Histon and Impington Village Society

Stimulating public interest in the history, care and preservation of Histon & Impington since 1979

With this years feast cancelled we would like to share some photos of previous feasts.

c.1875 Rose and Crown landlord Charles Stearn with his pipe and customers on Feast Sunday. To his left Charles Love (farmer , miller and butcher). On the right of the accordion player, Charles Fisk builder. 

c.1914 Feast Parade on Impington Lane raising funds for Addenbrooke’s.

1918 Combined AOF and VAD nurse float for the parade.

1922 Tom Goldsmith with pipe (owned the fish and chip shop on School Hill) with veterans meeting up to parade from Abbey Farm.

1927 Feast Parade approaches the Green. Note absence of Co op supermarket building and corrugated iron covering the thatch of The Boot.

1978 Mike Mason on trike during a very wet parade.

2006  Taken from Histon Hornet float by Steve Unwin.

2011 The last Feast Parade

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