The time lapse camera crew have been out and about again. The latest video is of dawn breaking over the Jubilee Wood in Great Gidding on Saturday 21st June 2014. The camera was set to record from first light which occurred at around 3.50 am. The street
Read more →Due to popular demand this fascinating book by Patrick Ellis & David Shepherd has been re-printed. Full of wonderful photos and facts of how the Giddings once were, the book contains 40 colour and 20 black/white modern photos and 80 black/white historical photos, plus 7 maps. A
Read more →Some of you may have noticed grown men (and women) disappearing out of the back of the Fox and Hounds on a Thursday night. Well here’s what’s been going on… Quite disappointing really! Thanks to Michael for organising and for the time-lapse footage and to the Fox
Read more →Calum Titmus (20) from Great Gidding has just returned to the UK having competed last weekend in Reykjavik at the Icelandic Inclusive Skating and Special Olympics Figure Skating Championships. He competed alongside competitors from Iceland, Great Britain and Canada. After two days of intensive competition, he came
Read more →Handyperson Services complete ‘odd jobs’ around the home, mainly for people aged 60 plus. The County Council, Cambridge City Council, district councils and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), are working together to develop a countywide Handyperson Service. To help develop this service a survey has
Read more →The district council now produces a quarterly e-newsletter called Huntingdonshire Online. The e-newsletter aims to keep residents up to date with news & events taking place in Huntingdonshire. To receive Huntingdonshire Online, people need to subscribe at www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/subscribe providing us with a name & e-mail address.
Read more →Some good news for residents in the Giddings – Neighbourhood Watch is coming to town! Great Gidding’s Kim Wells is taking on the role of organiser and will be dropping leaflets through your door very shortly. If you’d like to know about the scheme or get more
Read more →Spring is certainly here! We’re even having a few dare I say it much needed April showers. But don’t let these put you off heading out for a walk, cycle or ride. It’s amazing how pleasurable a walk in the rain can be. The whole walk can
Read more →Calum Titmus (20) from Great Gidding has just come back to the UK having competed last weekend in the Austrian Special Olympics Figure Skating Championships. He competed alongside competitors from Germany, Russia, Finland, Great Britain and Austria. After two days of intensive competition, he successfully defended his
Read more →Social media Pop up Picnic For 10 solid years we have held a midsummer picnic in the Jubilee Wood come rain or shine and the abiding memory is rain and not much shine. This year, 2014 rather than a fixed calendar date for the “Summer Picnic”
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