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Take a couple of days off before the bank holiday and it belts it down for the first time in months! Good excuse to read all those library books I need to return.

And now Tim Curry as well. This one hits hard - Rocky Horror is one of my favourite films.

It's National Dog Day, so here's a few pictures from our collection of dogs. Lots more where that came from in the Cambridgeshire Collection.

Here's to you Dolly. If you only ever did your Imagination Library that would have been enough, but you just couldn't stop finding ways to help with so many different things. And the banging tunes, can't forget those.

Been talking a lot about disability today, so here's a picture of CAMTAD, the Cambridge Campaign for Tackling Acquired Deafness, now run locally as part of the Cambridgeshire Deaf Association. They help fix people's hearing aids and some of their sessions are in libraries cambsdeaf.org/hearing-help/

Just doing some research for my talk on Theatres in Cambridgeshire for Cambourne Library on 8th September 2-3:30pm. Did you know that Bela Lugosi bought his production of Dracula to the New Theatre in Cambridge in 1951? We've even got the programme. Spooky!

We've got a fair few people dressing as Commedia dell'arte in our collection - seemed to be a popular fancy dress outfit.

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 2w ago

We do have a history of this sort of thing in Bucks, but the people tended to be, well, you know.

Had somebody in today looking at Percy Salmon's pictures of Melbourn. There's a nice video about him at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVn9... We also hold a selection of his stereoscopes when he travelled abroad in 1898 to Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece while working for Lévy & ses Fils of Paris

Still time to sign up for the Society of Genealogists' free session on researching family history in Hunts and Cambs on Monday 7th September at 2pm. Come listen to me do a turn about the Cambs Collection, my colleagues at Cambs Archives and more portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2...

Researching in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire

FREE event. Book a spot to watch live. No pre-booking required to view the recording which will be available in the SoG Learning Hub.

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It's finally rained in Cambridge and everybody seems to be piling into the Cambridgeshire Collection to look at electoral registers. Here's the Red Lion Hotel covered in election posters in 1874.

Government fire alert anybody? I think that's the first time they've actually used that system for something real

Just setting up the Eventbrite for next month's local history lecture in Cambridge Central Library on Friday 11th September 2-3:30pm. It'll be on the history of Pye by the Pye History Trust and you can find out more and book a ticket at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pye-st...

If these are the stacks that somebody is getting crunched in, I can say from personal experience that person is not dying, they're getting some nasty bruises.

Russ Fischer@russfischer.bsky.social · 3w ago

new REACHER making a strong argument for the value of public libraries

Ever wondered what the fountain in the market square used to look like? This is it in August 1953 when they took most of it down. Part of the structure was preserved and is now at the Museum of Cambridge. This is one of our Anthony Barrington Brown photos which can be seen on the library catalogue

Shoved my head outside to see the meteor shower and saw more in five minutes than I have in ages. Do recommend a go!

It's #WorldElephantDay today and here's Billy Smart's circus walking past Parker's Piece in 1971.

It's a solar eclipse tomorrow, so here's a couple of pictures of the Cambridge Observatory from 1956, taken by Ramsey and Muspratt. You can read more about the telescope itself at www.squarewheels.org.uk/rfg/36inch/

It's that #SaturdayLibrarian time again and I've been proofreading an article about Cherry Hinton Road for the next Queen Edith Magazine. Delivered free locally or you can find it online at www.queen-ediths.info/news Here's the Cattle Market in the 1970s at the top of Cherry Hinton Road

Been sorting through a collection of records about Hildersham today, particularly on their excellent painted church. There's some nice colour pictures on the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust site at camhct.uk/churches/hil...

Hildersham, Holy Trinity - Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust

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Showed a staff member from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science around our store earlier. Good to hear they're back open 6 days a week. In celebration here's Pye Radio's production line in the 1920s.

Starting to write a new talk on trade unions and industrial disputes. Didn't realise they date back to 1721 in Cambridge! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Jou...

Was lovely seeing people enjoying the Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend - here's a couple of photographs from the first one back in 1965.

Used my day off in lieu to finally go get my bike fixed. Cycling home from Kingsway Cycles was a lot more fun than walking/cycling there I have to say. What a lovely bunch of people.

Very pleased we actually got some rain yesterday - have a painting to celebrate. This is "The Cam" donated by the artist Cecille Cranwell to the Collection in 1984.

Headed over to Duxford last week to give a talk. Not sure why Cambs have so many parishes with two churches, but here's St John's and St Peter's. St Peter's is the one currently in use, with St John's looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust

Stock team have sent me some presents - here's the latest new books for the Cambridgeshire Collection

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The British Newspaper Archive has just completely changed their site - that's a fair number of training resources that need rewriting. It'll take me a bit of a while to get used to it.

We've just cracked 5,000 sign ups for the Read to the Beat Summer Reading Challenge in Cambridgeshire - time to celebrate! This is Philip Brand with his model traction engine he made powering his gramaphone.