Interviews - Burwell Stories

John Wisbey

John Wisbey was born in Cambridge in 1938 and came to live in Burwell in 1965. Along with his architectural

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

As a child Gladys Hobbs lived in Priory Farm in the Fen with her parents, who worked for horticulturalist Alan

In 1969, Richard Bourne’s father, architect Cecil Bourne, found out that a housing estate was going to be built on

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

Jo Tarran was 13 when war broke out. She was evacuated twice from her London home, to Bognor Regis and

Margaret Moss was born in Burwell in 1937, and has lived on The Causeway since she was 18 months old.

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