VILLAGE EVENTS

JUNE

15th Little Chesterford Fete - another successful day with £3413 raised and split between the Parish Church and the Village Hall

25th Great Chesterford Garden Walkabout organised by the Gardening Society – five gardens were visited.

27th Chesterfords Got Talent – money raised from this popular event, to be staged again this year, went towards the skateboard park fund.

29th Great Chesterford Garden Fete was held in the grounds of The Delles.

JULY

2nd Gardening Society held a Mini Flower Show in the school.

OCTOBER

4th The 17th Steam-Up was held in the streets of Gt Chesterford, and was the usual success. The money raised went to Essex Air Ambulance and Medics.

NOVEMBER

29th All Saints Church, Great Chesterford held its annual Christmas Fair in the Community Centre. Proceeds to Church funds.

DECEMBER

13/14th The first Christmas Tree Festival to be held in All Saints was a great success and will be repeated again next year.

During December the Chesterfords welcomed the Rev.Christopher Warren to the Parish. He will live in the Great Chesterford Vicarage, although his parish now includes not just the Chesterfords, but Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Wendons Ambo. He previously worked in the BBC.

LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

20th October – talk by Alison Dickens on the Archaeology of the Grand Arcade, Cambridge.
26th January – talk by John Bosworth on the Restoration of Bridge End Gardens.
23rd February – a talk on George Stacey Gibson by Jeremy Collingwood.

The LHS is applying for a Grassroots Grant to enable them to purchase display boards for their intended Local History Exhibition in the village. It is also their intention to set up a separate LHS website which would be linked to the Recorder website.

There have been many protests throughout the year over the proposals for an eco town at Hanley Grange and a wind farm on the hills overlooking Gt Chesterford ( Linton Wind Farm). Several local meetings have been held and representations sent to Parliament. The Hanley Grange protests were successful and the eco town has been abandoned ( for the time being).

We await the result of the Wind Farm discussions which are ongoing.


NEW ACQUISITIONS

1) 1921 Ordnance Survey Map of Little Chesterford.

2) Two Terriers dating from 1887-1917 – registering all lands, tithes buildings, rents and other emoluments for the Parish Churches of Great and Little Chesterford. (Photocopied from the originals).

3) The Local History Society Photograph Collection, and the Recorder Photograph Collection have now been catalogued, scanned and put on to CD.

KATE MCMANUS
CHESTERFORDS LOCAL HISTORY RECORDER

APRIL 2009