September 2012 - Living Villages

Reminder - The next meeting on
Wednesday 5 th September 2012
at Wansford Surgery commencing at
6.30pm is our Annual General
Meeting. This is an important date
in our calendar when reports are
given on the previous year’s activities
and future plans and projects. We
shall also be launching our new
information leaflet with ideas on how
this can be distributed to the widest
possible audience of patients. When
setting dates for meetings in the
coming year, ideas or suggestions on
possible speaker subjects would be
welcomed. Please try to attend this
meeting and hear about what has
been happening in the practice and
local healthcare – this is also your
chance to voice an opinion or discuss
Many thanks to everyone who
responded to the notice in last
month’s magazine by offering
memorabilia, photos and documents
for Stibbington Centre’s “Memories
from the Home Front” project. Our
new acquisitions will be on display,
along with our existing archive, at the
1940s-themed HOME FRONT
FESTIVAL on Saturday 22
September. Details about the event
are enclosed with this magazine.
We will be continuing our research
during the coming months, so those
with memories of wartime that they
would like to share are very welcome
to come along on 22 September —
we’re even offering free entry to
everyone born before the end of
World War II!
COMMUNICARE
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a matter you may feel needs airing.
The Social Group monthly coffee
morning will be on Friday 21 st
September 2012 – Yarwell Village
Hall at 10am.
Our final day trip of the season is to
Leeds on Saturday 27 th October –
there will be the opportunity to either
visit the Leeds City Variety Theatre
for a matinee performance of ‘The
Good Old Days’ or spend the day
shopping in the city centre. Cost:
£33 for the theatre, or £18 for
shopping only.
For more information and bookings
contact Clare Wagstaffe on 01780
470437 or email:
superfoguk@aol.com.
Wendy Spencer
MEMORIES FROM THE HOME FRONT
From research that we have already
completed we know, for example,
that in 1940 to 41 more than 100
children were evacuated to
Stibbington from their homes in
London. The children were billeted at
local addresses and attended the
school at Stibbington, more than
doubling the school roll. Some were
as young a four, and whilst a few
returned to London after a week,
many stayed for at least two years.
For more information email: cees.
stibbington@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
or contact
Rosie
Edwards at
the Centre
on 01780
782386.