Histon Station - Crossing Keeper's Hut Saved

In order to retain at least some of our local heritage, the County Council gave permission for the hut to be dismantled and for it to be relocated elsewhere. Although the new location for it is still to be confirmed, it has been dismantled and put away in safe storage.

Starting on Saturday the 4th of August 2007 the enviro volunteers spent the weekend, evenings and the following weekend carefully dismantling the hut, completing the job on Saturday the 11th. the Station at 9am on Saturday 11th August.

Nuttalls, who are building the busway, have provides a large secure container in the yard at Histon Station in which to store all the salvaged materials. CamTile and MT Scaffolding are kindly supplyed and erecting the scaffolding to provide a safe working platform, Mick Marshall provided his expertise to supervise the dismantling of the building and Alan Eade supplied fantastic detailed working drawings which will be required for the reconstruction. Volunteers worked with Pene to carefuly dismantle the hut- loading bricks indiviudally onto pallets which True Value (Bishops) have moved into the container using their pallet movers or forklift truck.

Volunteers included Mick Marshall, Pene Nudds, Alison Borley, Geoff Grayton, Steve Moore, Paul Marshall, Sue Borley, Will Russell, Sula Armstrong, Peter Sumner, Jane Rush, Judith Reynolds, Dave Rush, Peter Borley, Hannah Reynolds, Adrian and Alex; also Ian Levitt and Mike Mason who delivered the pallets.

Many thanks also to Ann McCarthy for her delicious rock cakes and to Sue and Surinder at Station Stores for the endless supply of cups of tea which kept us all going!

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This brick with the words August 1916 is from the front of the hut.

The hut bricks are now safely tucked away in a container so that it can be rebuilt next year

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Watch out this year for news on where the railway keeper's hut will be rebuilt.