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| St Ives Cambridgeshire
A personal view
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| ST IVES TRAFFIC SCHEME Bridge Street back in January 2002, when cars were still allowed. This was the view looking up it from the bridge. |
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| Bridge Street in July 2002, looking down towards the bridge. Since then, no daytime parking has been allowed there, except for loading and by the disabled. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This extra road sign at the bridge was added to make it absolutely clear in words (as previously suggested on this page) that cars must never be driven across the bridge. But why the capital"A" for "at"? The car on the right was stopped by one of the new (and welcome) Community Support Officers in June 2005 - but many fewer cars now try to cross the bridge. It may seem odd, but heavy vehicles are still allowed to cross here, but that is because there is nowhere for them to turn. |
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| This is what Bridge Street used to look like in the 1890s. No problems with cars then! |
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| Farmers' markets are held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings of each month. This was the very first one on May 17th 2003, when Eel Pie provided a happy musical background. Ostrich burgers are still one of the attractions! |
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| OLD COCKPIT Before these new houses and apartments could be built on the old Permanex site at the corner of Ramsey Road and The Waits, an archaeological dig revealed the existence of the circular remains of an old cockpit, dating back to at least the 18th century. There is even a possibility that illegal cockfighting may have taken here in Cromwellian times. Not one of the attractions currently offered by the new development! |
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| STIK IN THE SUN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Huntingdon Council's very first electronic tourist information kiosk (STIK, they call it, for St Ives Kiosk) was opened in St Ives in July 2004. You just touch the relevant part of the screen to bring up the information you want. Unfortunately, though, they didn't arrange any proper shade for the screen, and, as can be seen in the picture above, reflections (such as that of the road shown here) make it very difficult to read any of the informatiion if the sun is shining! But a consolation prize for trying .... |
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| NEW CLOCK The Civic Society provided St Ives with this fine new clock (top left of picture) in the town centre. The only problem was getting it to work. The cross on the right marks the site of the old market cross, and could do with a coat of paint. |
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ALCONBURY AIRFIELD . |
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| ST IVES SUMMER FESTIVAL August 2004. This, unfortunately, turned out be the last of the splendid open air concerts with classical music and fireworks, that used to be held as part of the St Ives Music and Arts festival, which has now been replaced by a more down-market Summer Festival. |
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| WHERE TO STICK YOUR GUM This latest sophisticated little device to help clean up the streets can be found on some town centre lamp-posts. |
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| DICKENSIAN CHRISTMAS MARKET, DECEMBER 2007 The 2006 Dickensian market had had to be cancelled at the last minute because of the appalling weather. The 2007 market had driving rain in the morning, but the stall holders not only persevered but even managed to look cheerful. |
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| THE LAST WORD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Above: traffic control problem in Crown Street, March 2007. Ducks like wandering along from The Waits.
On left: a solitary peacock can often be seen strolling down the middle of Westwood Road and Church Street. It also ventures along The Waits. Nobody knows where it originally came from. This was January 2008. |
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