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
Celebrate Halloween with a FREE Motown and Soul Night at the Little Rose Pub. Fun starts at 8pm on Saturday 31st October and goes on until late. Why not come and support the village’s last pub, which is for the first time ever, now owned by a village couple. For more details on the pub, click Read More…
It was agreed by the Parish Council that a village event would take place on the weekend of the 11th – 12th June 2016 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday.The plan is to involve as many Haslingfield Villagers as possible; arranging events throughout the whole of the Saturday and concluding the celebration with a Church service on the Sunday.
A meeting is to be held in the Methodist Church this Thursday 15th October at 7.30 pm. To make this a memorable and successful event we need your ideas, help and support and we would be grateful if you could come to this meeting.
The Haslingfield Allotment Gardeners Association (HAGA) is having their quarterly committee meeting on Tuesday 13th October 2015 in the Little Rose at 19:30. They have no vacant plots but if want to go on the waiting list to grow your own produce or just want to know more then please come along.
Ron van der Hoorn – Treasurer
Haslingfield’s very own Petanque team, have just been crowned Champions of Division 1 of the Central Cambs League. It’s the 6th time in 7 years that the team have won the league. The team, made up of players Jim, Handbag, Steely, Alex, Nick, Neil and Kayleigh, won the league with one match left to play. The Foxton White Horse B team came second. This comes shortly after the Little Rose Team won the East Anglian Air Ambulance Petanque competition. Full details of the league are here:- http://www.almostolympians.org/
The next Little Rose Pub Quiz will take place this Friday 2nd October. Teams of any number up to a maximum of six can take part, entry is £10 per team with all the entry fees given out as cash prizes. First Question asked at 8pm. Just turn up on the night or book in advance. The date of the quiz has been switched to the first Friday of every month due to popular demand!
Cambridgeshire Cleaning Services provides cleaning services to over 110 establishments in Cambridgeshire and we have an opportunity for a Cleaner to join the team at Haslingfield Primary School. Read more
