There were two Baptisms in St Michael’s Church in July, welcoming two young people into the Christian community in Great Gidding. Firstly on Sunday 8th July, the baptism of Alice Helen Nunns took place. Mum and Dad, Charlotte and Michael Nunns, moved into Ludington Road last August.
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You can help to bring fast, reliable broadband to Peterborough and Fenland, which is vital for our businesses and communities to thrive. The plan is to provide access to superfast broadband to at least 90% of homes and businesses across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and better broadband access
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Back Lane between Chapel End and the B660 at Oak Tree corner has taken a bit of a battering recently. Improvement works at Great Gidding sewage farm coupled with the wettest summer and autumn of recent times has meant that the minor road has been subject to
Read more →Many congratulations to Mary Read on ringing her first Quarter Peal ‘inside’ of Plain Bob and Grandsire Doubles. A Quarter Peal is about 45 minutes continuous bell ringing requiring a high level of concentration and ringing skill. Mary was one of six ringers who rang at Holywell
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Welcome to The Great Gidding Close up Quiz. If you lived in the village at the time of the Golden Jubilee celebration in 2002 you will recall that we offered a paper based quiz that asked you to identify close up photographs of certain locations around the Parish
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Sunday June 24th started off in much the same vein as nearly all the previous days of the month, wet. The forecast was positive so the message went out that the picnic was on. No sooner had electronic mail delivered the good news, the heavens opened and
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For the Queens Jubilee the Parish Council had applied for a Fields in Trust grant to safeguard the village recreation ground. So all of the legal paperwork has been done (for free) and now the recreation field can officially be called a Queen Elizabeth II Field (www.qe2fields.com).
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After a very wet Sunday (see Michael’s Jubilee Wood report) we were all glad to see a glimmer of blue sky for the Diamond Jubilee Big Lunch and village rounders match on the Recreation Field. With a marquee to shelter from the predicted showers the villagers tucked
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A few more photos of the Diamond Jubilee Dinner Dance kindly supplied by Michelle Woodley.
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Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a special tree planting ceremony It seemed a good idea at the time, a coffee morning in the Jubilee Wood with a special tree to be planted in recognition of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. Oh how it rained, the ground waterlogged, the long
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