We have been donated some amazing old photos of the village and members of the Cherry Hinton Archives group have been busy getting them scanned in and uploaded to our CCAN site. We have also got a brilliant set of cine films which show various parts of Cambridge and Cherry Hinton in the 1960’s which we are having transferred to DVD. More news on that as we progress.

Here's just a couple of those pictures:

We, like many of the counties CCAN groups still have lots and lots of photos and stories to upload and continue to build a fantastic community record of life and history in our villages. If you have any memories, stories, pictures, photos and/or ephemera to share we’d love to hear from you. We don’t just want old photos though, all CCAN groups are also a ‘living memory’ and we record current history too. Things like changes to buildings, local events, news and updates on our areas. We also carry out voice recordings, oral history, make pod-casts, videos, DVD’s, books and much more!

Most CCAN groups have regular open meetings that you can attend and bring along your contributions. You don’t have to part with your pictures if you don’t want to either as all groups will scan in you items and give them back to you if you wish. To find out more or to get involved Contact Me or visit www.ccan.co.uk

We have now confirmed that the amazing Cherry Hinton Festival is going ahead this year and the main event will take place on Saturday 17th September on the recreation ground just off Cherry Hinton High Street – to see more details of this and of the festival events that are taking place on the run up to the big day just check out the festival website www.cherryhintonfestival.co.uk

The other great news is, as the festival is going ahead, so too is the 2nd Cambridgeshire History Fair, which is run in conjunction with the Cherry Hinton Festival on the same day and on the same site. Again you can check out the main festival website for more details.

How about booking a pitch and joining us for the day? We welcome any History Societies, groups, museums, hands on history, re-enactors etc. Click here for a list of the people we had attend the 1st Cambs History Fair in 2009.

If you would like to book a place at the history fair, just use the Contact Me form on my website or you can email me at michelle.bullivant@talk21.com with your contact details and what group or organisation you represent and I will send you a booking form. We also welcome individuals who wish to showcase their history based interests. Alternatively you can download the History Fair booking form below, print off and fill in and post back to me - instruction on the form :)

I had a lovely visit out to the brilliant new Community Centre and café in Cottenham a couple of weeks ago. I had a nice meeting there with Cottenham Community Archives Group (CCAN) and was so impressed by all the hard work and interesting things the group are working on. They already have 20 pages, with over 360 old and interesting pictures already!!!

The wonderful new Community Centre and café is well worth a visit if you are going through Cottenham and is a fantastic example of a community lead centre with such a great buzz about it. To find out more click here - http://cottenhamcc.org/

To get involved with the Cottenham Community Archive and find out more just visit

Cottenham CCAN

Are you interested in local history, or just in finding out more about the place that you live?Do you have any stories about Cottenham that you would like to share with others?
To find out more about this project contact the Cottenham Village Society  or email cottenhamarchive@live.co.uk

CALH (Cambridgeshire Association for Local History)
Spring Conference 2011:

EDUCATING THE PEOPLE

‘A NATIONAL EVIL REQUIRES A NATIONAL REMEDY'

How inspired individuals and groups brought us

from mass illiteracy to universal education

In Association with Sawston Village History Society www.sawstonhistory.org.uk

The CALH Spring Conference this year combines three major celebrations and anniversaries, it is the 60th Anniversary of the foundation of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History (Cambridgeshire Local History Council), it is the Bicentenary of foundation of the National Schools (National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church) in 1811 and last year the 80th Anniversary of the founding of Sawston Village College by Henry Morris, the Cambridgeshire county education secretary, takes place:

in the Henry Morris Hall

at Sawston Village College

on Saturday 9th April 2011

10am to 4pm

The Conference Secretary is:

Honor Ridout

For further information in the first instance

please contact Andrew at:

info@calh.org.uk : 01223 892430 or 0787 5469538

Conference Programme:

The day will begin with registration between 09.30 and 10.00, morning coffee will be served on arrival.

We have four expert speakers and two chairmen to host the proceedings for you, and the days programme will be as follows:

The Morning Session will be hosted by our Secretary Andrew Westwood-Bate: (Andrew wanted to host the morning session as he carried out a Royal Navy Artificer Apprenticeship in the 1970s)

Our first speaker is Honor Ridout - (the CALH Chairman) and she will be talking on:

LEARNING BY DOING

Apprentices, Rich and Poor

Our second speaker is Terry Ransome - ( of The British Schools Trust, Hitchin) he will be telling us about:

BRITISH SCHOOLS AND THE LANCASTRIAN SYSTEM

The morning session will close with a Q and A session.

Before lunch we have a real special treat, as stated before in 2010 the students of Sawston Village College carried out a research project on Henry Morris and they will be:

REMEMBERING HENRY MORRIS

After break for Lunch, when delegates can either bring their own Lunch or enjoy a Pre-booked lunch.

We start the afternoon session with host Tony Kirby:

The afternoon will start off with our third speaker Dr Peter Warner - ( Homerton College,  Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in History) he will be telling us about:

DISSENTING ACADEMY TO TEACHER EDUCATION

The Development of Homerton College

The last talk of the day is Adrian Barlow - ( Director of Public and Professional Programmes, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education), Adrian retires this summer and this is one of your last chances to listen to this excellent lecturer, who will tell us all about

JAMES STUART:

Extension Lectures and the

origins of Extramural Studies

The afternoon session will close with another Q and A session.

We will finish the day with afternoon tea, biscuits, and as tradition now dictates home made cake.

The day cost just £10.00 for CALH and Sawston Village History Society members, other Affiliated Society and Associated members pay just £12.50 and £15.00 for non-members, a preordered lunch is available for just £6.00.

There will be a selection of display stands showing the history of education in various Cambridgeshire villages, please let Honor Ridout know if you would like to add your village to this.  Please click here for information on how you carry this out

We will have our own CALH bookstall, and will also hold a raffle

 

Transport:

If you are having problems with transport, please let us know:

Bus: For more info click here

The Stagecoach Citi 7 Bus leaves Emmanuel Street at 0842 and gets to Sawston at 0915.  There is a Bus returning to Cambridge at 1638 arriving at Drummer Street at 1740.  The buses are very frequent approximately every 10 minutes.

For full details of the programme and how to book, you can download a booking form by clicking here

Membership Forms are available by click on the appropriate form at the following web page:

For any other information or help, drop us an email to info@calh.org.uk or call 01223 892430 or 0787 5469538.

 

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Have you researched issues of education

in your village or community?

Would you like to carry out some

research before April 2011?

 

We would like to include your work in the exhibition display which will accompany the presentations at the Educating the People Conference.

Any relevant topic will be welcome. It could be about your village school, but it could also be about other aspects of education, whether for children or adults. Has your village a nineteenth century village Reading Room? Have you a history of WEA or other adult education? Were there any initiatives to promote vocational training – anything from straw plaiting to metal work? Have you records of young people being indentured apprentices?  Are there personal records of individuals who won an education against the odds?

(If you would like to do some new research, check out the Victoria County History entry for your community, to see what has been done and what you might do. The staff at the County Record Office and the Cambridgeshire Collection will then be pleased to help you.)

If you have work already carried out, or if you would like to carry out such a project this spring and display the results, do let us know. We would like to plan for your display, so please complete and send us the details on the form.

 Please return these details to (or for further information contact) The Conference Co-ordinator - Honor Ridout:   email honor.ridout@virgin.net        phone 01223 870940

2 Trinity Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge  CB23 1LS

‘School Day Reminiscences’

click here for details of the above

 

When I started school in 19__..................................

The school was built…………………………………..

There were….pupils in the class.

The first thing I remembered learning was………………

Teachers, lessons, food, discipline, testing, outings……What do you remember of your school days?  Or did you learn at home?  Either way, it was probably different from today’s schooling. 

Add your experience to our Educating People conference by writing your memories (add pictures if you like).

No prizes, but your own contribution

to the history of our times.

 

Please send or email to Honor Ridout:  

2 Trinity Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge CB23 1LS 

email honor.ridout@virgin.net        phone 01223 870940

Last week I visited the Soham CCAN (Cambridge Community Archives Network). They are a very active lot with their history in Soham! They are several history related groups and even the museum which will soon have a home and all the groups are linked one way or another. The Soham CCAN group have been working on some great research projects such as the evacuees, the Jewish School and they have been busy collecting and recording oral history around the town. I really enjoyed my visit to the group as not only were they a lovely bunch but I also used to live in Soham and I always enjoy my visits back there :)

I had the great pleasure of giving Cottenham Village Society a talk on the same night that they celebrated their 40th Anniversary! It was a really special occasion and so good to see that societies such as these across the county can go on for so long and still remain active, interesting and be such an important part of their village life.  If you would like to find out more about Cottenham Village Society just click here.

Cottenham also has its very own CCAN group and it is going very well, with enthusiastic group members adding archives to the site. Click here to find out more.

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!! The amazing Cherry Hinton Festival is back this year and is joined by the 2nd Cambridgeshire Open Air History Festival !!!!
The event will be held on Saturday 17th September 2011, so get it in your diaries and watch this space as I will post further details of the event and how to book a pitch if you have a history related stall etc. :)
In the mean time why not check out the festival website, which is just being updated.
http://www.cherryhintonfestival.co.uk/

I visited the Ely CCAN Group yesterday, at their meeting held in Ely Museum. Ely CCAN group is a friendly and very active group and I was pleased to see some familiar faces there. Many of members of the group also attend Mike Petty’s Fenland Fridays at the Ely Library. The Ely CCAN group have a great working relationship with the Ely Museum and have a good balance of members doing different tasks such as oral history interviews, area photographs and local history. A well known local photographer had also attended the meeting yesterday to bring along some of his amazing photographs for the group to see and add. I used to live in Ely myself, so I'll have to dig out my Ely photos and write up any tales I have and add them to the Ely group!

ELY Community Archives Group
Are you interested in local history, or just in finding out more about the place that you live?Do you have any stories about Ely that you would like to share with others?
You can contact the Ely Community Archive Group through the Ely Museum on 01353 666655 or email us at elyarchive@hotmail.com

If you would like to know more about how to get involved with any other aspect or group of CCAN just use the Contact Me form, leave your name and number and I will get back to you.

We had our CCAN (Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network) executive committee meeting yesterday and some really positive things came out of it. CCAN has made such a big difference in moving forwards the digital capture and recording of archives in the county and we are looking forward to some great new CCAN groups joining us over the next few months.

Our AGM is coming up to which all CCAN groups are invited to come along and if they wish, bring a display. The AGM will in the conference room of the Central Library Cambridge, which is on the third floor right next to the Cambridgeshire Collection and opposite the café. The AGM will start at 2pm, on Thursday 7th April 2011, and Chris Jakes from the Cambs Collection will be giving us a talk on archives – and you will get chance to network with other CCAN groups from across the county, catch up on CCAN news and show off some of the things your groups have been doing. Look forward to seeing you there!!!

If you would like to know more about how to get involved with CCAN just use the Contact Me form, leave your name and number and I will get back to you.

Come along to our Mary Kay Makeup Workshop and help raise funds for Help The Heroes!!!

FREE Entry, just Contact Me to let me know you're coming and how many friends you are bringing so that I can make sure you all get a FREE goody bag!

7.30pm-9.30pm at Little Thetford (just outside Ely on the A10) Village Hall. On Monday 21st February 2011.

You will get some fantastic free pampering and learn how to get different looks from your makeup :)