Talk:History of St Neots

Market and St Neot's bones
Two points:

Anyone born in St Neots will have heard the story that it was actually only a finger bone of St Neot that was owned by the priory. This, we are told, was stolen from the complete skeleton of St Neot kept in the Cornish town of the same name. I have no idea if this is true or not.

At the other end of time, St Neots cattle market was certainly open until at least 1982. I used to go there with my grandad.


 * Thanks for those comments, both are useful. Maybe you'd like to go ahead and edit the article (be brave!). You could certainly change the cattle market text from '1960's' to 'late 1980s', and you could mention the finger bone too if you say something like, 'Many local people believe that...'. Go for it! Oh, and when you add material to an article discussion it's useful to put four tildes '~' at the end. When you save the page these are automatically replaced by your username and the date. Chris Jefferies 11:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, this was the first time I'd ever added to a discussion, let alone edited a page. I'll do some more research on the two points I mentioned before editing. Jerryhat 14:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Battle of St Neots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scrope -  the victor : you might like to make a link ? Are the musket ball holes still there in the wall near the bridge ?DaiSaw (talk) 00:11, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Cricket bats ? Floods ? Fairs ? Tans'ur or Tanser ?
Excuse me for asking because I am old and grey now but wasn't there a notable cricket bat factory around in the 1960's ? And - given that it is topical - what about the big flood and the defences built afterwards ? Apart from going down the market to annoy the farmers the big event was the visiting fairground. And ... er ... just as a postscript now because there is a tenuous family link through some distant in-laws : there is the grave of a once famous man in the parish churchyard. His real name has apparently been disputed upon the theory that he wanted to sound more posh or exotic when he arrived in St Neots and he thus tried to put his Warwickshire name ' Tanser ' behind him. He was sort of the top pop musician of his day and I think that I remember that the tomb has something written on it like ' Musico Theoreticus ' - you could go and ask the vicar about it maybe ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tans'ur DaiSaw (talk) 00:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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