Mikes Bikes in Cambridge, still there in Mill Road after 30 years
Mikes Bikes in Cambridge, still there in Mill Road after 30 years

A visit to Cambridge today on another warm and sunny day, where we dropped off the next Focus edition for printing, collected our new Bickerton folding bicycles, assembled them and cycled into the City. I went to the record office to research the manorial records of Linton, whilst Di went to the supermarket, before we drove home in time for me to go to a Priory Doom meeting this evening. President Bush is calling for a mutual 80% chemical weapons reduction for the US and Russia.

It was another nice warm and sunny day today as we had breakfast and made our arrangements. Di and I set off for Cambridge, dropped off the copy and artwork for our next Focus edition, and then collected our new Bickerton folding bicycles from ‘Mikes Bikes’ before having coffee. We drove on to Grange Road where we parked the Range Rover, assembled our bikes and cycled into Cambridge where I went on to the record office and Di went to the supermarket, having trouble with the congestion and queues.

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I had some success looking up the manorial records of Linton. Court books are very well preserved and give full details of the transactions over many centuries up to the 1940’s. The bad news is that the enfranchisements have all been done to include sale of the manorial rights and, subject to a detailed combing of the records, there seems to be little value left in the estates, but the history is well chronicled. I phoned Peter While of the County Council and got a lift back to Priory Park; assembled my bike and rode home for tea. Tonight, I went to the Priory Doom meeting, which was an informal and poorly organised affair but the least we got a few things agreed.

The news from the US is of President Bush calling for a 80% reduction in chemical weapons and a challenge to Russia to meet the same. Two people have died in a fire aboard a North Sea ferry and sabotage is expected. Shell is being prosecuted for the oil leakage earlier this year.