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Shops and Businesses
Bygone years.

 

More shops and businesses will be added to this section as time permits, if you would like to add an article to this section or any other section on this website, please send us your article/text with any photographs if possible, and we will add it for you. Don't worry if you have not got any photo's, as we may have some in our collection.

 

Waddingtons Store in ChurchgateStreet.
Drapers, Grocers, Furniture etc.

 
Butchers Store in the HighStreet.
Master Tailors, Drapers and Milliners.
Established in 1818.
 
Goodin Brothers in the High Street.
High Class Tailors and Drapers.
Established in the 1890's.
 
Bobby's Chemist in the High Street.
Established in 1826.

 
Clark & Butcher Ltd also known as Lion Mills.
There was a watermill or possibly two recorded in Soham as early as 1086, and later a water powered fulling mill recorded as being disused in Soham in 1450.
 
William T. Doe in Clay Street.
Stone Mason & Monumental Sculptor.

 
Tebbitt & Sons in Churchgate Street and Oland House in the High Street.
Builders, Wheelwrights, Auctioneers and Undertakers.
Established pre 1814.
 
A.E. Murfet & Son in Clay Street.
Baker & Confectioner.
Established in 1864. Closed in 1973.
 



Soham Cemetery Inscriptions.

This Record of the Monumental Inscriptions at the Fordham Road Cemetery, Soham, was made by Tim and Julie Webb of Soham between 2004 and 2010 as time permitted. This electronic version comprises the full text of the transcript, with the addition of photographs of the graves as well as purchase and burial details taken from the original purchase and burial registers.
 

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Quakers of Cambridgeshire
and the Isle of Ely.

This is a very interesting book that we have extracted the Cambridgeshire part from, the full title of the book is, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, and was published in 1753, but gives accounts as far back as 1653, has many names from this area and details of what became of them including their punishments because of their Faith, is an absolutely fascinating read.
 



Cambridgeshire and
Huntingdonshire Leaders.

A great resource for anyone with interest in the political and social history of both Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire



Cures for Beasts.

This is a little handwritten book dated 1817 in our possession, that once belonged to a local Live Stock Farmer, it is unique and is a book of recipes of old fashioned Cures for all manner of disorders in Cattle, Sheep and Horses, you can read how they cured these things with local ingredients, some sound pretty hair raising. Only available from us.

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