Behind doors – Offscreen at the Royston Picture Palace When the Priory Cinema in Royston closed on 28 September 2000, after 67 years, there was a public campaign to keep it open. Instead, nearly two years after the curtain had come down on Stuart Little (the film, not the mouse-like star) the building came down […]
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Melbourn Hub celebrated their 5th Birthday in February! The Hub in Melbourn is run for the community, by the community. It offers a safe and welcoming place to visit, a café with free WiFi, a library access point and meeting rooms which can be used for leisure or business.  With such a wide range
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Feeling Good Week is a Hertfordshire wide event that encourages communities to raise awareness and promote children’s emotional wellbeing by raising awareness of the support that can be accessed within the local community. The children at Icknield Walk First School have celebrated this event by participating in a number of feel good activities, from country
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Great Turnout for Charitable Car Run Well over a hundred classic cars emerged on Melbourn Village College at the weekend to support this year’s Snowdrop Run. The event was the 14th such meet up , which kick starts the season for the Cambridge and District MG Owners Club. This year the 60 mile route took
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Flower Festival Flourishes Again Mid-winter, with its bitter cold, short days, and very little colour in the gardens is not considered the usual time of year to hold a flower festival and most of these displays would be booked in for the Summer months. However, the organisers of a Winter Flower Festival bucked the trend
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Below the High Street The death of the high street has been foretold many times over the decades. Royston is no exception – with empty shops in evidence, ‘use it or lose it’ applies more now than ever. One cause of the gradual decline of the British high street has been attributed to the relative
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The Listing is proud to have supported so many local events over the past year. We are so lucky to have such a vibrant community in Royston and surrounding villages, here are a few of our favourite memories from 2018:
This year, running club Royston Runners held a series of fundraising events to raise money for their local Hospice, Garden House Hospice Care. By holding raffles at club events, relay races and their annual birthday cake auction, they’ve raised an incredible £2,667 Royston Runners member, Tracey commented: “We chose Garden House Hospice as our charity
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Royston Runners lost their top spot in race 2 of the North Herts Sunday League Cross Country season, with the hosts, Trent Park, making a good show in both the men’s, women’s and masters categories. Royston struggled to match their previous performance in race 1 on a muddy and windy course through the fields and
Remembrance in Royston and beyond Below you can see a huge range of the beautiful tributes in and around Royston to commemorate Armistice Day tomorrow. It will be one hundred years to the day since the guns fell silent on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, bringing the
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Joe Rose ‘ Can’t Help Falling in Love’ https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/track/joe-rose-cant-help-falling-in-love Joe Rose, better known as local accountant John Froggett, has been lured into the recording studio! Joe has performed a rendition of a famous song in aid of our branch of Home-Start and had fun filming a lively, laughter filled video to support it, which
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Tallulah Le Fey We attended Cambridge Business awards and one of the comments left by the judges was about our fabulous recipes every month by Tallulah Le Fey. Hello my fellow foodies… This month I would like to share with you a much requested cake at the Le Fey family gatherings. This is a large
