bits and pieces from the newspapers over the years
BBC WW2 People's War Project The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result......click on the link for more....
Sawston Village History Society April 2010 Meeting Report The Lost Watermills of Cherry Hinton by Michelle Bullivant For what must be a first time, the guest speaker at our April meeting, Michelle Bullivant, gave every attendee a raffle ticket which were drawn during the interval. The fascinating subject of her talk was The lost Water Mills of Cherry Hinton...click on the link for more...
Cherry Hinton Festival / Cambridgeshire 1st History Fair The first Cambridgeshire History Festival descended on the county on Saturday 19th September 2009, as part of the Cherry Hinton Festival. Over the past three years the history exhibition had grown in size and drew a huge amount of interest. At the 2009 Cherry Hinton Festival we were pleased to announce and present the first ever Cambridgeshire History Fair! It was a fantastic opportunity to promote yourself/your group, network with other like-minded people & organizations and have a great day out! Stalls for the history fair included a diverse range of related disciplines. The history fair covered history, archaeology, local history, archives, family history, architecture, natural environment, museums, re-enactment and much, much more…..