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The Shug Monkey is a creature with features of a dog & monkey. It's said to have the body of a black sheepdog & face of a monkey. This or has been sighted many times in

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2021-09-16

Ely 1947 by Leonard Russell Squirrell
Watercolour on paper
(National Trust Collections, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire)

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2021-09-06

Hi, I'm Scott from Cambridgeshire, UK (originally from Birmingham) and I've been a full time artist since 2006... here are a few of my digital pieces 😊👍

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2021-08-28



Only a small bit of Monday left but here’s M31 from my Cambridgeshire garden.

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2021-08-24

In 1216, King John was said to have lost England’s Crown Jewels somewhere in an estuary which is fed by the Witham, Well, Steeping, Nene & the Great Ouse.

The treasure is estimated to be worth £70million.

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2021-08-19

The Cambridgeshire dog-monkey is done. Here be the probably harmless Shug Monkey, frolicking on its way.

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2021-08-12

Another major early 20c woman artist, Mary Lowndes, 1908 at Linton, Cambridgeshire. The energetic Lowndes was responsible for many of the famous Suffragette banners and posters, and was also co-founder of the Glass House in Fulham where many artists produced windows.

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2021-04-30

A pair of 15c censing surviving fragments from former crucifixion scenes at Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire and Nowton, Suffolk. Both of these angels are likely reset incorrectly, in the wrong orientation.

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2021-04-28

Currant buns were a popular treat in Cambridgeshire. Many bakeries would sell their unsold day-old buns to poor children, earning them the nickname 'burnt bricks'.

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2021-04-08

Eda Ozlem Sipahioglu Diler
‘Stilton, Peterborough’
Ink & Watercolour on Paper
9.4” x 5.9”
£375

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2021-03-16

Born in 1712: English painter (1712-87)

Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire, 1749

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2021-02-19

In the Fens, frogs were called "Cambridgeshire nightingales" as before rainfall at night, the air was filled with their croaking!

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2020-11-06

Cambridgeshire Libraries is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020 Children’s Picture Book Award, voted for by school children, is ‘Milo and Monty’ by , published by .

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2020-11-02

Ian Wilgaus
‘Lilac Breasted Roller’
Ink & Watercolour
10” x 7”
£50

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2020-09-17

TV Astronomer Mark Thompson is on the Show about his new podcast World Records and comets. 10-2 Saturday on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

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2020-07-16

In Cambridgeshire it was considered unlucky for a girl to marry a man with a surname beginning with the same letter as her own:
'Change the name and not the letter,
Change for the worse and not the better.'

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2020-05-14

for In the folklore of Cambridgeshire this creature is said to haunt Slough Hill Lane. It's described to have the body of a shaggy black sheep dog and the head of a monkey with huge shiny eyes. My brain just registered "huge shiny eyes" and went "aye-aye".

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2020-05-06

There's plenty of colours to be seen in the landscape and sometimes they organise themselves into beautiful complementaries.

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2019-12-28