News from Tannery Drift School Olympic Team GB Boxer, Anthony Ogogo, recently visited Tannery Drift First School as part of a promotional tour by the new Aldi Royston store. He led an assembly to the whole school on the importance of a healthy diet and exercise. The children came away from the assembly inspired by […]
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Royston Runners Congratulations to Tom Beach who represented Hertfordshire at the UK County Athletics Union (CAU) Championships [better known as the UK Inter Counties Champs]. The championships were held on Saturday 9th March at Prestwold Hall, Loughborough. Tom was selected to compete following his fantastic achievement to finish 9th at the Herts Champs in St.
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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