YPL Hosts Free Drama Classes

YPL Hosts Free Drama Classes

With class act Mark Tunstall Mark Tunstall has been a professional actor for over twenty years, including lead roles in television, film, theatre and radio. You may be aware if you’re a soap fan that he played Adam Leigh in Brookside. Recently Mark was Head of Drama at The Pauline Quirke Academy and this included teaching voice and speech lessons, acting techniques, monologue work, movement, modern and classical text work, sight reading, warm-up skills and…

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Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch

A little over two years ago an article in this magazine asked “Is Neighbourhood Watch in Littleport dead? Well not quite, but it is in a rather sorry state which is quite distressing as it used to be a thriving and dynamic organisation in Littleport.” Well, fortunately there has recently been a significant change with 5 new schemes started in the last few months which have brought approximately 150 households within the Neighbourhood Watch fold….

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New Look Littleport Parish Council to March on Ely in 2016?

New Look Littleport Parish Council to March on Ely in 2016?

The Littleport Parish Council election has begun to fade in our memory – but the impact of the 2015 election will continue to make a difference to the way in which citizens of Littleport view and experience their representation by those councillors that they elected to serve them. It would be agreed that all the candidates were worthy to sit on that community body, and the mostly close count of votes cast would prove that…

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Arts are Alive in Littleport Library

Arts are Alive in Littleport Library

On March 24th Littleport Library played host to its first Arts Alive in Libraries event, a performance of two M R James ghost stories by local actor, Robert Lloyd Parry. I am delighted to say that the feedback from the forty seven strong audience was also extremely positive; “Excellent, atmospheric, very entertaining and spine chilling!”; “So nice to come to something local and affordable.”; “Really enjoyable performance. Extremely good value!”; “Hope there are more events…

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Traditional Shopping in Littleport

Traditional Shopping in Littleport

Visiting The Bargain Centre with Roving Reporter Cathy Gibb The earliest purpose built shop in Littleport’s Main Street is the large building that has been occupied mainly by The Littleport Bargain Centre and Barclay’s Bank. It was built in the 1880’s by Thomas Peacock, the founder of Hope Brothers Shirt Factory, and the first occupants were James Heygate, a clothier, and William Cragg, the butcher. I admit to being a regular visitor to the Bargain…

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Spirit and Healing

Spirit and Healing

This summer quarter, our founder and Primus, who also happens to be an author and journalist in her working life, currently editor of this community magazine, has written a few words for us about our Spirit driven healing ministry. Offering up our prayers for this to take place, we channel our healing, from Spirit through our spirit indwelling in our physical body, to the spirit of the sufferer, in order to give relief and comfort…

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Award for Players

Award for Players

The Littleport Players have been a feature and focus in the village for many years, but the focus on our local group has been on a national level recently, when they won a prestigious National Operatic Dramatic Association award. The theatre group picked up the award for Best Technical (costumes, set and make- up) for their production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Several members attended the awards ceremony in St Ives to…

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WI Celebrates Centenary!

WI Celebrates Centenary!

Littleport Life congratulates this organisation that has done so much for the village since the Women’s Institute began 100 years ago. The members have lent their strength to national campaigns that have been of concern specially to women such as equal pay, gaps in midwifery provision and domestic and other violence against women initiatives and non-specific such as ‘care not custody’ and organ donation. Of course on the home front, cookery skills have always been…

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OuseFest

OuseFest

From Monday 20th July to Sunday 2nd August 2015, come and take part in OuseFest, a whole fortnight of over 50 local events celebrating the Ouse Washes Landscape and Communities! There’s plenty happening at a variety of venues right on our doorsteps, spanning from Downham Market to St Ives. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn more about the history of our fascinating Ouse Washes area, local wildlife and habitats and traditional Fenland life. OuseFest is…

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The Littleport Society – Finding Your Past

The Littleport Society – Finding Your Past

In the 1980’s a new hobby began to grip the Nation, – researching family history. In fact many people around the World wanted to know their roots by discovering their ancestral origins, and Family History Societies soon sprang up in most counties to enable people with common ancestry to swap and exchange information. County Record Offices, which had once only been the preserve of a few dedicated historians, now became inundated with people wanting to…

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