The son of a wealthy Huntingdonshire attorney who later moved to Ely, George Peacock was well educated, eventually entering Queen’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1734. He was ordained a priest in 1736 at Lincoln and was given a curacy in Norfolk. Whilst in Norfolk he met and fell in love with a butcher’s daughter, much to the displeasure of his father who thought the girl ignorant and below his…
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There’s Fun for Everyone at Littleport Ex-Servicemen’s Club
Littleport has a really great social and sociable venue that provides fun and entertainment for the whole community from 0 to 100 plus! Whether it’s darts, pool or dominoes that interests you or seeing sport on the big screen, playing Bingo and a ‘Saturday night out’ with live bands or a quiet sup with friends on other days – not forgetting the different groups like Slimming World and youth club ThePort. It’s run by a…
Read MoreFEN Line Users Association
The name FLUA may not be familiar to all readers of this magazine but for the last 35 years the Fen Line Users Association has been actively campaigning to improve services and facilities for passengers on the line between King’s Lynn and Cambridge. And that includes your station at Littleport which according to official figures was used by nearly 249,000 passengers in the year before the Covid 19 pandemic struck. Over the years FLUA has…
Read MoreNews from Littleport & District Pony Club
Well, what a busy few months it has been here at LDPC, but what a lot of fun we’ve had! I think I’ll start with Summer Camp ’21 held at Ely Eventing Centre. As you can imagine, with a pandemic going on around us, camp was a game of logistics this year. It was the first one we’d had for 2 years and with many new members, there was lots to organise. With newly raised…
Read MoreWWT Welcoming Back Winter Wildlife
Most of the autumn management has now taken place, and finished not too soon as the wet spells in October resulted in the Earith sluice gates opening briefly. Fingers crossed we won’t have to take on excessive quantities of water before winter has properly begun, but it all depends how much water comes down the River Ouse. Ideally we like to see shallow flooded washes at across the far side of the reserve, but not…
Read MoreLittleport Leisure’s Gift to You
As we all know January is a time to make resolutions and promises to ourselves that we will do what we can to make our lives healthy and active. We at Littleport Leisure would like to help and assist you in either maintaining your existing fitness regime or by encouraging you to begin a new one. We would like to offer you FREE taster sessions for some of our classes in January, all you need…
Read MoreLittleport Rangers Football Club
Under 13s Yellows It’s been a real tough time for the yellows recently. A lot of change and inconsistencies for them. They even came close to folding. However, with one of the other coaches stepping in temporarily and with the help of new coaches Anton, Wayne and Bailey, the team are back on track hopefully and moving forward. The Yellows have had a difficult start to their league with some heavy defeats but hopefully that…
Read MoreLittleport Brass – The Band Plays On
Littleport Brass has put Littleport on the musical map for all lovers of the big sound that is a brass band! The members of the band play for love and no money! But that is no criteria for their musicianship and these gifted players do Littleport proud wherever and whenever they perform. They have done extremely well over the lockdown period and are now looking forward to entertaining us all more in the coming winter…
Read MoreLittlport Always a Good Choice: Stephen Barclay MP chose Littleport for Rememberance Day
The Littleport Branch of the Royal British Legion put on a good show for Remembrance Sunday on November 14th. And this year North East Cambridgeshire MP Stephen Barclay and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office decided it was the place to be for a commemoration service second only in my opinion to the one in London near the Houses of Parliament at the Cenotaph. President of the RBL Littleport,…
Read MoreLittleport Community Primary School
Headteacher’s Message – Mr Rivett It has already been a fun filled term with so many exciting things going on across the school and, at the time of writing this, it is only October! The activities and events our children have taken part in so far this term presents a stark contrast to where we were only a year ago. Year 6 – Miss Hoal, Year 5/6 Lead This term has been very busy for…
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