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UNCLE is a registered charity based in Royston which principally supports two orphanages in Nepal. The name UNCLE stands for Uplifting Nepal’s Children with Love and Education. We send £5,000 each quarter to pay for the rent, food, clothing, bedding, heating, cooking and medical costs, indeed everything the children and their carers need to survive. […]

This building on the High Street in Bassingbourn will be known to many as the Old School Building. A school board was formed in 1874, and a new schoolhouse, with a schoolroom and 2 classrooms and a master’s house attached, was opened on the north side of the high street in 1877. Many of the

How It Started The parish church of St John the Baptist is the only surviving part of an Augustinian priory, which dates from the latter half of the twelfth century. Between 1164 and 1179 a chapel for three canons was established and this was subsequently raised to a priory, initially for a community of only

The Town House at Barley is a beautiful building and has been a feature in the village for more than 500 years. Built in 1526, it is thought to have replaced a similar building which had already existed for four hundred years. In 1609 a court session in Buntingford resulted in the jury deciding that

John’s Street was opened up to provide access through to Market Hill from High Street after the pub that stood in the gap “Queens Head” was destroyed by fire in 1841. The land was donated to the town after the fire by brewer John Phillips and hence the street has his name. Of course 2

Carved with pride… We often think of people who carve their initials in buildings as vandals but Great Chishill windmill has some from 300 years ago that were carefully cut with workmanship and obvious pride. JS in 1712 is presumed to have been one of the Soame family who owned the mill along with much

Could it be that a notice of an auction of a property in Melbourn back in May 1829 could refer to this building? Auctioneers William Cole advertised the sale to be held at the Bell public house in Melbourn as an auction of “A very respectable Freehold Dwelling-House, containing three capital sleeping-rooms, parlour, and kitchen,

Nestled in the beautiful rural setting of Reed, midway between Royston and Buntingford, sits Reed First School. With 49 pupils on the roll, the school plays a vibrant role in the local community and has done so for over one hundred years. Built in 1913, the school opened its doors on the 13th October, after

The Old Post Office building, Baldock Street acts as a focal point at the The Cross in Royston. It is a large 2-storey building with a hipped roof and a symmetrical façade following the Classical Style. The Post Office was constructed in 1930’s in the side garden to Upton House originally occupied by the early