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 […]
Video of Progress on the Northstowe Site
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 […]
Northstowe Community Forum – 20th July in the Village Institute
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 […]
Source Of Information: 7 Sqd. Crashes – Belgium
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. […]
Lillian Clark Goodchild – A Request For Help!
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 […]
AGM & Autumn Talks Programme
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 […]
Cambridgeshire & Ely Place London
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 […]
British Film Institute Releases Films Of Rural Life
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 […]
A Museum In Sight?
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 […]
Northstowe Phase 2 – Design Code Consultation
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. […]
News
- LDHS submission to the public consultation regarding the draft Local Plan for “Greater Cambridge” February 3, 2026
- LDHS helps an author with local research November 15, 2025
- LDHS SUPPORTS IMPORTANT LOCAL RESEARCH April 25, 2025
- OPENING CEREMONY OF THE OAKINGTON AIRFIELD MEMORIAL MARKER March 28, 2025
- OPENING CEREMONY FOR RAF OAKINGTON MEMORIAL MARKER March 26, 2025
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