the purposes of education, objects of local interest and common use’. During the official opening of the museum, Sir Cyril Fox proclaimed ‘I am inclined to think that in the University of Cambridge there is more exact knowledge of the social anthropology of, let us say, Papua than of Pampisford’; the Museum of Cambridge has retained its original purpose to collect, preserve and educate the public about a history of Cambridgeshire, separate from the university. Enid Porter was appointed assistant curator under honorary curator Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe in 1947 and became full curator in 1950, living in rooms connected to the old Inn. The museum was in a poor financial position surviving on a combination of subscriptions, donations, admission fees (3d for children and 6d for adults). Enid worked as ticket collector and cleaner, as well as curator; in 1965, she only earned £8 a week and had not had a pay rise in fifteen years. During the 1960s, Porter had transformed the museum into a community hub and visitor numbers steadily rose throughout the decade. Enid's health began to decline in the 1960s and she retired in 1974 after a series of heart attacks. Collection of folklore The collection of the Cambridge & County Folk Museum grew vastly during Enid Porter's curatorship; she accepted donations and regularly went to auctions to buy items for the museum. The museum's collection now comprises over 20,000 objects not including Porter's personal notebooks. These notebooks contained copies of historical documents, newspaper articles and trade directories that she used to track movements of individuals, businesses and buildings. Porter's notebooks are also home to accounts of numerous encounters with people she met during her professional life, detailing certain folk customs and superstitions and song lyrics. Some of her notes and transcriptions have been digitised by the Enid Porter Project run by the Museum of Cambridge and can be seen on the project website. Her collecting of material in the Isle of Ely, the rural northern areas of Cambridgeshire, part of The Fens, brought her into contact with Walter Henry (Jack) Barrett (1891-1974) with whom she published Tales from the Fens (1963), More Tales from the Fens (1964) and A Fenman's Story (1965). Another was Arthur Redvers Randell with whom she published Sixty Years a Fenman and Fenland Railwayman. Porter was awarded The Coote Lake Medal by the Folklore Society in 1968. Years before a methodology