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A personal view
by Philip Grosset

There is another very full guide to St Ives (that even includes pictures of the pubs) by David Bartlett.

The Historic St Ives website by Les Goodey includes many photos (such as some interesting Easter 1998 floods pictures by Mrs Peggy Seamark), as well as a copy of the St Ives Official Guide's very full chronology of St Ives from 986 to 1994.

St Ives Today is the site of the St Ives Town Crier, one of our local free papers. It is full of useful information about local activities, as well as adverts for houses, cars, entertainment etc. The main snags are its pop-up adverts and some bias towards St Neots where it has its office.

The Hunts Post is the largest and probably the best of the three local free papers. It covers the whole region, not just St Ives.

The St Ives part of Cambridgeshire History on the Net includes an interesting reproduction of part of Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire (1903) and the gallery section has some old photos taken in 1900 and 1910.

There is factual information about St Ives in the relevant Huntingdonshire section of the UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service site. Their idea is to help family historians world-wide find out more about the towns and villages of their ancestors.

The St Ives in Cambridgeshire Web Ring provides useful links to several local sites. So does the Huntingdonshire Towns Web Ring.

The Cambridge and St Ives Railway Organisation (CAST.IRON) want to restore regular, timetabled rail services to the derelict Cambridge-St Ives Line as an alternative to the suggested guided bus service.

For more about the floods, see Robert Saunders' Virtual Rivers Studies website, in which he looks at the 1998 Easter Floods in St Ives and Hemingford at a personal level, and finds out what is being done to reduce the risk of future flooding.

There's also an official Hunts District Council site that includes some basic information about St Ives.

The Huntingdon Decorative and Fine Arts Society meets monthly at the Burgess Hall, St Ives, and offers a lively programme of illustrated lectures, visits, study days and voluntary activities.

The St Ives Photographic Club site provides basic information about the club, together with a chance to see some photos.

A brief section on St Ives is also included on Sue Clamp's Home Page.

BBC Cambridgeshire Online includes a local 5 day weather forecast for the town.

Churches Together in St Ives provides information about local church services, events, and news.

The parish church of All Saints has its own web site too, with some good photographs.

The St Ives Group of Churches (Congregations of the United Reformed Church) provides information about the St Ives Free Church, the Fenstanton URC and the Houghton Chapel Centre.

The Crossways Christian Centre is a member of the Assemblies of God group. This link offers basic information, but their own site (that seems to have disappeared) used to offer information about their activities, including C3 News (the free newsheet they distribute in St Ives), and a Bible search engine.

There are also evangelical Christians at the more newly formed Bridge Church. This is a New Frontiers International Church Plant in St Ives.

The St Ives Methodist Church has a really informative, if rather complicated, site, complete with background music.

Information about local community education can be found here.

The St Ivo Leisure Centre has an informative website.

St Ivo School now has a comprehensive website.

Wheatfields Junior School has an attractive website that includes some amusing animation by children in the computer club.

The St Ives Choral Society is always keen to welcome new members, particularly tenors and basses. They rehearse at the Methodist Church at 7.30pm on Tuesdays evenings.

Tapestry are a group of twelve singers based in and around St Ives. They can be booked for garden parties, corporate functions, weddings, etc. and offer a wide variety of songs, (usually unaccompanied). They're good too!

The St Ives Motel (pet friendly!) has a site with information about their tariff and location.

St Ives Rugby Football Club welcomes players of all standards and ages. It is based in Somersham Road, St Ives.

The St Ives Swimming Club has a very useful site too, with an impressively long list of links to other swimming sites.

The St Ives Sub Aqua Club site has a lot of useful information.

The St Ives Town Cricket Club caters for players of all ages, and is based at the St Ivo Outdoor Centre.

The St Ives Badminton Club site has all the information you need to join. The club has a junior section too.

The St Ives Rowing Club has an informative site too, with a particularly interesting page on its early history.

The St Ives District Rifle and Pistol Club site provides information about their regular meetings at the St Ivo Leisure Centre, as well as about the history of the club.

The St Ives Hockey Club meets at the St Ivo Outdoor Centre and has over 220 members.

If you're into sailing, there's Tony Black's very well laid out site with lots of information and numerous photos at Hunts Sailing Club (St Ives).

St Ives Cycling Club has its own site too.

The St Ives Civic Society. Who they are and what they do.

Cromwell District Scouts offers useful information about local scouting activities in St Ives and the surrounding area.

Hill Rise Allotment Association has an informative site.

Barracudas are a commercial organisation, providing multi-activity day camps for children in the Summer and Easter holidays at Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon.

The St Neots & District branch of CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) covers the whole of the old county of Huntingdonshire and includes useful information about pubs in St Ives and local brewers.

There's a site about nearby Somersham Baptist Church (with their weekly magazine online and a link to the minister's own home page).

The adjoining villages of Houghton and Wyton have a very good website, written with style and humour by Eddie Winter. It includes an interesting guided tour of the villages.

To find out about Wyton (and its airfield) in the sixties, go to John Hawkins' Wyton Retro site.

Information and pictures about Godmanchester, its community association, and site authors Stuart and Clare Bond, are to be found on the The Bond Godmanchester Web Site.

St Neots Community Pages offer local news and other information.

Hemingford Abbots is a website with helpful local information, as is its neighbour's site Hemingford Grey.

John Harris's Walking in Cambridgeshire provides more than 50 free walk descriptions. Pity there isn't more about St Ives!

Eplace is a commercial site that lists some of the jobs (full and part-time) and properties that are for sale and rent in Cambridgeshire, including St Ives.

Opportunity Links, the Cambridgeshire Childcare Information Service, offers free information on local childcare opportunities, child and working tax credits, help for lone parents, and much else.

Contact the Elderly in Cambridgeshire isn't a website but is a service which aims to help to alleviate the loneliness felt by some elderly people. It is a totally free service and , if you might benefit from it, or would like to help out by either acting as a host or a driver for their monthly tea parties, please tel Mary Barnes on 01223 566522.

I have two other sites: Take Better Photos, offering simple hints and tips for the beginner in photography, and Clerical (and some other) Detectives, with pages about over fifty of my favourite fictional detectives, including :Reverend Randollph, Rabbi Small, Sister Fidelma, John Appleby, Michael Gilbert's characters, Father Brown and Charlie Mortdecai.