Author: Burwell Stories

Paul Hawes was born in Burwell in 1935: his father was also a villager, and his mother was ‘delivered to

Born in 1949, Jim Neale has lived in Burwell all his life. In 1930 his father Ron Neale, then aged

James Faircliffe was born in Burwell in 1933 and has been interested in railways since he was a boy. ‘Our

Ophir Catling was born in 1925 in Leicester, but moved to Oak Farm in Burwell in the 1960s. He became

David Ready was born in Silver Street, Burwell, in 1940. He is the tenant farmer of Slade Farm, as his

Chris Wilson was brought up in Yorkshire, and became a mill enthusiast when he was 10 years old. Here he talks about the major restoration work he carried out on Stevens’ Mill, Burwell, during the 1970s.