PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:-
Parish Church, Rev. Robert Black M.A. vicar & rural dean;
Rev. Thomas Normandale M.A. T.Coll.Dub., B.A.Lond curate; 11 a.m.
3 & 6.30 p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m.; Wed. & Fri. 11 a.m.
Fortyfeet Bridge Mission Room (St. Felix), 6.30 p.m.; & Wed.
during winter months, 7 p.m.
Ramsey Hollow Mission Chapel (St. Benet), Sundays, 3 p.m.; the
clergy from the parish church officiating
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, New town, Rev. Patrick
Duffy, of Huntingdon, priest, mass 10.30 a.m.
Baptist Great Whyte, Rev. Samuel Henry Firks; 10.45 a.m. & 6
p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m.
Baptist, Mereside
Particular Baptist, High street, Rev. John Norris Throssell;
10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m.
Primitive Methodist, New Town, 10.15 a.m. 2.30 & 6 p.m.
Wesleyan, High street, Rev. John Toft & Rev. T. Grant Tyler;
10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m.
SCHOOLS.
The Grammar School, with head master's house, situated at the
west end of the High street, was founded 13 Charles II, 1661,
when the Fens were enclosed; it was then decreed, that 120 acres,
parcel of Ramsey Fen, should be set out & allowed to the town
of Ramsey for the maintenance of a Free School in the said town,
& Henry Williams, otherwise Cromwell, then lord of the manor,
& six others, were appointed as trustees. About 1810, a new
school house and school were built & in 1860 the present
school was erected, the former school being added to the premises
of the School-house, over which dormitories were built in 1880:
the school was re-constituted in 1899 under a scheme of the
Charity Commissioners: the school will hold 60 boys; the
endowment amounts to £ 400 yearly; Albert A. Lintern B.A. B.SC.
is head master
A School Board was formed June 11, 1900 (Richard Flowers
Serjeant, clerk), and new schools erected in 1903 for 300
(mixed), average attendance, 260; Henry Wimam. Peacock, master.
Infants', for 90 children; average attendance 75; Mrs. Norah
Silverside, mistress
Board School, Fortyfeet Bridge (mixed), built, with residence for
master, in 1902, for 175 children; average attendance 130;
Frederick Martin, master.
Infants', Endowed, Church green, founded by John Dryden esq.
grandson of the poet, in 1707; it will hold 117 children; average
attendance, 103: the endowment derived from land & consols
amounts to about £48 yearly; Miss Edith Crippin, mistress.
RAILWAY STATIONS.
Great Northern, Arthur G. Dodd, station master
Great Eastern, Francis B. Yerry
Omnibus from Temperance Hotel, High street, meets all trains
There are no regular carriers