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Click on the word Northstowe under the Menu section of the Northstowe.com site to see a video of the land that is destined to make up the new town. An excellent summary of the aspirations for the new town as well as a record of the current status of the parish lands of both Longstanton […]

Most crashes of 7 squadron in Belgium can be found on this webpage. On the other squadrons, just type number + squadron in the search box (“Zoeken”). This information and more has come via our links on Facebook. Many thanks to everyone who is contributing information so we can remember the history of RAF Oakington. […]

A request for help! During the war the Vicar and Rector of Longstanton was called Rev John Goodchild. His wife Lillian Clark Goodchild came from a family of renowned artists; her father and her brother both being members of the Royal Academy. Lillian was an amateur artist who painted a number of scenes from the […]

  Please find above details of the 2016 AGM and the Autumn Talks Programme. The Northstowe Phase 2 planning process continues to move forward albeit rather slowly. Until all the details are finalised it is not possible for the museum project to make progress. It is clear, however, that the Phase 2 landowners (HCA) and others […]

Those of you who came to Dr Gordon Hewlett’s entertaining recent talk about Sir Christopher Hatton (and indeed those of you who didn’t) may be interested in this article about Ely Place in London. Ely Place, despite being in central London, used to be part of Cambridgeshire and Sir Christopher Hatton took out a lease […]

According to the National Farmers Union the British Film Institute has released 750 short films, completely free to download, which look at rural life and were filmed between 1900 to 1999. They present a moving record of Britain’s countryside and its people during the last century, you might even have family members featured on one […]

Following on from this afternoon’s meeting I think it is safe to say that if all goes according to plan HCA may start work on the Phase 2 site so that they will have houses ready for occupation as soon as the A14 upgrade is complete. This makes sense as there is no need for […]

I have just spent a very productive afternoon spent looking at and discussing the Design Code for Northstowe Phase 2. It’s clear that the owners of the phase 2 site (HCA) will use the next few years to ready themselves so that house occupations will follow shortly after the A14 upgrade is completed in 2020. […]

A reminder to everyone that the May talk (Sir Christopher Hatton) by Gordon Hewlett was the last talk of the Spring Season. The Autumn programme will commence at 8pm on Friday 2 September after the AGM. The AGM will start as usual at 7.30pm – only members may vote. Non-members are asked to arrive for […]

As expected the Government has approved the A14 upgrade – a decision that was never in doubt as their plans for the new town of Northstowe are dependent on the A14 works being completed. From March 2017 we will have three years of chaos but then hopefully the A14 will be a modern road which […]