Ken Ince's Pictures of Hemingford Grey

Apex House, Hemingford Grey

Apex House: Aptly named being at the apex of the triangle that was the original village. The house was originally a pub called the Wagon and Horses. There would have been a green here with the village stocks, pillory and whipping post, also the a cattle pound.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

Chapel House, Hemingford Grey

Chapel House: originally a Congregational Chapel given to the village in 1848 by Mr Potto Brown a wealthy miller and philanthropist.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

Church Street, Hemingford Grey

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

Grey Hall, Hemingford Grey

Grey Hall: built as a vicarage in 1854, has been flats, business premises and a hotel. Now recently restored as a family home. During the war the village fire appliance was kept In a small hut In the garden.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

Mafeking Villas, Hemingford Grey

Victorian Terrace: of four beamed cottages, the inscription reads Mafeking Villas 1900, although the houses themselves were probably built earlier.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

St Francis House, Hemingford Grey

St Francis House: built in the 1800s, first a farm, then home of the Bevan family, local bankers. It housed the village morgue during the war. Until recently a retreat, now being restored as a family home.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

St James Church

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Hemingford Grey, Churches, Cemeteries, Cambridgeshire

Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

St James Church, Hemingford Grey

St James Church, Hemingford Grey, from the south bank of the Great Ouse. Over 800 years old. The original spire was blown down in a hurricane on 8th September 1841, the force of the wind enough to hurl one stone twenty yards and break a window pane on the house behind. Inside the church, the Norman Arch Is the oldest part of the building. See also the double piscina, mediaeval font and ancient parish chest. The stained glass window in the south aisle is a memorial to the Margetts family, churchwardens for 150 years.

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Hemingford Grey, River Scenes, Cambridgeshire

Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

The Old Bakery, Hemingford Grey

Once the village bakery but now residential property.

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Hemingford Grey, English Cottages, Cambridgeshire

Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

The Parish Centre, Hemingford Grey

The Parish Centre: originally a school opened In 1853. closed in 1905 and converted Into the Church Rooms, now called the Parish Centre. The Post Office was opened In 2002 and claims to have been the first post office to have had a Minister of the Church as postmaster.

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Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FS10

The Manor House, Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire

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Camera Make: NIKON Model: E5900