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Places to see in ( St Ives - UK )
Places to see in ( St Ives - UK )
St Ives is a market town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. St Ives lies about 5 miles east of Huntingdon and 12 miles north-west of the city of Cambridge. St Ives is situated within the non-metropolitan district of Huntingdonshire, which covers a similar area to the historic county of the same name.
Previously called Slepe, its name was changed to St Ives after the body, claimed to be that of a Persian bishop, of Saint Ivo (not to be confused with Ivo of Kermartin), was found buried in the town in about 1001/2. Original historical documents relating to St Ives, including the original parish church registers, local government records, maps and photographs, are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon.
St Ives experienced town planning at a very early date, giving it a spacious Town Centre. Portions of this open space between Merryland and Crown Street were lost to market stalls that turned into permanent buildings. Some of the shops in the town centre are still to the same layout as in Medieval times, one rod in width, the standard length for floor and roof joists. The lanes along the north side of town are believed to follow the layout of the narrow medieval fields, and are slightly S-shaped because of the way ploughs turned at each end. Similar field boundaries can be seen in Warners Park.
As an important market town, St Ives always needed large numbers of public houses: 64 in 1838 (1 for every 55 inhabitants), 60 in 1861, 48 in 1865 and 45 in 1899, although only five of these made the owners a living. As livestock sales diminished, however, so did the need for large numbers of pubs, falling to a low point of 16 in 1962. In that year the Seven Wives on Ramsey Road was opened and, with some openings and closings since, there are 17 today. The pub which has stood on the same site, with the same name, for longest, is the Dolphin, which is over 400 years old. Next oldest is the White Hart, which is pre-1720. Nelson's Head and Golden Lion are at least as old but have not kept the same name and used to be called the Three Tuns and the Red Lion respectively. The existence of a pub on the site of the Robin Hood is also of a similar date, except that it was originally two separate pubs — the Angel and the Swan. The claim of the Royal Oak to date from 1502 cannot be proven since, while a portion at the back is 17th-century (making it physically the oldest portion of any pub in St Ives), the pub name is more recent. The reference is to Charles II's famous escape from Cromwell's Roundheads, and Charles was restored to the throne in 1660.
St Ives Bridge is most unusual in incorporating a chapel, the most striking of only four examples in England. Also unusual are its two southern arches which are a different shape from the rest of the bridge, being rounded instead of slightly gothic. The eastern or town end of Holt Island is nature reserve, and the western end, opposite the parish church, is a facility for the Sea Scouts. The scout portion contains what was, before the opening of the Leisure Centre, the town's outdoor town swimming pool.
The major section of the world's longest guided busway, using all new construction techniques and technology, connects St Ives directly to Cambridge Science Park on the outskirts of Cambridge. St Ives is just off the A14 road on a particularly congested section of the route from the UK's second city, Birmingham, to the port of Felixstowe and thence to the mainland of Europe. The town name is featured in the anonymous nursery rhyme/riddle As I was going to St Ives. While sometimes claimed to be St Ives, Cornwall, the man with seven wives, each with seven sacks containing seven cats etc. may have been on his way to (or coming from) the Great Fair at St Ives.
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The Fox Inn in Burford have created a menu especially for dogs. Craig Punfield (@CraigOnTV) went to speak with the pub owner Paul Porter about the menu.
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The Mary Portas Town Application Film for Dartford.
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Comfort Hotel Great Yarmouth
The wonderment and charm of the English countryside are within a few minutes of the Comfort Hotel Great Yarmouth, which is a conveniently situated property suitable for the preparation and organization of all jaunts through the area. The city center is nearby, where guests can find an endless array of shopping, dining, and nightlife opportunities. Many golf courses speckle the area, and the major business districts of Great Yarmouth and the surrounding cities are close for the working crowd. For short day trips, guests can visit Great Yarmouth Racetrack,
Sea Dreams (1914) - First World War | BFI National Archive
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St Botolphs Cambridge
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The Kent Salsa Festival
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UK Railway Sounds - Railway Joints
This was something that was requested by someone, so I decided to make a sound video of it for everyone else to enjoy too. Sounds are mainly jointed track or bits of track with joints in, and one thrown in with flat wheel sounds too.
This is just a collection of railway sounds collected on my Samsung Galaxy. If you like it then I may make a second one with more sounds.
Photo's are from ones taken by me stored on my PC, unless otherwise stated.
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After 52-year-old John Stannard from Aylsham was given a suspended jail sentence for attempting to meet a female under 16 following sexual grooming, watch the moment he was caught by vigilante 'paedophile hunters' at Norwich Railway Station.
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On the show this week Alan Biggs was joined by ex Sheffield Wednesday and England striker David Hirst and, making his first appearance, former Premier League Assistant Referee and ex Training and Development Manager for PRO, Paul Rejer to discuss and dissect another entertaining weekend in the Premier League and Football League.
Friday evening saw Neil Warnock's Cardiff side beaten to title rivals Wolves after missing not one, but two stoppage-time penalties. Wolves celebrations seemed to anger Cardiff manager Neil Warnock, who refused to shake hands with counterpart Nuno Espirito Santo at full-time and said after the game that he did not want to see the Portuguese, the panel give their take on the incident.
Derby day followed on Saturday and there was plenty of drama in Manchester as Man United rallied back from two goals down to beat Man City in a pulsating encounter at the Etihad. Ashley Young was the subject of two key match incidents which the panel look back at whilst should Fernandinho have seen red for a challenge on Jesse Lingard?