On 20 December between 11.00 am and 1.30 pm there will be a Festive Family Fun Day and Jumble Sale at Haslingfield Village Hall. The event will raise money for Save the Children to support their efforts in the refugee camps across Europe.
The day will include: Food from Provenance Kitchen ~ Live music ~ Mulled wine and mince pies ~ Cake stall ~ Raffle ~ Craft Table ~ Jumble sale of children’s clothes, toys and equipment ~ Face painting, and more.
There’s a planned power cut that will affect 29 properties in the village this Tuesday 1st December. The power will go off at 9am and should be back on by noon. The village shop and post office is one of the affected properties and this will affect what the post office can do, but the shop will remain open. UK Power Networks have told this website that if you haven’t received a letter about the planned power cut, then you electricity will stay on. In an update they said that the notified time of 1pm to 4pm has changed to 9am until noon. It’s needed to upgrade some equipment. For more information check out www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk or tweet @ukpowernetworks It’s incident ref: 60953487/INCD-4000325-B. Call 01462-832557/0800-7838838/0333-2022021 for more info Alternatively their emergency faults number is 0800 316 3105, this free for landlines and mobiles.
The Haslingfield Allotment Gardeners Association (HAGA) is holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 8th December in the Little Rose Pub in the village from 7.30pm. We are looking for new members and anyone interested in helping with the allotments which are on the road to Harston. The site is currently fully occupied and no waiting list. Anyone with green fingers is welcome.
Please find details of work carried out on behalf of Highways England to improve the A14 and the M11 near Haslingfield. The work will commence on Monday 16 November.
The new owners of the Village Shop take charge from this Monday 16th November. Conrad Golding and Carol have run the Village Shop for the last 9 years and this Sunday will be their last day. The shop will be closed on Monday morning and should open sometime Monday afternoon after the Post Office has carried out an audit. For more details on the new owners and their plans, click Read More:-
The next meeting to make plans for a village celebration on 11th and 12th June 2016 will be held in the Methodist Church this Wednesday 11th November at 7.30pm.
Tentative plans for a fancy dress parade, round-the-village race, giant “Street Party” on the Rec, “Great British Bake Off”. “Haslingfield’s Got Talent”, Church service on Sunday and Scarecrows around the village. Read more
The Little Rose pub recently played host to Siv Sears. He’s set himself a target of playing cribbage in every county in the UK and then perhaps setting up a national Cribbage competition. He’s a 38 year old Englishman with a passion for Cribbage. Having just returned to his native UK from China, where he’s have lived for most of the last 15 years, he’s been interested to find that Crib in the UK is very much locally organised, rather than both nationally and locally organised as he’s seen before in the States. As such, he’s set himself 4 goals. To see them, click Read More:-
This event gets better every year with 19 different charities taking part. There will be lots of different things to buy – Christmas cards, Christmas puddings, books, homemade food etc. You can also help to make a quilt that will be sent to a sick baby in Addenbrookes Hospital AND you might win a big one in the raffle! As well as all the stalls, there will be a café serving delicious homemade food and light lunches.
Children, don’t forget to take your Christmas letters along to the Fair . You can post them in a special postbox, and Action for Children will send them to Father Christmas. He has promised to send you a reply!” Read more
This month’s post is in the form of an advertisement.
Regular readers will have noticed that the postings this year have been based upon news items printed in the ‘Cambridge Independent Press’ between 1901 and 1920. The Village Society is now publishing all the news items referring to Haslingfield in a book entitled ‘Haslingfield in the News, 1901-1920’. The book is 120 pages long, contains a large number of photographs, and will retail at only £6. It will be available from local shops, at Village Society events and directly from me at jf.beresford@ntlworld.com. All profits will go to the Village Society.
The book contains a range of stories including fires, accidents, scandals and biographies. It is the ideal Christmas stocking-filler for members and friends of the family in Haslingfield, and for those who have moved away. It follows on directly from ‘The Haslingfield Chronicle, 1776-1900’ which is still on sale for £3.50. We hope to publish news items after 1920 as they become available.
Hello to everyone. We are Mr & Mrs Godhaniya really really happy to announce that we are going to be new owner from mid November at Haslingfield Village Shop. We been to the the Village many times and it was really pleasant to meet everyone including Neil and sue who was really wellcoming. We are looking forward to meet everyone soon. We are going to increase opening hours of shop and post office and increasing stock level as well. I am requesting all of you to put suggestions as per your requirements, which would be highly considered. and it will help us to provide better services. You can do this either by adding a comment below or to the Village Facebook page entry. Thank you.
A defibrillator has now been ordered from the Community Heartbeat Trust and will be placed in the redundant telephone box on the High Street. It can be used without any formal training because the equipment is very easy to use, and when you have dialled 999, the ambulance service operator will give you the code to open the defibrillator cabinet and stay on the telephone to assist you. Read more
The annual village Bonfire Night & Fireworks Display takes place on Saturday 7th November from 6pm with the fireworks starting at 6.30pm. It all takes place on Well House Meadow, Haslingfield. Tickets cost £4, (under 5s free) and are available now from the Village Shop, Country Kitchen and Norman Bradshaw on 840501. They can also be bought on the gate. In the interests of safety, please do not bring sparklers or extra fireworks. Many of you will remember how much fun Bonfire Night is inside the tent, the camaraderie, the peaceful soup ladling, the delighted cake slicing etc. If you’d like to help out again this year, by serving on the night, setting up, taking down, baking cakes or potatoes, preparing soup or in any other way, then please let Jo know at joclover@outlook.com or 07572 590119
On 20 December between 11.00 am and 1.30 pm there will be a Festive Family Fun Day and Jumble Sale at Haslingfield Village Hall. The event will raise money for Save the Children to support their efforts in the refugee camps across Europe.
