St.Ives (Cambridgeshire) in the 1960's

Old cinefilm taken in and around St.Ives Cambridgeshire.

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Travel & Events

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• St.ives
• cambridgeshire
• 1960
• old
• cinefilm
• history

[TheHitDetector]

Andy crafts the toy shop then run by New Zealanders to the right no longer there. To the left The International and Woolworths both gone. Prior to going over the Historic Bridge St Ives only two of its kind with a chapel, stones to build all taken from Ramsey Abbey.... We turn into The Quay across the Ouse there is the paper mill where Sir Clive Sinclair invented his first Calculator at £73 on lone to the St Ivo Maths dept... and that’s it on memory lane folks ....smiles.

[22ndJune1968]

@TheHitDetector Very impressed with your local knowledge, yes it is Ramsey and then St.Ives. I am the little girl and still live in St.Ives after all this time...smiles.

[charlottte343]

at 40 seconds and just before by that church and the road before where abouts is that? x

[22ndJune1968]

@charlottte343 It's heading towards Ramsey Abbey, i think there is a duck pond up there, it's the High Street.

[TheHitDetector]

OMG!!!......so you are the little girl...and you still live in St Ives....how wonderful.........smiles......­..so, so pleased....St Ives is a very beautiful interesting historic town. ..I recognise the man....I presume your father?.....I was trying to recall where I used to see him though, I also recognise the car.

The cinefilm is described as 1960, However, it has to be post 1963 as it does not show the cast iron railway bridge that spanned the R Ouse in close proximity to the Paper Mill.

[TheHitDetector]

. We enter Crown Street, The Amber Grill on right Hand side no longer there now. The Royal Oak Inn nice little pub, to right near junction. Little ahead, the Post Office, opposite Kiddles Ahead The Pavement, leading to Market Hill, bank holiday markets used to attracts in excess of 250,000 visitors may still do so. If you hadn’t seen a person for years that was the place you would find them...smiles. Kiddles on the corner - right, as we enter Bridge Street ...The florist on left.

[TheHitDetector]

Passed the rose beds the new Library on North Road, now demolished, opposite Clair Court Built on old Rectory. On right the Dunn Horse Inn. On corner to the right The Anglers Rest Boat hire no longer there. Permanex, on left hand side. Made parts for Concorde. The Waits and the R. Ouse. To right the Norris Museum. Then George’s cinema on right hand side, no longer there now. Bill’s Cafe on left hand side the Broadway that’s gone. The Monument opposite Bryants.

[TheHitDetector]

Next Part approaching St Ives via Houghton Road. At junction turn right into Ramsey road The Seven Wives Inn on right. The name taken from the poem “As I was going to St Ives I met a Man with Seven Wives...etc” The Agricultural Sales opposite, Now a car garage. Going down we go past the Mace on left hand side no longer there now. Then we go past what used to be West Field Junior School on left. Then Slepe Hall Girls Grammar School, now Slepe Hall Hotel.

[TheHitDetector]

Through trees, green to left..Later to have a duck pond. Approaches to Ramsey Wood Lane Cemetery, spire to chapel of rest visible to right. New Eco Cemetery adjacent to it...Back at green where now duck pond opposite Thomas a Beckett C of E church. The little girl is on where duck pond now is I believe.

[TheHitDetector]

Starts off at School lane, Ramsey, trees gone, house on left hand side gone, new house built. On right hand side building gone new Ramsey Spinney School to right. Emerge onto Ramsey High Street past the Methodist on left hand side set back. Past the Lion Hotel to right. At T junction Great Whyte to left. George Inn to right, where Shakespearean plays used to be held. Ahead on High Street the Thomas A Beckett C of E. To right the Ramsey Abbey Grammar School.

[TheHitDetector]

This has been bugging me ever since this video was put up as

St Ives...smiles.

It is Ramsey and Also St. Ives Hunts as it was then now Cambridgeshire, I believe. ....It is not Needingworth Road.....Needingworth Road is much prettier...smiles.

[charlottte343]

@22ndJune1968 ok you mean as in the place ramsey? near somersham?:L x