Editors: David and Monica Lilley
monica.lilley2@btopenworld.com
Distribution: Tony Court
Hilary Rule
All
contributions please. Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th
MAY 2005
Refuse Collections during May
Tuesday 3rd
May - Green bin and green box
Monday 9th May - Black bin
Monday 16th May - Green bin and green box
Monday 23rd May - Black bin
Tuesday 31st May - Green bin and green box
Anti Social Behaviour We have
again had a number of complaints, particularly with regard to the Recreation
Ground. Both litter bins in the
Recreation Ground have been damaged; there has also been damage to the Village
Hall roof and guttering. Numerous
complaints have been received again about dog fouling. Please help us maintain the Recreation
Ground in a state that everyone can enjoy.
Annual Parish Meeting The 2005 Parish Meeting will be held in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 18th May. There will be two speakers, Mr David Hall of ‘Stop Stansted’ who will be talking about current progress on the Stansted development, and PC Iain Perry, the policeman responsible for Ickleton. Everyone in the village is invited to come to the meeting, which gives an opportunity to ask questions and air your views on any matters concerning the village. Free beer and wine will be served from 7.00 p.m. onwards. The AGM of the Parish Council will take place at 7.30 p.m. on 11th May and will be followed by a meeting of the Parish Council.
Wellcome Trust After two
and a half years the South Field Project was completed on 18th April.
There are still minor bits and pieces of landscaping work to be
completed but the walk is now open to Ickleton residents. The Parish Council has written to Wellcome
Trust expressing their appreciation of the way in which Phillipa Towlson has
fulfilled her role as project coordinator, particularly with respect to her
relations with our village.
Stop Stansted Expansion A Runway Ramble is to be held on Sunday 26th
June and will comprise five circular walks followed by a Grand Summer Fete to
be held in the village of Little Easton.
Anyone interested in taking part should contact Gerry Bigland ' 01279 850373 or sgbigland.fsnet.co.uk. Jocelyn Flitton – Parish
Clerk
The Bishop’s Stortford Methodist Circuit
is holding an Oriental Bazaar in Ickleton Village Hall on Saturday 14th
May 2.00 – 4.00 p.m. There will be stalls, competitions, teas and
entertainment. Entrance – free. All welcome.
All profits to World Mission Fund of the
Methodist Church.
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Sunday 1st |
9.30 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Easter 6 |
11.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m. Sung Evensong |
ICKLETON
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Thursday 5th |
12.30 a.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Ascension Day |
7.30 p.m. Shelford Deanery Eucharist |
STAPLEFORD |
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Sunday 8th
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8.00 a.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
ICKLETON
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Easter 7 |
10.00 a.m. Joint Family Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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6.30 p.m. Sung Evensong |
ICKLETON
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Thursday 12th |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 15th |
10.00 a.m. Joint Family Eucharist |
ICKLETON
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Pentecost |
No Evensong Service |
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Thursday 19th |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 22nd
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9.30 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity Sunday |
11.00 a.m. Morning Worship and Godly Play |
HINXTON |
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ICKLETON
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Thursday 26th |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (Order 1) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 29th |
10.00 a.m. Joint Family Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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ON
HONEYMOON?
They call the first months of a vicar’s
job in a new parish the ‘honeymoon’. For most churches, life without a vicar is
not easy, because of the way the church is organised and managed, so people
tend to breathe a sigh of relief when a new person arrives. And for this new
Priest-in-Charge, it was good to discover Duxford, Hinxton and Ickleton, so
different from my last parish.
Everyone enjoys the first few months as
the Priest-in-Charge settles in; and that’s what I’m doing too! There are good
congregations, the buildings are structurally sound and well cared for and people
have been so welcoming. At the moment I’m trying to learn what makes each
village church tick. I’m enjoying the different styles of worship, listening
and asking questions. If only that was all there was to it! But like any
honeymoon, there comes a time to get down to the hard work of building
relationships and in the hurly burly of community life, there are bound to be
disappointments.
The six churchwardens got together
recently to produce the Calendar of Services to take us to the end of 2005
(available in each church for £1). In a few months’ time we shall need to be
working on plans for 2006. We could, of course, leave things as they are (and
that might be the favoured option), but this is probably the right time to review
present structures and discuss how to build on them.
Perhaps I should show my cards. As a
newcomer, I have three questions:
· How
could the service timetable for the three churches be improved? I have to admit
that I find it a bit confusing.
· How
could children be more involved in worship? In some services that’s not
appropriate, of course, but the active participation of families can make such
a difference to church life.
· How
can we incorporate new developments in worship? I have a particular interest in
the Christian Healing Ministry, but am not sure how that could be built into
the present timetable.
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At the Annual Church Meetings in April, I
suggested a process to help us address some of these issues:
1. A discussion with each Church Council
about the present service structure, what works and what doesn’t work so well, and where they would like to see
developments. (May)
2. The setting up of a working party with two
representatives from each Church Council to look at the responses and make
recommendations. (June and July)
3. Feedback
to each PCC on the recommendations. (September)
4. Consideration of PCC responses and developments of proposals.
5. Presentation
of proposals to a meeting of all three PCCs together. (October)
6. Implementation
of proposals for an experimental period in the 2006 Calendar of Services.
I have been so grateful for the welcome
from all three villages, and it is a real privilege to be Priest-in-Charge
here. So I’m sorry, in a way, to be asking questions and making suggestions,
especially if it means the honeymoon is coming to an end, but – that’s part of
my job too!
E.Mail: andrew.scholfield@ely.anglican.org
Rev. Andrew Schofield, The Rectory, St
John’s Street, Duxford CB2 4RA.
Village Archives - One of the things that the
Society does is look after the village archives. We shall be displaying photos and other documents at the Church Fete
as usual and we'd like to add to the collection before then. The Village School reunion, ‘Come Home 2005,
is particularly interested in photos from the 1940s and 1950s. Please let me or Andrew Shepperd know if you
have any we could copy (or other photos or papers relating to the
village). We can collect them, promise
to take great care of them and return them to you quickly (we can copy photos
from either the negative or the photo itself).
AGM - A reminder that the AGM is on
Wednesday 25th May at 7.30
p.m. in the meeting room at the Village Hall.
We shall have a short review of what the Society has been doing in the
last year and a discussion of ideas for the future, followed by free wine and
refreshments. Phillipa Towlson will
then talk about the Wellcome Trust Wetlands and the new walk that is open
between Ickleton and Hinxton.
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds - a reminder too, that we
shall be visiting the theatre on Saturday 21st May at 11.00 a.m. This is a unique opportunity for a private tour of this
outstanding Georgian playhouse, before it closes for a long period of
refurbishment. The tour costs £2 and we
shall be booking a pub lunch for those who wish. The theatre is close to Bury St Edmunds Abbey and the beautiful
Abbey Gardens which are a delight to visit as well. Please let me know by 8th May if you'd like to come along (car sharing to be arranged).
Denny Abbey - We're visiting the Abbey
(founded in 1159) and the Farmland Museum on Saturday 18th June in the afternoon. They are just north of Waterbeach and we'll
be arranging car sharing. Tickets cost
£3.80, £3 concessions, £1.60 child and £9.60 family, free to English Heritage
members. There is a tearoom. Please let me know if you are interested in
coming along. Rachel
Radford
Through the L.T.A. we have found a coach for a
ten-week term starting in May. The
classes for ages 5-7 years will commence at 5.00 p.m. and 7 years upward at 6.00 p.m. on Mondays. It will be necessary to register and pay in
advance and the cost will be in the region of £2 per session, depending on the
numbers registering. A short meeting
will be held in the meeting room on Tuesday 3rd May at 5.30pm to discuss the
way ahead. It is hoped that as many
parents as possible will attend and please feel free to bring your children
along if you need to. There is a notice
and list on the Village Hall notice board and it would be helpful if parents
would register an interest ahead of the meeting.
Tickets are now on sale at Cost Cutter Express for
the Northern Theatre Company production on Thursday the 19th May - an event not
to be missed. Gordon Woolhouse
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The March Quiz Night raised £100 for
Comic Relief. Thanks to everyone who
took part and organised the evening.
The next Quiz Night will be held on 30th
April at 9.00 p.m. The proceeds from
this Quiz will be given to a local charity, so come along and support us.
At our meeting on April 6th it
was Mr. Sonny Willmott’s birthday, so his wife very kindly gave us cakes for
tea, and a drink as well. We thank her very much for all this. Also, on the 3rd
April Mr. Cyril Webb was ninety years old, so Mrs. Beryl Harris very kindly
gave a sponge cake for him with Happy Birthday written on, which was very kind
of her.
We do thank everyone. Mrs. R. Lilley
Once again Sunita and Dilip very kindly
allowed me to leave the daffodil box at their shop – I am most grateful to
them. It made £57.50, which is wonderful. Thank you all so much for your
donations. Jill Dillon-Robinson
Hinxton Church Fete will be on Saturday
11th June at 2.00 p.m. on the Recreation Ground behind the Village
Hall. Lots of stalls – Hinxton
Home-made, Merv’s fruit and veg, delicious teas and much, much more. Ros
Smith
Lewis lived in Ickleton all his
life. When Lewis was born, his parents,
Jack and Sally Bridgeman, lived on what was then known as Dead Man's Hill. They
subsequently moved to a cottage in Frogge Street and then to the house in Birds
Close where Lewis grew up and spent the rest of his life.
After leaving school Lewis joined the
Royal Air Force and trained as an Auto Electrician, serving for 8 years,
including a two-year posting to Hong Kong.
On leaving the Air Force, Lewis joined an engineering company and
trained as a welder, a skill that he became most accomplished at. Some four years later he was employed by the
Cambridge City Council as a fitter/welder and remained with the Council for 22
years until successive hip operations forced his early retirement. Following
this he took a lighter job as an electrician at Stansted Airport.
Lewis was a keen motor cycle club member
and for many years spent his holidays on his pride and joy, a Triumph Tiger 100
Twin, touring through Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. He made many friends on his tours and they
kept in touch with him over the years and visited him in Ickleton from time to
time.
Lewis owned a Massey-Ferguson tractor and
enjoyed competing at local ploughing competitions. He also built up a collection of stationary engines, which he
restored and enjoyed exhibiting at shows and crank-up events, as far afield as
the Isle of Man and Ireland, which he visited several times. He was planning a
trip to an event in the Orkney Islands this year. Another pastime was clay pigeon shooting, at which he was a
prizewinner.
Lewis was an avid reader and built up a
fine collection of books on a surprisingly wide range of topics and enjoyed
television documentaries on restoration topics and the natural world.
Friends from work, from the local
community and from his various pastimes attended the funeral at the Crematorium
on the 13th April and afterwards at the Ickleton Lion. Lewis is survived by his younger sister
Diane and by his partner Cathy. Gordon Woolhouse
The Easter Weekend Art Exhibition and
Sale held at Rectory Farm, Ickleton, was very well supported and a sum of £160
has been donated to The Friends of Arthur Rank Hospice.
Cynthia Rule
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Elderly, disabled and sick people in the
villages to the south of Cambridge, who needed help in obtaining a hot meal
during the day, have had to make whatever arrangements they could manage since
the Meals on Wheels Scheme was axed in 1997. We can now announce that the local
charity OWL (Opportunities Without Limits), based in Sawston, has started a new
hot meals delivery service, which extends through such areas as the Shelfords,
Sawston and Pampisford, Duxford, Whittlesford, Hinxton, Ickleton and Babraham.
Called ‘Meals-2-You’, the service is based at the OWL Cafe within Sawston Free
Church, and is available on weekdays at a cost of £3.25 per meal, delivered to
your door hot and ready to eat. Meals consist of a main course and a sweet, and
special diets are catered for. The service is available either as a permanent
arrangement, or as temporary extra support during a crisis, such as
convalescence after hospital treatment. If you, or someone you know, might
benefit from this service, please telephone Graham Caswell (Service
Co-Ordinator) ' 01223 835088 for further
details. The office is staffed from 9.30 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. on weekdays, and
there is an answering service at other times.
Myself Olive and my sister Noreen Carter,
were born in Ickleton at the Caldrees Manor bungalow. We both attended the local school. Miss Carver was the infant teacher and Mrs. Wilson taught the 7
to 11 year olds. If anyone didn’t own up to any wrong doing, everyone would
line up and get one stroke of the cane (not allowed these days).
Our father, George Carter, was a
chauffeur for Captain Mundy who lived in Caldrees Manor (Captain Mundy being
one of the very few people who owned a car at that time). My Dad wore a chauffeur’s uniform with a
peaked cap, when he was working, and he had to salute Captain Mundy. Captain
Mundy’s car was kept in the garage at our house, and my father kept it
immaculate, he seemed to be always washing it. Sometimes I was allowed to sit
in it when he was getting it out of the garage (highly illegal), but I wasn’t
allowed to touch anything. I can’t remember what sort of car it was ,but it was
very big with a window you could pull across so that the chauffeur couldn’t
hear any private conversations.
Mrs. Player was the cook at the Manor and
Cicely and Stella were the servants. When my sister was due to be born (as my
mother had her at home) I went to the Manor for a few days, to stay with them.
My best friend was Judy Driver. We spent many happy hours playing around her farm during the summer holidays. We would go to the harvest fields, ride on tractors or a horse and cart, and the sun seemed to shine all the time.
Ickleton was a very prosperous village:
it had Mr. Griggs the butcher; Mr. Perry the baker; Mr. Bonham the milkman; two
grocery shops, run by Mabel Lilley and
Mr. Say; and five pubs.
Then the war came along, and everything
changed. Our father joined the A.R.P
(Air Raid Patrol). When the air raid sirens sounded,, he would cycle around the
village blowing a whistle and people would rush down to their air raid
shelters. We were joined in ours by
Annie Blackwell, she had an evacuee called Doreen Stephens. There was also an evacuee at the Manor,
Michael Seery and we must not forget the three Bristow kids and their Mum who
joined us and never went back to London.
One scary incident I recall was when I was home from school at lunch time (there was no such thing as school dinners) and I went to the outside privy before going back to school. While I was in there, a German bomber had some spare machine gun bullets and decided to target the privy’s tin roof, My father wasn’t at home, but my mother was in the house and heard what was happening, she didn’t dare come out and hoped I had made it inside in time. Luckily no one was hurt. Quite an experience.
Thank you, most sincerely, to all those
who sent such kind thoughts to our family, and thank you for the lovely cakes
and sandwiches. It is comforting to have such a warm home here in Ickleton.
Margaret Garrett and family
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THURSFORD – a date for your diary
Sounds and Sights of Christmas
Spectacular
I have tickets again this year for this wonderful show. The date is Wednesday
December 7th and is for the 2.00 p.m. performance. The coach will leave Ickleton mid morning.
Please could all who are interested let
me have their names, payment NOT required until the beginning of October. Thank
you Betty
Willmott
Plans are well advanced at the Imperial
War Museum Duxford for the Victory in Europe Anniversary Air Show on Saturday 7th
& Sunday 8th May. This
will be the first major air show this year in the United Kingdom and, with air
shows second only to football matches as an outdoor spectator event, promises
plenty of action, nostalgia and excitement for everyone. The air show will see
Duxford commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in
style with an impressive line up of classic and modern aircraft to complement
its outstanding exhibits and displays. Says Tracey Woods, Marketing and Public
Relations Manager for the Museum, "We'll be getting the air show and event
season at Duxford off to a flying start with this show. In an exciting flying
programme of over 3 hours, historic aircraft synonymous with the Second World
War such as the Lancaster, Spitfires and Hurricanes will star alongside some of
the world's fastest and technologically advanced jets. The Museum's
world-famous aircraft collection will be on show and with all the action in the
air, this really will be a fantastic day out for young and old alike." As
an added bonus, standard entrance to the air show will also be FREE to all those
aged 60 or over. Tickets - Adults £20, Senior Citizens FREE, Children £8,
Concessions £8. VIP Gold Pass tickets are also available in advance - for more
information about air show tickets, or the main flying programme call the
ticket office on 01223 499353 or visit www.iwm.orq.uk.
Tracey Woods, Marketing and Public
Relations Manager ' 01223 499320
It is not just Jamie Oliver putting the
health back into schools! Disa’s Body
Conditioning class celebrates its 8th year at Duxford School –
Thursdays 7.00 p.m. Bring along your mat or towel, trainers and your water.
Contact Disa or come along and join in.
The Duxford Tennis Club Open Tournament
will be held on Sunday 8th May starting at 1.30 p.m.
All are welcome (minimum age 15), partner
not needed!
Nominal charge per player. An informal afternoon of friendly doubles
tennis, followed by a delicious homemade afternoon tea.
Further details. Kathy
Warren Wilson
In a recent Icene I was very pleased to
see Jocelyn Flitton has been made Parish Clerk, she will do a good job I’m
sure. I remember her being born - I used to go and see her as a new baby, in
the house she still lives in.
I hope to visit Grassy Lane on my next
visit to Ickleton, what fun we used to have there. As children, I remember
riding a pony down there (probably Jennifer Bailey’s ‘Maggie’) and was a bit
surprised (and wary) of gypsies camping there, so I don’t think I did that
again!
It’s nice to read that the cemetery is
getting some attention, I usually visit my Clements family graves, and my cousin
Rosemary Murray, on behalf of her daughter Jane, who lives in Lincoln now, so
hasn’t been to Ickleton recently.
I am looking forward to the July fete and
hope we get a good attendance and meet up with even more old friends. Molly
Dagley (nee Clements)
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It's coming around to that time again - the time of
the Annual Fete, which will be held this year on Saturday 9th July.
Whilst the usual suspects are, at this very moment,
toiling away behind the scenes to organise the event, they do need the entire
village to support the most important church fundraising event of the year.
Most of you know that our village church is a very beautiful and historic
building, but it does cost a lot to
maintain and it is there for everyone living in the parish.
For the raffle we have had very generous support from
local businesses and individuals but we do need volunteers to sell tickets for
us. First prize this year, courtesy of an anonymous donor, is a Weekend Deluxe
Escape for two people at a Marriott Hotel in London or an alternative
destination of your choice. Second prize is a Hitachi TV with built-in DVD
player kindly donated by the Wellcome Trust. Another anonymous donation is the
third prize of £100 in cash and there are many other prizes besides. If you
think you could sell even 10 tickets for us please let us know and the books
will be delivered to your door in mid May.
Those who may feel unable to sell tickets might wish
to supply a bottle for the popular bottle stall - anything from spirits, wine,
soft drinks to sauces, shampoos or whatever - if it comes in a bottle we'll
accept it gratefully so start
collecting now.
Neil and Rosemary McKillen
We have come up with the following categories for
this years’ photography competition at the Fete. This is for adults and children’s abilities. The cost is £1 for
each entry.
1. Pet or
pets
2. The
Seasons
3. An
Ickleton Scene
4. Old
Ickleton (decide for yourself!)
5. The
Church (after all it is the Church Fete!)
6. A flower
/ tree photo
These should all be in colour, either 6” x 4” or 7½ “ x 5”
The results will be announced in the meeting room in
the Village Hall on the afternoon of the fete at 3.45 p.m. A rosette will be
given for 1st prize only for each category.
If you would like to participate put your
photo/photos in an envelope (with money), together with details of categories
they are in, and either put them through my door before the day of the fete or
bring to the fete on the day,
preferably between 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. Last year we had 30 entries.
Well done.
We hope a village personality will judge the
competition. Monica Lilley - Fete Organiser
THE
CHESTERFORDS, ICKLETON & HINXTON W.I.
What an incredible story! For one whole hour Mrs. Beryl Lawry held us spellbound, Beryl was one of the 12,000 boffins who worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two on the Enigma Machine, which, when they finally broke the German codes (they were changing all the time), helped to save thousands of lives especially on the North Atlantic Convoys, which were devasted by the U-boats.
Without the work of these dedicated people,
the war could have dragged on much longer and who knows what the final result
may have been!
They kept their secrets for fifty years
and only now feel free to talk about them..
It is right that we should know about these wonderful people and how much
we owe them for the lives they saved.
The next meeting will be on May 18th when the W.I. Resolutions will be
discussed. There will also be a Bring
and Buy Sale in aid of Denman College. Cynthia Rule
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The Wednesday only market-day bus to Royston is now
operated by Huntingdon and District.
It leaves Ickleton at 10.17 a.m. The return journey leaves Royston bus
station at 1.00 p.m.
David Lilley
Each month a copy of the Bulletin is sent to the
Cambridgeshire Collection at Lion Yard in Cambridge and the County Record
Office at Shire Hall, so it is available for reference and is preserved for
posterity!
Thanks to Andrew Shepperd, the Bulletin is now on the
Ickleton website, so it is read on the other side of the world.
We recently had an instance where what turned out to
be a distant relation had found that their ancestors had come from
Ickleton. They typed in Ickleton +
Lilley on the internet and up came the Icene! Editors
There is still
time to sponsor Ickleton Church Fete 2005.
If you would like to sponsor the fete
on our programme it is £25 per line for your business or service. The programme
will be delivered to every house in the village a week before the fete.
Please contact me
if you are interested.
Monica Lilley – Fete Organiser
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May 1st |
Riverside Barns Open Day |
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2nd |
Art and Craft Show 10.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m. Hinxton
Church |
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3rd |
Short Tennis Discussion Meeting 5.30 p.m. Village
Hall |
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4th |
Chesterford & District Garden Society Meeting
‘Bridge End Gardens’ |
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by John
Bosworth, 8.00 p.m. Chapel, Carmel Street, Gt. Chesterford |
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5th |
General and County Council Elections 7.00
a.m.–10.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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7th |
Visiting Bellringers 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. |
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8th |
Duxford Tennis Club Open Tournament 1.30 p.m. |
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9th |
Mobile Library |
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11th |
Parish Council AGM 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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14th |
Visiting Bellringers 9.15 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. |
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14th |
Oriental Bazaar 2.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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18th |
Parish
Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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18th |
W.I. Meeting 7.45 p.m. Gt. Chesterford Community
Centre |
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19th |
Theatre Group ‘Great Expectations’ 8.00 p.m.
Village Hall |
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21st |
Parkinson’s Bazaar 2.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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21st |
IPS Visit to Bury St. Edmunds Theatre Royal |
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23rd |
Mobile Library |
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24th |
Visiting Bellringers 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. |
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25th |
IPS AGM 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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June 11th |
Hinxton Church Fete 2.00 p.m. Hinxton Recreation
Ground |
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11th |
Quiz Evening 7.30 p.m. Duxford School |
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18th |
IPS Visit to Denny Abbey |
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July 9th |
Church Fete 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. |
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