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Community Archaeology At Northstowe – Summer 2018
This is an experience not to be missed. Limited places available so if interested you will need to book your place quickly.
Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Longstanton 5 June
Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Longstanton 5th June 2018 19:30 pm Price: £12.50. Under 16’s – £5.00 St. Michael’s Church, Longstanton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. LDHS was launched in May 2007 to protect and promote the heritage assets of Longstanton and District. It can give us no greater pleasure than to promote this event and see…
Cambridgeshire County Council Fail To Support Northstowe!
IS THE FIRST NEW TOWN TO BE BUILT SINCE MILTON KEYNES SUPPORTED BY CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL? NO!!! Do you use CCC services or work for CCC – would you have liked them to have moved their offices to Northstowe so that employees and service users could access their offices via bike or the Guided Busway?…
Last LDHS Talk of the Spring Session – Mike Petty on Friday 4 May
The heritage society is delighted to welcome Mike Petty back to Longstanton so he can give us a talk on ‘Looking Back over 8 decades. Mike’s contribution to local historical knowledge is probably unsurpassed in the Cambridgeshire region. Whether you are a long term resident of the area or some one who has recently moved…
Northstowe Town Makes Rapid Progress
It is great to have drone technology to help us follow what is happening out on the Northstowe development. Until we are in a position to make our own drone footage it is great to see that others are recording this historic moment.
2nd Talk Of The Spring Season Friday 6 April
The April talk hosted by the society covers the story of how Bill Tutte broke the Lorenz code without ever seeing a Lorenz machine. William Thomas “Bill” Tutte OC FRS FRSC (14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was a British codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher…
LDHS Spring Talks Season Starts Friday March 2
The LDHS Spring Talk season starts on Friday 2 March at 7.30pm. As usual everyone is welcome so please come along. More information to follow.
Goodbye Rural Longstanton And Our Water Too?
Work started out on phase 1 of Northstowe in 2015, with the first new residents moving into the new homes in May 2017. Now many house builders are out on site and already c 60 homes are occupied. Wonder why LDHS exists? For the simple reason that someone needed to record the social, rural and…