Ely Stagecoach cafe c1959: A photo by Brian Lane. Facebook readers rememember it well, one remarking that “I loved it in there”. Another remembers it as a “great place to eat”. Our favourite memory, however, is from the reader who recalls “miky coffee and hot sausage roll before getting bus home to Wentworth on a Saturday”. (Image: MIKE PETTY)
We also feature some familiar celebrities from the 60s who came to East Cambridgeshire to buy a weekend cottage.
Soham migrant pickers June 20, 1916. With the opening of the fruit picking season in the Wisbech district comes the migration from Soham of a large number of people who year by year visit the fields. No few than 34 left on Wednesday and others are leaving day by day. (Image: MIKE PETTY)
And we have a photographic reminder of a much-loved Ely coffee shop.
Ely’s open-air swimming pool at Angel Drove, built by the unemployed at a cost of £580. It was opened in a ceremony watched by 2,000 people. It is 82 feet long with a chlorination plant and dressing rooms. The site was acquired by the Urban Council in 1853 when they decided to have a supply of water from the river. But the filters were not adequate and the scheme fell through after people became ill. It was left derelict and remained a nasty little hole until now. (Image: MIKE PETTY)
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Ely’s open-air swimming pool at Angel Drove, built by the unemployed at a cost of £580. It was opened in a ceremony watched by 2,000 people. It is 82 feet long with a chlorination plant and dressing rooms. The site was acquired by the Urban Council in 1853 when they decided to have a supply of water from the river. But the filters were not adequate and the scheme fell through after people became ill. It was left derelict and remained a nasty little hole until now. (Image: MIKE PETTY)
Waterbeach By-pass Plan - June 19, 1973: Waterbeach may get a £150,000 by-pass instead of just a new minor road into the village - because of Cambridge's traffic problems. If the plans are accepted the by-pass will link the main Cambridge-Ely Road near the Slap-Up junction with the Clayhithe Bridge over the River Cam. The mile-long by-pass would replace the short stretch of road originally planned to link the A10 with the centre of Waterbeach. The County Surveyor said that the by-pass was now being recommended because of the large volume of traffic using the Fen Ditton - Waterbeach road as a short-cut to the Eastern side of Cambridge to avoid the congested city streets. (Image: MIKE PETTY)
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