This book, ISBN number 0752418610
, is a paperback produced by the Chesterton Local History Group, specifically Anne Bromley, Alice Zeitlyn, Christine Gibson, Brian Woods, John Norman, Colin Moule and Derek Stubbings. It costs just ~£12 to buy, so pennies per image!
First published in 2000 it was published by Tempus Publishing Ltd at Stroud. Tempus also did the typesetting and origination.
The front cover shows an outing on the boat Otter on the River Cam. Taken at Jesus Lock in ~1896, these men are on an outing of the Licensed Victuallers' Association.
The Foreword is by Mike Petty, researcher/writer/lecturer on Cambridgeshire and the Fens. There is a photo on that page of "Young members of the Chesterton Chapel string band c 1888)".
The Introduction explains the roots of Chesterton - this page has a photo of "Mr Fieldgate, landlord of the Maltsters Arms, with his young family, c 1904".
Acknowledgements go to Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge and County Folk Museum, Cambridge Evening News, Chesterton Challenge, Roy's Leisure, Two Tees Boatyard, Mrs P Marsh, Lesley and Derek Flory, Mrs B Hogg, Mrs S Hogg and FH Stanford. It says that other photographs were supplied by members of the Local History Group.
The main index is broken down into:
Foreword by Mike Petty
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. The River Cam
2. The High Street
3. Churches and Schools
4. Housing in the Village
5. Mitcham's Corner
6. Public Houses and Inns
7. Almshouses
8. Pye Radio
9. Village Life
Already there are some chapters that seem more enticing to me. My ancestors lived on the High Street, Chesterton; my mother and ancestors attended the churches and schools and my mum worked at Pye Radio! I've got a photo of their staff in my collection I'm digitising.
I'm off to pick through it now! Scouring those old photos for images of where my ancestors lived, shopped, played and knew!
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