Sylvia Marshall – 30 years our postmaster

Long and loyal service recognised by the Post Office

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Sylvia Marshall – 30 years postmaster of Hatley St George post office: her long and loyal service has been recognised by the Post Office with a Community Service Award certificate. Photo: Peter Mann.
Sylvia Marshall talking to Peter Mann I became postmaster (I prefer it to ‘postmistress’) of Hatley St George post office on 1st May 1994....
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Christian Aid Week 2024

Please give generously

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Christian Aid Week – May 2024. You can donate via the envelope put through your door or on line. Please take your envelope to Hatley St George shop and post office.
Christian Aid Week 2024 – you will have received a gift envelope though your letterbox… please give generously and take it to Hatley Post...
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Buses

Some notes on local services
plus Park & Ride in Cambridge

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Bus in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, March 2013. Photo: Peter Mann.
By Peter Mann and Nicola Jenkins It’s fair to say Hatley is not served well by public transport. Other than the ‘Thursday market day’...
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Hatley events… 2024

Lots to look forward to and enjoy

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Hatley Diary – 2024. All the events so far scheduled for East Hatley and Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire, between January and July 2024 – as, mostly, organised by the Hatley Village Association.
Round up by the HVA committee Big thanks to everyone who gives a helping hand for helping to make these events happen (and clearing...
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Church newsletters

The weekly newsletter of
St Mary’s church, Gamlingay

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Masthead (sans date) for the St Mary's, Gamlingay, weekly newsletter / yellow background.
In the latest (17th May) issue, the Rev’d Hilary Young, priest in charge for our diocese, includes a mini-review plus a photo of the...
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This is rather good!

Proposed design for St Denis’ east window

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St Denis', East Hatley, Cambridgeshire – proposed design for a new chancel / east window by Aidan McRae Thomson – March 2024.
By Peter Mann I was absolutely delighted on opening an email from Rachel Morley, director of the Friends of Friendless Churches, last week to...
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The Gamlingay and Hatleys Car Scheme

For when you don’t have the means of getting there

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The Gamlingay and Hatleys local car scheme – Mick Marshall with client, June 2018.
Do you need help getting to your doctor or vaccination appointment? The Gamlingay and Hatleys Car Scheme provides transport for medical appointments – including...
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Rita the meter maid is coming to Gamlingay

Civil parking enforcement on streets near us

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A civil parking enforcement 'service agent' putting a parking ticket on a car – part of Cambridgeshire County Council's take over of parking enforcement - March 2023.
By Peter Mann Cambridgeshire County Council is in the process of setting up a new department for parking enforcement, a job currently done by...
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Vacancy for a parish councillor

An opportunity to become a Hatley councillor

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Advertisement for a new councillor on Hatley Parish Council; closing date for applications: 10th May 2024.
Hatley Parish Council has a vacancy for a parish councillor. The council comprises five members: a chairman, vice-chairman and three others… but currently there...
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Gamlingay gym: your local fitness centre

It’s based at the village primary school

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Gamlingay gym reopened on 27th June 2022.
By Peter Mann Gamlingay gym, based at the village primary school in Station Road, has all the equipment one would expect to help keep...
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Hatley’s defibrillator – just dial 999

Trained operatives will tell you what to do

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The defibrillator cabinet outside Hatley Village Hall. If you need to use it, first dial 999 – it has been registered with the NHS who will provide the code to open the cabinet door and give instructions for its use.
Hatley’s defibrillator (above) is located outside the Village Hall in Hatley St George in a locked and temperature-controlled cabinet. It has full public access...
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The West Cambridgeshire Hundreds

Ancient woods to explore (while still open)*

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The Cambridgeshire Hundreds, an administrative division used from Anglo-Saxon times (circa 800 AD) to the 19th century when (as with most counties in England and Wales) Cambridgeshire was divided into 17 hundreds, plus the borough of Cambridge. Each hundred had a separate council which met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters. Picture source: Wikipedia.
By Peter Mann According to the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants, the West Cambridgeshire Hundreds is ‘a collection of wildlife rich ancient...
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what3words

A tool for finding and guiding people to a precise location... as is its rival, Plus Code

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Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium), an English Heritage site near Hexham in Northumberland. Its what3words are rental.puzzle.outcasts. Photo: Peter Mann.
By Margot Eagle what3words is the perfect tool for finding and guiding people to a precise location, which street addresses and post codes don’t...
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St Denis’ is an award winning church

First prize in a major competition
for ʻBest conservation’

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St Denis' church East Hatley, Cambridgeshire from the south west. The Friends of Friendless Churches has completed two phases of restoration work since taking ownership of the building in 2016 – including (in 2018) new windows in the mediaeval nave and (in 2021) new windows in the chancel William Butterfield built in 1874.
By Peter Mann St Denis’ church in East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, has won a major ‘Best conservation’ award. The Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service and...
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Rescuing our churches

Articles highlighting the plight of rural churches

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By Peter Mann It was a good week for spotting mentions of the Friends of Friendless Churches – and the plight of rural churches...
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St Denis’ re-skinned

Now a significant local asset – and open every day

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The south wall in the nave and chancel of St Denis' church, East Hatley. In 2022 the walls in the nave were replastered and (at the far end) the reredos restored. St Denis' is now every day from 8.30 am to dusk. Photo: Peter Mann / Buzz Associates.
By Peter Mann An unexpected grant late 2021 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund enabled the Friends of Friendless Churches, which owns St Denis’...
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William Butterfield in action

A visit to All Saints, Margaret Street, London – and an important paper on this star architect who restored St Denis' in 1874

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All Saints, Margaret Street, London – the interior, looking towards the magnificent altar piece at the east end and dating from 1909.
There can be no question William Butterfield (1814-1900) was, along with Augustus Pugin (1812-1852), Sir George Gilbert Scott RA (1811-1878) and Sir Charles Barry...
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A little less of St Denis

Lost in the great fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

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St Denis' statue in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. He was beheaded around 250 AD - Notre-Dame was built on the site of his church 900 years later. A relic of St Denis, placed in the weather vane atop the cathedral's spire in the 1830s was lost in the devastating fire of 15th April 2019. [Photo by Thesupermat-CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21763309]
Saint Denis was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint – martyred for his faith by decapitation, thus now portrayed carrying his head in his...
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Have you read this?

Mentions we've spotted of Hatley in books

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South Cambs magazine, winter 2019 – panel on great places featuring a photo of St Denis' church, East Hatley, Cambridgeshire.
By Peter Mann Depending on where you live, there can be any number of mentions of your locality in books on the countryside, buildings,...
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News on nature

Our local, Local Nature Reserve

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Red kite – part of the natural scene around Hatley St George and St Denis' church in East Hatley. Photo by John O'Sullivan.
There is a small corner of Hatley which is forever a nature reserve – it surrounds St Denis’ church and is, officially, a Local...
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