The next meeting of the Film Club will be in the Methodist Church Rooms at 7.30 on Friday 10th October. The film is 104 min long and refreshments will be served half way through. There will be a collection to cover the costs, including use of the room. If you wish to be put on the Film Club e-mail circulation list contact: phildale48@aol.com
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
On Saturday, 11 October at 7.30 p.m. in Harlton Village Hall, Harlton resident, David Davies, will be giving an Astronomy Talk entitled “HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE……?”
£5 entry: School Children Free * Suitable for all ages * Coffee available during the interval
To book your place, telephone Maggie on 01223 263719.
A Haslingfield resident with a guide dog has told us about a campaign called Guide Dogs’ Talking Buses. It concerns people with sight loss who need audio visual announcements on buses so they know where they are and what the next stop is. To find out more and sign the petition, please go to www.guidedogs.org.uk/buspetition. Thank you.
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…
Cricket Club
All Saints’ Haslingfield, Sunday 5th October at 10.30amJoint service with the Methodist Church, and all the village. Do bring harvest gifts, traditional or tinned etc. We will send what we can to the local Food Bank.
The service will be followed by a bring and share lunch in the Methodist Church. All are welcome.
An SOS has gone out to find volunteers to be part of the Age UK Cambridgeshire Visiting Scheme; which offers support to people who are lonely & isolated in later life. Age UK has a waiting list of clients in Haslingfield & adjoining areas and it is keen to hear from your readers. For more info. go to READ MORE Read more
Pub Spanish at the Little Rose in Haslingfield starts on Monday 6th October.
Beginners (and false beginners): 7.30-8.30
Post GCSE or equivalent: 8.30-9.30.
£6 per lesson (10% discount of paid termly)
Contact admin@cambridgespanish.com to register (just to give me an idea of numbers). Please feel free to come along and try it out without committing. If you aren’t sure of your level, get in touch and talk it through.
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
This Sunday 7 September between 2.00 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. you will be able to enjoy a traditional cream tea with freshly-baked scones, jam and cream, in the informal woodland garden of The Dovecote 29 High Street, Haslingfield. All proceeds to Parkinson’s UK.
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.
Superfast broadbandThe good news is that the dark green cabinets in Lilac Close and School Lane providing superfast broadband have now been connected to the exchange in Harston by OpenReach. This means that most people in Haslingfield can now enjoy a much higher speed when connecting to the internet using Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) technology which is known as fibre optic. The actual speed you can get will depend on where you live in the village and how far you are away from the green cabinets, with a claimed maximum speed of almost 38Mbps if you are very close. You may also need a new type of router called a VDSL router in your premises as the technology is different from the existing technology called ADSL broadband, which is used by most people.
You will need to contact an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to see if they offer the fibre broadband service in Haslingfield. There are already quite a few companies offering it. A good starting point will be here: http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/buy-it-now/ (note: Some may not offer the service until the end of September)
Ron van der Hoorn
Broadband Champion for Haslingfield
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.