When Helpston Deanery Synod representative and choir member, Linda Smith, retired from work as a Laboratory Technician, she decided to stop being a slave to time and give up wearing a watch. However, that does not mean that Linda now enjoys long ‘lie-ins’ or sits with her feet up.
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By Andrew Warn Meet Barry Gurbutt – another of those amiable, talented people who lives in our Benefice. Barry and Joan have lived in the Parish for 40 years, they have two daughters, both of whom went to AMVC, and one granddaughter. Barry is a cartoonist – one of those glorious individuals who does away with [...]
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… by Dave Ellis – Clerk to Glinton Parish Council We have been resident in Glinton since 1990. My wife Brenda worked at the Edith Cavell Hospital and our children attended the primary school and AMVC. On retiring from the Royal Air Force in 2004 after a 39 year career as an aircraft engineer I wanted [...]
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By Andrew Warn Barbara lived in Stanground as a girl, born shortly after the 2nd World War, in the days when there were fields outside the back door. She was the youngest of a family of five, she met John when she was seventeen, they married when she was nineteen, and as they say, the [...]
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By George Boyden, Helpston (aged 86 years) This question will no doubt be asked frequently of those whom it affected: “Where were you on VE day” (8th May 1945)? Well, at that stage, I was heading towards five years as a Prisoner of War (POW) having been captured at Calais in May 1940. Perhaps it [...]
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By Andrew Warn Your deputy editor was walking down Glinton High Street one day last July, when he came upon the ever-serene Colin Hodgkinson. Asked how he was, Colin came out with the unforgettable line; “OK thanks, I’ve just got back from Thailand, playing bass with the British Rhythm & Blues All Stars. We were on [...]
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Heather Lawrence from Peakirk takes a look at one of our most famous local inhabitants. I moved to Peterborough from Brighton in the mid 1970‚s for my first teaching post and am sorry to say, at that time, knew nothing of Peterborough or the area’s famous poet, John Clare. When I moved to Glinton a [...]
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