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John (Jack) Wales

Born in 1925, at 16 (1941) he joined the local Earith Home Guard and then joined the Black Watch in 1943.

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[1] 1930s Earith National Fishing attraction
[2] Old bridges at Earith
[3] Remembering 1930s Chapel Road Earith
[4] 1930s Pubs in Earith an evocative walk
[5] 1930s Bridge End and Earith High Street
[6] 1930s St. Mary’s Bluntisham cum Earith Church graveyard
[7] Skating at Earith in the 1930s
[8] Earith Bonfire and fireworks – before health and safety!
[9] Flooding in Earith in the 1930s
[10] At school in 1930s Earith
[11] 1930s school playground
[12] Earith parades 1936 to 1960
[13] Earith farming in the 1930s and 1940s
[14] Huntingdon Grammar School days
[15] Earith WW2 and evacuees

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Here are the old bridges at Earith in the 1930s and days gone by:

1. Suspension Bridge – Old bridges at Earith

Below is a picture of the Earith Suspension Bridge – known then as the Earith High Bridge.

The old Earith Suspension Bridge. Old bridges at Earith.
The old Earith Suspension Bridge. By Peter Reason licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

It was the second bridge as you left Earith when heading towards Haddenham or Willingham.

2. Seven Holes Bridge

Below is the old Seven Holes Bridge at Earith where there were seven sluices. The modern sluice now stands at the same location.

The Seven Holes Bridge at Earith. Old bridges at Earith.
The Seven Holes Bridge at Earith. By Peter Reason licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

3. Modern Earith sluice

Below is the view (May 2011) of the sluice looking from the direction of the Denver Sluice and eventually the sea.

Modern-day view of the sluice. Old bridges at Earith.
Modern-day view of the sluice. By Peter Reason licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The next article [3] Remembering 1930s Chapel Road Earith
Or see the first article in this series: [1] 1930s Earith National Fishing attraction

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[1] John (Jack) Wales: Earith early years, born 1925
[2] 1930’s school playground
[3] Outside play in 1930′s Earith
[4] 1930’s Earith getting to school and learning about farming
[5] Old bridges at Earith
[6] At school in 1930’s Earith
[7] 1934 Earith The Bunny Fellowship
[8] 1930’s Earith Annaul Parade for Cottage Hospital
[9] Earith 1930’s early school days
[10] Elizabethan Shilling found in Earith
[11] Huntingdon Grammar School days
[12] Evocative walk Earith British School and Chapel Lane
[13] Evocative walk; 1930’s Pubs in Earith
[14] Albert Maile’s Garage Earith
[15] Evocative walk, Bridge End and Earith High Street
[16] Evocative Earith walk; graves and rolling in the aisle
[17] Earith British School 1930’s
[18] Evocative walk; Earith skating to other places
[19] Earith evocative walk; Discipline and gardens
[20] Evocative walk; Earith farming 1930’s and earlier
[21] Earith cows, calves and milk
[22] Earith 1930’s gravel, silage and crows
[23] Earith National fishing attraction
[24] Earith Bonfire and fireworks – before health and safety!
[25] Cycling through localised Earith flooding
[26] Earith WW2 and evacuees
[27] Earith parades 1936 to 1960
[28] War preparations and Soldiers from Dunkirk
[29] Skating on Little Fen, Earith and a plane crash
[30] War years 1941 – June 1943
[31] Fancy dress in Earith 1950’s
[32] Earith School Concert 1912

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