Haslingfield Village Website Launches Email Alert Service

To make sure you don’t miss any Haslingfield news, use our new weekly Email Alert Service. You will receive an email every Saturday morning, and will be able to click on the headlines that interest you, and go straight through to the relevant articles on the website.

To receive the Alert, just fill in your email address in the box “Get the latest news to your inbox!”  in the right-hand column of this page – you will be added to the circulation list immediately.

Haslingfield School Summer Fayre

The Haslingfield School Summer Fayre will be held on Saturday, 22nd June from 1-4 p.m. Fun and entertainment will include:
Hook a duck, toys & books, ice creams & refreshments
Story corner, pick a lolly and music in the bandstand
Train rides, choc tombola and bottle stall
Cakes, bar-b-q & bar
….and much more.
 
Proceeds to support the school.
 

Lib Dems Retain Haslingfield

It’s been announced today that Sebastian Kindersley has retained his seat of Gamlingay, which includes Haslingfield, for the Liberal Democrats on Cambridgeshire County Council in the recent elections. The full details of the vote are below:- Read more

Country Kitchen open on Bank Holiday Monday

Country KitchenCountry Kitchen will be open from 9am – 12pm on Bank Holiday Monday, so do feel free to pop in for some freshly baked baguettes, sausage rolls and picnic fayre.

Just arrived in time for the good weather are Yarde Farm ice creams, which are much in demand and Patchwork Pate, with a selection of liver as well as vegetarian pates, as well as a lovely range of sauces from Stokes. It’s hard to believe that it was snowing the day before we opened and we were all shivering in the shop and trying to keep warm, but let’s hope the sunshine is here to stay!! Read more

Film Club

movie cameraThere will  be no film club in May 2013 because of other commitments, but I can thoroughly recommend the Haslingfield Little Theatre production  on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of May.   The evening will consist of two very amusing plays and there will be the usual refreshment bar.  Tickets at the village shop – don’t leave it too late to buy!
Phil

Next Village Society Talk

Far Away Places.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013.  Haslingfield Village Centre. 8:00.

GangesMichael Coles will take us on a journey through India from the Himalayas, down the Ganges and on to the far south in Kerala.   His illustrated talk will cover natural wonders, picturesque people, fauna, flora, cities and countryside.   Read more

Bake House Opening

IMG_1555 Come and see the inside of Haslingfield’s historic bake house and browse a section of  the village’s extensive archive of old document and photographs.  Saturday morning, 4th of May, from 10.00 am to midday on Well House Meadow.

Eliza Goode

Having looked at village life in Nora Cannell’s time, the next few entries will look at life a couple of generations before, through the eyes of Eliza Goode.

Eliza was the fourth child, and first daughter, of Emma and Thomas Goode, a bricklayer, and was born on 28th December, 1859. Read more