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St Peter's Street early 20th Century showing the hardware store on the left.

Project mission

To catalogue, preserve and research the history of Duxford.

Next meeting of the Duxford History Society will be on Thursday 16th May 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

Our April meeting was held on 9th April at 7:00 pm and was our second evening meeting and showed a good turnout with many faces who couldn’t make it to meetings during the day. 

The meeting began with Mike announcing the dates of meetings for the rest of 2024 and the speakers already booked. There are other bookings in the wings, but the spaces were opened up to members to take first choice to speak on subjects of their own interest. 

This was followed by another demonstration of the technology that can be brought to bear to breathe life into old photographs. This was delivered by Mark Lodziak and showed some outstanding examples of old and sometimes cracked and creased pictures being restored to their past glory. We saw some outstanding results, of particularly interest was a review of pictures of Duxford people from the past and the audience were asked to identify some of the faces. It is amazing how old photos come to life under Mark’s skilful process of colourisation. Mark has used Photoshop and AI to colourise and emphasise the faces of these past residents of the village. I should emphasise at this point that the original pictures are preserved in their original state.

Below is one of my favourite pictures which may be of students in the ladies finishing school thought to have been located in St Peter’s Street.


Meetings 2024


Meetings are fun, we start with updates on what has been achieved during the past month and then we have a speaker to tell us about issues of historical interest to all of us. We have a break in the middle when people can mingle and chat and everyone enjoys it.

 

It isn’t expensive to join and we will only charge £10 per member for the year from Januiary and at the moment it is free. the outlined dates for 2024 are all in the Duxford Community Centre and are as follows:


 

There will be more of this to follow including a list of proposed speakers in the next issue. We are trialling this for the first half year and if you respond well, we will extend it. 

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Even if you can't make all of the meetings you can still be a member and share in everything that is going on by tuning in to our website and participating in our WhatsApp group. WhatsApp allows all of our members to share memories and pictures and new discoveries. Just click the link below:

Questions?

Feel free to contact us at DuxfordHistorySociety@gmail.com or using the button below if you have any other questions about the Duxford History Society.

 Link to:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp201-220

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol2/pp223-226

Farringdon Diaries. https://capturingcambridge.org/museum-of-cambridge/museum-exhibit-stories/the-farrington-diaries/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsVTJtA35sA

https://youtu.be/YsLF4_MqEBs

https://duxfordparishcouncil.gov.uk/duxford-history/

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp201-220

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