St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 82
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
3:53 pm
Page 80
Right: Nigel Kember, Anglia Circuits
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX (from a colour slide)
Nigel began his technology career with Cambridge Consultants and Sinclair
Radionics. He set up Anglia Circuits in 1968 and moved the business to
St Ives in 1969. The factory in Burrell Road makes printed circuit boards
for instrumentation and communications equipment. Nigel is pictured here
with the ‘bare board’ test unit.
Now retired, he still keeps a ‘watching brief’ on the company but makes
sure he has time for boating.
Left: Simon King, Vindis Group
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX (from a colour slide)
Former Battle of Britain fighter pilot, Frank Vindis, founded the motor business we
know today, by starting a small workshop in Sawston. The St Ives branch first
opened on the site of the old railway station in 1981. But F. Vindis & Sons quickly
outgrew these premises and moved to the Low Road location in 1989. The Vindis
Group is still privately owned and by 2000 was employing 140 people at 6 branches
in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.
Simon joined Vindis as a trainee in 1984. Born and schooled in Huntingdonshire, his
family have lived in St Ives for many years, the Burgess Hall at the recreation centre
being named after his great, great uncle.
Simon is pictured here in 2000 with the Audi TT Coupe and the reincarnated VW
Beetle. He has since moved into the computer business.
Page 80
