RECTORY, WEST ST
OLD 'MARKET CROSS' IN GARDEN, 1905-1918
Photo showing path along eastern side of the former 'lower garden' at the Old Rectory in West Street, with H K Bonney's 'market cross' on medieval base, and behind an archway from Fotheringay.
PARISH CHURCH
14TH-CENTURY WALL PAINTING
Photograph of watercolour by unknown artist, depicting a 14th-century wall painting of St Margaret of Antioch, painted before 1862.
BELLS
Detailed report on five bells of All Saints, King's Cliffe, by John Warner & Sons Ltd, Spitalfields, London, dated 3rd December 1913; including specifications for work proposed to be done by them.
Account from F Portess of Park Street, for transporting the tenor bell to and from King's Cliffe railway station, in April & May 1917.
BELLS IN CHURCHYARD 1914
Photo of the five bells from King's Cliffe Parish Church, taken down to go to Warner's foundry: with team of men on south path of churchyard. Handwritten caption.
CHURCH CLOCK REPAIRS
Appeal letter dated July 1976 on behalf of the KC Parish Council and Parochial Church Council to all village residents for funds to fund repair of the church clock in Queen's silver jubilee year (1977).
CHURCH FROM OUTSIDE MILL HSE (RECTORY) c1910-
POSSIBLE CORNER OF POUND (LEFT)
Markham series, postcard image entitled 'Kingscliffe Church'. Man in chyd, boys & girls on chyard wall & below. Gas lamp-standard has no glass - possibly c1920 after KC gas company failed. Corner of stone wall on left could be village pound.
CHURCH FROM SE, COTTAGES FAR RT DEMOLISHED IN
View of KC parish church from SE across Hall Yard. Pre-1898: no clockface on church tower until 1898; and 2 cottages far right demolished in 1898.
CHURCHYARD
Digital photo taken in 2005 to show the table tomb of Roman Catholic Riding Mission priests, in the churchyard, west of church. Tomb dates to c1855.
GEORGE VTH CORONATION WINDOW
Brass dedication plaque below stained glass window in south aisle of King's Cliffe Parish Church, dedicated to the coronation of King George V in 1911. Window is an example of the work of CE Kempe & Co.
Stained glass window in south aisle of King's Cliffe Parish Church, dedicated to the coronation of King George V in 1911. Window is an example of the work of CE Kempe & Co.
J G HOWES MEMORIAL WINDOW
Stained glass window in south aisle of King's Cliffe Parish Church, dedicated to John Groome Howes, died 6th January 1904. Window is an example of the work of Charles Eamer Kempe and incorporates a dedication scroll (see photo 3661).
Dedication scroll in stained glass window in south aisle of King's Cliffe Parish Church, dedicated to John Groome Howes, died 6th January 1904. Window is an example of the work of Charles Eamer Kempe.
MEMORIAL TABLETS
TRANSCRIPT OF INSCRIPTIONS
Transcript of inscriptions from memorial tablets & windows in porches & inside KC church, illustrated with plan of church interior. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
TRANSCRIPT, EARLY 1800S
Transcript of Henry Kaye Bonney's reading of memorial inscriptions inside the parish church, recorded by him between 1810 and 1862. Some of these memorials are no longer visible. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
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Stone memorial tablet on east wall of north porch, commemorating Roger Wood, apothecary, d 1818; his wife Elizabeth d 1814; their son John d 1816.
Stone memorial tablet on west wall of north porch, commemorating Mrs Ann Attkins, 'relict' of Willis Attkins, apothecary-surgeon of St Neots, Hunts, d 1781.
Stone memorial tablet on west wall of north porch, commemorating Charles Attkins, apothecary at King's Cliffe for 33+ years, d1802; and his wife Mrs Ann Attkins junior, d1783.
OS BENCHMARK ON NE CORNER OF CHANCEL
Photo taken 28 August 2019 to record OS benchmark engraved on the north-east corner of the chancel wall of All Saints Parish Church, KC.
PHOTOS, 1904 & 1990
Nostalgia item from Pboro Eve Telegraph of 6th October 1990: comparing two photos looking to church from Cross, past no1 Hall Yard.
POSTCARD
Postcard view entitled 'King's Cliffe Church'. The east end of the church is seen from across Hall Yard, with William Law's tomb enclosed in iron railings, which were removed during WW2.
Postcard entitled 'Kingscliffe Church, 102'. View from the Cross to the Parish Church, Hall Farm barn (lt) & stackyard opposite; house, no 1 Hall Yard (rt).
Postcard entitled 'King's Cliffe Church'. Middle-distance view of Parish Church and Hall Yard buildings seen from south-west, with fence around sluice at start of the mill dam.
Postcard entitled 'The Church, King's Cliffe', taken from below the south-west corner of the churchyard. Iron railings around some tombs, probably H K Bonney & his wife. Railings removed in WW2.
Printed colour postcard, view to the Parish Church from the Cross, with hayrick in stackyard, cart and man; Hall Farm barn (lt); house no 1 Hall Yard (rt).
Garishly-tinted postcard view of Parish Church from the east. Telegraph pole & wires in Hall Yard, iron railings around tomb of William Law, so photo dates to pre-WW2.
Postcard view of Parish Church from the south-east, across Hall Yard.
Postcard view of Parish Church taken from the south-east across Hall Yard. Date uncertain, but yew trees in churchyard indicate pre-WW2 date.
Postcard view of Parish Church interior, looking past organ straight towards the altar, with circular chandelier, hymn boards and framed 'Sick Persons' list for prayers. Dated to pre-1921 when electric lighting was installed in the church.
View of the Horsewater, a public watering place allotted under the Inclosure Award of 1813, with the Parish Church in background & reflected (tinted).
POSTCARD, 1960
B & w postcard, title 'Parish church, King's Cliffe' typewritten in white, btm rt. Temporary workmen's hut stands to left of wooden gates to churchyard.
POSTCARD, 1961
Full view of the Parish Church, taken from the Rectory front garden & produced as a post card.
POSTCARD, C1980
Postcard view entitled 'The Rectory, King's Cliffe', with the Parish Church in background. Taken from the south, across the mill stream c1980
POSTCARD, INTERIOR
Parish Church interior, nave and choir with chandeliers & candles. Pre-1921, when electric lighting was installed. The photograph has been doctored: the organ in the north transept is missing. C/f photo 4058.
POSTCARD, INTERIOR VIEW
Interior view of nave and chancel of King's Cliffe Parish Church. Chandeliers have been replaced by electric lights.
POSTCARD, pm 1903
Postcard 'All Saints, King's Cliffe', pm 1903. Print from a drawing of the church from the S-W corner of the churchyard - a hummocky jumble of tombstones. Pre-1898 when a clock-face was added on the S side of the tower. Drawing possibly from 1862.
PULPIT & LECTURN
Sketch of 3-tier pulpit & reading desk in King's Cliffe parish church c1830, by Revd Henry Kaye Bonney, Rector of King's Cliffe.
STAINED GLASS
Original of exact lifesize water-colour painting of 'a fragment of old glass formerly in the Parish Church of All Saints, King's Cliffe'. Painted in 1880 by John tinkler MA, vicar of Arkengarthdale, near Richmond, Yorks.
STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
Stained glass, possibly 18th-century, set in upper part of east-facing window in south transept of King's Cliffe Parish Church.
Stained glass, believed 15th-century, set in upper part of south-facing window in south transept of King's Cliffe Parish Church.
East window of King's Cliffe Parish Church, dedicated to the memory of Archdeacon Henry Kaye Bonney DD, Rector of King's Cliffe 1810 to 1862. .
West window in north aisle of King's Cliffe Parish Church, believed 15th-century fragments, presumed from Fotheringhay.
West window in nave of King's Cliffe Parish Church, believed 15th-century fragments, presumed from Fotheringhay.
VIEW ACROSS HALL YARD, 1980S
B & w photo of Parish Church from the south-east across Hall Yard grass triangle, with telegraph wires & cars. Dated to early 1980s.
WAR MEMORIALS, 2008
Set of four photos taken on Remembrance Sunday 2008, showing the war memorial tablet in the north transept of King's Cliffe Parish Church, and wreaths placed by Parish Council, Scouts & KC British Legion branch.
WILLOWBROOK, OLD WEIR
Postcard showing Parish Church across the Willowbrook, fenced old weir in foreground, Hall Yard buildings right background. Greeting in French written with date 26 July 1904. Titled 'King's Cliffe Church'.
Postcard showing Parish Church across the Willowbrook, fenced old weir in foreground, Hall Yard buildings right background. Title printed in red 'King's Cliffe Church' on broad side border.
WORK IN PROGRESS, 1897
Scaffolding on spire of church, men at work. Taken from SW corner of churchyard, believed to be October 1897 when restoration work was carried out. (Stamford Mercury report of 15 October 1897.)
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Sepia postcard view showing the Horsewater being used by a man with 2 horses, the 'Hall Yard Well' spring stands above the waterline. Parish Church and churchyard in background.
PARISH CHURCH, ALL SAINTS, KC
ALTAR WITH CLOTH
Black & white photo close-up showing front view of altar cloth, candlestick and cross bases on surface of altar. Entitled 'Alter (sic) All Saints King's Cliffe', written by hand in red ink; date uncertain.
PARISH CHURCH, HALL YARD
DRAWING BY GERMAN POW, 1918
Framed pen-and-ink drawing of the Parish Church from the Cross Keys, drawn by Marten van der hag, believed a German PoW. Drawn, signed and dated 2 May 1918, 'In remembrance'.
PARISH CHURCH, RECTORY
WILLOWBROOK
Black and white photo (quality rather soft), entitled "Parish Church from the Meadow, King's Cliffe". View includes Rectory and KC Secondary Modern School building on horizon. School opened April 1961.
PARK CLOSE
FORMER RAILWAY SIGNALBOX & STATION-MASTER'S H
Photo taken from beside garages at the end of Park Close, looking west to the former railway Stationmaster's house, across gardens behind Park Close houses below the former railway embankment. End-on view of old signalbox in garden at no 12. .
PARK STREET
'BOSCOBEL', NO 12 & SADDLERY ADJOINING
Saddlery adjoining 'Boscobel', no 12 Park Street: Frederic Blake (saddler) wife Caroline & children Reginald & Constance. Photo 1907.
'ROCKBOURNE' AS YHA
ROCKBURNE WORKS
Black and white photo showing Rockbourne front with woman in porch, young woman on bicycle passing by & metal YHA sign. Rockbourne Works buildings visible in background.
'ROCKBOURNE', RED LION INN
'Rockbourne', Red Lion and view south-west along Park Street. Entitled 'Rockbourne, King's Cliffe'.
14 PARK STREET
Fragment of pottery mug printed with Queen Victoria's image in oval, 'God bless our Queen' around base of oval & 'Mon dro(it)' visible on scroll to right.
29 PARK ST, INCL FORMER THORPE ALMSHOUSES
Colour photo dated May 1982 showing no 29 Park Street incorporating single-storey former Thorpe almshouses to left.
BARN BEHIND 18 PARK ST
Photo taken in yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with children on the ladder up to the barn door: a girl as yet unnamed, probably a friend; twins Arthur and Gordon Wooding, younger brother Peter below. Dates to c1944. Barn later demolished.
BARN BEHIND NO 18
Photo giving view of yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with stable / workshop building (since demolished). Mrs Kate Wooding (mother of Harry Wooding) and either Arthur or Gordon Wooding (twin grandsons). Dated to c1943.
ELLIS' CHEMIST SHOP & HOUSE (NO 22)
PHOTO FROM 1920s
Sepia photo showing shop, fascia board reading 'J A Ellis, Chemist & Newsagent'; house to left (no 22) was Ellis family home. Photo taken in 1920s. Laura Ellis, one of 3 daughters of J A Ellis, standing outside the shop.
ELLIS' CHEMIST SHOP, C1905
Park Street view south outside J A Ellis' chemist & druggist shop and school to the Cross. Building beyond, end on to the street, was F Blake's saddlery workshop.
FORMER WHEATSHEAF INN, NOW NO 56
Prescription bottle, clear glass with feint green colour; 4" high to shoulder, 1.5 " deep; flat-sided with sloping shoulders and neck approx 1", rim damaged. Hexagon embossed on underside with letters possibly 'V C Co'. Age unknown.
Empty cardboard packet for 10 Park Drive cigarattes (by Gallaher's of London and Belfast). Packet in worn state, lettering on front and one side almost obliterated. Date unknown but Gallaher's made Park Drive from 1902 and Belfast factory closed 1988.
GRASSED AREA BEYOND NO 1 PARK ST
B & w photo looking across the grassed area to the boundary walls of no 1 and the Cross Keys Inn and the roofs of houses beyond the Cross Keys in West Street. Believed taken in the 1970s.
HATHAWAYS YARD
Photo taken from Park Street to show old houses in Hathaway's Yard (now called Coleman's Lane), with a women and baby sitting behind removal lorry, loading or unloading. Date believed 1920s.
HOUSE NUMBER 68
SALE PARTICULARS,POSSIBLY FROM 1987
Sale particulars produced by Dickens Watts & Dade for 68 Park Street, King's Cliffe. Photo of front from street and view from rear. Selling price £45,000.
HOUSE NUMBER 70
SALE PARTICULARS,POSSIBLY FROM 1987
Sale particulars produced by Dickens Watts & Dade for 70 Park Street, King's Cliffe. Photo of front from street and view from rear. Selling price £57,000.
ITEM DUG UP BEHIND NO 32 IN 1960s
Reckoning counter made in brass, 2.1cm diameter, embossed both sides, bent across centre and corroded. Christian inscription in German around central designs on recto & verso, only partially legible. Undated.
Crucifix, 7.5cm x 3.5cm, with ring as pendant, dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. No inscription. Appears to have been used for devotions - the figure of Christ is worn smooth.
Crucifix, 5cm x 3.5cm, with ring as pendant, dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. Inscription above head & shoulders of Christ: 'MIZPAH' (watchtower). Inscription on cross: 'The Lord watch between thee and me when we are absent one from another'.
ITEMS DUG UP BEHIND NO 32 IN 1960s
Five coins and token (item 4211) dug up behind 32 Park Street in the 1960s. Penny dated 1967 (very corroded); half-penny dated 1861 (very worn; penny dated 186? (worn smooth); two other corroded and unidentifable. Token see 4211.
JUNCTION BRIDGE ST & WEST ST, C1900
Picture of the Cross, crossroads junction of Park Street, Bridge Street and West Street. Cross Keys Inn on corner & nos 2 & 4 Park St with posed children & Edward VII coronation memorial lamp.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
HEADMASTER'S HOUSE & GARDEN
Infants performing forward rolls on mat in school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and older pupils watching. In photo are Miss Joyce Palmer, teacher, and Mr George Love (Head).
Infants performing gym on mats in school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and older pupils watching. In photo are Miss Joyce Palmer, teacher, and Mr George Love (Head).
Some older girls doing a country dance in the school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and other pupils watching.
PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOL, 1871
Photographic copies of architect's plans for adaptation of Park St house to become the new KC Endowed Schools. Red on plans indicates proposed changes to existing buildings. Stamped 'Rec'd Endowed School Commission, March 1871'.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL BLDGS
VENTILATORS ON ROOF
Set of three photos showing the removal and lowering of one of the roof ventilators for repair. Date tbc. Ventilators were 'Watson's double-current siphon ventilators', installed in 1872 when the buildings were adapted to house the school.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL BUILDINGS
SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE
George Love (Headmaster) and his 1st wife Minnie, in the garden of the Schoolmaster's House (their home), part of the KC Endowed School buildings in Park Street. Dated to 1920s - 1935.
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Photo showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, in his flower garden behind the schoolmaster's house (his home) and school buildings. Date unknown but possibly in the 1920s.
Photo showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, tending his bee-hives behind the schoolmaster's house (his home) and school buildings. Date unknown.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL GARDENS ETC
BOWLING GREEN PAVILION
Rosemary Love as a baby in garden of KC Endowed School school-master's house, with view to countryside behindd her including part of gardens and the bowliing green pavilion.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL, SCHOOLMASTER'S HOUSE
Miss Frances Lock (teacher) standing in garden of KC Endowed School school-master's house, part of school buildings in Park Street. Probably taken in the 1930s.
Mrs Adela Love with baby daughter, Rosemary, born 1937, standing in garden of KC Endowed School school master's house (their home), part of school buildings in Park Street.
KING'S CLIFFE YOUTH HOSTEL
Postcard showing 'Rockbourne' frontage without iron railings. Printed on reverse: 'King's Cliffe Youth Hostel'. Date unknown but likely between WW2 and mid-1960s.
No 18 PARK ST & BARN BEHIND
Photo giving view of yard beside & behind no 18 Park St with corner of house far right. Mrs Alice Wooding with son Peter in arms, Granny Kate Wooding holding another child, behind twin either Arthur or Gordon Wooding. Dated to c1943 (same day as 4137).
NO 19
B & w photo from c1976, close-up of south elevation of former Conservative Reading Room/Club. Woodwork said to have been painted blue. High wall beside with traces of former houses on bus pull-in.
B & w photo, long view of S and E elevations of former Conservative Club/Reading Room, opposite KC Endowed School, street and part of newly created bus pull-in. Beam-end holes from demolished houses visible in wall to left.
NO 29
Photo showing the front door and two bay windows of what is now part of no 29 Park Street, previously a separate cottage. Mrs Phyllis Giddings (wife of Isaac), her sister Evelyn & niece Barbara outside the door. Date c1940.
NO 4
Photo taken in 2007; close-up of tilework with name 'Edgson' in entrance to former Edgson's shop at no 4 Park Street. Lettering now rather worn in places.
Brief notes re Edward Edgson & family business at 4 Park Street from c1858 until 1934.
NORTH FROM GLEBE FARMHOUSE, 1961
Park Street view north from Glebe Farmhouse: frontage and cartwheel gates of F Portess' cart- & wheelwrights opposite; Wheatsheaf Inn with coal lorry; Red Lion Inn with hanging sign left of centre.
NORTH FROM GLEBE FARMHOUSE, C1900
Park St view north from outside Glebe Farmhouse (lt), past Stokes & Son's cart- & wheelwright premises (2 workmen standing at gates). Show old thatched cottage to right of Stokes' gate, demolished in the 1960s.
OLD CONSERVATIVE CLUB
B & w photo from c1976, close-up of south elevation of former Conservative Reading Room/Club. Woodwork said to have been painted blue. High wall beside with traces of former houses on bus pull-in.
B & w photo, long view of S and E elevations of former Conservative Club/Reading Room, opposite KC Endowed School, street and part of newly created bus pull-in. Beam-end holes from demolished houses visible in wall to left.
PARK ST TERRACE
DEMOLITION 1965
Set of five photos taken in 1965, showing terrace with part of roof removed before demolition. Front views; two views of rear (west walls) of two houses; close-up of dormer window on house nearest Cross. Drawing of fireplace pilaster from one hse.
POSTCARD
ROCKBOURNE HOUSE AS, YOUTH HOSTEL
Postcard view in Park Street, north past 'Rockbourne' (left) as the Youth Hostel, and Rosary Farmhouse to the railway embankment in the centre distance. Titled 'In the village of King's Cliffe'
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Park Street, view from Cross Keys corner showing terraced cottages demolished in early 1960s, Endowed School wall opposite; and building with flag-pole, then Conservative Club.
Park Street view looking north-west at Royce's Lane. Thatched cottages, since demolished, the Red Lion Inn and 'Rockbourne' (far right).
Park Street view, rather garishly hand-tinted view looking north past Glebe Farmhouse, with a cyclist 'on the road from the station', and chickens in the street.
Postcard view north along Park Street, Stokes'/Portesses' entrance gates on right, 3 girls in middle of street; Wheatsheaf Inn, Red Lion Inn & Rockbourne in distance. Dated to pre-1913, from pc used and postmarked.
View from outside KC Endowed School looking downhill to the Cross, past houses demolished in early 1960s and no 4 Park Street when it was the Co-op shop. Date uncertain, between 1930s and mid-1950s.
View south in Park Street to the Cross, Hall Farm in distance; man with barrow on pavement, man and woman at door to one of the terraced houses demolished c1964, now a layby and broad grassed area. Date uncertain, possibly c1950.
Postcard entitled 'The Cross, Kings Cliffe, No 2' taken from Hall Yard, looking north into Park Street. The Edward VII coronation lamp erected 1903 stands on the right.
RED LION INN
AA enamel motorists' sign, fixed to the wall of the old Red Lion Inn in Park Street
Three USAAF servicemen from King's Cliffe WW2 airfield, Station 367, relaxing with a beer in the yard behind the Red Lion Inn. Tall house on Wood Road visible in background.
ROCKBOURNE
DATE-STONE
Photo showing date-stone plaque on north front gable of 'Rockbourne', carved with monogram 'GM' for George Miles and the date 1900.
ENTRANCE PORCH
Photo showing ornate carved stone entrance porch with the name 'Rockbourne' embossed on either side.
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Postcard showing 'Rockbourne' frontage without iron railings. Printed on reverse: 'King's Cliffe Youth Hostel'. Date unknown but likely between WW2 and mid-1960s.
ROCKBOURNE & DERELECT WORKS, 1972
Rockbourne and adjacent derelict yard: George Miles' timber yard c1860-1912, later King's Cliffe Insulation Products' yard, making kiln-lining bricks. Photo from 1972.
ROCKBOURNE AS YHA; ROCKBOURNE WORKS; RED LION
POSTCARD
'Rockbourne' with YHA sign on end wall, coal lorry outside Wheatsheaf Inn, wall of 'Rockbourne Works' brickyard, Red Lion and thatched cottages beyond. Title 'Park Street Kingscliffe' & 'Greetings'.
ROCKBOURNE HOUSE
B & w photo showing George Miles and members of his family in an open carriage in front of the 3-storey house c1700 in Park St which was later demolished to make way for 'Rockbourne', built for George Miles in 1900. The stone gate piers still stand.
SOUTH FROM ROYCE'S LANE, C1900
Park Street view looking south-west from near Royce's Lane, round the curve of the street. Tower windmill in West Street visible on skyline.
STOKES & SON CARTWRIGHT WORKS
B & W photo of a 'carriage van' in Stokes' yard, with F Portess (manager), his two daughters and 4 staff, plus sign board, house behind (left), workshops behind (ctre & right)
TERRACE DEMOLISHED C1964
View south in Park Street to the Cross, Hall Farm in distance; man with barrow on pavement, man and woman at door to one of the terraced houses demolished c1964, now a layby and broad grassed area. Date uncertain, possibly c1950.
THORPE ALMSHOUSES
Sepia photo of Mary Ann Cunnington standing outside the Thorpe Almshouse where she lived, believed to have been taken c1947.
VIEW FROM THE CROSS
From entrance of Hall Yard across The Cross into Park Street, showing Cross Keys & no 2 Park Street. Edward VII coronation memorial lamp at the Cross. Postcard postmarked 1911.
VIEW FROM THE CROSS PAST NO 2 AND EDGSON'S SH
WORKING HORSES BEING LED
B & w photo (hand titled 'Kingscliffe J14'); into Park Street from Cross Keys corner. Rt: broad cobbled pavement to corner; school sign; front of No 2; 3 heavy horses being led by 2 men; Edgsons shop fascia board at no 4. Left: no 1 and terrace beyond.
VJ DAY STREET PARTY
Black & white photo of street party with women, children and 1 man at table outside Thorpe Almshouses in Park St, Glebe farmhouse behind
Black & white photo of group at street party, mostly women and children, outside former Thorpe Almshouses in Park St.
WALKER'S BUTCHER'S SHOP
Black and white photo taken in Park Street, oblique view across the street to Walker's butcher's shop and house (now 41 Park St). Shop awning down over one bay windows; man in butcher's coat and striped apron approaching shop. Date believed 1950/60s.
WALKERS' BUTCHERS, WHEATSHEAF INN, C1900
Park Street view north past bay windows of Walkers' butchers, and Wheatsheaf Inn with entrance to 'Good stabling' behind. Workshop and thatches cottage either side of Wheatsheaf Inn, since demolished
WOODINGS BAKERY, 1960s
B & w photo showing H Wooding's bakehouse in Park Street, with HOVIS sign; and adjoining house, 'Boscobel; (12 Park St), estimated to date to early 1960s.
YOUTH HOSTEL AT 'ROCKBOURNE'
CYCLIST GROUP AT CHRISTMAS 1939
17 young people with some cycles outside 'Rockbourne' with triangular YHA sign near front porch & small YHA plate on fence to right. Handwritten on reverse: 'Christmas 1939, King's Cliffe Youth Hostel'. No further info. White markings on pavement edge.
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Gate incorporating cartwheel, entrance to former Stokes'/Portess' cart and wheelwrights' works in Park Street.
4 views of former Stokes/Portess premises and yard, taken as they were in 1972.
PIG LANE (NOW FOREST APPROACH)
VIEW FROM WEST ST CORNER TO WELLINGTON FARM
PUBLIC WATER TAP OUTSIDE FORMER MALTSTERS ARM
Black & white photo pc, 'King's Cliffe K3'; north from West Street into Pig Lane (now Forest Approach), former Maltsters Arms left, Wellington House centre, 14 West St right. Water tap o/s Malters Arms.
PLACES OF PROTESTANT WORSHIP IN KC, 1802 - 18
LIST OF APPLICATIONS TO REGISTER PREMISES
Details typed from register held at the Northants Record Office, gives year date (all between 1802 and 1841), brief description of property & name(s) of those applying. Additional information from local records added in italics.
POCKET PARKS
MALTINGS GREEN
Report on plans to create pocket park between Church Walk & Willowbrook, subsequently called 'Maltings Green'.
PYTCHELL
FORMER WOODTURNER'S WORKSHOP
Colour photo of derelict building on the Pytchell, ground to west of King's Cliffe parish churchyard, taken in 1972. Building was workshop of John Ventross Green, toymaker and woodturner/carver, who died 1.1.1933.
RAILWAY
IRON ORE BY LORRY FROM WANSFORD QUARRY/COOK'S
Iron ore from Richard Thomas & Baldwin Wansford quarry (Cook's Pit) being tipped into wagon at KC high-level dock.
Brake van at high-level dock, see 548.
RAILWAY STAFF
King's Cliffe Stationmaster and staff posed on the up platform of the station, labourers on the rail-bed. The rail-bed appears clean, as though newly-laid.
RAILWAY BRIDGE (BELIEVED) ON MONCKTONS SIDING
PHOTO C1880
Photo believed to show men at work on a railway bridge on Moncktons Sidings, near Fineshade. Location uncertain and also activity: are they building or repairing the bridge? Sidings opened 1881.
RAILWAY LINE & STATION
BOOKING HALL & UP PLATFORM, 1966
Photo of booking hall & up platform buildings at King's Cliffe station, taken from the approach on Station Road.
CAST IRON WALL HANGING BRACKET
Cast-iron fixing, made to be screwed to a wall or fence: moulded with a ring into which the hook or handle of an unknown object could be inserted from above. Corroded.
CONSTRUCTION GANG, c1870s
Photo of a construction gang at work on what appears to be the start of a bridge structure on a railway embankment. Location and date unknown, but presumed to be part of the railway line between Yarwell junction and Seaton via King's Cliffe.
DOWN PLATFORM, 1966
Photo of down platform buildings on King's Cliffe station.
GOODS TRAFFIC
Truck loaded with iron ore from Richard Thomas & Baldwin's quarry on the Wansford road, about to tip into railway trucks standing at the high dock at King's Cliffe station, early 1950s. The signal box can be seen in the distance, right of the truck.
Truck loaded with iron ore, standing on the weighbridge at King's Cliffe station, early 1950s, the roof and chimney of the weighbridge office is visible behind the truck.
PHOTO, 1950s
View of King's Cliffe station platforms and line, looking west, ie 'down' from Peterborough, signal box visible in distance; goods trucks on the line. Believed to date to the 1950s.
PLATFORM LAMP
Set of photos of the glass box of a railway platform lamp printed with the name 'King's Cliffe', with flue and reflector dish but without its lamp, as displayed in a Stamford pub, August 2012.
POSTCARD
King's Cliffe LNWR railway station with canopied platforms, steam train pulling in from west, passengers waiting. Title 'King's Cliffe Station' in small red print on front.
SIGNAL BOX
John Henry Dicks at work in the King's Cliffe signalbox. Photo dated to about 1920.
John Henry Dicks on steps of KC signalbox
SIGNALBOX
Wooden board (45.5cm x 76.2cm x 24cm) mounted with 3 wooden boxes containing telephone 'works', each with black Bakelite handset hung on external metal hook. 2 with instructions labels. GEC box post-1921, Std Tel & Cables box post-1925. Original wiring.
STATION BUILDINGS, C1970
'Up' platform buildings, in derelict state, after the rail track had been lifted in 1970. Buildings demolished 1973. 'Down' platform building already gone (see 3430).
STATION BUILDINGS, c1973
Poor quality picture showing track-bed between platforms after track had been lifted. Up-platform buildings in derelict condition.
STATION VIEW, 1953
King's Cliffe station platforms, looking west, ie in the 'down' direction. No canopies on the platform buildings, concrete surface on the 'down' platform. Dated to 1953.
TRACK-FIXING 'CHAIR'
One half of a cast-iron 'chair' used to fix railway track to sleepers, from King's Cliffe railway station site. Corroded.
RAILWAY STATION & LINE
CONCRETE BEAM FOR A47 FLYOVER DROPPED & BROKE
Two photos taken by the late Gordon Woolf showing members of his family visiting KC station yard where a concrete beam destined for the A47 flyover at Wansford had broken when the crane lifting it fell sideways. Sept 1964.
4 photos of an accident at the KC railway station site when a large concrete bridge beam was dropped and broken. The crane lifting it off the train fell during unloading. Dated to September 1964
RAILWAY STATION & LINE; STATION ROAD; PARK ST
CONCRETE BEAMS FROM KC STATION FOR A47 FLYOVE
PHOTOS TAKEN SEPTEMBER 1964
Set of 13 photos taken on 24 September 1964 showing long concrete beams destined for the A47/A1 flyover construction being transferred from train to lorries at KC station yard & out via Station Rd and Park St.
RUSH CLOSE, DEACON'S COMMON
AUCTION, 1904
Poster advertising Auction sale on 28th September 1904 of agricultural land formerly belonging to John Thomas Walker, known as Rush Close and Deacon's Common.
SPOUT HALL
DRAWING, C1870
Sepia drawing of Spout Hall (left) & cottage opposite. Artist Harry Compton, a King's Cliffe man.
STAMFORD RD, WANSFORD RD
HUSKISSONS LODGE
CONVERSION OF BARNS
Brief report in the Stamford Mercury of 25 August 1992 concerning plans to convert the disused former farm barns at Huskissons Lodge into five residential units.
STAMFORD ROAD
COMMON LAND, FORMER STONE-PIT
PLAN FOR TREE PLANTING
Plan drawn by Red Haseler for KC Parish Council, showing layout of proposed tree-planting on common land on Stamford road, opposite the foot of Wansford road. Plan, with separate key, shows type & number of trees and their expected eventual height.
EAST NTS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FACILITY
ENC VOTE TO REFUSE LLNW PERMIT
Corby Evening Telegraph of 5 October 2009 report on decision of East Northants Councillors to refuse permission for proposed low-level nuclear waste to be dumped at the landfill site at Westhay run by Augean plc.
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Corby Evening Telegraph of 24 September 2009 report on petition against proposal by Augean plc for low-level nuclear waste to be dumped at the landfill site at Westhay. Protesters had formed a campaign group called Wastewatchers.
WESTHAY
Report from Stamford Mercury 11 October 1985 on application by P C Howard Ltd to relocate their transport operations from Park Street to Westhay Farm.
STATION SITE
PROPOSALS FOR KINGSMEAD IND EST, 1987
Report on plans for developing old station yard for industrial use.
THE CROSS
SOUVENIR PLATE
Porcelain plate with gilded rim and transfer printed design in brown of 'The Cross' King's Cliffe. Produced for sale at KC Post Office in the 1990s/early 2000s.
THE CROSS & 'TUDOR HOUSE' BRIDGE ST
SOUVENIR MUG
Porcelain mug with gilded rim and transfer printed design in brown of 'The Cross' and 'Tudor House' King's Cliffe. Produced for sale at KC Post Office in the 1990s/early 2000s. 2 digipix of mug.
THE DOVECOTE, PARK ST
DOVECOTE
Set of photos of late 18th or early 19th century dovecote originally part of Wellington Farm, now part of 2 The Dovecote. 2 photos show integral stone-built nesting boxes inside the dovecote, originally c520 in all. Photos March 2004.
TOWER MILL, WEST ST
ARTICLE RE, DEMOLISHED OCT 1925
Paragraph about history of King's Cliffe tower windmill, from the Peterboroough Advertiser of 30.10.1925, when the mill had just been demolished.
DEMOLITION, OCTOBER 1925
'Last of Cliffe Mill' two photos & caption from the Peterborough Advertiser of October 30th 1925, showing the demolition of the tower windmill in West Street on 25th October 1925.
Peterborough Advertiser of 30th October 1925, report headed "King's Cliffe Mill Capsized!" covering demolition of the tower windmill south of West Street on the previous Tuesday.
FEATHERSTONE, J T, MILLER
Tower mill, West St, with members of the Featherstone family on balcony. Date uncertain.
Brief note written by Canon John Bryan in 1970 about the tower mill and the last miller, Mr Featherstone.
TOP & SAILS REMOVED, SEPT 1925
Tower windmill south of West Street, pictured in September 1925 after its top and sails had been removed, prior to demolition the following month. View across the broad stretch of the Willowbrook, formerly called the 'boating lake'.
VIEW FROM ROOF OF WINDMILL HSE
Tower windmill in West Street, seen from the roof of Windmill House (now King's Cliffe House), with granary and maltings buildings to the left.
VISIBLE FROM PARK ST, C1900
Park Street view looking south-west from near Royce's Lane, round the curve of the street. Tower windmill in West Street visible on skyline.
TOWER MILL, WEST ST; WATERMILL
ESSAY ABOUT
Historical essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Mills of Old King's Cliffe - Watermill and Windmills', covering their history & descriptions; illustrated and in searchable pdf via Features menu.
TOWER MILL, WINDMILL HOUSE, WEST ST
VIEW FROM ACROSS WILLOWBROOK
Black & white pc view of the towermill behind Windmill House in West St, its granary & maltings buildings & the gardens of Windmill House are seen from the south across the Willowbrook. Cattle grazing in foreground.
TOWER WINDMILL, WEST ST
FROM ACROSS WILLOWBROOK
Tower windmill south of West Street, seen through a gap in the hedge, from across the Willowbrook & walled paddock between Church Walk and the river. Windmill demolished in October 1925.
PHOTO PRE 1925
Photo showing cap and sails of the tower windmill south of West Street, with members of the Woolley family in the foreground possibly in the garden of King's Cliffe House.
VILLAGE HALL
JUDO CLASS, 1961
B & w photo, Judo club class at KC Village Hall in 1961. Doreen Henson throws her husband, Harold, (judo club coach) as demonstration. Young Judo club members look on.
VILLAGE STREETS
WEST ST, RESURFACING IN 1992
Two photos showing views east (4412.1) and west (4412.2) along West Street from the top of Eagle Lane. The street cleared of vehicles and one side re-surfaced. July 1992.
VILLAGE STREETS, MAINTENANCE
RESURFACING, AUGUST 2005
Set of three photos of the road surfacing gang and their road-laying machine in action along the middle section of West Street in August 2005.
VILLAGE VIEWS
CHURCH, RECTORY, MILL ACROSS WILLOWBROOK
Colour photo made into postcard (unused). View of KC Parish Church, Rectory and former watermill, part of Hall Farm buildings, seen from across the Willowbrook sheepbridge. Date uncertain but possibly 1970s.
KC HOUSES ACROSS FIELD, NOT YET IDENTIFIED
Postcard entitled 'King's Cliffe K 6'. View of some village houses from across a field with a stone wall running (presumably) along a street-side. Location not yet identified and date uncertain.
POSTCARD
Packaging on fudge sold at Londis Store, West St, incorporating King's Cliffe postcard views.
POSTCARD, 5 VILLAGE SCENES
Postcard montage of 5 village scenes: Park Street, north past Rockbourne & Rosary Farmhouse; Bridge St from the Cross; east and west from Kingscliffe House, West St; Parish Church & Rectory.
VILLAGE FROM ABOVE MOREHAY LANE
Village from above Morehay Lane, large hayrick at Hall Farm, Church, rear of Mill House & mill, old Rectory intact, goods train on rlwy line (far right). Title: Kingscliffe 106 handwritten in white
VILLAGE FROM ABOVE MOREHAY LANE, 1960
Village view from field above (south) of Morehay Lane. Centre towards skyline: scaffolding poles on site where KC Secondary Modern School is being built (opened April 1961). Also demolition & alteration work on old watermill buildings beside Rectory.
WALKERS FIELD
Postcard scene, typewritten title 'The village of King's Cliffe', dated to c1956. Distant view of village from N-E across Walkers' field, north of Back Way (now Wood Road). Cattle in field, assume Walkers' (farmer/butchers).
WANSFORD ROAD
'LITTLE WOLSTON' DEVELOPMENT
Newspaper report on proposal to develop a new village called 'Little Wolston' between King's Cliffe & Wansford on the former WW2 airfield site.
KC AIRFIELD MEMORIAL
New memorial, some time before its dedication on 25th August 1983,
LAND AROUND AIRFIELD MEMORIAL
Fragment of pottery, grey in colour, slightly dished in shape; wedge-shaped measuring 7cm x 7cm (wide end)/3cm (narrow end) x 1cm thick; found near KC wartime airfield memorial, south of King's Cliffe-Wansford road. Categorised as Roman/Romano-British.
Fragment of pottery, pale terracotta in colour; approx 7cm x 7cm. Part of neck of jar or urn; found near KC wartime airfield memorial, south of King's Cliffe-Wansford road. Categorised as medieval.
WATERMILL
DISUSED BUILDINGS, 1930s
Disused former watermill and adjoining bakehouse buildings, pictured from the east above the bridge over the mill race. Postcard postmarked 1935.
MILLSTONE BEING LIFTED, 1958
Photo showing one of the millstones from the old King's Cliffe watermill being man-handled by Canon John Bryan and students from Kelham Theological College, during work to converted the mill building to a Church Room in 1958.
MILLWHEEL TEETH
Two wooden teeth from the mill wheel at King's Cliffe watermill. Date unknown, but watermill in use up until c1920. Possibly made of beechwood, some woodworm damage.
MILLWRIGHT'S 'BILLS'
Two heavy metal 'bills' from King's Cliffe watermill, of unknown age. The bills were used to shape grooves in the grinding stones used in the milling process.
PARISH CHURCH
Willowbrook at the mill sluice, watermill buildings in background (right), parish church amd Mill Farm. 'Photo H Bailey', local photographer who died in 1911.
PHOTO BELIEVED FROM 1960S
Photo taken by Terence Smith, not dated. Shows former watermill building, bridge over mill-race and wooden stile for footpath leading on to Morehay Lane; to right are Hall Farm buildings.
POSTCARD
Coloured postcard (postmarked 1907) with view of watermill and outbuildings, including bakehouse since demolished, seen from Morehay Lane across the Willowbrook. Hall Farm and the Parish Church are also in the picture.
WATERMILL, MILL HOUSE
WADD FAMILY, C1910
Wadd family members outside Mill House, King's Cliffe, where father Thomas Wadd was miller and baker from 1904 until late 1910.
WATERMILL; MILL FARM; CHURCH; RECTORY; WINDMI
POSTCARD C1900
Mill Farm (now the Rectory) has walled farm paddock;part of granary at right angles to mill building. Church in background; Rectory (now Old Rectory) to left, and tower windmill far left, south of West Street.
WEST ST
NO 1 WHEN BAILEY'S SHOP, BETW 1904 & 1936
Photo showing the frontage of Bailey's shop at no 1 West Street, as a grocery, stationery & drapery shop - no longer Post Office. Dates to after 1904 and before mid-1930s.
WEST STREET
'HAZEL HOUSE' NO 54, THATCHED COTTAGE ETC TO
Mr John House and his wife riding their horses along West Street, passing Hazel House (now no 54), thatched cottage to east, thatched workshop on street edge & properties beyond with bay windows demolished c1900.
'WEST END'
View of west end of West Street looking west towards Blatherwycke. Centre distance are buildings of a land-workers' hostel built in World War Two.
(OLD) RECTORY
Large group of women and children in their best attire, enjoying a sit-down tea in the grounds of the (Old) Rectory, West St. View to right.
Large group of women and children in their best attire, enjoying a sit-down tea in the grounds of the (Old) Rectory, West St. View to left, showing agapantha at foot of steps behind the rectory.
(OLD) RECTORY, NO 21
Photo recording the distribution of buns & oranges to children of the Sunday School at Easter 1899 at the rear of the (old) Rectory in West St.
104, FORMERLY 85
TIME CAPSULE, NOV 1945
Small tin for Ucal indigestion tablets, found in boundary wall between 104 & 106 West Street, with note inside re wall repairs in November 1945.
31, KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE
Two photographs of glazed earthenware drain plug from old stables at Kingscliffe House. Artefact also held.
55/57 WEST STREET
Small bone/horn spoon approx 3" long, bowl 1" long x .75" across; bowl stained and end of handle broken off. Found in the early 1960s at 55/57 West St under a path from West Street which ran between the two original cottages. Spoon of unknown age.
BACK OF 46 & 46A
COMBINED DOVECOTE & BARN
Set of photos of early 19th century farm barn combining dovecote (L/H side) & cart shed, now garage (R/H side) off the yard behind nos 46 & 46A West St. 2 photos show some of the c900 nesting boxes inside the dovecote. Photos March 2004.
CLIVE HOUSE
Photo with caption from 1953 showing Mr Raymond Woolley's front garden at Clive House, West Street, full of flowering annual plants. 'Popular Gardening', 26th December 1953.
CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
Scan of circular letter from the Lay Pastor of King's Cliffe Congregational Church announcing closure of the Chapel. The final service to be on 28th September 1980. Paper copy addressed to the Court family also held as 1293.1
CROSS KEYS INN
'Cross Keys Hotel', West Street, and Mr Elliott's bakery displaying HOVIS signs, on corner of Park Street and Bridge St.
CROSS KEYS. NO 1 AND SHOP
View east in narrow part of West Street past Cross Keys Inn and Hakes' shop at no 1, Elliott's bakery at Bridge St/Park St corner and view down Bridge Street, both sides. Dated to 1950s.
E FROM TRAVELLERS REST(90), HSE & SHOP NOW 55
HORSE-DRAWN CART, WOMAN & MAN O/S GATE OF 55/
Pc (5. King's Cliffe) written ctre bottom;(rt) house & shop now 55 & 57 West St; (lt) Travellers Rest front wall; E to Wheel Inn & beyond. Man at gate of 55/57 and horse-drawn cart. Decorator on ladder opposite. 4719.1 reverse.
E SMITH'S SHOP, NOW 11 WEST ST
Grocer, confectioner & tobacconist shop in High St (now no 11 West St), with name 'E Smith' on fascia. Dorothy Dolby standing outside.
EAST FROM FOREST APPROACH
Postcard view east from Forest Approach along narrow section of West Street and downhill into Bridge Street. Turners' Arms (rt) sign shows 'Phillips Stamford Brewery'. Dates to post-WW2.
FORMER 'MALTSTERS ARMS'
Former 'Maltsters Arms' public house, now no 16 West St. Photo entitled 'Whit Tuesday 1894'. Group of men around public water pump.
FORMER KC DAIRY SITE BESIDE 45 WEST ST
Name plate from King's Cliffe Dairy, removed from door of former dairy site when cleared in May 2016.
Set of 8 photos taken of the former King's Cliffe Dairy site beside 45 West Street, on 24th May 2016 following the clearance of vegetation from the site. Derelict dairy building, site for charging milk floats, nameplate and milk bottles found.
Four 1-pint milk bottles from former King's Cliffe Dairy site: found after site cleared of vegetationon 24th may 2016. Bottles from Dairy Crest; Express Dairy; Co-op and one unmarked. Imperial & metric vols on bottles.
GENERAL VIEW EAST FROM NO 104
B & W photo postcard, West St from no 104 looking E along north side, past old Travellers Rest Inn to old Wheel Inn. 'Greetings'
GENERAL VIEW, NO 29 AND WEST
View from Rates Lane, No 29 with thatched roof and westward along street. Opposite, no 36 has straight up-stand above 1st floor windows and door to passage leading to former Baptist chapel behind.
HAZEL HOUSE TO WHEEL INN & BEYOND
Postcard view, west from Hazel House (54 West St) North & south sides to Manor House, Wheel Inn (rt) and beyond. Titled 'Kingscliffe J13'. Dates to before 1935: postcard used and postmarked 1935.
HIGH ST
High Street (now part of West Street), looking east from Pig Lane (Forest Approach) corner, to the Cross and beyond. Post Office (corner), Turners Arms with hanging sign, Woottons' shop beyond/
HOUSE, SHOP & OTHER BUILDINGS, NOW NOS 55 & 5
CLOSE, GEORGE AND WIFE, EMILY
Postcard (number c1246 in white written bottom left) shows front of house, shop and outbuildings (presumed site of laundry) now 55 & 57 West Street. Mr George Close & Mrs Emily Close outside shop. PC unused, date uncertain, but later than 1907.
KC SHOPPER SITE
Green glass bottle with screw-cap, embossed 'Smith & Co, The Brewery, Oundle' and, on the underside 'R.B.B., 1932, 2259'. Otherwise as item 3982 from 1904.
Clear glass half-pint milk bottle, no cap, Printed in red 'G Ward, Hill Farm, Scraptoft' (near Thurnby, outskirts of Leicester). Date of bottle unknown.
Moulded glass jar, no cap, with name 'Yeatman & Co Ltd' embossed on the underside. Jar for 'Sunny Spread'.
MALTSTERS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
The Maltsters Arms in West Street with children from King's Cliffe Endowed School dancing outside with their Maypole. An amateur photo believed to date to c1910.
MANOR HOUSE
DOVECOTE
Late 18th century dovecote in the garden of Manor House. Photo taken 1985 shows lantern without weathervane and 19th century garden-facing. N all. Photos March 2004.
MOOLTAN HOUSE & 'ENGLANDS' (NO 19)
SCENE FROM QEII CORONATION PARADE 1953
Villagers in fancy dress parading the streets, photo taken from upper window at no 14 West Street on the corner with Pig Lane, looking down and west. Mooltan House and 'Englands' no 19 opposite. Cottages beside no 19 no longer standing.
NO 102 (FORMERLY NO 83)
Full front view of no 83, now no 102 West Street, which was known as 'Stoneleigh House'. House originally built by William Sharpe and his two sons, Herbert and William Alfred, and lived in by several generations of the family up until c1990.
NO 104
Billhead of Skinner & Son, used to invoice Mr J Dicks for interior work done in April 1922 at what is now 104 West St; dated May 1922 & receipted on reverse. Skinner & Son were 'Carpenters, Joiners, Painters, Paperhangers Glaziers, Undertakers'.
NO 31, KING'S CLIFFE HOUSE
Fete in garden at 31 West St (King's Cliffe House, formerly called Windmill House). Possibly a British Legion fete, with military band, bowls on the tennis courts. Date unknown, possibly late 1920s.
NO 31, KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE
Handwritten Specification by J B Corby of Stamford for 'building and erecting additions to residence for J G Howes, Esq, King's Cliffe'. Pages 3 to 15 are missing from the clipped bundle of papers. Dated September 1889.
NO 31, KINGSCLIFFE HOUSE
LAND ARMY HOSTEL
9 Land Army girls & 1 serviceman, on the lawn of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe, photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls on the steps of the tennis courts at King's Cliffe House, the WLA hostel. Photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls and 2 servicemen on the steps of the tennis courts at King's Cliffe House, the WLA hostel. Photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
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Two Land Army girls and a serviceman in the gardens at King's Cliffe House, a WLA Hostel, on VE Day 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls & 2 servicemen, on the lawn of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe, photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
NO 31, KINGSCLIFFE HOUSE (WINDMILL HOUSE)
Architect's drawing of extension at western end of Windmill House, for J G Howes Esq, dated 6th January 1890.
Architect's drawing showing bay window detail of Smoke Room at western end, part of extensionof Windmill House, for J G Howes Esq, dated 28th October 1889.
No 31, WINDMILL HOUSE
West Street view east to Pig Lane (now Forest Approach). Windmill House (now King's Cliffe House) & adjoining cottage/workshop with wooden gates, opposite H J Fryer's shop.
NO 40 WEST STREET
PHOTO, 1950 OR 1951
Small photo showing part of frontage of 40 West Street, with young Mike Dolby standing on the door-step, front door open behind him. Dated to c1950/51.
NO 42, DRAYTON HOUSE
AUCTION SALE, 1949
Auction sale notice, Northants Advertiser & Kettering Leader & Guardian of 11 March 1949; sale to held at Cross Keys Inn, KC, on 29th March. Includes description of property.
MRS MASLIN'S HOME
Mrs Maslin and a group of her friends, at Mrs Maslin's 100th birthday celebration in 1948 in the garden of her home, Drayton House, 42 West Street.
NO 44, 'TRISTAN'; & NO 46
WATERCOLOUR, 2006
Watercolour pen and wash painting by local artist Gill Barke of 'Tristan' (no 44) and no 46 West Street. Painted in 2006.
NO 50, WITH MRS ELLEN HEYS
Mrs Ellen Heys, in the porch at 50 West Street, her home from c1935 until the mid-1970s.
No 57
Shop at what is now 57 West Street, taken around 1920 (Kenneth Sharpe in photo, aged 10 - 12, he was born in 1907.
NO 9, YARD
Photo of Tom Wyles mending a bicycle in the yard behind no 9 West Street. Mrs Violet Wyles (his sister-in-law) is also in this picture.
NO 94
Photo of George Sansom jnr and his cousin Arthur Smith (as pilion) sitting on George's motorbike in the garden of 94 West Street. Date uncertain, possibly late 1920s or 1930s.
NO 94, BARN BEHIND (FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL)
Photo of George Sansom jnr and John Henry Goodwin with George's motorbike at the back of 94 West Street. Barn behind them was a Zionist Baptist Chapel in the 1830s. Date of photo uncertain, possibly late 1920s or up to January 1934 latest.
NORTH SIDE VIEW FROM NO 102 EAST TO NO 90.
North side of West Street, showing nos 102 east to the Traveller's Rest Inn (now no 90). Taken before cottages west of the Travellers Rest were demolished.
NOS 12, 10 & 8; READING RM & LIBRARY AT NO6
Faded sepia photo showing south side of High Street (later West St) between no 6 ('General Reading Room & Library' over door), nos 8 (woman at door), 10 and 12; three men at corner one carrying yoke & buckets. Date probably between 1880 and 1910.
OLD CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL
OS BENCHMARK ON FRONT SW CORNER
Photo taken 28 August 2019 to record OS flush-plate benchmark number S8746 in situ just above ground on the west face of the front corner of the chapel building.
OLD COTTAGES BETWEEN NOS 19 & 21
West Street south side view c1950s, showing two old cottages which stood between 19 and 21 West Street (the Old Rectory), and view beyond as far as no 31. Cottages believed demolished in the 1960s.
OLD RECTORY
REPORT OF DEMOLITION, 1932
St Mercury article with photos from 1932 re part-demolition of the former Rectory in West street, and its history.
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Domestic staff of Rectory (later Old Rectory) 21 West St, posed on steps at rear c1880-1890. Photo taken by "A & G Taylor, Photographers to the Queen".
Wedding of Elizabeth Bailey & Thomas Wiles, 13.9.1902, said to have been taken at the (old) Rectory, now 21 West Street, KC. Names on 593.1.
Village from above Morehay Lane, large hayrick at Hall Farm, Church, rear of Mill House & mill, old Rectory intact, goods train on rlwy line (far right). Title: Kingscliffe 106 handwritten in white
B & W photo of KC parish church choir, posed on steps at rear of old Rectory in West Street, c1904. Good quality copy, though small.
OLD RECTORY, NO 21
Photo showing rear of 'King's Cliffe Rectory' (now a private property, number 21 West Street). Original rectory extended in late Victorian times; ceased to be the rectory in late-1920s. Photo believed to date from 1890s or later.
Photo showing rear of former King's Cliffe rectory (now a private property, number 21 West Street). Tennis court marked out on lawns behind house. Believed to date from 1920s.
Photo showing rear of former King's Cliffe rectory (now a private property, number 21 West Street), in a derelict state. Photo dated to 1931. 2nd photo (3651.2) has man standing on steps; otherwise the same view.
Photo showing a tennis party in progress in the gardens of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now a private property, number 21 West Street). Photo believed to date to c1925.
Photo showing rear of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now the Old Rectory, number 21 West Street). Photo taken after part demolition in the 1930s and probably during later building work to convert interior. Date unknown.
Photo in garden of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now the Old Rectory, number 21 West Street). Revd James Marsh with a pair of step-ladders in the garden. He was Rector from February 1918 until September 1925.
Revd James Marsh, KC Rector 1918-1925, with a punchball and his dog in garden of former King's Cliffe Rectory in West Street (now the Old Rectory, number 21 West Street). Glazed conservatory in background.
PAST NO 34, LOOKING WEST
No 34 West St, showing damage from a fire there in the 1970s.
POSTCARD
West Street view, looking east past the bakery and Congregational ('Top') Chapel, c1900. Clearly shows the unmade state of the street.
West Street view, from outside the Wheel Inn (licencee sign on wall), looking east past the Congregational Chapel.
View west into West Street from the Cross, showing the grocery & stationer's shop opposite the Cross Key Inn, the unmade street and cobbled pavement.
West Street, view east past house called 'Tristan' (no 44) and Drayton House (no 42). Post Office was at 'Tristan'.
West Street view, looking west from the Cross, showing No1 (grocers) & Cross Keys Inn, with Holes Newark Ales sign. TV aerials visible.
West Street, view west from No 27, thatch on No 29, no 34, cart o/s H J Fryer's grocery shop, people & dog. No 27 has own paved frontage. Gas lamp outside no 29.
West Street, view west across front of H J Fryer's grocery shop (right) now no 40, and Windmill House on the left.
Junction of Pig Lane, High St & West St. No 19 West St (railings, right), doctor's house; Maltsters Arms (hanging sign, left) landlord Cunnington; east along High Street (West St) down to Bridge St. Post office on corner.
West Street, at the Cross, showing 'Barry's' (no 1), which was the Post Office from mid 1977, and the south side of street beyond.
West Street, view east past Wheel Inn (left) & Eagle Lane (right), showing sign to Village Hall. Thatched building beyond demolished to make way for Co-op shop built in mid 1950s.
View west along West Street, past King's Cliffe House (used as a Land Army Hostel during WW2), no 42 'Drayton House' and no 44 'Tristan'. Old shoemender's workshop, beside no 50, since demolished.
West Street view from Manor House (left) to West End. Thatched cottages opposite Manor House and late Victorian terraced houses with scaffolding.
POSTCARD, 1953
Postcard view looking west along central part of West Street, past no 2 with thatched roof, where a delivery van is parked. Tradesman with his basket stands nearby and three women shoppers appear posed in the street. Date written on reverse April 1953.
REAR OF NO 36
Sepia postcard with hand-written title 'Calvinistic Chapel, Kingscliffe' showing wall of chapel with two large windows, seen above garden wall, probably taken from the west. No door visible. Behind 36 West St.
RESURFACING, 2005
Set of three photos of the road surfacing gang and their road-laying machine in action along the middle section of West Street in August 2005.
SITE BESIDE 45 WEST STREET
Typed notice re Chemicals or Substances Hazardous to Health, posted on the door of the King's Cliffe Dairy building beside 45 West Street. It lists depots, including King's Cliffe. Undated but earliest date 1988, when COSHH regulations were introduced.
VIEW AROUND BAKERY
Group of children and a few adults, posed on a horse-drawn cart outside the bakery in West Street. Man on cart is holding a bakery basket aloft. Handwritten caption: 'Ks Cliffe, Election 1910'. Said to have been a Liberal Party treat.
VIEW C1946 INCL A E MILFORD SHOP, 39 WEST ST
Photo of young Margaret Lucas c1946, standing across the street from her mother's grocery shop at what is now 39 West Street. View includes no 41, then Browns', and view east as far as Forest Approach corner in background.
VIEW E PAST WHEEL INN & BAKERY (WITH VAN)
HOUSE TOP OF EAGLE LANE, DEMOLISHED FOR COOP
Postcard looking east along West St from Wheel Inn (lt), house top of Eagle Lane (rt) and bakery with triangular HOVIS sign, two women and a van, believed to be the bakery van, outside. Before 1956, but exact date uncertain.
VIEW FROM CROSS, 1961
Postcard view into West Street from The Cross, Hakes' shop at no 1 and the Cross Keys Inn. Three vans in the scene, including a trademan selling to customers.
VIEW WEST FROM CROSS
Postcard, view uphill into West Street from Bridge St below the Cross. Hakes' grocery shop at No1, Cross Keys with corner hanging sign; bread delivery van with customers at corner with Pig Lane, centre distance. Pc title: In the Village of King's Cliffe
VIEW WEST PAST NOS 11 - 19, AFTER 1942
HALLAM'S SHOP AT NO 11, TURNERS ARMS (PHILLIP
View along narrow part of West Street from no 11 (Hallam's shop) to no 19, also shows women on pavement opposite, one with a goat. Hallams ran the shop at no 11 for several years from 1942.
VJ DAY STREET PARTY
Corner between No1 West Street and No 1 Hall Yard, street party to celebrate VJ Day 1946. Women, children, Mr Gilder (Sub Postmaster), Mr Martin (Co-op shop manager) and two servicemen (possibly Americans?).
W HAKES' SHOP AT NO 1
The grocery & tobacconist shop at No 1 West Street, with William Hakes, proprietor from 1936-1953, standing at the door and nos 3 & 5 beyond.
WEST END VIEW TO WHEEL INN
Postcard view from junction at west end of West Street, showing both north and south sides of West Street as far as the Wheel Inn house, centre distance. Horse and cart and people at cottage doors. Dates to after 1916. 'Kings Cliff K5'.
WEST END, COTTAGE (PRE 1916) & HSES ADJG TRAV
Photo taken from opposite Traveller's Rest Inn (now no 90 West St), looking west to 'West end' and the old cottage standing end-on to street. Date of photo not known but cottage at West End demolished in 1916.
WEST END, VIEW FROM
Postcard with typed title 'Kingscliffe village'. West end of West St from corner on south side, looking east to Wheel Inn (sign on wall). 3 cottages far left now 1 cottage.
WHEEL INN; KC BREWERY, TOP OF EAGLE LANE
West street view past Wheel Inn (left) & King's Cliffe Brewery with Eagle Tap sign visible at the top of Eagle Lane.
WINDMILL HOUSE (KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE, NO 31)
FURNISHINGS SALE, MAY 1924
Catalogue produced by Messrs Richardson, auctioneers, for sale on 21 & 22 May 1924 of 'the valuable furnishings' of Windmill House, King's Cliffe, (970 Lots in all), on instructions of Mrs Howes, leaving KC to retire to her London residence.
WINDMILL HSE (31 West St)
Postcard wth message written to Private S Roberts by his wife ' and daughter 'D & V', when he was in the Brook War Hospital after being injured in France.
WINDMILL INN
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St.. Children in costume on Kingston's cart & boy on white pony in the foreground.
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St. Band & friendly societies in foreground
Village parade for King George V coronation celebrations, passing the Windmill Inn in West St. Carts with children and teachers in fancy dress in foreground.
WINDMILL INN & AROUND, 1911
Costume parade passing the Windmill Inn (with bay windows), West Street, as part of the village celebrations for the coronation of George V, 22 June 1911. Decorated bicycles in foreground.
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Photo from local paper (uncertain which) showing West Street decorated with a Jubilee arch high across street approx at no 39, and a group of men (none identified). Part of village celebration for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, July 1887.
Photo, road mending/maintenance gang including King's Cliffe men, standing with tar machine and barrel in West Street, outside no 39.
WILLOWBROOK
'NEW' BRIDGE, BUILT 1862
Postcard view of the 'new' bridge, built in 1862, seen from the Willowbrook river, with a man & children on the right-hand bank.
FIRST DRIFT, STEPPING STONES
Two Edwardian ladies on the stepping stones across the Willowbrook at First Drift. Reverse of postcard has message dated to November 1907.
FORMER WATERMILL BUILDINGS
Disused former watermill and adjoining bakehouse buildings, pictured from the east above the bridge over the mill race. Postcard postmarked 1935.
MILL DAM
Colour photo showing the waters of the Willowbrook cascading over two straight faces of the mill dam sluice where excess river water is diverted away from the mill race. Date uncertain, possibly 1980s.
MILL DAM SLUICE
View over the Mill Dam west of the former watermill, with the sluice gate in foreground and 2 swans. A Tucks postcard from the mid-1930s.
Willowbrook at the mill sluice, watermill buildings in background (right), parish church amd Mill Farm. 'Photo H Bailey', local photographer who died in 1911.
Postcard entitled 'King's Cliffe Church'. Middle-distance view of Parish Church and Hall Yard buildings seen from south-west, with fence around sluice at start of the mill dam.
MILL RACE
FORMER WATERMILL
Colour photo, view east along the mill race to the former watermill building (as converted in the 1960s). Sheep grazing in the paddock. Date uncertain, possibly 1980s.
POSTCARD, SEPT 1925
Tower windmill south of West Street, pictured in September 1925 after its top and sails had been removed, prior to demolition the following month. View across the broad stretch of the Willowbrook, formerly called the 'boating lake'.
RIVER WALL BEHIND RECTORY GARDEN, 1959
Two students from Kelham Theological College digging foundations for the river wall behind the Rectory garden at the start of a rebuilding project in 1959. Rectory garden, Rectory and barn in background.
B & w photo, showing the early stages of the rebuilding of the river wall along the mill race behind the Rectory garden. Dated to 1959.
B & w photo, showing a Kelham Theological College student back-filliing behind the river wall along the mill race behind the Rectory. Work is well advanced. Dated to 1959.
VIEW TO REAR OF WINDMILL HOUSE & TOWER MILL
Black & white pc view of the towermill behind Windmill House in West St, its granary & maltings buildings & the gardens of Windmill House are seen from the south across the Willowbrook. Cattle grazing in foreground.
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Set of individual photos of the first annual Duck Race (1998) organised by the KC Community Association to raise £1,000 each year for them on August Bank Holiday Mondays. Ducks 'sold' for £1 each.
WINDMILL, CALVEHAY FIELD, APETHORPE RD
DESTROYED BY GALES, 1860
Report of gales in March 1860 damaging the windmill belonging to Mr Howes, which stood south of Bridge Street: extract from Parish Gazette.
WOOD ROAD
NARROW SECTION TO BE WIDENED, 1973
Narrow eastern end of Wood Road before it was widened in 1973, members of the Giddings family in foreground.
STREET PARTY IN 1953
Group of King's Cliffe children, with their mothers (?) gathered on Back Way (now Wood Road). Believed to be from a street party on Coronation Day in 1953.
WOODLAND
BEECH TREE
Engraving of the beech tree 'in West Hey Wood between Cliffe and Stamford' from page 158 of "The Forest Trees of Britain", by Revd C A Johns, published c1894.
MILLENNIUM WOOD
Poster advertising Planting Day at King's Cliffe Millennium Wood on Saturday 12th February 2000.
WESTHAY WOOD
Engraving of the beech tree 'in West Hey Wood between Cliffe and Stamford' from page 158 of "The Forest Trees of Britain", by Revd C A Johns, published c1894.
WW2 AIRFIELD
EAST TO WANSFORD
Aerial from Stamford Rd E across WW2 airfield & Nassington iron-stone quarry to Wansford; captions & key added from information supplied.
POLITICS
LIBERAL ASSOCIATION
READING ROOM & LIBRARY, WEST STREET
Faded sepia photo showing south side of High Street (later West St) between no 6 ('General Reading Room & Library' over door), nos 8 (woman at door), 10 and 12; three men at corner one carrying yoke & buckets. Date probably between 1880 and 1910.
RAF WITTERING
FUTURE OF HARRIERS NO LONGER IN DOUBT, 1992
Report in the Stamford Mercury of 21 August 1992 under headline 'Speculation ends over RAF base'. Plans to move the Harrier planes based at RAF Wittering to other RAF bases in Suffolk would not now go ahead.
RELIGIOUS GROUPS
BAPTISTS
COOK, THOMAS (MISSIONARY AT KC)
ARTICLE FROM LEICS & RUTLANDHERITAGE MAG, 199
Three-page article about Thomas Cook's life and the travel business he established, from the Leics & Rutland Heritage Magazine, 1991. Mentions him coming to Barrowden and being a Baptist Church missionary 'in those parts', but no specific mention of KC.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
'RIDE & STRIDE' FUNDRAISING EVENT SEPT 2017
PARTICIPATIONOBO ALL SAINTS (& SAINT JAMES CH
Letter of thanks from Northants Historic Churches Trust re outcome of 2017 Ride and Stride event on 9 September 2017. Participation on behalf of All Saints (and St James) Parish Church, King's Cliffe.
ACCTS MARCH 1927
Final statement of income & outgoings for the benefice of King's Cliffe, sent by Northampton & Rutland Glebe Association with covering letter dated 19th March 1927.
BLESSING OF NEW RECTORY, 1959
Set of four photos recording the dedication & blessing of new Rectory & church hall by Robert, Bishop of Peterborough, on 26th July 1959.
DR A TINDAL HART RESIGNED SEPT 1955
Diocesan letter to KC Churchwardens confirming resignation of Dr A Tindal Hart, Rector, on 30th September 1955 and enclosing Writ of Sequestration appointing Churchwardens and the Rural Dean as Sequestrators during the vacancy of the Benefice.
Writ of Sequestration appointing KC Churchwardens and the Rural Dean as Sequestrators during the vacancy of the Benefice following resignation of Dr A Tindal Hart, September 1955..
LIST OF RECTORS
List of Rectors of King's Cliffe from 1236 to date, as displayed in the South aisle of KC Parish Church, plus notes re Thomas South & Michael Hudson during the Civil War era. Searchable pdf (in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find).
PARISH GAZETTE
All Saints' King's Cliffe Parish Gazette, Vol XII no 134, February 1907.
PARISH MAGAZINE, JUNE 1910
Parish Magazines, All Saints', Kings Cliffe, published in June 1910. (Scanned from original). Three pages include details of church activities; also the service & Queen's letter re death of King Edward VII in previous month.
REVD J W MARSH RESIGNED OCT 1925
Diocesan letter to KC Churchwardens confirming resignation of Revd J W Marsh on 31st October 1925 and enclosing Writ of Sequestration appointing Churchwardens and the Rural Dean as Sequestrators during the vacancy of the Benefice.
SPECIAL FORM OF SERVICE, 7.1.1900
Printed Form of Special Service for 7th January 1900 authorised by the Bishop of Peterborough for use in churches in the diocese "on behalf of our nation and countrymen in the present war".
SUNDAY SCHOOL
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES, 1955
Archdeacon of Oakham distributing buns and oranges and Sunday School prizes to children in the porch at King's Cliffe parish church. Picture dated to c1955. Stamford Mercury photo.
PRIZE BOOK AWARDED TO TERENCE SMITH IN 1948
Hard-cover book, 'Nikkal Seyn' by Ernest Gray, publ Collins 1947. 1st Class boy's prize awarded to Terence Smith for good attendance and conduct, Easter 1948. Bookplate signed by Rector A Tindall Hart. Front cover, bookplate and title page scanned.
PRIZE BOOK AWARDED TO TERENCE SMITH IN 1949
Hard-cover book, 'The Wolf River' by E E Ellsworth, publ Lutterworth Press 1949. Prize awarded to Terence Smith for good attendance and conduct, Easter 1949. Bookplate signed by Rector A Tindall Hart. Bookplate, publication and title pages scanned.
TEMPERENCE SOCIETY
Printed certificate of membership of the Church of England Termperance Society Juvenile Branch, King's Cliffe branch; made out in the name of Elsie Weatherington, no 19 on the membership roll.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
APPTMT OF NEW TRUSTEE, 1936
SOLICITORS' LETTER CONFIRMING COMPLETE
Letter & envelope, Prentice & Prentice, Solicitors, to Mr G Close, KC, 4 Sept 1936; their work complete re appointment of Northants Assoc of Congregational Churches (Incorporated) as new Trustee for KC Congregational Chapel, enclosing their account.
CHAPEL IN WEST STREET
Large mortice-type key to front door and Yale key, probably originally to schoolroom at rear of chapel.
EXTRACTS FROM DEED OF 1846
Extracts typed from partial copies of the Deed, undated but referring to a Surrender of even date, probably of 27th May 1846, re the land to be built on with chapel and schoolroom Signed by first Trustees of the Congregational Church in King's Cliffe.
KINGSCLIFFE FUND, POST CHAPEL CLOSURE
OFFER OF GRANT TO SCALDWELL, 1990
Letter from The Congregational Federation Limited to Mr J Deacon at Scaldwell, Northants, inviting application re their Congregational Church for a grant from 'the Kingscliffe Fund' (income from sale of former KC Congregational Church).
LETTER RE NEW TRUSTEE APPT 1936 & WAR STOCKS
Letter from Prentice & Prentice, sols, to George Close, Treasurer of King's Cliffe Congregational Church, dated 4 September 1936; enclosing acct for appointment of new Chapel Trustee & confirming War Stocks held.
LETTERHEAD DETAILS,
Details from unused sheet of letterhead of King's Cliffe Congregational Church, 'Associated with Trinity Congregational Church, Peterborough'. Showing K W Sharpe as Secretary and G J Close as Treasurer.
MISCELLANEOUS TREASURER PAPERS, 1951 - 1968
Envelope of papers from Kenneth Sharpe, Secretary and Treasurer of KC Congregational Church for many years. Paper cover years 1951 - 1968, including 'Church Statement of Case for 1951 & 1952 & Receipt & Pyts Accts 1951-64. Items listed as 4386.
MS NOTE RE SALE OF FORMER CALVINIST BAPTIST C
Copy of ms note by James Elliott in 1931, then Secretary of KC Congregational Church, explaining how the former Calvinist Baptist Chapel & cottage were sold and funds invested in War Stocks for the benefit of the KC Congregational Church. Also typed.
SCHOOLROOM FOR BRITISH SCHOOL, 1847
APPEAL TO BRITISH SCHOOL SOCY FOR HELP
Letter in 1847 to British School Society from George Amos, Pastor at KC Congregational Church, requesting help for books & finding a 'suitable Master'. 4 pages; 2 related letters from British & Foreign School Socy archivist to Canon Bryan in 1985.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
PRIZE BOOK AWARDED IN 1953
Book 'Fairies of the Trees' publ Blackie & Son Ltd, presented in March 1953 for regular attendance and good conduct . Title page & book plate written by teacher, Mrs Haines, have been scanned.
PRIZE BOOK AWARDED IN 1958
Book 'Child's Own Book of Prayers and Hymns" by S V Benson, presented in 1958 'from the Congregational Sunday School'. Front cover & book plate have been scanned.
THOSE WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THE WAR MEMORIAL
List of Congregational Church subscribers to the war memorial, typed from Receipts & Payments book of Congregational Church 1922 - 1932.
CONGREGATIONALISTS
CLOSURE OF CHAPEL, 1980
Scan of circular letter from the Lay Pastor of King's Cliffe Congregational Church announcing closure of the Chapel. The final service to be on 28th September 1980. Paper copy addressed to the Court family also held as 1293.1
DEEDS OF CHAPEL IN WEST ST
Extracts from the deeds of the old Congregational Chapel, West St, between 1846 and 1936, giving names of the Trustees of the chapel at various dates.
POSTER, 1919
Handwritten poster for KC Congregational Church Young People's Society Anniversary Service on 31.3.1919.
SACRED CONCERT, FEB 1901
Handbill for a Sacred Musical Service at King's Cliffe Congregational Church on 21st Feb 1901, Nassington Congregational Church choir to sing. To raise funds for the Nassington organ fund.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
BOOK PRESENTED TO GLADYS BROUGHTON, 1953/4
'The Quiet Hour' by Patience Strong, Inscribed on fly-leaf " Gladys Broughton, for a sweet little prayer. Love, E L Haines". Given to Gladys Broughton at the Congregational Church Sunday School.
''Adventure for Jesus' by Mary Miller, Harold Copping illustrations. Inscribed on inside front cover " Gladys Broughton, for regular attendance". Given to Gladys Broughton at the Congregational Church Sunday School.
BOOK PRESENTED TO GLADYS BROUGHTON, MARCH 195
'The Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan, edited and introduced for modern reading by Rex Warner, publ by Pocket Books 1951. Book plate inside. Given to Gladys Broughton at the Congregational Church Sunday School.
INDEPENDENT (CONGREG'L) CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL
NEW TESTATMENT, PRESENTED & INSCRIBED 1845,
HARLOCK, WILLIAM (RECIPIENT)
New Testament, edn publ OUP & Br & Foreign Bible Society in 1845; inscribed 'a gift to William Harlock 1845' and written below 'The New Independent Chapel opened Sept 29th 1846.'.... Two images: fly-leaf with inscription & title page.
KC CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
LIST OF SOME OLD RECORDS
Letter dated 19th August 1996 from Wilfred Court to County Archivist at Northants Record Office, listing and accompanying some old records of the Congregational Chapel at KC being ''sent for safe keeping' having been photocopied.
KC METHODIST CHURCH
APPEAL RE COSTS OF NEW CHAPEL, FEB 1910
Printed letter headed 'Kingscliffe New Chapel, Oundle Circuit', dated February 1910, appealing for contributions towards the costs of £465 for the new chapel built in Bridge Street, King's Cliffe. First service to be held there on April 19th 1910.
CAROL SERVICE SHEET, DEC 1981
Stenciled sheet with programme for Carol Service, Sunday 13 December 1981 held at King's Cliffe Methodist Church (the Wesleyan chapel in Bridge Street).
METHODISTS
CHAPEL EXTENSION 1909
Poster for Stone-laying Ceremony for new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel , 19 Oct 1909 (extension to original chapel built in 1823).
NON-CONFORMISTS
FORMER CHAPELS IN KC
Brief notes on dates and locations of former non-conformist chapels in King's Cliffe. Zionist Baptist; Calvinist Baptist; Wesleyan Methodist and Congregationalist.
PLACES OF PROTESTANT WORSHIP IN KC, 1802 - 1
LIST OF APPLICATIONS TO REGISTER PREMISES
Details typed from register held at the Northants Record Office, gives year date (all between 1802 and 1841), brief description of property & name(s) of those applying. Additional information from local records added in italics.
ROMAN CATHOLICS
PRIESTS' TOMB
Digital photo taken in 2005 to show the table tomb of Roman Catholic Riding Mission priests, in the churchyard, west of church. Tomb dates to c1855.
SCHOOLS
BRITISH SCHOOL, CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH KC
LETTER 1847 SEEKING HELP TO SET UP SCHOOL & F
Letter in 1847 to British School Society from George Amos, Pastor at KC Congregational Church, requesting help for books & finding a 'suitable Master'. 4 pages; 2 related letters from British & Foreign School Socy archivist to Canon Bryan in 1985.
CHARITY SCHOOLS
CALL FOR LARGER SCHOOL, 1869
Stamford Mercury of 7th May 1869, piece by unnamed correspondent urging the trustees of the Law & Hutcheson schools charity to enlarge the schools to provide more facilities for educating working-class children of the village.
ENDOWED SCHOOL
COSTUME PAGEANT, CORONATION 1953
INFANTS AS 'WARS OF THE ROSES'
Whole group of Infants class, half dressed in red, half in white to represent the Wars of the Roses. Names in 4708.1.
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Education of the Young in King's Cliffe', covering the period 1727 to 1929. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL
'HUCKLEBERRY FINN' PRODUCTION, DEC 1956
NEWS PHOTO & DETAILS
Damaged b & w photo of cast of 'Huckleberry Finn' KCES pupils on stage. Photo 2536.1 very torn and crumpled, digitally improved as 2536.2. St Mercury 21 December 1956 cutting with photo and full details about production typed as 2536.3.
'HUCKLEBERRY FINN', 1956
Whole cast line-up from 'Huckleberry Finn' school production on 18 December 1956. Staged in King's Cliffe village hall, footlights and stage front visible in photo.
'OUR SCHOOL' WALL HANGING, 2011
Wall hanging made by Sue Rowland working with children from KC Endowed School, June 2011. Images by children show different features in the school and school gardens, and aspects of school life. Measures 200 high x 1.10 wide.
'PUPIL BOOM' IN 1992
Photo and caption from Stamford Mercury 26 May 2017, 'Mercury Memories' from 25 years ago, May 22 1992. Headmaster and four pupils in picture, named in caption. £6,000 to be raised for new classroom needed for extra teacher due to 'pupil boom'.
'SAVE THE ALBATROSS' CAMPAIGN
POSTER, 2008
Poster drawn by a pupil at KC Endowed School to publicise saving postage stamps in aid of the 'Save the Albatross' campaign.
15 PUPILS IN PAGEANT COSTUMES, 1953
Fifteen pupils posed in the garden of King's Cliffe Endowed School in costume for a pageant, thought to be for Queen Eliz II coronation in June 1953.
ATTENDANCE MEDAL
Northants County Council medallion for 'Good conduct and punctual attendance at every school meeting awarded for two years', struck in pewter-coloured metal.
BBC BROADCASTS FOR SCHOOLS BOOK, 1951
Paper book 'Stories from World History' published by BBC to accompany Broadcasts to Schools in Summer Term 1951, each page dated. Illustrations by William Stobbs. Price 6d.
BOOK OF TERMLY REPORTS, MID-1950S
Stapled book of 'Termly Reports', pages Roneo-duplicated, completed by Headmaster (Mr Ford) & signed by Parent. Personal details have been redacted on digital copy.
BOOK, HAND- MADE AT SCHOOL
Hardback A5 size book, covers decorated with potato printing, made entirely by hand at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
BOXING
B & w photo, poor quality, showing a boxing match in progress in the grounds of KC Endowed School; a temporary boxing ring erected on lawn in Headmaster's garden. Date uncertain, between 1950 &1976.
BOXING CLUB
B & W photo of group of boys, with Nurse Maclaren, around punch-bag stand for boxing practice, lawn behind KCES - then the Head-master's garden.
BOYS IN COSTUME, GEORGE LOVE (HEADMASTER)
Group of 17 unidentified boys in KCES yard, Park St, with Mr Love, Headmaster (looking young, so possibly from his early years at KCES, 1915 onwards). Boys blacked-up in various costumes with musical instruments & other props. Possibly for a concert?
BOYS ON PARADE, POSSIBLY FOR EMPIRE DAY
Boys on parade in the yard at KC Endowed School, with drummer and standard bearer with Union Flag, possibly for Empire Day. Dated to 1916 by apparent age of Kenneth Sharpe, far left, born 1907.
Photo 290 from c1916 with names provided in year 2000.
BUNTING FOR QEII DIAMOND JUBILEE, 2012
Bunting made by pupils at KC Endowed School to decorate the school hall as part of the school's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
CAST-IRON SHIELDS BEARING NUMBERS (PURPOSE UN
…… cast-iron shields measuring 6.2cm high x 7.5cm wide, each with a number on the front; screw-holes and recess on back, possibly to fit a post or similar. Originally blue ground, white numbers, but most traces of colour gone. Purpose unknown.
CONCERT AT SCHOOL
Typewritten programme for King's Cliffe Endowed School Silver Jubilee Concert, performed on 1st and 2nd June 1977.
CORONATION PAGEANT 1953
Large group of children posed in garden at KC Endowed School in costume for their pageant to celebrate the Queen's coronation in June 1953. Mr Ford, headteacher, far left back.
COSTUME PAGEANT, 1953
Group of eleven boys and girls dressed as Tudors (except for boy on far left), posed against school garden wall. Names recorded on separate document.
Group of ten boys and girls dressed as Tudors, posed in school garden. Names recorded on separate document.
CROSSING PATROL OFFICER
Notice from KC Endowed School noticeboard advertising a vacancy for school Crossing Patrol Officer, as Mrs Kirby wished to give up. Notice undated, possibly from 2008?
CROWNING MAY QUEEN
Photo of the crowning of the May Queen at KC Endowed School, taken in the school yard. Parents & children crowding round; Mr Love (Headmaster) left foreground, Revd Marsh on right in background. Dated to 1918.
EARLY ELECTRIC FLAT IRON USED AT SCHOOL
Flat iron with two metal posts with slots for electric wires. Iron weighs just over 8lbs & meausre 19cm x 9.5cm. Handle encased in wood.
FABRIC NEEDLE CASE C1951
MADE BY GLADYS BROUGHTON
Handsewn item made by Gladys Broughton in needlework classes at KC Endowed School c1951; a needle case, with woollen fabric 'pages' and felt cover with initials embroidered in chainstitch.
FABRIC NEEDLE CASE MID-1950s
MADE BY DAPHNE SHARPE
Handsewn item made by Daphne Sharpe in needlework classes at KC Endowed School mid-1950s; a needle case with woollen fabric 'pages' and felt cover decorated with two fishes made of felt. Safety pins and needles still inside.
FELT PURSE, C1951
MADE BY GLADYS BROUGHTON
Handsewn item made by Gladys Broughton in needlework classes at KC Endowed School c1951; a purse, flap secured with press-studs & decorated with two felt flowers. Measures 4.25 x 3 inches when closed.
FEMALE TEACHING STAFF C1905
Group picture of female teaching staff at King's Cliffe Endowed School, taken in the school yard beside the Headmaster's house. Dated to c1905.
FLAT IRON USED AT SCHOOL
Flat iron embossed '8 700 K', found in attic at KC Endowed School in Park Street, January 2017. Used there in the past. Iron now rather corroded.
FOOTBALL
Football team at King's Cliffe Endowed School posed with Mr George Love, Headteacher, in the school yard. Football has the date '1921'.
FORMER HEAD OF SCHOOL
Obituary of Mr Arthur William Ford, died 17.4.1979, formerly Headteacher at King's Cliffe Endowed School (from April 1952 to July 1976).
G R LOVE, HEADMASTER, BEEHIVES AT PARK ST SCH
George R Love, Headmaster 1915 to 1952, with two of his beehives in school gardens in Park Street. School roofline partly visible behind.
GARDENING PRIZE CERTIFICATE 1921
Certificate confirming award of Elementary School Garden Challenge Shield to KCES in 1921. Identical certificates for 1920 and 1922 also held. Presented by NCC Education Committee.
GIRLS & BOYS, C1916
NAMES
Photo 292 from c1916 with names provided in year 2000.
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Girls and boys posed (with wagging fingers!) in school garden at KC Endowed School in Park St. Dated to 1916 by apparent age of Kenneth Sharpe, far left, born 1907.
GIRLS GROUP, 'KC SCHOOL 1', EARLY DATE
Group of girl pupils, one holding slate reading 'King's Cliffe School 1', with a young woman, probably a pupil teacher. Date unknown but style of dress indicates late Victorian.
GROUP OF 31 PUPILS, DATED TO 1909
31 girls & boys of King's Cliffe Endowed School, beside school wall, 'KCES' on small slate. Dated to c1909 by ref to known children's ages.
GROUP OF 8 GIRLS, 1900-1910?
Photo of eight girls aged c10 yrs?. Posed in lacey pinafores in the school yard. Date estimated c1900-1910. No names known.
GROUP OF BOYS, C1873
Group of school boys at KC Endowed School in the uniform of the former Law & Hutcheson school. Date uncertain, but probably early 1870s, soon after school opened in January 1873. No names known.
GROUP OF GIRLS & BOYS, 1917
Group of girls and boys at King's Cliffe Endowed Mixed School posed (with pointing fingers) in the school yard. Marjorie Sharpe second from left, Kenneth Sharpe centre facing left, Raymond Woolley third from right. Others unidentified.
GROUP OF GIRLS, C1873
Photo, group of girls at KC Endowed School, with two women, possibly teachers. Some girls are wearing former Law & Hutcheson charity school clothing. Date probably soon after KCES opened 1873.
GROUP OF INFANTS, 1910
Group photo of King's Cliffe Endowed School Infants' department pupils, c1910.
HANDWORK TEACHER'S CERT, 1919, G R LOVE
Board of Education Teacher's Certificate for Educational Handwork, for Senior Scholars, awarded to George R Love in November 1919. Stamped 'Passed with Distinction'.
HEADMASTER 1915 - 1952
Newspaper obituary for George Richard Love, died 30th June 1964. Retired former Headmaster of KC Endowed School.
HEADMASTER,MR LOVE & BOYS WORKING IN SCHOOL G
Newspaper photos (undated source, but possibly 1930s or 1940s) showing Mr Love, Headmaster of KC Endowed School, with boys at work in the school gardens. Distant view to railway embankment?
HOOPS FOUND IN PARK ST SCHOOL ATTICS FEB 2017
Hoops found in the attics of KC Endowed School in Park Street in February 2017; three plywood (55.5cm diameter, 1.5cm thick ply) and one bamboo (50cm dia). Photographed against garden wall at 40 West Street.
INFANTS' SCHOOL SALES BOOK, 1904-1912
Cover and only completed pages from Northants County Council School Sales Book for King's Cliffe Infants' School, entries covering years 1904 to 1912, on one page only..
INFANTS, GIRLS GROUP C1915
Photo of girls from the KC Infants' School each holding a doll, group posed in the school garden. Dated to 1915 or 1916 by reference to one known girl in the picture, Beatrice Hill born 1911, 2nd from left, front row.
KC BOYS' SCHOOL GROUP, 'KC BOYS NO2'
Group of boys with slate reading 'King's Cliffe boys' No 2'. Date unknown but between 1873 and 1910.
KING'S VJ DAY MESSAGE TO CHILDREN
Message from King George VI to all schoolchildren on V J Day 8th June 1946. On the reverse is a list of 'Important War Dates' intended to be kept by the children as 'My family's war record'.
MAY DAY C1945
Four girls in KC Endowed School garden, dressed as May Queen and attendants. Date c1945.
MAY QUEEN ETC, 1918
Small photo (damaged) showing May Queen and attendants on May Day 1918 at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
MAYPOLE DANCING
Maypole dancing at King's Cliffe Endowed School, in the early 1950s. The Maypole is positioned in the centre of what was then the Headmaster's garden.
MAYPOLE DANCING AT MANOR HOUSE, WEST ST
Girls and boys from KC Endowed School standing with the maypole set up in Manor House Garden, yew hedge behind them. Miss Mary Powell to the right of the picture. Dated to c1920.
MIXED SCHOOL GROUP, 'KC ENDOWED SCHOOL'
Group of older Mixed School pupils, one holding slate reading 'King's Cliffe Endowed School'. Date unknown but between 1873 and 1910.
Group of younger Mixed School pupils, one holding slate reading 'King's Cliffe Endowed School'. Date unknown but between 1873 and 1910.
Group of younger Mixed School pupils, one holding slate reading 'King's Cliffe Endowed School'. A few wearing hats or caps. Date unknown but between 1873 and 1910..
Group of younger Mixed School pupils, with back row of older boys. Slate reading 'King's Cliffe Endowed School'. Date unknown but between 1873 and 1910..
MR HIBBS, MUSIC TEACHER
PRESENTATION PLAQUE, JULY 1995
Circular presentation plaque made by local potter, Gill Meadows, for KC Endowed School to present to Mr Hibbs their music teacher in July 1995.
N NORTHANTS SCHOOLS' ATHLETIC ASSOC. ANNUAL S
AWARD WON BY TERENCE SMITH, 1951
Certificate printed on card, Terence Smith placed 2nd in Boys' 880yds for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1951.
Certificate printed on card, King's Cliffe placed 2nd in Boys' Relay for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1951. Terence Smith was one of the relay team.
AWARD WON BY TERENCE SMITH, 1952
Certificate printed on card, Terence Smith placed 2nd in Boys' 880yds for 13-14yrs at North Northants Schools' Athletic Asssociation annual sports in May 1952.
NEEDLEWORK BAG MADE AT SCHOOL
Needlework bag measuring …… 'D Sharpe' embroidered on flap.
NEEDLEWORK, FABRIC DRAWSTRING BAG C1951
MADE BY GLADYS BROUGHTON
Handsewn item made by Gladys Broughton in needlework classes at KC Endowed School c1951; a draw-string bag probably for toiletries or similar.
OFFICIAL OPENING, KING'S FOREST SITE, MAY 201
St Merc report of official opening of KC Endowed School new site in King's Forest, May 2017. Photo 1: ribbon cutting by Jim Bollans (oldest former pupil) and Esma Durrent (youngest pupil at time of official opening). Photo 2, Blessing by Bishop Flack.
PREFECT'S BADGE, 1950s
Tin badge, 1" diameter, with pin on back. Yellow ground with white central band bearing word 'PREFECT'.
PRIZE-GIVING DAY
Rev Dr Tindall Hart, rector, governors & parents at prize-giving, King's Cliffe Endowed School gardens.
PUPIL'S WORK FROM 1873, MAP OF ASIA
Map of Asia, publ by John Heywood of Manchester, for 'King's Cliffe New Schools'; worked by pupil Ellen Gimber & dated April 10th 1873, three months after the schools opened in Park Street. Map (c9.5" x 7.75") mounted in glazed wooden frame.
PUPIL'S WORK FROM 1873, MAP OF EUROPE
Map of Europe, publ by John Heywood of Manchester, for 'King's Cliffe New Schools'; worked by pupil Ellen Gimber & dated March 26th 1873, two months after the schools opened in Park Street. Map (c9.5" x 7.75") mounted in glazed wooden frame.
PUPIL, MARJORIE SHARPE
Marjorie Sharpe at King's Cliffe Endowed School around 1914, the year she started school there.
RAFIA AND FABRIC BAG, HAND- MADE AT SCHOOL
Bag with circular base made of woven rafia and a fabric top with draw-strings. Made entirely by hand at King's Cliffe Endowed School.
RURAL SCHOOLS' PROJECT INCL KC CHILDREN
'Getting to know KC - a Village Trail by children for children', spiral-bound A4, produced in December 1981. A Rural Schools Project, written and illustrated by eight pupils from schools at Apethorpe, Bulwick, Woodnewton and King's Cliffe.
SAMPLER WORKED BY LILY BOLLANS, 1895
Photo of sampler in glazed frame. Colours still very strong; name, age and date all present.
SAVINGS BANK ATTENDANCE CARD, 1891-2
Single-fold card, 5" x 4", headed 'King's Cliffe School Foundation, Savings Bank's Attendance Card'. PO Savings Bank acct to receive 1d per wk previously paid as school feeson receipt of token for full attendance: 'school now free'. Card blank.
SCHOLARSHIP DAY 1942
GIRLS, AFTER DANCING ON SCHOOL LAWN
Photo in school grounds on Scholarship Day in 1942. 16 girls of varying ages in foreground, having just danced; other girls sitting on grass in background. Names not yet known.
SCHOLARSHIP DAY 1952
INFANTS GYMNASTICS
Infants performing forward rolls on mat in school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and older pupils watching. In photo are Miss Joyce Palmer, teacher, and Mr George Love (Head).
Infants performing gym on mats in school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and older pupils watching. In photo are Miss Joyce Palmer, teacher, and Mr George Love (Head).
OLDER GIRLS' COUNTRY DANCING DISPLAY
Some older girls doing a country dance in the school gardens as part of Scholarship Day activities. Parents and other pupils watching.
SCHOLARSHIP DAY, 1952
Photo of Endowed School children dancing round the Maypole on the school lawn, with audience of other children & parents, watched by Rose Queen and two attendants under a rustic bower. Date believed 1952.
Group of pupils on Scholarship Day in 1952, in the school garden; some holding certificates. All names known.
SCHOLARSHIP DAY, JUNE 1951
Group at KC Endowed School, June 1951 (Pboro Std cutting has date 22 June 1951); with Mr Love (Headmaster) and his wife in school gardens on Scholarship Day. Mr Love an "Old Pete", having trained at St Peter's Practice School & College, Pboro.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE MEDALLION, 1890
Northants County Council medallion for 'Good conduct and punctual attendance at every school meeting awarded for two years', struck in pewter-coloured metal.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE TOKEN, 1890
King's Cliffe School Foundation Attendance Token dated 1890, front: 'KC School Foundation, Token'; verso 'To encourage punctual & regular attendance'. Bronze, 34mm diameter, c1mm thick.
School Attendance Token, issued 1890 by King's Cliffe School Foundation 'To encourage punctual and regular attendance'. Clean, slightly bent. It was worth 1d towards weekly school fee of 4d.
SCHOOL GARDEN
Picture showing the garden at King's Cliffe Endowed School with George Love (Headmaster) and his 1st wife, Minnie.
SCHOOL GARDENING PRIZE, 1920, 1921 OR 1922
Boys and Mr George Love, Headmaster, posed in school yard with Northants County Council Education Cttee School Gardening Challenge Shield, won by the school in 1920, 1921 & 1922.
SCHOOL GOOD ATTENDANCE MEDALIONS, 1890s
Photo of front and verso of 3 medalions awarded by Northants County Council for good conduct and punctual attendance at KC School.
SCHOOL REPORT, RENE DOLBY, 1943
Final school 'Report of Progress' for Rene Dolby who attended KC Endowed School from 1934 until 1943. Report signed by G R Love, Headmaster. Written on paper from an exercise book, with hand-written headings and lines ruled in ink.
SILVER 6d FOR BIRTH LORD BURGHLEY, FEB 1905
Card c4 x 8cm with 1905 silver sixpence, in original frame; card inscribed 'Burghley House, Stamford 1905, to commemorate the birth of David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 9th February 1905.
Card c4 x 8cm with 1905 silver sixpence, in original envelope; card inscribed 'Burghley House, Stamford 1905, to commemorate the birth of David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 9th February 1905.
TAPESTRY BAG FOR PENCILS, C1951
MADE BY GLADYS BROUGHTON
Handsewn item made by Gladys Broughton in needlework classes at KC Endowed School c1951; bag for pencils, made from tapestry worked in oddments of coloured wool, lined, flap without fixings. Measures 4.25 x 9 inches when closed.
TEACHERS, C1931
Group of four believed to be teachers at KC Endowed School, dated 'c1931' on reverse. Seated L - R: Miss Annie Hawkes, George R Love, Miss Frances Lock; standing behind, Mr Cudmore.
TEACHING STAFF, WIDOW OF HEAD
Newspaper obituary for Mrs Adela Mary Love, died 13 July 1996 aged 87. Widow of Mr George Love, Headmaster at KCES from 1915 until 1952; Mrs Love herself taught at the school.
TERM REPORT JULY 1949, TERENCE SMITH
School exams report for Terence Smith for term ended July 1949. Name, subjects and marks appear written in pupil's hand; teacher, Mr G Maccoy, wrote his remarks below.
WILD FLOWERS COMPETITION, BOOK PRIZE
WON BY GLADYS BROUGHTON IN 1953
Book 'Wild Flowers' by Paxton Chadwick, Puffin Picture Book 81. Inscribed inside "Presented to Gladys Broughton, Wild Flowers Competition 1953".
YEAR 1 PUPILS, SEPT 2017
Photo from Stamford Mercury 10 Nov 2017 showing Year 1 pupils in the hall at the new KC Endowed School building. No names provided.
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Group of girls from KC Endowed School, with headmaster Mr George Love, on steps of the dovecote in Manor House garden. Girls in white dresses; thought to be May Queen and attendants. Dated to c1920.
Girls and boys from KC Endowed School maypole dancing in West St, opposite Manor House. Thatched cottage in background, demolished in 1960s. Dated to c1920.
KC ENDOWED SCHOOL (TEACHER)
Miss Frances Lock in uniform, photo stamped with date 24 March 1944. Miss Lock was a teacher at KC Endowed School from June 1931 to 30th Sept 1935.
KC MIDDLE SCHOOL
'OLIVER' PRODUCTION, DEC 1975
PROGRAMME WITH NAMES OF ALL INVOLVED
A5 programme, typed and photocopied: King's Cliffe Middle School presents 'Oliver'. Performed on Mon 8th, Tues 9th and Wed 10th December 1975. Everyone involved in the production in any way is named in the programme.
'THE EVIL ONES' OPERA, 1988
BOX OFFICE FORM TO BOOK TICKETS
PACA Productions 1988 form inviting ticket bookings to see KC Middle School Fourth Year's opera 'The Evil Ones', to be performed 7th & 8th July 1988.
BATTLE TO SAVE SCHOOL, 1992
Report in Peterborough Evening Telegraph of 20th January 1992 under headline 'Victory in battle to save school'. KC site not to be closed as had previously been planned..
DAY TRIP TO FRANCE
Poem (by unknown author), an amusing account of a day trip to France by classes 4Mc and 4J. Found loose inside KC Sec Mod/Middle School library accessions register (4094).
FORMER CANTEEN BECOMES COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1995
Middle School Head hands over key to former Middle School canteen block to KC Community Association, October 1995.
MUG TO MARK NEW MILLENNIUM, 2000
Mug given to children of Oundle & King's Cliffe Middle School to mark the Millennium year, 2000. 3 views to show decoration in the round.
PUPILS WITH ART ON DISPLAY, 1977
Group of seventeen pupils (os similar age) looking at a display of art on the wall at King's Cliffe Middle School. Black & white photo, dated to 1977.
SCHOOL PRODUCTION, 1985
'QUEEN BERYL & THE ROMANS'
Stamford Mercury coverage of KC Middle School children's production of 'Queen Beryl and the Romans', with photo of cast principals.
QUEEN BERYL & THE ROMANS', PROGRAMME
Programme for 'Queen Beryl and the Romans' or 'I Came, I Saw, I made a mess of it'. 2nd year KCMS production.
TEA FOR WI OR EVERGREEN?
Two B & w photos showing pupils serving tea to elderly ladies, including Mrs Sur Walker and Mrs Kath Fenn (foreground). Teacher Mrs Weatherburn in background in 3881.1.
THE BARTERED BRIDE, 1986
Photo and caption from The Times newspaper of 14th April 1986: unnamed pupil "One of 300 pupils aged 13 to 17 from four Northamptonshire comprehensive schools" who performed Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the Covent Garden piazza on 13th April 1986.
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Stamford Mercury photo & coverage about pupils from KC Middle School wearing Law & Hutcheson charity school clothing for a film about William Law's life.
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL
BUILDINGS AT OPENING, APRIL 1961
B & w photo showing main school buildings, taken looking east past the main entrance with hall to left. Early photo, believed taken soon after school opened in April 1961.
B & w photo showing school buildings, taken looking south to rear? Early photo, believed taken soon after school opened in April 1961.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
B & w photo showing Domestic Science room, with teacher and pupils at work. Early photo, believed taken soon after school opened in April 1961.
FORESTRY & WOOD-WORKING
DISPLAY AT PETERBOROUGH SHOW, LATE 1960s
Set of 8 photos of woodworking display and demonstration by KC Secondary Modern School pupils at the East of England Show in the late 1960s. Pole lathe built by them and in use.
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL, OFFICIAL OPENING JUNE 1961
MR JACKSON (HEAD) GREETS MR G R LOVE FORMER K
Pboro Eve Tel of 21 June 1961, report of official opening of KC Sec Mod School. Mr G R Love, retired former Head of KC Endowed Schl, greeted by new KCSM Head, Mr G M Jackson. Dr Stopford, Bishop of Pboro (lt) & Mr D L High, Asst County Ed Office (rt)
KC SEC MOD SCHOOL/KC MIDDLE SCHOOL
LOG BOOK APRIL 1961 - SEPT 1974
Note from Head Teacher, KC Secondary Modern School, 25th May 1962, to Nts Chief Education Office, describing school commemorations for Commonwealth Day. Written on Nts Ed Cttee paper stamped 'KC Secondary Modern School …) Loose inside Log Book (4092).
SCHOOL LIBRARY ACCESSIONS REGISTER
Accessions Register, boards with red paper, leather corners and spine. Records title, author, publication date, source of books; date received (starts April 1961), library number & class of book; and occasional remarks. Last book published 1973.
LAW & HUTCHESON
BOYS SCHOOL
Black & white photo of Law's Library House and adjoining single-storey boys' school founded by Mrs Elizabeth Hutcheson in 1745. Photo taken in 1968.
PRINCE WILLIAM SCHOOL
COMMUNITY ACTION WEEK
Photo with caption, Prince William students save the day by decorating the KC Active pavilion during Community Action Week in time for start of football season.
SCHOOLS IN KC
CHANGES 3 TO 2-TIER SCHOOL SYSTEM, SEPT 2015
Statutory Notice about proposed changes to Published Admission Number at KC Endowed School among other local schools, to take effect from September 2015. Published by NCC in September 2014.
STAMFORD NURSERY
RUN IN BY MISS ELFREDA SHARPE (KC)
Miss Elfreda Sharpe and children from her Nursery School in Stamford, on an outing to the Fire Station in Stamford during 1965.
VARIOUS SCHOOLS IN KC, DETAILS C1831
Clipped extract from unidentified and undated printed source, giving details of various schools in KC. Possibly published at or soon after 1831 as the population figure of 1,173 shown is as at 1831.
SERVICES
TRANSPORT
BUS
CALLCONNECT, MINIBUS 2009
Leaflet dated 21st September 2009 adtervising and giving details of the new CallConnect bookable minibus serving Stamford, SW Lincs & NE Northants. Jointly run by Northants & Lincolnshire County Councils.
RAILWAY
PORTERS BILLS FOR GOODS, KC STN, DEC 1912
Two Porters Bills (one stamped 'Kingscliffe Goods') dated Dec 1912, the other not stamped, dated Nov 1912; for goods transported for Revd Orlebar, Rector of KC (1905-1918). Gives weight and cost of each consignment.
WATER
PUBLIC WATER TAP OUTSIDE MALTSTERS ARMS IN WE
Black & white photo pc, 'King's Cliffe K3'; north from West Street into Pig Lane (now Forest Approach), former Maltsters Arms left, Wellington House centre, 14 West St right. Water tap o/s Malters Arms.
SERVICES, PUBLIC
FIRE
INVITATION, EX-FIREMEN TO JOIN P&D FIRE SERV
Letter (1307.1) with envelope (1307.2) addressed to Leading Fireman Dann, Fire Station King's Cliffe, enclosing supply of forms (1307) inviting ex-firemen to join Pboro & Dist Fire Services Comrades Assoc. Dated February 1946.
KC FIRE BRIGADE
Members of 'Company No 2', King's Cliffe Fire Brigade with their engine, in Hall Yard. Dated 1896.,
STRIKE IN 1977
Parish Council poster (hand-written by Wilfred Court, then a member of the Council) advising of contingency arrangements set up by Parish Council in any emergency during planned Fire Service strike, November 1977.
FIRE BRIGADE
ARMBAND INSIGNIA
Leather armband with brass insignia KCFB, embossed with no 14, both straps complete. Purchased by Fire Brigade committee in 1894.
BANK BOOK
Bank account passbook, issued by National Provincial Bank in Peterborough, in name of King's Cliffe Fire Brigade, entries from 1928 to 1937.
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'Hark! The fire bells are clanging - The King's Cliffe Fire Brigade': fires in Victorian KC; Fire Brigade members and annual suppers. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
GAS
ANNUAL REPORT, 1896
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1896. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1897
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1897. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
ANNUAL REPORT, 1898
Report of Directors with financial statement, to the 38th AGM of Shareholders August 1898. T J Law, Chairman & Treasurer, Elijah Dixon, Secy; George Close, Manager of Works. Auditor F Edgson.
SHAREHOLDERS, 1900
Copy of 2-page list of shareholding members of the King's Cliffe Gas Company Ltd, made at a meeting held on 6th September 1900, showing name, address and occupation of each shareholder.
KC FIRE BRIGADE
ARMBAND INSIGNIA
King's Cliffe Fire Brigade shield-shaped leather arm band with brass insignia 'KCFB', embossed with no 2. One strap missing, the other broken short. 'Armband badges' bought in 1894.
MEDICAL
DEFIBRILATORS IN KC
The former telephone kiosk in Hall Yard converted to accommodate a defibrilator for use in emergency resuscitation. Two photos, one of box, the other of it in its context beside the King Edward VII coronation memorial lamp.
DR BRIAN EAST
Stamford Mercury cutting, April 1968: presentation of farewell gifts to Dr Brian East, G.P. and his wife, Jane, by G J Wagstaffe on behalf of the community he had served for nine years. Dr East and his family emigrating to live and work in Tasmania.
PATIENTS PARTICIPATION GROUP
Leaflet produced in September 2012 by Communicare, the Patient Participation Group for the Wansford & King's Cliffe Surgeries; contains information about them and the doctors' surgery times, contact nos etc.
MOBILE LIBRARY
TIMETABLE, 2012-2013
Printed timetable for Northants County Council Mobile Library visits between August 2012 and July 2013. Route 'East 14' on the 3rd Saturday of every month. Stops in King's Cliffe at wood Lane and 'Tudor House' Bridge Street.
POST & TELEGRAPH
LESLIE GILDER, P.O. IN PARK STREET 1941-1961
BIRTHDAY CARD WRITTEN BY HIM
Birthday card written by Leslie Gilder who ran the Post Office at no 21 Park Street between 1941 and 1961. Card among family papers of Terence Smith; family lived nearby at 11 Park Street.
POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK
Post Office Savings Bank secure money box, 3,5"w x 2"d x 2.5"h with oval ends; engraved 'GR'; no 113661 on carrying handle. Split ring with 3 keys attached with original string. Lock in underside.
POSTMAN'S HAT
Postman's hat (photo showing interior with date 1903).
Postman's hat (photo showing peak and top of hat).
Postman's hat (photo showing front with GPO badge),
Royal Mail peaked baseball-type cap, issued to the postman in King's Cliffe c2003.
TELEGRAM RETURNS POUCH
Double-sided, reversible canvas bag for telegram returns between King's Cliffe & Peterborough Post Office.
RAILWAY
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'The Railway comes to King's Cliffe', also including short mentions of other village matters in 1860s and 1870s. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
ROAD MAINTENANCE
ROAD-MENDING GANG
Photo, road mending/maintenance gang including King's Cliffe men, posed on road-side site near Oundle. Signpost beside shows Oundle 4 miles, Lutton 1 mile.
Photo, road mending/maintenance gang including King's Cliffe men, standing with tar machine and barrel in West Street, outside no 39.
Photo, road mending/maintenance gang including King's Cliffe men, possibly standing on Back Way, perhaps outside The Butts?
STREET LIGHTING
PARISH MEETING 1898
Notice of Parish Meeting, July 1898 to consider the amount to be spent on street lighting.
TRANSPORT
BUS
Photocopy of timetable headed 'The King's Cliffe Bus' detailing services between King's Cliffe and Peterborough around October 1948. Annotated with approximate dates when services began.
BUS & COACH
KC BUS SERVICES HISTORY, P C HOWARD & EASTERN
Notes by Mark Doggett, with 7 photos, from his research into the history of Eastern Counties buses in KC. Refs to P C Howard buses in late 1940s, then Eastern Counties with refs to Terence Smith, bus driver from KC who drove EC buses for over 40 yrs.
COACH FROM KC TO LONDON, 1840
Advert for coach from Windmill Inn, KC, to Aldersgate, London with timetable details and fares from 1840.
RAIL
Return half of child's 2nd Class half-day excursion ticket East Peterborough to King's Cliffe, issued Sat 6 May 1961.
Cardboard L M & S R railway ticket in form of a pocket with paper advertisement slip inserted. Printed from 'KINGSCLIFFE to ...'. Used for journey to Market Harborough, dated 14 September 1956.
Railway lamp, black, cylindrical: height overall 30cm. Base no LMS D69652, handle fitting no LMS D69677. Age uncertain, but from King's Cliffe station site, operating between 1879 and 1968.
VILLAGE INTERNET FORUM
HANDBILL FOR LAUNCH, 2011
Handbill publicising the King's Cliffe Village Forum online, launched in summer 2011.
WATER
PIPED SUPPLY FROM APETHORPE
Booklet with Regulations & Charges for piped Water Supply to King's Cliffe, agreed & published by Oundle RDC on 8.12.1913
PUBLIC WATER STANDPIPES
John Henry Goodwin (lt), Alec Harker (boy), Arthur Smith (rt) with yoke & pails, in the yard behind what is now 64 West Street. They kept draught horses for timber hauling work.
WATER ANALYSIS, 1897
Water Analysis instruction card kept in John T Bailey's 1897 Almanack
SLIDE SHOWS
HIGH DAYS & HOLIDAYS
Slide show entitled 'High Days & Holidays'. Includes village feast, May Day & Empire Day, celebrations of royal occasions, Festival & Gymkhana, school pageants, fetes, Christmas, etc. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
OLD PHOTOS OF KC
Slide show entitled 'Old Photographs of King's Cliffe'. Includes street scenes, village activities and groups from c1900 to the 1970s. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
OLD PUBS & INN OF KC
Slide show entitled 'Old Pubs & Inns of King's Cliffe'. Includes ref to Cliffe Fair and 'bough houses', ale and beer, malting & brewing, information & pictures of the pubs & inns of past 150 years. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
OLD SHOPS & TRADES OF KC
Slide show entitled 'Old Shops and Trades of King's Cliffe'. Pictures of old shops and business premises around the village, from late Victorian times up to the 1990s. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
WOODTURNERS & CARVERS OF KC
Slide show entitled 'The Wood-turners and Carvers of King's Cliffe', illustrating the importance of this craft trade in King's Cliffe over more than 300 years. Watch this via the Gallery menu.
SPORT
DARTS
BOX OF 3 SPALDING'S WOOD DARTS
OWNED & USED BY HARRY BROUGHTON
Three darts, body of wood with lead weight and real feather flights coloured brown and pink. In original cardboard box, 'Spalding's Special Wood Dart' manu at 86a Pitt St, Norwich. Photographed.
SPORT, GAMES & FITNESS
CRICKET
EVE TEL ON KCCC AWARDS, 9 MARCH 1968
PLAYERS NAMED IN CAPTION
Evening Telegraph 9 March 1968, with photo. Presentation of awards to KC Cricket Club members, presented by Mrs Royce wife of Club pressident at the time. Players names in caption to photos.
EVE TEL REPORT ON CLIFFE CRICKET, 11 JUNE 196
DETAILS OF PLAYERS
Evening Telegraph 11 June 1969, report headed 'Window wrecker Charlie typifies Cliffe spirit', account of the skills and prowess of Cliffe players at the time. Table of 'Top 30' includes John Roker and Sonny Broughton as Cliffe batsmen.
H E DIXON TROPHY 1964-1975
Trophy, silver plate on plinth, measuring 27cm H, 11.5cm dia, with handles. Engraved 'H E Dixon' (Harry Elijah Dixon, who gave the trophy) and with names of winners fof the years 1964 to 1975, except 1968, 1970. Photos taken.
DOMINOES
'ANGEL' PUB TEAM, YARWELL C1990 INCL T SMITH,
Peterborough Eve Tel dated to c1990, photos and brief retrospective re dominoes team at the 'Angel' pub in Yarwell, winning the Oundle & Dist League back in 1964 (their first attempt) and most of them some still playing 26 years later. Names in caption.
KC EXSERV & SOCIAL CLUB DOMINOES TEAM
WINNERS OF STAMFORD & DIST LEAGUE, SECTION A
St Mercury photo and report on results of Stamford & District Domiino League at annual dinner & dance in May 1984. King's Cliffe team in photo receiving trophies as winners of Section A and of the KO Cup. All names in photo caption.
FOOTBALL
KC UNITED TEAM, SUN DAY LEAGUE DIV TWO, FEB 1
Photo cutting from a Peterborough newspaper of February 1965 showing King's Cliffe football team; 2nd in the Sunday League Div Two at that time.
SPORTS, GAMES & FITNESS
BOWLING
GROUP ON BOWLING GREEN, EARLY1930s
Large group of men posed beside the bowling green behind King's Cliffe Endowed School. These are members of the village Bowling Club and, presumably, visiting opponents.
MATCH IN PROGRESS, 1920s?
B & w photo, taken during bowls match on bowling green below KC Endowed School. Railway embankment in background has steam train passing along it. Date uncertain; 1920s?
BOXING
BOXING CLUB BOYS, GROUP EARLY 1960s
B & W photo of group of boys, with Nurse Maclaren, around punch-bag stand for boxing practice, lawn behind KCES - then the Head-master's garden.
BOXING MATCH IN PROGRESS
B & w photo, poor quality, showing a boxing match in progress in the grounds of KC Endowed School; a temporary boxing ring erected on lawn in Headmaster's garden. Date uncertain, between 1950 &1976.
TOURNAMENT, 1947
Ticket for boxing tournament held on 21st June 1947 in the grounds of Kingscliffe House: a fundraiser organised by King's Cliffe British Legion in aid of the British Legion Benevolent Fund.
CRICKET
ALBERT ROBINSON BAILEY
Set of photos of, and notes about, oak over-mantel mirror, fitted with brass plaque, presented to Albert Robinson Bailey by King's Cliffe Cricket Club upon his marriage in April 1906.
GROUP PHOTO AT FEAST WEEK 1910
KC Cricket Club members and officers of the club, posed with scoreboard at the cricket pavilion on the old cricket field.
KC CRICKET CLUB
King’s Cliffe Cricket Club 6-a-side team on the KC Secondary Modern School playing-fields, part of school buildings in background. Date uncertain, possibly late 1960s: no later than 1972.
KC CRICKET CLUB TEAM & VISITORS
KC Cricket Club team and visitors for the 24 v 12 friendly match during Feast Week, all wearing hats. Scoreboard shows date 1899. Versions in sepia and black-and-white.
KCCC SCORING BOOK 1965-6
Extracts from KC Cricket Club Scoring Book for seasons 1965 - June 1968. Match on 28th August 1966, annual challenge match v KC Royal British Legion side.
LADIES' TEAM, 1890s
King's Cliffe ladies' cricket team wearing gorgeous hats. At the pavilion on the cricket field, the scoreboard shows the date 1906. Versions in sepia and black-and-white with hand-written title 'King's Cliffe Ladies Cricket'.
MIXED TEAM INCLUDING LADIES
Mixed cricket group - KC Cricket Club & ladies wearing boaters. At the pavilion on the cricket field. Dated to the late 1890s.
DARTS
CROSS KEYS TEAM
'The People' National Darts Team Championship 1947-8, Regional winner certificate. Cross Keys team named on the certificate.
KC EX-SERVICEMEN'S & SOCIAL CLUB
ST MERC CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS SHIELD 1965
Photo of Gilbert Markley, capt of KC Exservicemen's & Social Club Darts team 1964/5 receiving the Stamford Mercury Champion of Champions Shield 1965 on behalf of the Club team.
(misc)
Cutting from undated local newspaper, probably the Stamford Mercury, with photo of Ex-servicemen's club darts team with names in caption (partly missing). Believed to be c1965, and not later than October 1966.
Photo of KC Exservicemen's & Social Club Darts team 1964/5 with a table displaying the cups and trophies they had won in Stamford, Ketton & Dist & KC Darts Leagues. Names on 3989.1.
KC EXSERV & SOCIAL CLUB TEAM
Photo of Club darts team in the old club premises in West Street, posed with Mrs Gladys Blake, wife of Club Steward, and daughter holding the darts trophy just awarded. Date uncertain, c1963 or 64.
TURNERS ARMS TEAM
Turners Arms darts team with cup and individual trophies.
DARTS?
TURNERS ARMS TEAM?
Photo of eight men around a table set outdoors with trophies and cups, possibly the Turners' Arms darts team in the yard behind the pub (now 15 West Street). Date uncertain.
DOMINOES
KC EX-SERVICEMEN'S & SOCIAL CLUB
KC Ex-Servicemen's & Social Club dominoes team. Trophy held by George Sansom, location unknown, date estimated to early 1970s.
FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL & SHIN PADS
'Improved T' Thomlinson's leather football cover with lace but no rubber bladder. Pair of brown shin pads.
KC FOOTBALL TEAM, 1905-6
KCFC youthful team with trainer and linesmen, posed on playing field. Date on the ball says 1905-6. No names known.
KC FOOTBALL TEAM, 1929
King's Cliffe Football Team from 1929, photo with all names in caption. (Photo was badly torn and has been digitally repaired; in particular the face of man far left in front row has been substantially rebuilt and may not be a true likeness.)
KC TEAM, PBORO LEAGUE DIV ONE
Photo of King's Cliffe football team, Peterborough League Div One, wearing blue and yellow JH strip, all names in caption. St Merc 10.2.2006.
KC UNITED
King's Cliffe United football team and officials from 1963. (Photo quality is poor.)
Names of team in items 348, 350, 351, 352
KC UNITED TOP PBORO DIV II, 1965
Clippings from Peterborough Standard for 22nd October 1965, KC United top of Pboro Div III (N), results table.
LADIES' SCRATCH TEAM, 1968 OR 69
B & w photo, a scratch team of KC ladies brought together for a match against KC United in 1967 or 1968. Posed in front of a corrugated hut used as changing rooms, on the football field at The Baulk.
SUPPORTERS
Group of KC Football Club supporters on Peterborough ground with brick chimneys or sugar beet factory chimneys in background. Date believed c1964.
Group of seven children and Mrs Minnie Calpin, all KC Football Club supporters. Date believed c1966.
TEAM PHOTO 1966
B & w photo, KC United Saturday League team of 1966-7 season. Also related newspaper cutting with text giving details of their Stamford Challenge Cup victory and the players in the photo. (Cutting 2882.1)
YOUTH CLUB TEAM, 1949-1950
WINNERS, STAMFORD YOUTH LEAQUE CUP
King's Cliffe Youth Club football team from c1949-50, posed on the pitch with captain, Sonny Broughton, holding the Stamford Youth League Cup they had just won.
YOUTH CLUB TEAM, 1949-50
Youth Club Football team photo from Stamford Mercury, with names beneath. Team captain, Sonny Broughton, is holding the Stamford Youth League Cup they had just won. Dated to 1949-1950.
HEALTH & FITNESS
EXTEND CLASSES IN KC MEMORIAL HALL
GROUP PHOTO
Photo taken September 2010. Group from Extend class held in KC Memorial Hall on Tuesday afternoons. Names recorded on separate document.
JUDO
CLASS IN 1961
B & w photo, Judo club class at KC Village Hall in 1961. Doreen Henson throws her husband, Harold, (judo club coach) as demonstration. Young Judo club members look on.
RUGBY
OUNDLE MINI RUGBY TRIP TO RUSSIA 1990
Pboro Herald & Post 7.9.1990 coverage of Oundle Mini Rugby team's trip to Russia to play rugby. Team included boys from King's Cliffe. Report in two sections, numbered 36535.1 and 3635.2.
TENNIS
GROUP PHOTO, 1895
Photo of tennis group in 1895, probably KC Tennis Club members, posing with their racquets in Hall Farm grounds, where there were tennis courts. Names unknown.
KC AREA TENNIS CLUB, LADIES OVER-40
SILVER SALVER
Small silver salver (approx 8" diamester), engraved 'King's Cliffe & Area Tennis Cluib' and winners' details for 1994 - 2005. Photographed April 2017.
TENNIS CLUB GROUP, 1920s
Group of tennis players, presumably KC Tennis Club members, posed in a formal group on the Tennis Field, corner of Park Street and Station Rd below the railway embankment. Date estimated as 1920s.
WALKING FOOTBALL
HANDBILL, 2016
Handbill promoting taster sessions of Walking Football for adults, at KC Active facility during January 2016.
TRADE DIRECTORIES
ENTRIES RE KC
1847 - 1953
SEARCHABLE TRANSCRIPTS
Extracts re King's Cliffe from local trade directories published between 1847 and 1953: lists of tradesmen and others. Each directory in a separate searchable file. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
1847 TO 1898
Spreadsheet of trade directory entries for King's Cliffe from 1847 to 1898, including introductory information about the village and lists of tradesmen, public officers etc. Searchable pdf (Ctrl F or Command F to find).
1900 TO 1953
Spreadsheet of trade directory entries for King's Cliffe from 1900 to 1953, including introductory information about the village and lists of tradesmen, public officers etc. Searchable pdf (Ctrl F or Command F to find).
INTRO PARAGRAPHS, 1847 TO 1953
Introductory paragraphs about King's Cliffe from all trade directories between 1847 and 1953: giving details of schools, charities, places of worship, carriers, public services and officers. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
EXTRACTS FROM 1847, 74, 98, 1924 & 1950
KC TRADESMEN
Analysis of tradesmen listed in trade directories for King's Cliffe for selected years: 1847, 1874, 1898, 1924, 1950. Searchable pdf (Ctrol F or Command F to find).
WILLS, BONDS, INVENTORIES
HOWES, JOHN GROOME
WILL, 1904
Extracts made from Will of John Groome Howes, died 6 January 1904, itemising his land and property in King's Cliffe.
KC WILLS
SOME, BETWEEN 1499 - 1689
Details of some King's Cliffe Wills between 1499 and 1689, as transcribed by Canon John Bryan, Rector of KC 1955-1985. Includes names and some relationships of executors, witnesses and beneficiaries. Some wills state occupation of testator.
KC WILLS 1541 to 1646
PBORO CONSISTORY COURT, PARTIAL LIST
Partial list of wills of King's Cliffe people registered at Peterborough Consistory Court from 1541 to 1646.
THOMAS HOWES, 1848
WILL, 1848
Typed transcript of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Howes, Butcher, of King's Cliffe. He died 3rd April 1848, leaving his Estate to his widow, Frances Howes. Will proved 28th October 1848.
WILLS FOR KC PEOPLE, 1493 - 1748
INDEX OF NAMES
List of wills of King's Cliffe inhabitants dating from 1493 to 1748, held at the Northants Record Office. List gives names, occupation, location, date of will.
WORLD WAR 1
BELGIAN REFUGEES IN KC
AUTOGRAPH BOOKS WITH DRAWINGS AND NAMES
Irene Bailey's autograph book with Belgian refugees & others' contributions, dated between 1914 & 1920. Many drawings, some by Belgian refugees billeted in 'Rockbourne', King's Cliffe in 1914 and 1915, including names.
BELGIAN SOUVENIRS
LITTLE, THOMAS H B
Photos of framed collection of Belgian souvenir greetings envelopes from WW1, embroidered with flowers and greetings in English, mounted around photo of L/C Thomas H B Little and his war medals. He was killed in action 26th March 1918.
BROWN, ARTHUR RICHARD
HMS BRITANNIA SUNK OFF GIBRALTAR, 1918
REUNION 1959
Photo taken at reunion in 1959 for survivors of HMS Britannia sunk off Gibraltar 9th November 1918. Far right seated is Arthur Richard Brown (butcher from King's Cliffe) who served on the Britannia and his wife, Cecilia nee Kingston.
TELEGRAM SENT 22 NOV 1918
Follow-up telegram sent from Portsmouth by Arthur Richard Brown survivor of HMS Britannia sunk off Gibraltar 9th November 1918. Dated 22nd November message "Now at Portsmouth. Quite well. Expect early leave."
TELEGRAM SENT 9 NOV 1918
Telegram sent from Gibraltar by Arthur Richard Brown survivor of HMS Britannia sunk off Gibraltar 9th November 1918. Dated 15th November message "Safe and sound"
(misc)
Gibraltar Chronicle of 12th November 1918, masthead and report of naval funeral for crew of HMS Britannia, ship torpedoed & sunk off Gibraltar on 9th November 1918.
Photo taken at sea, HMS Britannia torpedoed and listing off Gibraltar on 9th November 1918.
CASUALTIES
LOCAL NEWS REPORTS
Transcript of local newspaper items from 1914-1918 reporting on King's Cliffe servicemen and casualties in World War One. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
COLLYWESTON AERODROME CAMP
CANTEEN STAFF INCLUDING KC PEOPLE
Group of canteen staff at Collyweston aerodrome camp during WW1, including Elsie Wootton (1st woman on left) and Emma Britten (last woman on right), both from King's Cliffe.
ELSIE WOOTTON WORKED THERE
Photo of Elsie Wootton, seated with a small dog on her lap against the wall of wooden hut on Collyweston aerodrome camp, where she worked in the canteen during WW1. At her feet a small fir tree with shoes, etc tied to it: the meaning of this is unclear.
FIELD SERVICE POCKET BOOK
GREEN, ARTHUR WM SAUNDERS
Field Service Pocket Book 1914, reprint 1916, fabric/paper slip cover. Issued to Arthur Green of King's Cliffe, Lincolnshire Regt. Photos: cover & title page with photo of Arthur Green. (Cover has green paint & black marks; inside some insect damage.)
GROUP PHOTO 'REGIMENTAL POLICE' BUT UNIDENTIF
Group photo, three rows of WW1 soldiers, entitled 'Regimental Police', but so far unknown, though believed to include someone with Wootton family connections.
HMS BRITANNIA SUNK OFF GIBRALTAR
ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN (KC) ON BOARD
Photo taken at sea, HMS Britannia torpedoed and listing off Gibraltar on 9th November 1918.
HMS BRITANNIA SUNK OFF GIBRALTAR, 1918
ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN (KC) ON BOARD
Gibraltar Chronicle of 12th November 1918, masthead and report of naval funeral for crew of HMS Britannia, ship torpedoed & sunk off Gibraltar on 9th November 1918.
KC AND THE FIRST GREAT WAR
ESSAY ABOUT
Essay by Canon John Bryan entitled 'King's Cliffe and the First Great War, 1914 - 1918' including reports of war casualties among King's Cliffe men. Searchable pdf version on Features menu. In pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find.
MARTEN VAN DER HAG (PoW)
TOM FRYER RICHARDSON, PROPRIETOR OF CROSS KEY
Framed pen-and-ink drawing of the Parish Church from the Cross Keys, drawn by Marten van der hag, believed a German PoW. Drawn, signed and dated 2 May 1918, 'In remembrance'.
MEDALS & ENVELOPE, ADDREESSED H B SKINNER
Envelope with cardboard box containing two WW1 medals addressed to 'Mr H B Skinner, 42 West St, KC, near Peterborough'. Service no writtten at top of envelope: 245336. Sent from RASC Medals Section, Woolwich.
MEDALS AWARDED TO HERBERT SHARPE
Photo of WW1 war medals awarded to Herbert Sharpe, Pte 50752 Suffolk Regiment and Pte 37559 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
MUNFORD, WILLIAM
1ST BATT, RUTLAND VOLUNTEER REGT.
William Munford, his wife Margaret (nee Parks) sons Johnny (left) and baby Sidney. William wearing WW1 military uniform, as member of 1st Battalion, Rutland Volunteer Regiment.
PHOTO ALBUM
EARLY PHOTOS INCLUDING FIRST TANKS
Album (5.5" x 3.25") containing eleven sepia photos (1.75" x 2.5") showing soldiers and early tanks in unidentified location with extensive dunes, poss Egypt. Album inscribed 'My father, 1st World War, Charles Longbottom' by his daughter Clara.
SHARPE, HERBERT
CERT FOR SERVICE, KO YORKS LIGHT INFANTRY
Certificate issued to 37559 Pte H Sharpe commemorating his services in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during WW1. (Name inserted by hand has faded very badly.)
MEDALS INDEX CARD
Medals index card for Herbert Sharpe, Pte 50752 Suffolk Regiment and Pte 37559 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
SHARPE, HERBERT & FAMILY
STUDIO PORTRAIT, HERBERT SHARPE IN WW1 UNIFOR
Studio portrait photo of Herbert Sharpe, in his WW1 Army uniform, with his wife, Edith (nee Gilbert) and their daughter Marjorie, born 1906. Date uncertain; pencilled on reverse, '1916?'.
SHARPE, THOMAS, IN ARMY UNIFORM MARCH 1917
Studio portrait photo of Thomas Sharpe, in Army uniform, inscribed by him ' Best wishes from Tom, somewhere in France, 31 March 1917'.
SKINNER, HENRY BINDER
SERVED & SURVIVED
Newspaper cutting with brief obituary & photo of Henry Binder Skinner from King's Cliffe, coachman & chauffeur at Burghley House. Cutting undated, but he died in May 1951.
WAR MEMORIALS
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH MEMBERS WHO SUBSCRIBED
List of Congregational Church subscribers to the war memorial, typed from Receipts & Payments book of Congregational Church 1922 - 1932.
WEATHERINGTON, ELSIE
MISSIONARY NURSE
Studio portrait photo of Miss Elsie Weatherington in uniform as a nurse during WW1.
WOOTTON, (ALBERT) GEORGE
PHOTO, DATE UNCERTAIN
Portrait photo of George Wootton in WW1 Army uniform, standing in front of corrugated wall, probably part of an Army camp building.
Group photo from WW1. 17 Army servicemen including George Wootton (seated, front left), posed in front of Army camp building.
WORLD WAR 1 & WORLD WAR 2
CASUALTIES
ROLL OF HONOUR (NOT UP TO DATE)
Details from Roll-of-Honour Northamptonshire, King's Cliffe website, for WWI and WW2 and 4 later casualties, with local source information added from KCH archives. Names all known casualties. Searchable pdf ((in pdf, use Ctrl F or Command F to find)).
WORLD WAR 2
79TH FIGHTER SQDN
CHRISTMAS 1943 AT KC AIRFIELD, USAAF STN 367
Photo of group of US airmen, including men of 79th Fighter Squadron (insignia visible on some uniforms), celebrating Christmas in 1943 at Kiing's Cliffe airfield.
AIR RAID WARDEN SIGN
COUNTRYWIDE USE
Cast metal plate embossed "Air Raid Warden", a sign to be screwed on the door of the Wardens' post during WW2. Plate measures 8.75" wide x 1.5" high. Cast in light-weight alloy, painted black around rim.
AIRFIELD
SQUADRONS BASED AT KC
Photo showing information board of King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial Trust 1939-45, listing the squadrons which served from the airfield. Contact names of two Trust officers at time of dedication of memorial in August 1983.
ARP, ARP POST
DETAILS ABOUT, 1940
Notice, March 1940, naming Air Raid Protection wardens, Fire Fighters & First Aiders and their posts in King's Cliffe. Instructions to residents re gas masks & incendiaries. E Elliott, Head Warden, at The Cross; 1st Aid post, Dr Harman Brown, West St.
FOOD RATIONING
'SPECIAL MARGARINE' WRAPPER
Wrapper for 'Special Margarine'; greaseproof paper, size 20.3 x 25.3cm, printed price 4 1/2d per half lb. Vitamin content shown as 'Computed in accordance with Labelling of Food Order 1944
GERMAN P-o-W CAMP, WANSFORD RD
PHOTO INSIDE CHAPEL
Photo inside chapel on the German P-o-W camp at King's Cliffe, with a group of P-o-Ws who formed an orchestra. Third from left, back row is August Bakenhus.
PHOTO, 1939
August Bakenhus in 1939. Later captured and eventually came through King's Cliffe German P-o-W No 1 Holding Unit for repatriation in 1946. .
PHOTO, 1946-47
August Bakenhus (seated left) with a fellow P-o-W and an as yet unidentified local woman, somewhere in or around King's Cliffe during his time at No1 Holding Camp from Dec 1946 and through 1947. There is snow on the ground.
GERMAN PoWs
ALBERT BOHLEN
Typewritten letter of thanks from German PoW Albert Bohlen (no A500406, held at King's Cliffe camp) to Herbert Sharpe and his family for all their kindness to him. Folded inside envelope addressed to Mr Herbert Sharpe, Stoneleigh House, West St, KC.
FATHER BONAFATIUS, POW AT KC
REPORT 1978
Report in Pboro Evening Telegraph 15.11.1978, reporter's visit to Andechs Benedictine monastery in Bavaria and meeting Father Bonifatius, former WW2 PoW at King's Cliffe. Includes wartime photo (scanned separately as 3245.1)
KC AIRFIELD
GLENN MILLER AIR FORCE BAND
Major Glenn Miller, band leader (left); Capt Hugh Asbury and Sgt Ray McKinley "getting ready to entertain troops in the base hanger" at King's Cliffe Airfield on October 3rd 1944.
Major Glenn Miller, conducting his Air Force Band, with singers The Crew Chiefs, in a hangar on King's Cliffe Airfield on October 3rd 1944. This was to be their last base hangar concert.
Major Glenn Miller, conducting his Air Force Band, in a hangar on King's Cliffe Airfield on October 3rd 1944. Photo taken looking obliquely across the stage. This was to be their last base hangar concert.
ID CARD
Identity card number 49, printed on blue, single-fold card, headed "AAF Stn 367' ie King's Cliffe Airfield, issued to Harry Roberts and dated 30th December 1944. Photo stapled inside.
US SERVICE ISSUE SPOON
Metal desert spoon, pressed stainless steel, 7.5" long, oval hole in handle and engraved 'U.S.'
KC AIRFIELD MEMORIAL
ADVERT FOR FUNDRAISER
Stamford Mercury advert for 1940's Remembered Dance on 24th March 1984 at Mirlees Blackstones Social Club.
BUILT 1983
New memorial, some time before its dedication on 25th August 1983,
New memorial, some time before its dedication on 25th August 1983,
DESIGN SKETCH
Sketch of Bill Sharpe's design for the King's Cliffe Airfield Memorial, drawn by him with descriptive notes attached.
KC AIRFIELD, USAAF STN 367
'IMPERIALS' SWING BAND
Photo of the 'Imperials' 12-piece swing band formed at USAAF Stn 367 soon after the Americans arrived there in 1943. They played to great aclaim at dances there and around the country, including at the Stage Door Canteen in London.
USAAF SERVICEMEN
Three USAAF servicemen from King's Cliffe WW2 airfield, Station 367, relaxing with a beer in the yard behind the Red Lion Inn. Tall house on Wood Road visible in background.
KC WW2 AIRFIELD
VISIT BY USAAF 20TH FG VETERANS
Report from Peterborough Evening Telegraph,10.7.1992: USAAF 20th Fighter Group veteran, Major Charles Salter, returns with other veterans to King's Cliffe airfield where he served from 1943-45. Jack Neesham, Police Sgt during WW2, interview & photo.
Montage of three photos of USAAF 20th Fighter Group veteran, Major Charles Salter, and others at King's Cliffe airfield during their return visit in July 1992.
Report and photo from Stamford Mercury of 17.7.1992: "party of 58 from the USAAF 56th Fighter Group" return to King's Cliffe airfield where they served from 1943-45. Church service and airfield visit.
KING'S CLIFFE AIRFIELD
CIVILIAN PASS ISSUED TO ERNEST GIDDINGS in 19
Small orange identity card numbered 163671, single-fold, photo and details inside and issued on 21 March 1947. RAF Civilian pass issued post-war to Ernest Giddings of King's Cliffe, as Fitter's labourer at 'Kingscliffe' airfield.
LAND ARMY
CHEESMAN, DORIS
Hand-tinted photo of three Land Army girls sitting on the gate at Fenn's farm, King's Cliffe. Doris Cheesman (centre), others as yet unidentified.
GROUP PHOTO ON VE DAY 1945
9 Land Army girls & 1 serviceman, on the lawn of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe, photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls on the steps of the tennis courts at King's Cliffe House, the WLA hostel. Photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls and 2 servicemen on the steps of the tennis courts at King's Cliffe House, the WLA hostel. Photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
TRUCK FOR TRANSPORTING WORKERS, 1944
WLA Forewoman, Margaret Nobbs, driving the truck she used to transport the Land Army workers to and from various farms in the KC area. Probably taken in 1944.
VE DAY 1945
GROUP OF LAND ARMY WOMEN AT KC
Group of Land Army girls in the garden of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe House, West Street, King's Cliffe, on VE Day, May 9th 1945.
VE DAY, 1945
Two Land Army girls and a serviceman in the gardens at King's Cliffe House, a WLA Hostel, on VE Day 9th May 1945.
9 Land Army girls & 2 servicemen, on the lawn of the WLA hostel at King's Cliffe, photo taken on VE Day, 9th May 1945.
WORKING WITH HORSES IN FIELD
Land Army girl leading the horses, working in a sugarbeet crop on farmland near King's Cliffe.
LAND WORKERS' HOSTEL
View of west end of West Street looking west towards Blatherwycke. Centre distance are buildings of a land-workers' hostel built in World War Two.
POEM 'LEGIONEERS' BY J H GILDER
Poem entitled 'Legioneer's' (sic), written by J H Gilder, King's Cliffe, 30/6/1943 and printed on a postcard. Unused postcard.
USAAF STATION 367, KING'S CLIFFE AIRFIELD
CIVILIAN PASS ISSUED TO ERNEST GIDDINGS
Small blue identity card numbered 12, single-fold, photo and details inside and issued on 11th November 1944. United States Army Civilian pass issued by the Office of the Provost Marshall to Ernest Giddings of King's Cliffe, as Groundsman.
VE DAY
50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE TEA TOWEL
Tea towel produced commercially in 1995 with images representing aspects of 'The Home Front' and on sale nationally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VE Day, 8th May 1945.
VJ DAY, 8TH JUNE 1946
MESSAGE TO ALLSCHOOLCHILD-REN FROM KING GEORG
Message from King George VI to all schoolchildren on V J Day 8th June 1946. On the reverse is a list of 'Important War Dates' intended to be kept by the children as 'My family's war record'.
WVS
FIRST AID CERTIFICATE, 1939
Certificate for First Aid training by the St John Ambulance Association, issued to Mrs Susan M Walker (nee Catlin) in March 1939. On the back is written: 'Susan Walker, WVS 1939, King's Cliffe ARP Post'.
WORLD WAR ONE
WOOTTON, CHARLES THOMAS M.M., KILLED IN ACTIO
Picture of Charles Thomas Wootton, son of Mark Henry and Eliza Wootton, as reproduced in the Peterborough Standard newspaper in November 1916. He was killed in action on 6th November 1916 shortly after being awarded the Military Medal for bravery.
WW2
RATIONING
RATION BOOK ISSUED IN 1953-4 TO T R LITTLE
RETAILERS' NAMES: F W BROWN & SON (MEAT); HAK
Food ration book issued to Thomas R Little in 1953-4 for meat, bacon, sugar, cheese and fats, part used and has names of village retailers where the ration coupons were used. Front and one double-page spread scanned.