Old Willingham

01/09/2026

31/08/2026

Tonight at Willingham Social Club.
Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers.
Doors/pay on arrival, £5 cash or card.
Talk starts at 7.30 pm.
Come along for highwaymen, smugglers, student scandals, historic pubs, old photographs and local stories.
Everyone welcome.

30/08/2026

A quick reminder for Monday night.
Old Willingham’s next history evening is Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers.
Expect old photographs, maps, local stories, famous pubs, forgotten pubs, a few scandals, and possibly the odd ghost.
Monday 31 August at 7.30 pm
Willingham Social Club
£5 on the door
Please click Going if you are coming, as it helps us with seating.

29/08/2026

Willingham Social Club

Fen End, Willingham.

Willingham once had far more pubs and alehouses than most people would imagine.
But this talk is not just about drinking.
It is about news, gossip, work, travel, crime, politics, scandal, science and memory.
Before phones, before radio, before social media, the pub was where stories gathered.
Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers
Monday 31 August, 7.30 pm
Willingham Social Club
£5 on the door

28/08/2026

The Milk Maid, Rampton End, Willingham.
90s?

Willingham once had far more pubs and alehouses than most people would imagine.
But this talk is not just about drinking.
It is about news, gossip, work, travel, crime, politics, scandal, science and memory.
Before phones, before radio, before social media, the pub was where stories gathered.
Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers
Monday 31 August, 7.30 pm
Willingham Social Club
£5 on the door

27/08/2026

The Duke, Church St, Willingham.

What links Dick Turpin, the River Great Ouse, Cambridge students, wartime airmen, ghost stories and the discovery of DNA?
Pubs.
This Monday at Willingham Social Club, Old Willingham takes a look at Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers.
7.30 pm start.
£5 on the door, cash or card.
Everyone welcome.

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26/08/2026

Rose & Crown, George Street, Willingham.

Willingham once had far more pubs and alehouses than most people would imagine.
But this talk is not just about drinking.
It is about news, gossip, work, travel, crime, politics, scandal, science and memory.
Before phones, before radio, before social media, the pub was where stories gathered.
Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers
Monday 31 August, 7.30 pm
Willingham Social Club
£5 on the door
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26/08/2026

The Americans are busy playing with their zoomies overhead today!

25/08/2026

The Vine Inn, Green St, Willingham.

Cambridgeshire’s Historic Pubs: Sin, Students and Smugglers comes to Willingham Social Club on Monday 31 August at 7.30 pm.
Highwaymen, smugglers, students, ghosts, old village alehouses, and one very famous scientific announcement in a Cambridge pub.
£5 on the door, cash or card.
Please click Going if you can, and do share with anyone who enjoys local history.

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