I C
E N E
B U L L E T I N
OCTOBER
2008
Editors: David
and Monica Lilley
Monica.lilley2@btopenworld.com
Distribution: Tony
Court
Hilary Rule
All contributions please to 8 Brookhampton
Street. Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th October 2008
PARISH
COUNCIL
Monday 6th
October - Black
bin collection
Monday 13th October - Green
bin and Green boxes (bottles, tins & plastic)
Monday 20th October - Black
bin collection
Monday 27th October - Green
bin and Green boxes (bottles, tins & plastic)
Bins and boxes must
be placed out by
Ickleton Parish
Council – The following items were discussed at the
meeting held on
Butcher’s Hill Light – The
light has now been installed but it has not yet been connected to the
electricity point. The Clerk has
e-mailed SCDC (P. Quigley) asking when this is likely to be done.
Proposed
Circular Bench in
Play Area – C. Frankau will be
reinstating this bench in the near future.
He has repaired the two seats at the far end of the Recreation Ground.
Planning
application(s) received from SCDC:
S/1212/07/F
& S/0268/08/F – Revised gate position within garden wall –
S/1433/08/F
& S/1446/08/LB – Garden Room Extension to Annexe – 26 Abbey Street – Approve
Planning
application(s) granted by SCDC:
S/0330/08/F
– Erection of 7 Retail Units and Café (Retrospective Application) – 111 Frogge Street – Ickleton
Riverside Barns
Application to carry
out tree works subject to a Tree Preservation Order or situated within a
Conservation Area:
C/11/40/054
– Pruning Cherry Tree – Providence House, 6 Frogge
Street - Approve
C/11/40/054
– 50% reduction in crown of self sown Sycamore – 10 Butcher’s Hill – Approve
Village Hall Windows - Tim Pavelin reported that some windows had been broken in the
Village Hall on Tuesday night. The Clerk
had informed the police via E-Cops.
Christmas Rubbish Collections - Cllr
Williams was asked if he could find out what rubbish collections were in place
over the Christmas period this year.
Speed Check - The police carried
out a speed check in
Cemetery Chapel - The
Clerk had obtained two quotations, with a possible third quotation obtained by
the Chairman. It was agreed that the
Clerk should obtain two more quotations.
The firms to be contacted would be from the list provided by SCDC from
whom a grant application form was obtained.
Other possible grants were also being looked into. It was agreed that we would like to have this
work completed before winter.
Other items for your
attention:
Dog
Fouling – We would like to remind owners of dogs to clear up the
mess their dog(s) make, especially in the Recreation Ground and in the middle
of footpaths. A complaint has been
received regarding the footpath between
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Services for
October
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Thursday 2nd |
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Friday 3rd |
7.30 p.m. Harvest Festival Evensong
& Buffet Supper |
ICKLETON |
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Sunday 5th |
8.00 a.m. |
DUXFORD |
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Trinity 20 |
10.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist with
Sunday School |
ICKLETON |
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5.00 p.m. Harvest Festival Songs of Praise |
HINXTON |
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followed by supper in Hinxton Village Hall |
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Thursday 9th |
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 12th |
8.00 a.m. |
HINXTON |
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Trinity 21 |
10.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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6.30 p.m. Evensong |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 16th |
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Friday 17th |
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ICKLETON |
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Sunday 19th |
8.00 a.m. |
ICKLETON |
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Trinity 22 |
10.00 a.m. Family Communion |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m. Evensong with laying on of hands |
DUXFORD |
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Thursday 23rd |
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 26th |
8.00 a.m. |
HINXTON |
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Last after Trinity |
10.00 a.m. Family Service |
DUXFORD |
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6.30 p.m. Evensong followed by Holy Communion |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 30th |
11.30 a.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
CHURCH
Did you
know it costs £74 per day to run our lovely church?
An open
invitation to Ickleton
Church Gift Day on Saturday 4th October from
We
appreciate all that parishioners contribute during the year – our church is an
important part of the village’s social and cultural heritage, and is there to
serve the needs of our small community.
Once again we would ask you to give generously in support of this work.
We look
forward to seeing you and your family. Complimentary tea, coffee and cakes are
being served throughout the day, with soup etc. at lunchtime (12.00 noon - 2.00
p.m.)
Contact
Rosemary McKillen for further details.
COFFEE MORNINGS
The weekly coffee mornings
finished on the 30th September, and we now move to our monthly rota of the first Tuesday in the month commencing on 7th
October.
Unfortunately the
poor summer this year prevented us from sitting outside as often as we would
have liked, but we still had good attendances, with quite a few new people
dropping in.
I would remind anyone
who hasn’t been that all are welcome and there is no charge. Rosemary McKillen
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NOTES
FROM HINKLEDUX RECTORY
Trick or
treat?
October 31st
is on a Friday this year. And the chances are that, if you forget to be out,
you’ll be disturbed by some overexcited children from down the road,
accompanied by their mother. The children will be dressed as little devils and
the mother, hanging back with an awkward smile, will be sporting a witch’s hat.
A handful of sweets – or if you happen to know that the supervising witch is
particularly nutritionally minded, a handful of raisins – will usually be
enough to send the giggling little party on its way.
That’s if you live
somewhere well-behaved. In other places, there will be no supervising mother,
and the ring on the doorbell will be jagged, insistent and slightly menacing.
What’s more, there’s always the worry that your offering of sweets will not be
quite enough to keep the little devils from coming back next week with their
elder brothers and demanding your stereo, laptop and £500 in cash.
It’s the latest
expression of a tradition whose roots go back in the mists of time. Halloween
has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain,
a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and sometimes
regarded as the Celtic New Year. They believed that on October 31st,
the boundary between the living and the dead dissolved, and the spirits of the
dead returned, causing sickness and disaster. The festivals frequently involved
bonfires to ward off evil spirits. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts,
people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the
ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. To keep ghosts away from their
houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to prevent them
from attempting to enter.
The language of these
traditions is strongly influenced by the Christian calendar. The beginning of
winter was Christianised by the naming of 1st November as All Saints
or All Hallows Day. The following day is All Souls Day and the 31st
October is All Hallows Eve - or Hallowe'en (i.e. the
evening before All Hallows Day).
The practice of souling - going from door to door on or about All Souls Day
to solicit gifts of food in return for prayers for the dead evolved from pagan
ritual. As a Christian tradition it goes back to at least the 14th century,
when it is mentioned by Chaucer. A reference in 1779 tells us, ‘On All Saints
Day, the poor people go from parish to parish a Souling.’
The tradition has
changed over the centuries so that it is now children, dressed in disguise, who
go about asking for gifts around the beginning of November. As a consequence,
the real treat is for retailers. Spending on Hallowe’en
far outstrips Bonfire Night (because government restrictions limit the sale of
fireworks). Shops have cottoned on and push Hallowe’en
instead. The October 31st event has become an important part of
their sales strategy. According to Woolworths,
spending on costumes, props and sweets has risen tenfold in six years. In 2001,
spending was £14 million; last year it reached a record £140 million.
For those who want to
respond to Hallowe’en in a positive way, and avoid
the worst of the commercialism, there are two helpful ideas. One is using a
pumpkin as a ‘Christ light’, with crosses cut in the sides of the vegetable, as
a reminder that Christ’s light shines in the darkness, and that in Him we need
no longer fear. The other is to sign up to the Children’s Society Halloween
Choice at www.halloweenchoice.org
and donate your treat to them, to help them care for children and young people
who really are in a dark place.
Andrew Schofield
The
Rectory,
( 01223 832137 * atschofield@msn.com
Postscript: In
September I announced to the churches that I would be taking early retirement
after my wife underwent invasive but life-saving surgery last year. We will be
leaving the parishes in the New Year and there’ll be more news as our plans
become clearer.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
Bringing the church alive with
children
The first Sunday School session in Ickleton kicked off last month and had a
fantastic attendance of 18 children! We started by finding out what everyone
wanted to get out of Sunday School, and we now have a list of things to add
into our up-coming sessions, including doing some stuff on computers!
On 5th
October we shall be thinking about our environment and how, as Christians, we
should celebrate and protect it, and what can we make out of rubbish?
Keena McKillen (01223 832785
keena.mckillen@ntlworld.com
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SPONSORED
RIDE
Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust
on September 13th.
Despite getting off
to a cool and slow start, both the weather and the number of participants
greatly improved.
A total of 60 riders
visited our church on Saturday September 13th and were very
appreciative of a warm welcome, plentiful refreshments (thank you, Rosemary McKillen)
and the toilet!
Also, special thanks
to all who ‘church sat’ and greeted the visitors: Dawn Bradley, John and Sue Fowler, Rosemary
Hayes, Neil McKillen, Peggy Richardson, Jean and
David Whitaker. Your help was
invaluable. Hilary
Rule
MUSIC
FOR AN AUTUMN EVENING
When I retired from
teaching at
As a ‘thank you’, and
in aid of Church funds, I wish to give a recital in St. Mary Magdalene,
Ickleton on Friday 17th October at
The pieces I shall
play will include a Toccata and Fugue in C major and the chorale, ‘Jesu joy of man’s desiring’, both
by JS Bach. Also there will be music from Brahms and Mendelssohn, followed by
three more modern works – one by Messiaen from his
‘La Nativite du Seigneur’. At the
opening concert of this year’s Promenade Season you may have heard Wayne
Marshall play one section of this work, but the piece I have chosen is much,
much shorter (and easier) and very gentle.
The last pieces are
transcriptions for the organ of William Walton’s music, the final one being
‘Crown Imperial’ a march written for the Coronation of George VIth in 1937.
Rosemary Mc Killen,
Mandy Jeffery, Dave Smithet and Hilary Rule will
provide songs and poetry to give variety to the entertainment, so please join
us in the
Rosemary Mckillen, 5 Priory Close and Dilip
and Sunita Odedra will sell
tickets for us.
Tickets at £8 will
include wine and nibbles during the interval. Joan Mead
CHAPEL NOTICES
Services for October
All
services start at
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Sunday 5th |
Mrs. Julie Finbow |
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Sunday 12th |
Revd Trevor Sands |
Holy Communion |
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Sunday 19th |
Mrs. Betty Kime |
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Sunday 26th |
Revd Trevor Sands |
**Special service of
thanksgiving** |
**Sadly this will be the final service
at Ickleton Methodist Chapel which is closing due to fewness of numbers - this
will be a special service of thanksgiving***
Revd.
Trevor Sands
ICKLETON SOCIETY
On Friday 7th
November we will be holding an evening of words and music in the Church for
Remembrance. Look out for more publicity
nearer the day. Everyone will be very
welcome.
Hanley
Grange Stopped (for now)!
The
surprise announcement by Tesco that it had withdrawn
Hanley Grange from the Government’s eco-town scheme came too late for the last
edition of Icene.
It goes without saying that this was fantastic news, coming just as we
were gearing up for another 3 months of fighting the scheme. Tesco maintain that
their proposal for Hanley Grange had ‘a good prospect of success’ and that they
want to ensure ‘a broad range of stakeholders in the region feel fully
engaged in the process leading up to a decision’ and so will put it through the
review of the Regional Spatial Strategy (the East of England Plan). The Campaign team, councils and our MPs all
welcome this decision. The review will
mean that the proposal will be fully considered along with the need for
additional housing and alternative sites.
The Stop
Hanley Grange Campaign naturally viewed Tesco’s
rather late conversion to local democracy with some scepticism. We always said their plan was deeply flawed
and deserved to fail. Its defeat at this
stage must surely be in no small measure due to the united and steadfast
opposition shown by the District and County Councils, MPs, Parish Councils,
Cambridgeshire Horizons, the Campaign team and the many local residents who
wrote letters, signed petitions, displayed posters and banners, came to meetings
and demos, lobbied Parliament, gave donations, raised money, distributed
leaflets, encouraged others to join the campaign and lots more. Thank you all very much! Rachel
Radford
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THEATRE GROUP
Tickets are now on
sale at Costcutter Express for our next show on Saturday
4th October at
Tickets are £8.00 and
£7.00 concessions and will include a ploughman’s supper, which will be served
during the interval. The doors and bar
will be open at
Stop Press We have just secured a booking for the Ely Sinfonia
for a Sunday afternoon concert on 7th December, so please put this
in your diaries now. More details will be in the November Icene.
Gordon Woolhouse
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION POPPY APPEAL
As part of the annual
Poppy Appeal the usual house-to-house collection will take place between
Saturday 25th October and Saturday 8th November.
We are all only too
aware of the world situations that continue to involve our Armed Forces
overseas and the pressure this puts on RBL funds. Please bear this in mind when
your collector knocks on your door and give as generously as you can. Gift Aid is a way in which the Legion can
benefit more from your donation by getting some additional money from the
Revenue and Customs Department. It is
available to any taxpayer and will turn each £1 donated into £1.28! To take advantage of this scheme please
either phone or email me and I will deliver you an
envelope on which you will need to complete your name and address and the
amount of the donation, before giving it to your collector. Let’s all make this another record year, in
which we send over £1000 to the Legion from Ickleton for the first time. Thank you for your continuing support. Malcolm
Hall – Poppy Appeal Organiser
email:malcolm.c.hall@gmail.com
ICKLETON ALLOTMENT
UPDATE
The Association would
like to say a big thank you to Chris and Mirela from
the Ickleton Lion for their kind donation. The donation meant that we were able
to purchase fencing materials for the allotment site.
The group would like
to thank everyone who gave up their weekend to help put up the fencing and gates.
Anyone interested in
joining the Association or who would like further information regarding a plot
please contact Louise Andrew, loulou1979@hotmail.com
or Lisa Morrissey.
THANK
YOU FOR THE WINNING PRIZE OF THE BUS TRIP
Many thanks to Chris
Jolly from
Annabelle was
thrilled to have won the prize and was allowed to start up the bus on our
arrival. She wanted her brothers and her
godmother to come, and we took our French student too.
We drove from
We stopped later in
Holborn for a lovely Italian meal with Chris and ended off our tour with a stop,
just before
The evening was so warm, Andy enjoyed hanging off the back up the M11. We were all smiling at the memories for days
afterwards. Anne
Marie Hoare
THE SUMMER SIZZLER
I would like to
express my appreciation and thanks to those who organised and helped
at the Summer Sizzler - I know how much work
goes into an event like that. I'm sure I speak for many fellow villagers
in saying that it was a great afternoon of fun and enjoyment, much appreciated
by young and old alike. Looking forward to this
becoming a truly traditional Ickleton event.
Thank
you once again.
Neil
McKillen
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CYRIL
Cyril
was born on
After
retirement, he and Lucy had another 16 years together before she died on
Ivan and Jillie
spoke with affection of a kind person, a good father, who formed close and long
standing friendships. He was independent and was still driving at 90. He loved
his garden and was feeding the birds right till the end. He never complained as
life got more difficult and was always appreciative of the care of others. He
was a very special person who will be much missed by friends and family. Rev
Andrew Schofield
Cyril’s
family would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, cards and donations to
the Alzheimer’s Society.
A THANK YOU FROM
CYRIL’S GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
We would like to say thank you for all
the people who came to our Great Grandfather’s funeral on Friday 29th
August and to his neighbours who had supported him for many years.
He absolutely loved living in Ickleton
and he was very proud of his village links. Cyril’s grandfather, Jesse Webb
moved to the village in the early 1890s, and we know that he was very involved
in bell ringing, and this tradition was continued by Cyril’s father, Percy –
and he told us all about his family in the village.
We would often come to see our
great-grandfather, and would eventually find him sitting down the Recreation
Ground reading his paper and eating snacks that he had just bought from the
shop (he particularly liked Snickers bars!). His cupboard always contained a
treat or two for us when we came. He was simply a wonderful man.
Becky
and Andrew Webb (age 12 and 10)
PLASTIC BOTTLE
RECYCLING
Plastic bottles will
be collected with the green boxes from October.
After the tops and
triggers have been removed, these should be put in the black bin, not in the
box with the plastic bottles.
BONFIRE
On 8th
November 1st Whittlesford & Duxford Scout Group will have a Bonfire and Firework Night
at
Tickets will be
available on the gate, or in advance from Duxford
Post Office. More
information to follow next month. Katherine
Denman-Johnson
WHITTLESFORD
GARDENING CLUB
To celebrate our 30th
anniversary this year, Whittlesford Gardening Club
have Peter Seabrook, TV and radio gardening celebrity, Gardening Editor of the
‘Sun’ and renowned gardening expert and author, coming to their October meeting
to present an illustrated talk on ‘Gardening at Home and Abroad’.
This will be held on
Wednesday 8th October at Whittlesford
Memorial Hall from
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GT.
CHESTERFORD
Unfortunately our
speaker for September had to cancel due to an accident. However Alison Davies stepped in at short
notice and showed slides of the lovely gardens of Glenchantry,
near Witham,
The highlight of the
evening, however, was the fact that Catherine Cocks had received 25 tickets to
visit Prince Charles’ gardens ‘Highgrove’ on October
10th. We’ve been on the waiting list for approx 3 years,
nevertheless, it came as a lovely surprise.
Details will be finalised at the meeting on October 1st.
Our speaker for
October will be Graham Proctor from the Crown Nurseries,
Visitors welcome,
small charge of £1. Meetings are held in
the Chapel,
SAWSTON MEDICAL PRACTICE NEWS
Extended
Hours
In response to Government proposals,
the staff of Sawston Medical Practice
have agreed to a trial of extending our opening hours.
Starting on
and
The
appointments will be pre-bookable up to four weeks in
advance.
Emergency/out-of-hours appointments
and visits will continue to be dealt with by CAMDOC from
The Medical Centre Pharmacy will also
be open on Mondays until
New computer system
With our new system you will be able
to view, make, and cancel appointments with our doctors and senior nurses
on-line. You will also be able to view
and order repeat medication, and for anyone wishing to register with the
practice, this facility will also be available on-line. A leaflet detailing this service will soon be
available at the practice, together with details of how you can register to use
this facility. Jenny
Parker
DUXFORD
Following on from the
success of the last two art fairs held at Duxford school
in 2006 and 2007, we will be having another exhibition this November featuring
artists from Duxford and the local area.
The art fair will have the same format as last year - on Thursday 6th
November there will be an exhibition between
All art will be for
sale at both exhibitions.
Any artists who would
like to exhibit, please either email me at anita.armitage@ntlworld.com
or call me on ( 01223
835858 before the 21st October.
We are keen to have
art in lots of different media, including photography. We would like artists to
drop off their art on Thursday 6th November at
Every child at the
school will also be exhibiting a piece of work as part of the exhibition. This is an event for the whole
community. We have a professional
lighting rig at the school now, to help show off the art, and wine will be
served for the Friday evening.
I hope this year that
we get many new artists coming to exhibit. Space is limited, so please contact
me as soon as possible should you wish to exhibit.
Anita
Armitage, Secretary
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CHARLES
& BARBARA COOPER
Since we started editing the Icene, back in 1987, Charles and Barbara Cooper have
proofread for us each month – over 250 issues. Due to family and work
commitments they are too busy to continue. Very many thanks for all their help. Editors
THURSFORD
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR
I have a few tickets still available
for this fantastic show on Wednesday November 26th. Should anyone be interested, please contact
me. Betty
Willmott
WELCOME
TO…….
Jeffrey and Kara White, and Grace aged 6, Hunter aged 5 and Emma aged 2. The family has come from Arizona, USA.
and
Laura Pugh and Nicholas Papanikolaou.
BIRTHDAY
CONGRATULATIONS TO…Roy Flitton, 80 on 26th
September
CHRISTMAS
This year’s card features an evening
view of the church by Colin Hayes. Stock
will be available by end October price £4.50 for 10 or 50p for singles from
Colin or Rosemary Hayes, Durhams Farmhouse, Butchers
Hill. All proceeds to Ickleton Church.
JUDITH
WRIGHT’S LICENSING
On 18th October I will be
licensed as Reader and Lay Minister at Ely Cathedral at
There will be a celebration with
Evensong at
Do please come and join me after
Evensong at Ickleton Village Hall. Judith
Wright
TELEPHONE
NUMBERS
Police (reporting a
crime, non-emergency) ' 0845
456 4564
Police – Emergency
Calls ' 01223 358966
ICKLETON
DIARY
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Gt. Chesterford
& District Gardening Society Meeting |
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8.00 p.m. Chapel, |
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4th |
Church Gift Day |
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4th |
Theatre Group Folk Music Evening ‘The
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8.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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5th |
Autumn Air Show, Duxford
Airfield |
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6th |
Mobile Library |
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7th |
Church Coffee Morning 10.00 a.m. – |
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15th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village
Hall |
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15th |
W.I.
Meeting |
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17th |
Music for an Autumn Evening 7.30 |
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20th
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Mobile Library |
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25th |
Visiting Bellringers
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25th |
The Magic and Mystery of Flight, Duxford Airfield |
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Nov 6th & 7th |
Duxford Art Fair |
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7th |
Ickleton Society Evening of Words &
Music for Remembrance, Church |
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8th |
Bonfire & Firework Night |
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