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Country Kitchen open on Bank Holiday Monday

Country KitchenCountry Kitchen will be open from 9am – 12pm on Bank Holiday Monday, so do feel free to pop in for some freshly baked baguettes, sausage rolls and picnic fayre.

Just arrived in time for the good weather are Yarde Farm ice creams, which are much in demand and Patchwork Pate, with a selection of liver as well as vegetarian pates, as well as a lovely range of sauces from Stokes. It’s hard to believe that it was snowing the day before we opened and we were all shivering in the shop and trying to keep warm, but let’s hope the sunshine is here to stay!! Read more

Eliza Goode

Having looked at village life in Nora Cannell’s time, the next few entries will look at life a couple of generations before, through the eyes of Eliza Goode.

Eliza was the fourth child, and first daughter, of Emma and Thomas Goode, a bricklayer, and was born on 28th December, 1859. Read more

Easter in Haslingfield

Remarkably little is recorded as happening at Easter in the Haslingfield of former times. There are no stories around Easter in the ‘Haslingfield Chronicle’. Can anyone out there throw a light on any regular Eastertime activity in the past in the village? Read more