Checklist of pages about specific subjects, in three sequences:
Personal recollections
Events
Topics
Personal recollections
1830s: Widnall’s Reminiscences of 1830s Trumpington.
1842: Trumpington by X.Y.Z. , Cambridge General Advertiser , 9 November 1842.
1920s: W.E. Dring, Trumpington Fifty Years Ago: Reminiscences of the 1920s .
1920s-2010s: Audrey King, Recollections of Trumpington .
1920s-1950s: Jean Clews, Shelford Road and the Pamplin family.
1930s: Margot Andrews, My Experience of Education in the Church School .
1940s: Christopher Kite, Trumpington’s VE Day , 8 May 1945, and growing up in Trumpington.
1940s-1950s: Brian Goodliffe, Childhood Memories of Trumpington .
1940s: David Stubbings, the Recreation Ground .
1946-1949: Brenda Bass, Growing up on the Estate .
1948-1959: Colin Gedge, Memories of a Trumpington Childhood .
1940s-1950s: Brian Goodliffe, The Proud Son of a Trumpington Ploughman .
1940s-1960s: Barry Clarke, Public Transport in Trumpington.
1950s: David Stubbings, Glebe Farm , Trumpington.
1950s: Jean Clews, Memories of Trumpington .
1958-1962: Edmund Brookes, Reminiscences of the Perse Prep School .
1970: Mollie Bown, Enid Newell, Mary Pitman and Mary Woolf, The Countryside 1970 , Trumpington Women’s Institute.
Events
Celebration of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee , June 1887
Celebration of King George VI’s Coronation, 1937
Outing to Wicksteed Park , August 1949
Celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, 1953
Trumpington Young Farmers’ Club , supper, early 1960s
Trumpington Charter Fair , July 1968
Trumpington Medieval Weekend , June 1989
Trumpington Village Hall Centenary: Summer Prom , June 2008
Trumpington Village Hall Centenary: Exhibition , October 2008
Trumpington Christmas Fair , December 2008
Opening of Trumpington Pavilion , November 2009
Opening of Addenbrooke’s Road , 27 October 2010
Trumpington Christmas Fair , November 2010
Royal Wedding celebration (Prince William and Catherine Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), 29 April 2011
Unveiling of the renovated Trinity Hall milestone , Hauxton Road, May 2011
Celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee , June 2012
Opening of electronic play space , King George V Playing Field, August 2012
Presentation of Street Naming Award , 21 November 2013
The Tour de France in Trumpington , 7 July 2014
Remembrance Sunday , 9 November 2014.
Trumpington and the Cambridge Half Marathon , 28 February 2016.
Remembrance Sunday , 11 November 2018.
Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, June 2022.
Celebration of King Charles III’s Coronation, May 2023.
Topics
1801-2001: 200 Years of Trumpington: overview.
1945-1980: Post-War Trumpington: papers about schools, allotments, Royal Shows, transport and housing developments.
Addenbrooke‘s Hospital: history of the hospital
Allotments:
• History of Trumpington Allotment Society
• Foster Road Allotments and the Trumpington Allotment Society
• Alpha Terrace and Foster Road Allotments, 1945-80.
Anstey Hall : group visit, May 2012
Anstey Hall Farm : farming history
Archaeology of Trumpington and surrounding area:
• Anglo-Saxon bed burial and Trumpington Cross, summary.
• Clay Farm excavation, site visit, August 2010.
• Clay Farm excavation, site visit, April 2011.
• Trumpington Meadows excavation, site visit, May 2011.
• Archaeology of Clay Farm, talk by Richard Mortimer, March 2012.
• Archaeology of Trumpington Meadows and discovery of the Trumpington Cross, talk by Alison Dickens, April 2013.
• Papworth Hospital and Bell School excavations, site visit, August 2014.
• Archaeology of Trumpington and the Southern Fringe, talk by Tom Phillips, 26 March 2015.
• Anstey Hall Farm Barns excavation, site visit, May 2015.
• Addenbrooke’s Archaeology: the Latest Phase, AstraZeneca Excavation, talk by Jonathan Tabor, March 2016.
• Archaeology of Anstey Hall Farm, talk by Stuart Ladd, September 2016.
• Ancient DNA research and Trumpington Archaeology, research report, February 2018.
• Excavations at Clay Farm, 2010-15, talk by Tom Phillips, March 2018.
• All That Glisters: Anglo-Saxons, Beds and Gold, talk by Alison Dickens, May 2019.
• Excavations at Trumpington Meadows: Putting the Trumpington Cross in Context, talk by Dr Sam Lucy, February 2023.
Cambridge Chronicle , 1850-1900: monthly extracts.
Cambridge Local Plans and Trumpington.
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway in Trumpington .
The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop and Trumpington .
Cemeteries:
• for the Parish Church churchyard, see the Cambridgeshire Family History Society publication of Monumental Inscriptions and a walking route around the churchyard;
• for the Trumpington Churchyard Extension (Shelford Road), see the Monument Finding List and highlights .
Censuses:
• introduction to the censuses and transcriptions;
• local stories from the censuses.
Changing Face of Trumpington : how Trumpington has changed over time
Clay Farm Centre: archaeology and art
Cricket in Trumpington, 1870s to 1980s.
Cross Hill , at the junction of Trumpington High Street and Church Lane, the site of the old village cross and the War Memorial
Domesday Book and Trumpington , from Percy Robinson’s notes.
Education and schools in Trumpington : history of local education provision and schools
Enclosure of Trumpington , 1804-09: see Inclosure of Trumpington.
Environment of Trumpington:
• Bird and animal life, early 1920s, Percy Robinson’s notes.
• The Countryside, 1970, Trumpington Women’s Institute publication.
• Flora of the Disused Railway Cutting, 1984-85.
• Farms and farming.
• Hobson’s Brook.
Evidence for the History of Trumpington
Farms and farming in Trumpington, including Enclosure and the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI)
Football in Trumpington: History of Trumpington Football Clubs, 1904 – 2019.
Foster Road Allotments: see Allotments
Henry Fawcett : his life and funeral.
Gardening societies.
History Trails : 10 walking and cycling trails
Hobson’s Brook : introduction
Hobson’s Conduit : history
Hobson’s Park and Conduit : 2017 update
Hobson Square: archaeology and public art .
Housing: development from 1945-80.
Inclosure of Trumpington, 1804-09:
• Introduction;
• the Inclosure Act and Award;
• section in 200 Years of Trumpington, 1801 to 2001.
Kindersley Workshop and Trumpington .
King George V Playing Field and the Recreation Ground .
Local Plans and Trumpington, Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire plans.
Maps:
• Ordnance Survey work, Tim Glasswell.
• Historic and modern maps of Trumpington, Howard Slatter.
• Trumpington maps, decade by decade , resources from 1861 to the present.
• Maps and 1920s Trumpington .
Medieval society and religion.
Monument inscriptions: see cemeteries.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett : her life and achievements.
Natural History of Trumpington:
• Bird and animal life, early 1920s.
• Flora of the Disused Railway Cutting, 1984-85.
Newspaper articles relevant to the history of Trumpington;
Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) and Trumpington.
Postcards : selection of historic postcards of Trumpington.
People in Trumpington : historic database.
Public art:
• Hobson Square and the Clay Farm Centre , 2018.
• Wilson Court and Lingrey Court , Anstey Way, 2020.
Public houses in Trumpington.
Pemberton family and Trumpington Hall.
Percy Robinson’s notes about Trumpington , dating from the 1920s.
Railways in Trumpington: Introduction to history and reminiscences; history from 1945-80; Flora of the Railway Cutting, 1984-85.
Religion and life in the Medieval period.
Roads: Infrastructure from 1945-80.
Royal Shows in Trumpington, 1951, 1960, 1961.
The School House and William Butterfield : history of the School House, Church Lane, and the work of its architect.
Schools: Introduction to schools; Fawcett School, 1949-80.
Sport in Trumpington:
• cricket;
• football;
• sports in the 1920s .
Street names : derivations.
Streets, Houses and People in Trumpington : resource lists.
Traders and trades : local traders including the history of post offices and the Anstey Way shops
A Trip Through Trumpington , Percy Robinson, 1920s.
Trumpington Allotment Society: see Allotments.
Trumpington Brass Band : history dating from 1910 (from Percy Robinson’s notes).
Trumpington’s Changing Face : how Trumpington has changed over time.
Trumpington Charities : Percy Robinson’s notes from the 1920s.
Trumpington cricket and Trumpington Cricket Team, history.
Trumpington Cross : Anglo-Saxon cross discovered in Trumpington.
Trumpington’s Fallen Heroes of World War I , booklet published 2014.
Trumpington Gardening Society (TruGS).
Trumpington Hall and the Pemberton family: summary of the history.
Trumpington Horticultural Society.
Trumpington Local History Trails: 10 walking and cycling trails.
Trumpington Manors: Percy Robinson’s notes about the Domesday Book and manors, from the 1920s.
Trumpington Meadows Nature Reserve (Trumpington Meadows Country Park).
Trumpington Parish Church: including introduction and pages about its history, a walking route around the churchyard and details of rectors and vicars.
Trumpington Churchyard Extension, Shelford Road: Monument Finding List and highlights.
Trumpington Football Club , 1900s to 1990s and 2017-.
Trumpington Prisoner of War Camp (PoW Camp 45, World War II).
Trumpington Tornadoes football team, 1973-2012+.
Trumpington Village Hall : 100 year history of the Village Hall.
Trumpington Village Sign : the original and new signs and the unveiling of the new sign.
Trumpington Volunteer Training Corps in World War I.
Trumpington War Memorial .
Trumpington Women’s Institute: history; selection of photographs from the archive; 1970 report on The Countryside .
Wesleyan Methodists in Trumpington in the 19th century.
World War 1 and Trumpington :
• Trumpington War Memorial , Cross Hill.
• Memorial in Trumpington Church to Men who fell in the War and to other Benefactors.
• British Legion Roll of Honour book , Trumpington Church.
• Trumpington Free Church War Memorial .
• Trumpington Volunteer Training Corps .
• Village Hall and World War 1 .
• Remembrance Sunday , 9 November 2014.
• Remembrance Sunday , 11 November 2018.
• Remembering the First World War , talk by Dr Dan Todman, October 2014.
• Trumpington’s Fallen Heroes of World War I , booklet published October 2014.
• Trumpington at War, 1914-18: Contemporary Reports.
• Trumpington community on the IWM’s Lives of the First World War , men and women who contributed to the War.
• Trumpington in the aftermath of the War .
• Centenary of the end of World War 1 , display October-November 2018.
World War 2 and Trumpington :
• Trumpington and World War 2: Text.
• Trumpington and World War 2: Photographs.
• Memories of Trumpington’s VE Day, 1945.
• Trumpington War Memorial, Cross Hill.
• World War 2 Men Named on Trumpington War Memorial: brief biographies.
• British Legion Book of Remembrance, Trumpington Church.
• Trumpington Prisoner of War Camp: history during the War and afterwards, recollections.
• Village Hall and World War 2.
• Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014.