St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 40
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
3:46 pm
Below: Dr John Caswell
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/RicohXR7
A practising GP in St Ives since
1981, John previously worked in
London, Norwich, Reading and
Manchester. His surgery occupies
the old Telephone Exchange in
East Street. He has four children
and his interests outside
medicine include sport (playing
and watching), music, hillwalking and cars.
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Right: Keith Maile, Mapro Publishing
Services
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Ricoh XR7
Keith has been in printing since the age
of 14 and began at Enderby & Co in the
old steam mill. He went to Waterlow’s
at Dunstable for 7 years then returned
to St Ives to start his own business.
Mapro has been established at The
Quay since 1974.
A member of St Ives Rowing Club since
1949, Keith stroked the first senior
‘four’ to win a cup at the Cambridge
Regatta after the war.
Right: The Andersons
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX
The Andersons have been farming around St Ives since the family came with the herds from the far north in the early 1880s.
Cousins Chris, Terry and George carry on the business H. Anderson & Sons to this day on some 500 acres of arable and
grazing. Terry (left) and Chris are pictured here checking the herd on The Holmes meadow. These cattle, a familiar sight from
the by-pass bridge, are Limosine Herefords crossed with a Blonde-d’Aquitaine bull and are reared for beef.
The cousins have seen tremendous changes to the town. Chris maintains that genuine St Ivians have their own accent, which
is now dying out. “And you could get to anywhere in the country by train from St Ives,” he says. “On my honeymoon we got a
ticket to Scarborough and we only had to change at York. It was easy.” That’s food for thought in the present-day controversy
over rail travel.
The cattle business too has been turned on its head, they say. St Ives has gone from being one of the biggest markets in the
country to not having a decent market within 50 miles.
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