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A reminder that the LDHS AGM takes place this Friday night at 7.30pm and will be followed at 8pm by the first in our Autumn series of talks. Only members may vote on AGM matters but the talk is open to all as usual. As Northstowe becomes a reality please come along and help LDHS […]

More information on the Must Farm discovery which features in the BBc Programme tonight. https://www.historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/bronze-age-domestic-life-revealed

For those of you who missed the programme last night – we have been advised that the BBC programme Britain’s Pompeii: A Village Lost In Time will be shown again tonight on BBC4. For those of you who do not know the details, the site is located near Peterborough and has proved to be highly […]

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 […]

The next Community Forum will be on 20th July from 7pm to 9pm in the Village Institute. Before the meeting, residents are invited to an informal session from 6pm to 6.45pm when representatives of Gallagher Estates, the Homes and Communities Agency, South Cambridgeshire District Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and housebuilders will all be available for […]

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 […]