Hertfordshire charity Khandel light works by linking two communities together, the UK community, based around the village of Barley, and the 26 villages Khandel light supports in Rajasthan. We know each other well. Meetings are held on the 15th of every month in Khandel, attended by Doctor Peter Gough on the phone. At the meetings, …
Royston Day Centre is open to all elderly people of Royston and the surrounding area. Everyone will receive a warm welcome and is treated as an individual at the beautiful setting at The Old Barn in Upper King Street. Elderly people are welcomed three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and given the …
Nuthampstead was commissioned by the USAAF in 1942, to the standard bomber field specification, with a completion date of 1st April 1943. The airfield itself was built on Scales Park, which was land owned by Baron Dimsdale, with the majority of the camp situated to the west, in and around Nuthampstead village. Local people remember …
Going on from strength to strength! The U3A is one of the very few organisations that is run by third agers for third agers; The University of the Third Age (U3A) movement is a unique and exciting organisation that provides, through its local U3As, life-enhancing opportunities. Retired and semi-retired people aged 50 plus come together …
UNCLE is a registered charity based in Royston which principally supports two orphanages in Nepal. The name UNCLE stands for Uplifting Nepal’s Children with Love and Education. We send £5,000 each quarter to pay for the rent, food, clothing, bedding, heating, cooking and medical costs, indeed everything the children and their carers need to survive. …
This building on the High Street in Bassingbourn will be known to many as the Old School Building. A school board was formed in 1874, and a new schoolhouse, with a schoolroom and 2 classrooms and a master’s house attached, was opened on the north side of the high street in 1877. Many of the …
How It Started The parish church of St John the Baptist is the only surviving part of an Augustinian priory, which dates from the latter half of the twelfth century. Between 1164 and 1179 a chapel for three canons was established and this was subsequently raised to a priory, initially for a community of only …
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The Town House at Barley is a beautiful building and has been a feature in the village for more than 500 years. Built in 1526, it is thought to have replaced a similar building which had already existed for four hundred years. In 1609 a court session in Buntingford resulted in the jury deciding that …
Until the Court House was built in 1853 The Old Bull Inn (then The Black Bull) served as the Court House and Police Station for Royston. The County Court House was erected on Fish Hill in 1849, apparently on the site of a ‘tinkers shop which had a farm homestead behind it’ (Kingston 1906, 202*). …
A building has stood on the site of the impressive red brick 19th century building in the Jacobethan style that is now a residential and dementia care home, since around 1100. Located next to the Church of St Margaret of Antioch, which gave the care home its name, the current building served as the rectory …
John’s Street was opened up to provide access through to Market Hill from High Street after the pub that stood in the gap “Queens Head” was destroyed by fire in 1841. The land was donated to the town after the fire by brewer John Phillips and hence the street has his name. Of course 2 …
Carved with pride… We often think of people who carve their initials in buildings as vandals but Great Chishill windmill has some from 300 years ago that were carefully cut with workmanship and obvious pride. JS in 1712 is presumed to have been one of the Soame family who owned the mill along with much …
