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Last veterans of the 6th Airborne Division honoured in Duxford exhibition

6th Airborne veteran Danny Mason featured in the 'First In - Last Out' exhibition at IWM Duxford

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The last surviving veterans who fought in the 6th Airborne Division during the Second World War are to be celebrated in a poignant photographic exhibition at IWM Duxford.
The Empire Theatre, Wisbech, an Art Deco gem of a building, barely altered since it opened in 1932.

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90th birthday for historic Art Deco theatre

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Undated handout photo issued by Cheffins of a 1982 County 1474 "Short Nose" tractor that has sold at

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Forty-year-old tractor sells at auction for over £200k at Sutton near Ely

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A cartoon of Percy Sekine by London Evening Standard cartoonist Jak - who Sekine trained.

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Archive material of half-Japanese British war time airman at Ely auction

John Elworthy

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Gothic House, Cottenham, which was subject of enforcement action four years ago

South Cambridgeshire District Council

'Bubble wrap' Gothic House an eyesore say villagers

John Elworthy

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The Queen arriving for Maundy Money distribution, missiles through Mepal and the black out in Cambridgeshire

Ely Cathedral

Maundy Money, jam factory, baby's death and Mepal missiles

John Elworthy

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XH648 in the Conservation Hall at IWM Duxford, where it was last in 2016 before work began on the aircraft in Hangar 5.

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Last remaining Victor aircraft of its kind to be displayed at IWM Duxford

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Jolly |Anglers

Nostalgic East

‘Moral sewage’, Soham’s first car, firefighter breaks his glasses and...

John Elworthy

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archives compilation

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Waiting for a train at Chatteris - and rising cost of fares from Ely

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The party from the Fens that went to see war ravaged Europe in 1920

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'Utter impossibility of conveying an adequate idea of the ruin' left by war

John Elworthy

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