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From the monthly archives:
December 2009
It is 6 months since we first reported on The Mustard Seed Project a charity set up by Market Deeping couple Rita and
Geoff Fowler to help a small urban slum community in Mombasa Kenya to move out of poverty and deprivation through empowerment and capacity building.
This is not aid but giving the people the belief that they can improve their lives by their own efforts. [click to continue…]
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In the eastern corner of Northborough parish on a headland between the medieval courses of the Welland and Follies Rivers lies an enigmatic collection of earthworks and a so-called pack-horse bridge, which represents all that remains above ground of Walderam Hall (Figure 1). Formerly in Maxey parish, Northamptonshire, and strategically positioned close to the river-crossing of the old road to the Deepings, the hall has had an exciting and varied history which may be traced back as far as the twelfth-century through documentary and cartographical evidence. [click to continue…]
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A Brief History of the Langdyke Bush Meeting-Mound by Avril Lumley Prior
‘O Langley Bush! The shepherds’ sacred shade,
Thy hollow trunk oft gain’d a look from me,
Full many a journey o’er the heath I’ve made,
For such like curious things I love to see,
What truth the story of the swain allows,
That tells of honours which thy young days knew,
Of ‘Langley Court’ being held beneath thy boughs,
I cannot tell - this much I know is true.’
John Clare, ‘Langley Bush’, Helpestone, 1821
Fig. 1: ‘View of the Langdyke Bush and countryside adjacent taken on Helpston Heath near the hedge’ (Thomas Eyre, 1721)
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Two outline planning applications have been submitted to Peterborough City Council for Great Haddon, a proposed urban extension in the south of Peterborough located between the A1(M) and Hampton. The applications have been submitted by David Lock Associates on behalf of the Great Haddon Consortium (O&H Properties, Marlborough Oasis Ltd and David Wilson Homes). They propose up to 5,350 new homes, 65 hectares of employment land, a district and two neighbourhood centres (with a mix of retail, commercial, community and health facilities), educational facilities (three primary and one secondary school), five Gypsy and Traveller pitches, open space, highways, utility and drainage infrastructure. [click to continue…]
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The high standards reached by pupils, excellent levels of achievement, improvements in attendance and teaching and the headteacher’s inspirational leadership have all led to an outstanding rating by government Ofsted inspectors of Arthur Mellows Village College.
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