As our thoughts move away from log fires to warmer times, this month’s extract from Nora Cannell’s memories about her Haslingfield childhood looks at the summer holidays of long ago.
Like most of the children in the village, Nora helped out at harvest-time. Read more
Police have arrested a man they found in a garden in Fountain Lane in connection with an overturned car found in Haslingfield. Earlier Police with sniffer dogs were searching for a man with one trainer and a suspected head injury after a car overturned in the village.
Our next concert will be on Saturday 23rd March 2013 in All Saints’ Church, Haslingfield at 7.30pm (time t.b.c.) Read more
Nora Cannell apparently travelled to school every day on a bicycle that she shared with two others. She also had to carry with her her packed lunch, because there were no school meals during the first quarter of the twentieth century. She recalls one family from Cantelupe who brought “a grey, anaemic-looking mass” every day. Tom, the boy, regularly threw this mass against a brick wall at the school, where it failed to disintegrate (mass and wall!).
Nora was a dab hand at marbles and the spinning top, and regularly trundled hoops down the streets of the village. On Shrove Tuesdays children met at a specially-erected sweet stall near Camping Close and Glebe Road. During the three-day Whitsun Feast swing boats, sideshows and sweet stalls were erected on the village green. There was also a dancing booth, with a roped-in platform. Harvest time was also one of great joy for local children, but more of that next month. Happy Christmas!
There has been burglary overnight at New Rd, Haslingfield 28/11/2012 – 29/11/2012: a vehicle was also stolen; can you please canvass members for any witnesses or suspicious activity. Any information call 101 – Quote REF:CF-0477821112
Kind regards Rachel Carr, Crime Reduction Officer (South Cambs), Histon Police Station
15 Mowlam Close, Impington, Cambridge, CB24 9NA, Tel: 101, Fax: 01223 823715
Haslingfield Needs YOU!
We feel that local residents should have more of a stake in their own roads, paths and verges, and can respond quickly when needed – in wintry weather, for example, when the main road gritting services may be at full stretch.
Cambridgeshire County Council is providing free training, equipment and insurance for parishes to run volunteer schemes to grit footpaths and cycleways not covered by the County Council’s gritters. Read more
Have you registered for the Connecting Cambridgeshire Campaign? You can help to bring better connectivity to our area and it only takes a minute to sign up with your postcode and telephone number.
Your support will help to bring fast, reliable broadband access to Cambridgeshire and will make a big difference.
In response to the Forestry Commission announcement that Chalara ash dieback has been found in the woods and hedgerows of East Anglia, the Parish Council would encourage residents to keep a watchful eye out for the disease, which causes leaf loss and crown dieback in affected trees, and can lead to tree death. The disease is most likely to be found in newly planted young trees.
The Forestry Commission has a helpful webpage which shows confirmed infections just on the village doorstep and gives a description and advice (video and pictures) on how to look for the symptoms. The Woodland Trust also has practical advice on what you can do including vigilant inspections for browning of leaves, especially for young trees planted within the last five years considered to be most at risk.
Please report any sightings or suspected cases of the disease immediately to:
Chalara helpline:
08458 33 55 77 (open 8am – 6pm every day)
Email Forestry Commission – plant.health@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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THIS SATURDAY
Haslingfield Methodist Church
11am – 2.30pm
Come for a light lunch, or some delicious cakes, and find out about lots of different charities
Saturday 17th November from 10am to 12pm. Come along and plant a tree with us! As part of the Woodland Trust’s Jubilee Woods Project the Trumpington Estate is creating a new area of woodland in Haslingfield. Parking will be available at Cantelupe Farm, Cantelupe Road (Haslingfield). From here there is a free park & ride service. For Sat Nav. use CB23 1LY
Sunday 11th November 2012 at 6.30 pm in the Methodist Church
“SMALL CHURCH, BIG SOCIETY:
AN EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN PRESENCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE”
Led by
Graham Jones Read more
These meetings are held at 6.30pm on Sunday once per month at the Methodist Church and include a short period of worship with an address by an invited speaker, followed by refreshments and informal discussion. Everyone welcome.
A celebration by the Haslingfield/Barton Scout Group and Haslingfield Playschool will be held in the Well House Meadow, Haslingfield on Saturday 3 November. Gates open at 6.00 p.m. (firework display at 6.30. p.m.) Read more
15 different charities will be represented here to raise money for a variety of causes, and to share information about their charities. Read more