On 2 February, the Annual PTFA jumble sale will take place at Haslingfield Village Hall. Doors will open at 2.00 p.m., so please come along and grab yourself a bargain! Please drop any jumble and unwanted Christmas presents to the hall on the day between 10.30 – 12 noon No electrical items please.
There was a burglary between 07:30 – 14:15 :21 January 2013 at Haslingfield Road, Harlton, Cambs. Cash and jewellery were taken. Read more
It is with sad regret that we have to announce that vandalism and heavy malicious damage occurred to school property at 8pm on the night of 16/01/13. Some items were also stolen. If you have any information or spot any suspicious activities, please report it to police on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
Demolition work is under way at the 80-year-old cement works at Barrington, where owner Cemex closed its manufacturing plant five years ago. Workmen pulling down buildings on an industrial site have found an old briefcase containing documents that could mean a windfall for a local charity. Read more
We have just launched our new Travel & Transport information page at: haslingfieldvillage.co.uk/travel
Around 20 drivers assist about 25 residents to get to medical appointments, under a variety of County Council / Care Network supported schemes. Read more
Haslingfield Village Hall, Wednesday January 16th 7.30pm
This meeting is being held for Haslingfield residents to express their needs for the future regarding bus transport, as the County Council has voted to stop subsidising our route (amongst many), and to offer alternatives. Read more
The next film show will be at Friday 18th January 2013 at 7.30pm in Haslingfield Methodist Church. Admission is free. Running time c. 14o min. Tea/Coffee half way through, collection to cover refreshments and use of room.
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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