CLUNCH April May 2020 issue

Burwell History Society
Our 2019/20 season of talks is coming
towards it’s end with 2 more meetings at
Burwell Village College.
The meeting on Wednesday 22nd April will
start with our (very brief) AGM followed by
what promises to be an entertaining gallop
round East Anglia when Sarah Doig comes to
talk about Daniel Defoe’s Tour of the Eastern
Counties.
Then on 20th May Mike Westbook will talk
on “23 Squadron Makes the Best of a Bad
Deal”
All meetings are At Burwell Village College
starting at 7.30pm. Visitors are always
welcome. In June and July we usually
arrange trips locally to places of interests.
Watch out for our posters around the village
or contact Judy Paxton for more information.
01638 741713 judy@iceni.idps.co.uk
Wicken Brass Band
We are currently recruiting for new
players! If you play a brass instrument,
or used to, we are currently looking
for front row cornet players. We are
a friendly non-competing band and
rehearsals are on Wednesday evenings
from 7.30-9.30pm in the Village Hall
Wicken. We have instruments available
if you don’t have one.
Please get in touch if you’d like to
know more. You can visit our website
at: wickenbrassband.webs.com or ring
Robert, our Chairman on: 01353 968170
or 07792 826250
Many thanks
Pat Finlayson
Coordinator, Wicken Brass Band
BURWELL COMMUNITY
CHOIR’S
10th Birthday Concert
Is on
Saturday 16th May
at 7.30pm
in Mandeville Hall, Burwell
Tickets costing £6 and
including a buffet are
available from The Post
Office, Tina’s and choir
members.
All proceeds from the
concert will go to
CAM SIGHT
a local charity supporting
people with low vision and
blindness.
We do hope you will come
and support us.
Dear Editor
The hedge in front of the cemetery in Ness
Road although containing a large amount of
ivy is perfect for nesting birds, ideal cover
from predators and provides berries for the
birds in a hard winter. Now the Parish Council
plan to spend hundreds of pounds grubbing
it out and replacing it with a fence or a row
of twigs that will take years to mature.
Burwell is being flooded with new houses,
and hedges, trees and green spaces are
vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it really too
much to simply leave the cemetery hedge
alone?
M Michalak
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