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Some of the neighbours dropped off several books which were minutes from Sunday School meetings from 1950s to 70's. One of the neighbours talked about what he'd found out...

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BBQ - neighbours

Posted in Uncategorized, Stories, Life in Sutton, People on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »

Moving to Sutton and getting to know your neigbours

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BBQ - fossils and songs

Posted in Uncategorized, Life in Sutton, People on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »

As part of Sutton Grapevine, Kennedy hosted a BBQ for the people of Painters Lane. They were asked to bring along a memory or object that made them think about Sutton. One of the couples on the street brought along a fossil which had been dug up in the garden. A song followed...

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Men’s Curry Club

Posted in Stories, Life in Sutton, People on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »

The men's curry club were kind enough to allow a woman to pop in briefly to their monthly curry club to ask about their impressions of living in Sutton.

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Tale of the Gypsy Family

Posted in Stories, Life in Sutton, People, Farming on Jul 16th, 2009 No Comments »

This story was originally told directly to the people of the Farmland Museum. Here, the story is re-told and remains a poignant tale of one Gypsy family's contribution during the First World War.

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The Hovertrain Workers

Posted in Life in Sutton, People, Hovertrain on Jul 16th, 2009 No Comments »

This recording suggests that the failure of the Hovertrain had a personal cost as well as an engineering and financial one.

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Hovertrain Model

Posted in Life in Sutton, Places, Hovertrain on Jul 16th, 2009 No Comments »

The experimental Hovertrain was described in this blog post <http://suttongrapevine.org/2009/04/28/hovertrains-and-visions-of-the-future/>, and this audio recording <http://suttongrapevine.podbean.com/2009/07/14/hovertrain/>. This recording tells of the model that was made of the Hovertrain and how it ended up first at the Farmland Museum at Haddenham, and more recently at Peterborough Railway World.

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