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Mary Burgess
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Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf 🦻. She/they.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · Aug 19
Well, I've finally made my way onto here. Interested in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire in particular and local history and libraries in general.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 23h
Headed over to Bournemouth for a few days - you don't get beaches like this in Norfolk! Really enjoyed visiting the Russell-Cotes Museum yesterday as well.
Bournemouth Pier seen from West Cliffs The back of the Russell-Cotes Museum
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 3d
Headed out yesterday in Storm Amy for the AGM of the local history society, but also nipped in to see the newly refurbished Rock Road Library. It was very busy indeed, hence no interior photographs, but it's looking very nice. Lovely new ceiling windows really brighten up the place.
The outside of Rock Road library, a small suburban branch library. It's brick built and has 1936 over the main window, with a small garden in the front.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 5d
I'm wearing a lanyard right now! Shocking...
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 5d
We're having a drop in session sharing South Asian memories of the Second World War together with the Imperial War Museum on 14th October 1-5pm in our new Everyspace area on the third floor of Cambridge Central Library. See www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-so... for more details and do spread the word!
Sharing South Asian Voices in the Second World War
Come and have a chat with the Imperial War Museums
www.eventbrite.com
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
It's X5 from Oxford to Bedford and then you have to swap onto the 905 bus from there to Cambridge. I do the Cambridge to St Neots bit a lot but St Neots to Bedford doesn't half go all round the houses.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
Excellent book that, and the second one is just as good.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
It's a local one - made by Fyson's of Soham apparently. They only ever made 17 and they're all numbered - this is number 10.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
It's to try to stop the noise of the drums being picked up on everybody else's mics.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
Not sure I fancy this either to be honest - don't even like celery in its normal green stalky state.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 7d
I'm off to Soham tomorrow to talk about the history of transport in Cambridgeshire. It'll be 10-11am at Soham Library. Here's Soham Bapist Sunday School on an outing in 1923, with a steam traction engine pulling 5 waggons of children down the High Street.
A black and white photograph of a steam traction engine pulling five waggons of children down the High Street in Soham. Various boys are either walking or cycling alongside.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 8d
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society are one of the best sources for Cambridgeshire archaeology and local history and they're available for free online at archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 9d
It's all fairgrounds and amusements here today - have Billy Smart's circus elephants wandering through Cambridge.
A colour photograph of three elephants in a line walking past Parker's Piece, with their handler in a red jacket.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 9d
As the local studies librarian for Cambridgeshire - give me more town books! Set it in the city, not everything has to be purely University about Cambridge. (And then come into my library to do your research...)
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 13d
One of the more interesting buildings in Cambridge you might not have heard of is Chesterton Tower - tucked away near St Andrew's Church. It's actually a house, built for a local officer for Vercelli Abbey in Italy, who owned the manor. Read more at capturingcambridge.org/chesterton-2...
A black and white picture of Chesterton Tower in the 1920s, with various trees growing around the building.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 14d
Found one of the old Huntingdonshire County Library book plates today - bit more exciting than the modern logo
A book plate in a library book with the round Huntingdonshire County Council logo with a tree, a stag and a hunter in the middle and 1889 on the bottom. Below says County Library
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 14d
We've got one of those. Sometimes if I really can't read it I send it to him and he doesn't know what he wrote either.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 14d
There's a reason why all of ours have big long spikes through them to hold them together when muppets drop them on the floor. (It's me, I'm the muppet)
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 15d
I'm sitting here eating my tea and you've got me feeling hungry again. I've not even finished it yet!
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 15d
We had a fire drill at work yesterday, so here's a picture of Cambridge's new fire engine leaving the station in St Andrew's Street in 1920.
A motorised fire engine in 1920s style leaving the fire station in St Andrew's Street. A full crew of six are perched on top, all looking natty with their shiny helmets.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 15d
My bus ticket has more security features than this mock up.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 16d
Had lots of questions about people who travelled to New Zealand today. Did you know that Selwyn College here in Cambridge is named after the first Bishop of New Zealand? He was George Augustus Selwyn and he arrived at Auckland in May 1842.
George Augustus Selwyn pictured in 1867. He's sat down in three quarter portrait with impressively large mutton chops.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 18d
I'm not saying I planned a trip to Berlin just to go to the Ritter Sport shop, but I'm also not not saying that...
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 18d
I'm sharing local history at Cherry Hinton Library's community day till 4pm. Come along and have a look at the WI scrapbooks for 1958 and 1965 along with maps and photos of Cherry Hinton.
The title page of the 1958 scrapbook with a painting of a bunch of cherries The front of the 1965 scrapbook with a bunch of cherries embroidered on the front A page inside the 1965 scrapbook showing what the village looked like then with black and white photos
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 20d
Turns out that @cambridgeppf.bsky.social was taking photos at Stourbridge Fair - thought this one looked quite fetching.
A picture of me at Stourbridge Fair. I'm wearing a black t-shirt and there's somebody in Tudor dress behind me.
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Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 21d
Here's the video for those too young to get the reference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_B... Who am I kidding, if you're too young to have watched this, what are you doing on Bluesky?
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup
www.youtube.com
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