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St Peter's Street early 20th Century showing the hardware store on the left.

Next meeting of the Society will on 18th December at 7:00 pm. We have a change of speaker for the meeting in Phil McGahan from the IWM. Phil has been in the past a wing commander with the RAF and is a volunteer at the museum for 9 years.  "RAF Duxford - Fighter Base to Film Set" which covers the history of the base from 1917 through to it's closure as an operational RAF station and then briefly highlights some of the ways it has appeared in films and on TV since then.

We also have a couple of other treats for our Christmas meeting. Blair, Mark and myself attended a talk from a man who became 100 years old in August and he spoke to us for half an hour about, among other things, his experience as a navigator in a Lancaster Bomber. Mark filmed it and we will bring you up to date on that next Thursday.

Meetings 2025/26

Many members have been asking for dates of meetings for 2025 in order to manage calendars and ensure that they do not miss any of the meetings. All meetings in 2025 will take place on a Thursday:

• 18th December 7:00 pm - The IWM - Phil McGahan

• 15th January 10:00 am - One Hundred Golden Sovereigns - Michael Pumfrey

• 26th February 7:00 pm - TBA 

• 19th March 10:00 am - The Draining of the Fens - Sharon Kindleyside

• 23rd April - 7:00 pm - Hexcel a Duxford Industry Story - Peter Marsh

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Meetings are fun, we start with updates on what has been achieved during the past month and then we have a speaker to tell us about issues of historical interest to all of us. We have a break in the middle when people can mingle and chat and everyone enjoys it.

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Farringdon Diaries. https://capturingcambridge.org/museum-of-cambridge/museum-exhibit-stories/the-farrington-diaries/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsVTJtA35sA

https://youtu.be/YsLF4_MqEBs

https://duxfordparishcouncil.gov.uk/duxford-history/

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp201-220

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