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Kirtling and Upend, historic Cambridgeshire villages
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My name is Richard Rickcord (Dick).

After 26 years running Photographic Laboratories in London, I now work as a Lodge Porter at a Cambridge College and I am also employed by the University as a Constable. A University Constable (formerly a Bulldog) is primarily employed for ceremonial reasons.

My wife (Eva) and I have lived at the Old North Arms for nearly 24 years and the house has been very kind to us. We have a 1/2 acre garden with Veg Plot, Greenhouse, and a small but productive orchard. Upend is prone to late frosts, particularly in the valley bottom, and every late April/May these can devastate the blossom on our Plum and Apple trees.

Dick in his garden

As a boy growing up on the South Coast in the late Forties and Fifties, some of my fondest memories were of the abundance of ‘food for free’. We had mackerel and crab in Summer, spratts in Winter, and blackberries, apples and plumns in the Autumn. We also enjoyed allotment veg all the year round, but of course, only seasonal.

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