Even though this will be the second year when the annual May Day fund raising bike show with music, live rock bands and merrymaking, have had to be cancelled, the 363 Motor Cycle Club are keeping busy helping the community. The very name of the club invokes and commemorates the infamous Littleport Riots that began in May 1816 and ended with the hanging of 5 men from Littleport. The riot was caused by the realisation…
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Here is a heart-warming story about one of Littleport Life magazine’s supportive advertisers! Rosie the much-loved Jack Russell companion to doggy Daisy and humans Cathy and Lyn Gibb-de Swarte became progressively more unwell in December. Practice partner and surgeon Jo Johnson came out in person to collect Rosie and told the girls to return late afternoon… Rosie was adopted by them 4 years ago after a life spent as a breeding bitch in an outside…
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Cathy Gibb-de Swarte says almost a year on – how are our local retailers coping with the pandemic. Last March there were of course government guidelines to abide by and the Littleport community rallied helping people who had to self-isolate by setting up a Community Covid Help group which involved picking up shopping and/or prescriptions or making a friendly call and posting the mail -nothing was too much trouble for the quickly assembled volunteers that…
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How many people remember the WI Concert Party? We thought about it and decided it was a good idea. It was a great success! There were 20-25 members involved. We did sketches, poems and songs from the roaring twenties and popular shows. We performed around other villages and said we were on tour. We had no problem getting an audience. They clapped when things were right and even louder when things went horribly wrong. Doreen…
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Nothing daunted and not to be downhearted Littleport’s entertainment and social venue that has seen 2 world wars and survived all-sorts is looking positively at the future! A new opportunity has arisen for local businesses and service providers, whether as individuals or companies, to put their hands in their pockets and dig deep to help the Club at this difficult time. Cheerful Chair Adi Keating has welcomed this idea from entertainment maestro Derek Timbers of…
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Having spent the latter part of its life with one side covered with a slab of plate glass as a hall table, at 11 o’clock on Thursday November 26, 2020, the old clock from St George’s Church tower, that was replaced by the current one in 1919, was returned to Littleport. A gift from Rev Walter Barnes, vicar at St George’s for 45 years, the clock was first emplaced on the tower in 1744. It…
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There is a definite theme of the great outdoors running through the online activities offered by the 1st Littleport Scout Group this spring. The Beaver Scouts have been busy gardening, making bird feeders, and designing kites, plus there has also been a spot of indoor den building. ‘Den building is one of the activities we love to do when on camp, so to see the Beavers having fun at home with our adapted activity indoors…
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When Littleport’s sporting legend “Twink” Norman David South left his beloved village to move into Swaffham’s The Paddocks Care Home his presence was missed by so many of us who were used to bumping into him on a practically daily basis at the local shops! He was such a likeable and humorous man and the headlines reporting his passing on Christmas Day were a great shock and sadness for the whole of Littleport. I had…
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All the religions in the world, regardless of their philosophy, doctrine, dogma, ritual and opinion of other religions, all offer comfort to their adherents and followers in times of personal distress. The form that takes can be any amount of rituals and ceremonials with supplications and requests for help both from the sufferer of all those ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ and those who would seek alleviation and melioration from them on their behalf….
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As I write this, school has been fully open since the start of this academic year which, after lockdown followed by the summer holidays is great- a long time coming! Understandably, prior to the new school year starting, there was a lot of concern about the impact of the lockdown on children- progress in their learning and in relation to their mental health. I can honestly say, the children have been fantastic! They have adjusted…
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