Trumpington Local History Group

The next meeting of the Trumpington Local History Group will be on Thursday 10 December at 7pm (please note the earlier start time). Edmund Brookes and Howard Slatter will give a presentation on the history of Trumpington based on the late Percy Robinson’s original 1920s lantern slide lecture.

Percy Robinson was head teacher at the church school, Trumpington, from 1908 until his death in 1943. He built up an extensive knowledge of Trumpington and, with the help of the Trustees of the Village Hall, had a set of ‘magic lantern’ slides made to show various things of interest in, or connected with, Trumpington. The slides were first shown in 1924 and give a fascinating insight into life in Trumpington a century ago.

The meeting will be held in the Eva Hartree Hall at the Clay Farm Centre. All are welcome, admission £2.50.

Our website trumpingtonlocalhistorygroup.org has lots of information about all kinds of aspects of the history of the parish. Just search from the home page.

If you would like to be on our email mailing list, or get involved in researching our local history, then please get in touch: Jo Sear, Chairman, tlhglist@gmail.com.

The printed photograph shows the Coach and Horses public house (now the Sole and Duck restaurant) around the 1920s, from the Percy Robinson collection.