John Percy Farrar
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Captain John Percy Farrar, also known as Percy Farrar and as J. P. Farrar, was an English soldier and mountaineer. He was President of the Alpine Club from 1917 to 1919 and a member of the Mount Everest Committee. Farrar's obituary in The Times stated that he 'was known by repute to every one interested in mountaineering in England and on the Continent, and his personal friends at home and abroad were legion'.
Chatteris
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Chatteris is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in the Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency.
Market Hill, Chatteris
A privately owned 1847 watercolour of Park House before its demolition. Elements of the dissolved Chatteris Abbey can be seen in the walls, including Norman arches at right.
Extant remains of Denny Abbey between Ely and Cambridge, showing similar remnants of adjoining larger and smaller Norman arches, side by side
Chatteris railway station before closure in 1967