Cutts of Campden

24/11/2023

Service! 🛎️

23/11/2023

Seven years ago, Beth Potter didn't own a bike.

Now she's a triathlon world champion and heading to the Olympic Games ✨

READ 👉https://www.teamgb.com/article/how-beth-potter-reached-the-olympic-games-in-a-second-sport/217m5EJfeLCbuuN0FCnPWX

23/11/2023

04/11/2022

CUTTS OF CAMPDEN 1921 to 2022.
THE END OF AN ERA.
The business of Cutts of Campden will close at the end of November after a century of car sales and service in Chipping Campden.

My grandfather came to Campden just after the First Workd War as a chauffeur/mechanic at The Noel Arms Hotel, then eighteen months later set up the first local garage in the back yard of The Red Lion.
There were five cars in the village at the time, four of which belonged to his previous employer.

In the mid twenties he acquired the land behind the archway to the stream then a blacksmith's shop. He built a workshop, now Cambrook Court, soon adding Morris, Wolseley and MG new car franchises.

He later bought the land in Sheep Street after Campden's first cinema project failed but culminated in some perfect Cotswold stone public conveniences!

My parents bought the business in the mid-fifties and my mother became a successful and in those days highly unusual lady car-salesman.

I took over the business in 1982, my parents retired and with them, the famous swing-arm petrol pumps that served National Benzole Mixture, Power and Super across the pavement and sometimes down the gutter as smoking pedestrians walked by.

Lots of you will remember Ann Harper who worked for my parents for many years.

In 1987 I switched our new car franchise from British Leyland in it's final form to Ford, selling thousands of new and used cars throughout the area.

We relinquished the Ford franchise at the end of 2019 when Dan Goodall, my excellent Sales Msnager retired and now it's my turn to do the same.

Lately with the shift to internet trading we have sold cars from Glasgow to Penzance, Southend to Newcastle.

I am immensely proud of what we have achieved through the decades, after Cambridge and being a wartime captain in the Royal Engineers my father came into the business. I joined straight from school narrowly escaping a career as a rock guitarist in Warlock.

I would like to thank all our customers for their support and loyalty over the past many years, I have a number that go back generations.

One of my current customers' great-grandfather dealt with my grandfather, my parents and me, indeed her father worked for my parents as a mechanic for a short time.

Once again, many thanks to the thousands of customers over the last one hundred years or so, many of them have become life-long friends.

25/10/2022

Normandy Bridge, France.

The Pont de Normandie (Normandy Bridge) is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre to Honfleur in , northern . Its total length is 2,143.21 metres (7,032 ft) – 856 metres (2,808 ft) between the two piers.

The bridge opened on 20 January 1995. At that time it was both the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and also had a record distance between piers for a cable-stayed bridge. It was more than 250 metres (820 ft) longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tatara Bridge in Japan. Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirrio. At the end of construction, the total cost for the bridge, all ancillary structures and finance costs was $465 million and was financed by Natixis. The bridge on its own cost €233 million (US$250 million).

25/10/2022

CONGRATULATIONS Ellie and Daisy Taylor, formerly of Seymour House, Chipping Campden. A great adventure, super fundraising and a fascinating Instagram commentary every day. There's life in an old dog.....old Fiesta yet!

20/10/2022

Fish Hill, near Broadway.

03/10/2022

A composite photo of the position and phases of the moon over 28 days, each photo taken at the same exact location each day.

02/10/2022

Gorgeous Italian Wedding Cake 🇮🇹