Hadstock Memories
The Memories of Bob Morris
Bob Morris was not only choirmaster at St Botolphs Church in the 1960s but also ran a Youth Club for a time.
Memories of Hadstock School by Bertha Stone
This essay on ‘My Schooldays’ won third prize in a 1968-69 Essay Competition organised by Cambs and Isle of Ely Old People’s Welfare Council. Mrs. Stone, née Fordham, was then living in East Barnwell, Cambridge.
Memories of Hadstock by Hilda Peck
Hilda Peck, née Fordham, was born in 1892 and died in 1984, aged 92, so her memories were written in about 1964. She lived nearly all her life in Lilac, now Pippin, Cottage; her father owned the two cottages. Hilda married Harry Peck in 1929 and, when the tenant died, Harry combined the two into one house. Harry died in 1967, and soon after that Hilda went to live in Back Road, Linton.
‘The Yanks are coming!’ Memories of Susan Mackay and Roy Swann
Extracted from Susan Mackay and Roy Swann’s book “To stand and stare” which describes life in Hadstock in the middle twentieth century, this article is a lovely insight into Hadstock life during the building and operation of United States Army Airforce (USAAF) Station 165 between 1942 and 1946.
War Records – The stories behind our WW1 war memorial, by Roger Mance
Read this fascinating research by Roger Mance into the background stories and family history of 18 men who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918 AD. The names of the 18 are to be found on the village war memorial in the south transept of St Botolph’s Church, Hadstock. All were born in Hadstock or had families with a close association to our village. Roger’s account was created as a tribute to the memory, courage and sacrifice of these men and produced as part of the 2020 Millennium celebrations for the Church.