It’s always nice to hear about new businesses and services in the village – and to include any extra information about them that comes to light! Well, the new taxi service in Littleport run by David Allen is one such. When someone needed to be conveyed to Littleport Village Hall from Chettisham on a Thursday night to attend the Spiritualist meeting there, this taxi firm came up trumps! The fare in question was disabled curate,…
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In 2014 the well-loved JH Adams Ironmongery shop was transformed into Littleport’s very own Heritage Centre The Adams Heritage Centre is Littleport’s only dedicated venue for exhibitions and displays highlighting all aspects of our town’s history. So what can you expect when you come through the door? Adams has hosted an exciting range of special events, exhibitions and displays in the two short years since it opened. The centre also holds a community archive of…
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As well as Adult & Junior book collections this library also provides: Audiobooks, Magazines, Fax Service, Photocopying & Printing, Free Internet: via the library PCs – up to 2hours OR via the Wi-Fi – unlimited Free e-books, e-magazines & e-newspapers, Free online databases, Use of a Scanner A Story/Rhymetime for under-5s takes place on Mondays at 11:00am during Term Time. If you are interested in joining the rota of volunteer Story Readers, then please talk…
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After a month’s rest, we welcome back the Adams Community Market which is now on the first Saturday of the month. For our opening market on the 3rd February, we welcomed our regular traders back to provide you with: Award winning pies and truckle style cheeses Selection of local vegetables and eggs A Variety of traditionally reared pork, lamb, beef and poultry Locally produced apple juice Fresh cut flowers In addition, our two Guest Stalls…
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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH UPDATE FREE – Street Signs To establish a Neighbourhood Watch scheme is very easy and normally there is just one cost involved; that of providing the street signs that usually are placed on convenient lampposts. For most schemes two signs are required at the cost of £12 each. Littleport Parish Council has kindly donated money so that residents within the Parish of Littleport can establish a scheme without this additional cost. Although the…
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A big thank you for everyone who has been supporting Littleport’s new community market. You have been coming out in your droves to support this new town centre initiative and it has been fantastic to see the town look so busy. People have made some lovely comments on social media and it is great that so many residents have had the chance to see inside the beautiful Heritage Centre which is the perfect setting for…
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It has been a while since our last update but during all of this time it has been business as usual dealing with an array of emergencies, leading to a very busy year so far. During this year we have had a couple of changes to our crew which has now given us vacancies to fill. Want to be an on call firefighter? In order to apply you must live or work within 5 minutes…
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‘Connections’ has been very quiet for the last few months. We moved our meeting place from the Methodist Church Hall to the Village Hall thinking it might prove a more conducive venue to some people, but there has still been a poor attendance at our monthly meetings. So we have reluctantly decided to stop them. Instead, we will meet up on a more ad hoc casual basis at various member’s homes in the future. We…
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Now that the election is a distant memory the hard work now begins in earnest. Going forward we will be giving you a regular report on news from across the District, and in particular decisions and projects that directly affect our community. The Littleport Station Gateway We are extremely pleased to report that this project has been made a priority and we are pushing for a resolution to this. The Littleport Schools Planning approval was…
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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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