PE19, the Market Square and the Great Ouse · St Neots
Data recovery in St Neots. The station sits east of town; your drive travels west.
St Neots stands on the Great Ouse around its Market Square, with the A1 running north to south past the edge of the town and the East Coast Main Line beyond it; the station is east of the town centre and recorded 960,000 entries and exits in 2023–24. The 2021 census counted 33,103 people in the parish, and the town council describes St Neots as the largest and fastest-growing riverside town in Cambridgeshire. Three councils apply — the town council, Huntingdonshire District and Cambridgeshire County. Eynesbury, Eaton Ford and Eaton Socon keep their own names across the water. Light industry still sits along Cromwell Road, Station Road and Barford Road, housing keeps going up at Loves Farm and Wintringham, and the A428 dual carriageway between Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet is still being built. What reaches us is ordinary enough: a site laptop, a practice NAS, a back-office tower. Tracked and insured, it travels to our Oxford intake laboratory, and the first look costs you nothing.
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The five that travel in from St Neots.
No page for your town? Try the fault-finder →| The problem | Why we see it locally | First move |
|---|---|---|
| A site laptop that stopped booting with the week's as-builts on it | Setting-out data and site photography ride out to the plot on the same machine | Leave it switched off and post the laptop as it is |
| The single office PC in a unit off Cromwell Road | Light industry here runs on one tower carrying orders, accounts and a decade of email | Recovery from us, rebuild by IT |
| A two-disk NAS in a vet, dental or physiotherapy practice | Practice imaging sits on a small box nobody has looked at since the day it was set up | Shut it down and send it whole, or send the disks bare |
| An external drive kept on the floor of a ground-floor riverside unit | Damp gets into kit stored low beside the Ouse, and corrosion comes after it | Give us the history — no warming it through at home |
| A haulier's machine holding tachograph downloads and weighbridge tickets | Depots off the A1 keep records they are obliged to hold on a single disk | Tell us which years you need and we work to that |
From a PE19 counter to the Oxford bench.
Close by St Neots.
See every town →Four questions out of PE19.
Do you take work from Eynesbury, Eaton Ford and Eaton Socon?
All of PE19, both banks of the Great Ouse. Eynesbury, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Loves Farm, Wintringham and the villages out towards Huntingdon are all one tracked parcel from the bench, and a PE19 address alters neither the figure nor where the job sits in the queue.
The site laptop has died with our as-builts on it — is that recoverable?
Usually, yes, and it is a common parcel from the building side of the town. Setting-out data, drone surveys and site photographs cannot be taken again once the ground is closed, so name those folders when you ring. We verify them first and give you a list to read before anything is paid for.
Our tachograph and weighbridge records have a retention period. Does that change anything?
It changes the order of work, not the figure. Tell us at the first call which records you are obliged to hold and how far back they go. A read-only image of the disk is made first, and the recovery then runs against your list. The bands do not move for it: £250 + VAT on a card or stick, £300 + VAT on one drive.
Does St Neots have a drop-off counter?
No — no counter, no van and no collection, here or anywhere else. Media comes in by tracked, insured post to the Oxford Science Park intake laboratory, and we pay the postage back. Anyone who would rather not post it can use the weekday drop-off there instead, weekdays 9am–5:30pm.
Other jobs from the casebook.
One parcel out of St Neots is the whole of it.
Power it down, tell us what went wrong, and let the free diagnosis land before you decide anything.