18/12/201209/12/2018Notes & Queries Almshouses Refurbishment One of Stilton’s little treasures is the group of Almshouses tucked away at the end of Fen Street. The Trustees completed a […]
18/12/201209/12/2018Notes & Queries Fisticuffs! The Mendoza – Humphreys Prizefight – Stilton 6th May 1789 Extract from Annual Register for 1789. Chronicle p 206 (2nd edn pub […]
18/12/201224/11/2018Notes & Queries Fire in the Hole! Stilton potter Rick Landy is an expert on the ceramic techniques of antiquity. When in 2006 Time Team unearthed evidence of Roman […]
18/12/201224/11/2018Notes & Queries Time Team’s Stilton Dig Pottering about on the Fens… Regular SCAN readers will remember the announcement of Rick Landy’s discovery of a rare Roman cheese press. […]
18/12/201201/12/2018Notes & Queries Lest We Forget… On a glorious Spring day in April 2005, a silent crowd gathered at Norman Cross to honour and remember 1770 soldiers and […]
30/06/200626/11/2018Notes & Queries Delivering Quenby Cheese to The Bell Inn On 30 June 2006, Quenby Hall’s Stilton Cheese was delivered in style to The Bell Inn by coach and horses, after a […]