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Looking Back 1897-1989: A Cambridgeshire Scrapbook compiled by Mike Petty A compendium of cuttings relating to Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, Newmarket, Royston and the surrounding villages Thousands of Fascinating Snippets of Cambridgeshire Life featured in my Cambridge News ‘Looking Back’ columns Published online 25 March 2015 LT DOWNHAM ITEMS 22 Nov 2015 /MikePetty mikepetty13a@ 01353 648106 MIKE PETTY. Looking Back – a Cambridgeshire scrapbook 1897-1989 revised 2015 08 05 Introduction For the last 50 years I have helped thousands of people research Cambridge and its county. This index is my way of saying ‘Thank You’ for all they have taught me Each evening from March 1997 to April 2015 I compiled a ‘Looking Back’ column in the Cambridge News in which I featured snippets from issues of 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. I sought out unusual items relating to villages and areas of Cambridge not usually featured These stories are from issues of the Cambridge Daily/Evening/Weekly News or Cambridge Independent Press between March 1897 and December 1989 There are some gaps: the years 1915-1921, 1940 to 1946 and 1965 to 1971 have yet to be scanned. But it includes the ‘Cambridge Independent Press ‘From Our Old Files’ stories 1915-1920, 1940-45 Many entries include the date of the original story in the form YY/MM/DD - thus 33 01 29 means 29th January 1933. Other dates are those on which the article appeared in my columns. I have notes of the precise dates and pages in which the original appeared I can supply actual copies of many of these articles and have ‘Looking Back’ compilations for a number of topics as listed below. If you would like any of these please let me know. The newspapers are held in the Cambridgeshire Collection together with other Cambridge titles back to 1762. They have newspaper cuttings files on 750 topics from 1958 to date together with a variety of indexes including a record of stories for every village in Cambridgeshire between 1770-1900. I