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Postcard - Biggin Malting
Map of Biggin Malting
'Everybody went across the fields to Ramsey in the good weather, and a lot of folks' ll tell you tales about their adventures on the way. Sometimes you'd meet a bull ( though more often only a bullock), and run for your life: or get caught in a terrible thunderstorm. There were an old ruined house called 'Biggin Malten' across there, and us child'en kept away from it because we had heard that Oliver Cromwell's haunt used to be seen there.
Read more on Page 209 in Fenland Chronicle
Biggin Malting Crop Marks
'Ramsey had been built hundreds of years ago on a bit of land that stuck up high and dry above the fens all around it, and Biggin Fields, though still flat, was on the edge of this high bit. Only high land was under grass round our way. The fens that had been drained were used for crops, every inch of them, though most farms, like our grandmother's, had one or two little grass fields for a few cows and horses to graze. Now here was Dad telling us that Biggin Fields was going to be turned into an aerodrome! We had heard of course about the flying machines we were using in the war against the Germans, and dad knew someone who had actually seen one once; but we were soon going to have them flying right over us and settling on land that joined our own grandmother's fields. It simply couldn't be true!'
Read more on Page 58 in The Silver New Nothing
AT THE MUSEUM
The Archive at Ramsey Rural Museum contains many original and transcribed documents, photograps, maps, new articles, memoires and records of events about Ramsey and the locality.
These are available for anyone to examine.
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