Author: Burwell Stories

Barbara Turner was born in Martin Road, Burwell in 1942, one of seven children. ‘My father would take his dockey to work with him, he’d usually have half a loaf of bread with the corner cut out to put his butter in, then a lump of cheese with it … He’d have a bottle of cold tea, no milk or sugar. We had no water in the house, and when he came home he’d go into the yard and pick some sand and grit up, and shake it in the bottle to clean it.’

Joan White was born in 1925 at Gravelpit Farm, Heath Road, about a mile and a half outside Burwell, one

Sheila Doe was born in Bristol in 1933, the youngest of seven children. She worked as a nurse, moving to

Barrie Bushell was born in North Norfolk, but moved to Burwell in 1962, working at Marshall of Cambridge as an aircraft engineer. He talks about his childhood in Norfolk, agriculture, life in Burwell, helping out at Burwell Museum, building an astronomical observatory in his back garden…