Bar Hill News - June 2021 (Issue 624)

The latest issue of Bar Hill News has been printed and is being delivered throughout the village.

The digital version is available here (via Internet Archive).

In this issue, we have;

- An update from Happy Hours (who are re-opening after the pandemic),

- The start of our new "Walking in Bar Hill"-series

- An update from Crafts Sheds

- The start of the Memorial Garden Appeal

This months Community Focus is Ashley Curry, who runs Ashley's Barbers Shop in the village.

This months editorial is below;

June 2021

A bumper edition this month! Lots of clubs are re-opening now some of the more stringent COVID restrictions are coming to an end. I have attempted to include as many messages as I can; if your club is re-opening please let me know so I can include the details in the July issue.

The Parish Councils consultation (looking for projects to spend £18,000 on from the A14 upgrade project) is clearly the biggest news of the month and I’d like to encourage everyone in the village to respond (see the back page).

The meeting to discuss creating a new charity in the village will have taken place regrettably just after this goes to print - hopefully, there will be news next month!

Our litter picking day is scheduled for July 10th, it had to be moved back as there wasn’t enough time to get everything ready. See you then!

The archive of our oldest issues has been updated. If you’d like to see the very first issue of the Bar Hill News (from way back in December 1967). You can check this out yourself here; https://archive.org/details/bar-hill-news-196712-dec-1967-issue-1

Bar Hill News - March 2002 (Issue 385)

 The digital version is available here (via Internet Archive).

In this issue, we have;

- Easter at Bar Hill Church,

- A proposal to build 60,000 new homes in Cambridgeshire consultation with residents of Longstanton and Oakington (Northstowe?!)

- A Wood Somewhere by Nigel Richardson

- Nathan Dean and Chris Ostler winning the Doubles Table Tennis

- The results of a Dangerous Roads Survey nationally highlighted the A10 and noted the A14 had a lower-than-average accident rate!

As well as regular updates from the Recycling Club, Bar Hil Colts, etc

Bar Hill News - May 1993 (Issue 288)

 

This is the May 1993 (Issue 288) of the Bar Hill News.

The highlight (from the cover) is the presentation of "A Day In The Park" by the Swavesey RADSOC.

This issue also includes articles on;

- Girl Guides Association (Great River Ouse),

- Parish Council Notes (which includes a Circus visiting the village),

- The Sunshine Playgroup

As well as all your usual articles from the Bar Hill Pre-School Playground,  National Women's Register, Woodcraft Folk, and the International Women's Group.

Bar Hill News - Apr 1993 (Issue 287)

Here's the April 1993 issue of the Bar Hill News (Issue 287). This issue includes such topics as;

- Litter Busting Day,

- The adoption of Viking Way (by the County Council), 

- Bar Hill PTA Fun Run, and

- A stray black cat in Foxhollow was successfully reunited with its owners

As well as the usual updates from the Cricket Club, Happy Hours, Tennis Club, and the South Cambridgeshire Conservative Association.

This issue included this poem (on the subject of the litter picking day);

"And did those feet in recent times 

Walk around Bar Hill's village green 

To scent the perfume of the limes 

Then tread in piles where dogs have been? 

You'll find newspapers by the score

Dumped in the hedge, not through your door. 

Let's tidy up and make it grand

In Bar Hill's green and pleasant land.

  

Bring me my sack, my pointed cane, 

Springtime has come around again. 

We pick up junk, tin cans and glass,

That litters paths, hedgerows and grass. 

We ask, good people, do be kind,

No more your rubbish leave behind. 

On Picking Day give us a hand

In Bar Hill's green and pleasant land!"

- Anonymous