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Faith To Live By

The next guest speaker in our Faith To Live By series of services at Haslingfield Methodist Church will be led by Revd Robert Dolman on Sunday 8th June 2014.  His address is entitled: ‘Primitive Physic and its Implications for Christian Lifestyle Today’.   The evening will involved a short service, and address, refreshments and an informal discussion.  Everyone welcome. Continue reading Faith To Live By

Trumpington Meadows Country Park

 Preview Tour

T M Country ParkTrumpington Meadows Country Park will be opening in September 2014.  Here is your chance to have a sneak preview of this wonderful new facility on our doorstep.  A guided walking tour of the site will take place for interested people from the surrounding parishes on Wed 18th June 2014, 6.30-8pm.

Places are limited on first come first served basis, and participants must be able to walk over uneven ground for up to 3 miles.   To book a space on the walk, please contact vicky.hathrell@cambridge.gov.uk,  or phone: 01223 847433 .  This walk is not suitable for small children.

Cambridge Business and the Great War

Unsurprisingly, Cambridge businesses were keen to stress their patriotic credentials during the First World War. In the month that the Expeditionary Force landed in France, August 1914, Horniman’s announced no increase in the price of their tea. A month later Eaden Lilley, conscious perhaps of some customer grumbling, placed an ad in the Cambridge Chronicle, as follows: Continue reading Cambridge Business and the Great War

Thanksgiving for Marriage

weddingThe Parish Church invites you to a service of Thanksgiving for Marriage on Sunday June 15th at 10.30am.   We also want to thank Christine Tod for a faithful ministry of over 40 years of preparing flowers in the church for weddings.

For those of you who wish, there will  be an opportunity to make a quiet renewal of your marriage vows.  This invitation is for all – whether you are married or not and whether you were married in our village church or not.  Please bring a wedding photo or even an album so we can put them out on tables for other to see while we enjoy appropriate refreshment.

New Manager at the Pub

From today (Wednesday 28th May) the Little Rose pub has a new manager, James McEwan. James has taken over from Alison and Steven James, and the pub is still being run by MetroInns Ltd. The company took over the tenancy of The Little Rose in September last year in a temporary deal with Greene King. James will be running the pub until its future is confirmed.

If you want to help to keep Haslingfield’s only pub open, then email keith@murraysouthwell.plus.com and he’ll bring you upto date with plans that are being formulated by a group of village residents. Continue reading New Manager at the Pub