Soham is a proud town. It is proud of its history and written in the old buildings is a story of its people. Hard working, hard living and independent, they survived on the nearby Fenland or in work associated with it. Along the long ridge that carries the road half way between the racing town of Newmarket and the cathedral city of Ely, a line of windmills creaked and groaned in the wind. You could get anything in Soham from black boots to a black eye.
It used to be said of Wicken, ‘one way in, the same way out’, because Wicken was one of those isolated fen villages looking at Soham across the vast Soham Mere, with a road linked to the Newmarket Road, but no through road to Stretham. The isolation brought an independence that helped to keep the last of the old Fen, now Wicken Fen, on its edges. Anthony Day’s images capture the old cottages and scenes and show how the village has changed.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Anthony Day is a professional artist working within the fen country, and a writer and local historian within his native village of Wicken. He has written several previous books about the area.
Ely-born Michael Rouse specialises in local history books, especially photographic collections, of which he has put together a great number including Ely in Old Postcards and A View in Cambridgeshire. He edited the official guide to the city of Ely for some 20 years, and has written numerous freelance articles for magazines. After some years teaching at Soham Village College, he now does storytelling at Ely Museum and takes photographs for Viva Youth Theatre in Soham. He also acts as a local councillor for Ely.
| Publication: |
November 2010 |
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96 pages |
| Availability: |
In stock |
Images Sepia:* |
90 |
| Format: |
235 x 165 mm |
Images Colour:* |
90 |
| Binding: |
Paperback |
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* approximately |
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