For £10-95 you can have a two course special Christmas Meal at the Little Rose Pub every Sunday lunchtime from now until the end of December. This is a saving of nearly £4-00 on the pub’s usual Sunday Lunches including pudding. You can choose from Turkey, Beef, Chicken and a Vegetarian option, and the price includes desert. There is a discount for children’s Christmas Meals. The Rose serves Sunday Lunches from noon until 3pm every Sunday. The pub is open 7 days a week from noon until late, and it serves food from 4pm until 9pm from Mondays to Fridays and from noon until 9pm on Saturdays.
Unsurprisingly, Armistice Day in Cambridge in November 1918 was as raucous an affair as elsewhere. The Cambridge Chronicle reported:
The news reached Cambridge about 11 o’clock, and spread like wildfire. The first signal was given by the hoisting of the Union Jack at the Town Hall [now the Guildhall], and the churches and colleges quickly followed suit in setting joy-bunting floating. In a few moments youngsters were shrilly cheering in the streets … With feverish speed all Cambridge hung out bunting, and women and children bedecked themselves with miniatures flags or trappings of red, white and blue.
An effigy of the Kaiser was paraded around the town. Unfortunately the bells of Great St. Mary’s failed to ring because a group of over-enthusiastic youths damaged them, but there was no such problem in Haslingfield. The bells there rang for two hours from noon.
During the whole of November, the Little Rose Pub is offering 20% off all meals Monday to Saturday. Also, for its Sunday Lunches, whenever you pay for two adult meals, you’ll get a children’s Sunday Lunch for free. The price of a Sunday Lunch is Adults £8-95 and Children £5-95. The weekday menu also has a wide range of Children’s meals, all costing £3-00. The pub is now open from noon every day of the week and is serving food from 4pm until 9pm Mondays to Fridays, on Saturdays from noon until 9pm with special Sunday Lunches from noon until 3pm. Click on the link to see the full menu including prices… Pub Menu
From today (Monday 27th October) the Little Rose Pub is now open from Noon until Late 7 days a week. It’s also selling food from Noon until 9pm Mondays to Saturdays and Traditional Sunday Lunches from Noon until 3pm on Sundays. As the village’s last pub is now a proper, true Freehouse, it serves a range of at least 3 real ales, plus the usual lagers, wines and spirits as well as Teas, Coffees and soft drinks. The pub also sells a wide range of Children’s meals for just £3-00 alongside a special selection of children’s drinks. It welcomes families with children of any age.
Any village club, society or group are welcome to use the newly decorated Lounge bar for meetings or get togethers for free. Simply turn up when the pub is open and make yourself at home.
Click Read More for more details on what beer and cider the pub is selling this week…
Live Music with Billy Jester aka Jockey Jim or Jimbo from the Elms in Haslingfield at the Little Rose Pub this Saturday 25th October. Free Entry. Music Starts at 8.30pm. This is the first of a series of events being held at the village’s only Pub in the run-up to Christmas. To see the full list of events, click on Read More…
The Little Rose Petanque Team have finished the season as League Champions. The team also had a great finals day, winning both the Doubles Competition as well as the Triples competition. For more information, click on Read More…
The planning application by Cemex to build up to 220 houses on the site of the Barrington cement works is now in. You can see the details on the South Cambridgeshire District Council website here:
Live Music with Billy Jester aka Jimbo from the Elms in Haslingfield at the Little Rose Pub on Saturday 25th October. Free Entry. Music Starts at 8.30pm.
You can quiz the new owners of the Little Rose Pub this Wednesday and Saturday over their plans to build two houses on part of the pub garden. Representatives of owners, Wrenbridge, will be holding an exhibition of their plans in the Lounge Bar of the pub this Wednesday 8th October from 4pm until 8pm and then again this Saturday 11th October from noon until 4pm. Copies of the plans are below. Click “Read More” to see the plans and for more information
Haslingfield Cricket Club has won promotion for the first time in decades. They came second in the Junior League 2 South, with Thriplow 2nd XI topping the table. Haslingfield narrowly missed out on winning the league by half an average point. Click Read More for more details…
The new owners of the Little Rose pub, Wrenbridge, have published their plans to build two houses on the newly fenced off part of the pub garden. They’ll both be detached, one will have 3 bedrooms and the other will have 5 bedrooms. Access will be via Badcock Road. Wrenbridge will be holding an exhibition of their plans in the Lounge Bar of the pub on Wednesday 8th October from 4pm until 8pm and then again on Saturday 11th October from noon until 4pm. Representatives of Wrenbridge will also be there to answer any questions you may have about their plans. Click “Read More” for more information and to see the plans
Haslingfield “Safari Supper” takes place on 11th October 2014. It’s a 5 course dinner party, with each course in a different house in the village. You pay for the course you host, plus £10/head (£5/head for main course hosts). All profits will go towards the Tennis Club Floodlights Fund but anyone in the village can join in. Simply get together a group of 8 friends who would like to have the main course together, and send all names and addresses to the e-mail address below or send your name and address if you would like to join in but don’t have a group of eight. Please e-mail Lawrence.Hopkins@talk21.com to book a place. More details below
The Little Rose Pub is now selling Draft Real Ale that’s brewed in Harston, and it was delivered by bike! The ale is Black Light and is brewed by BlackBar at its microbrewery. Black Light is on sale this week, alongside Lacons Encore, 3.8 % from Great Yarmouth, and Wells Eagle IPA, 3.6% from Bedford. Now the Little Rose is a true Freehouse, it can sell whatever beer, or lager, it wants to, with Neil and Sue keen to support local brewers. More details are below.
As Zeppelin raids continued, including on the Cambridge area, German bombers continued raiding London, and Germany was making strides on the Western Front, a fear seems to have gripped the British mainland. Extreme circumstances produced extreme suggestions, like this letter in the ‘Cambridge Chronicle’ from F.L. Nicholls, Of Fulbourn:
“Sir – What is to prevent a flight of enemy aeroplanes landing in our villages, leaving one or two of their number with machine guns to protect the planes while the remainder carry death and destruction to everyone and everything they come across? ….
In every village we now have volunteers; some of these should always be ready with machine guns and grenades at home, and … a small supply of machine guns should be provided for use in case of emergency. Will this be done or shall we have to wait till some massacre of innocent civilian women and children and old people has taken place?”
Thankfully for the streets of Haslingfield and Fulbourn the German threat was thwarted in early 1918.
