Community Journal
Welcome to our Community Scrapbook – a living record of the people, places, and stories shaping the planning and delivery of High Bourn.
This scrapbook belongs to the community: residents, families, schools, historians, and neighbours. It will grow as the development evolves, capturing milestones and memories along the way.
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Stories Beneath Our Feet
High Bourn’s history stretches back
through farming, aviation, and wartime
service. Local historians and residents
are helping us keep those stories alive
as the future takes shape.
My Grandfather took off from that runway on the night of 19th May 1942, in Wellington X3472, en route to Mannheim; he didn’t get to return there for 46 years – they crash-landed in N France, and he became a PoW six weeks later following capture after a 300-mile trek with his crew mates, to the Swiss border.
Barry Love
Bourn to Run
In September 2025, the JV Partnership proudly sponsored ‘Bourn to Run’, a much-loved village event bringing the community together and raising funds for new equipment for the children of Bourn Primary Academy.
Favourite stories, people or places from our local community
Born in 1978, Louise Brown was the world's first baby conceived via in-vitro fertilisation achieved by the team of Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe, and Jean Purdy. Her birth launched modern fertility treatment; Edwards later cofounded Bourn Hall Clinic, the world’s first IVF clinic.
Definitely Louise Brown - the first IVF baby ever. Made in Bourn Clinic.
Rosalin Frankin, the Cambridge Scientist
A chemist and X-ray crystallographer (1920-1958), Franklin produced the famed ‘Photograph 51’ that revealed DNA’s helical structure, a cornerstone for the double-helix model. Educated at Cambridge, she later made major contributions to RNA and virus structure at King’s College London and Birkbeck.
