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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The annual Jubilee Wood Summer Picnic This will be the 9th annual Summer Picnic. Although the wood was suggested in 2002 planting took place the following spring and the first picnic was held in June of 2003. It has often been cold , wet and miserable
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Her Majesty invites you to play Rounders at the ‘Big Lunch’ on Monday 4th June at 2.30pm. Teams: Youth versus Oldies (You decide which you are)! Venue: Recreation Field
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We invite you to join us on June 2nd from 7.00pm onwards to mark, in true Gidding style, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. A professional swing band will provide a taste of 1950s nostalgia and glamour, and with the company of good friends you can enjoy delicious food
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Read more →A new fence has been installed by the main entrance of the Recreation Field. A tired wire link fence has been replaced by a smart wooden post and rail fence along with remedial work to the gate posts. Look out for another special addition on The Big
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Great & Little GiddingParish Council Clarion – Spring 2012 ELECTIONS of District and Parish Councillors will take place on Thursday 3rd May – see noticeboards BLOOM IN GIDDING – following on from the successful Anglia In Bloom Silver Award of 2011 we are looking for volunteers
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Every few years on a rolling programme most the roads in the parish receive a new surface coating of stone chippings, rather than explain the finer details of the process take a look at The Idiots Guide To Highway maintenance, a really excellent and detailed web site
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General information about the Group: Meetings take place on the third Wednesday (September to April) and are very informal (no committee or agenda) and quite often we are just chatting about times past and memories, you don’t have to attend each one but would be really pleased
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This is copied from the Simon Lewis Books website: Great Gidding in Cambridgeshire where Northampton’s John Clark promoted GP Midgets. Now an industrial estate off Hemmington Lodge Lane. Steven Parker, who works at the site today says “there’s very little evidence …the tarmac or concrete surface was
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