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There have been various sightings of a Short-eared Owl in the village by Gill and Paul Norman and John Parish. We now have three owls in the village: Little Owl, Barn Owl and Short-eared Owl.

Edited highlights of the Friends of Little Thetford’s St George’s Church 2011 flower festival video.

View or download the video from here …

Photographs & video produced by Clive Hayward. If you do download the full video, consider offering a donation to the Friends of St George’s Church. Otherwise contact us to purchase a copy of the DVD.

A Little Thetford villager has shown us some finds obtained over the years from in and around his back garden. We have suggested to the villager that he should take a selection of these to the museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge or perhaps the Ely museum for a professional identification. In the meantime, if you can help identify one or more of these artefacts our villager would, we are sure, appreciate it. The villager does not wish to be named. However, should you wish to know who this is, please do ask using the comment form below.

Beads of various ages. We think the blue one may be Saxon?	Coins and spoon. Obverse	Coins and spoon. Reverse
Modern or older tunic buttons?	Lead curse?	Stone practise shot?
Tooth and bone from what animal?

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Grace Turnbull gave away some photos before she died last year.

See also our recent request for information.

We have received an email letter from America about contacting Grace Turnbull’s sons Vernon and Wynford. Can anybody supply the contact details? Grace died in the middle of 2011.

Use the contact queries part of this form to contact us and we will pass on your details.

Lloyd McCullough of Little Thetford exhibits his digital artwork in a London gallery between 13 December 2011 and 20 January 2012 supported by the UK charity, Sense. Thirty year old Lloyd, who trained at Anglia-Ruskin University, Cambridge, has Usher syndrome. He has been deaf since birth and is gradually losing his sight. This has not stopped his dedication to a visual art which he produces digitally on specially adapted computer equipment. The exhibition titled Secret Window is at the Reading Room Gallery, 65-66 Frith Street,
Soho, London W1D 3JR which is open Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm.

Photographer Ian Treherne, who has Usher too, joins Lloyd at this two-man exhibition.

See also

• ThogusArt Lloyd’s web site will be re-launched for the exhibition
• ‘Secret Window’ – a free London exhibition by two young deafblind artists Sense UK press release
• Lloyd shows inner vision as work is exhibited in London gallery Cambridge Evening News 6 December 2011, p. 10
• The Reading Room, London. See here for location map; Secret Window
• Deafblind artists give unique vision of the world The Independent Thursday 8 December 2011
• Press Association release

Update: 8 December 2011—added link to The Independent article

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The latest village newsletter is now online. If you’re in the village – a printed copy should have already come through your door.

Can you identify the people in this photo and when it was taken? We think two of these people are Cyril and Norah Bedford but who are the others? Click on the photo to see those already identified and follow the instructions to add the names of people you recognise. Thank you in advance for your help.

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Final arrangements have been made today for a tree planting to mark next years Diamond Jubilee.

You may think it a little early but I am told that this is the time of year to plant trees so the Rt. Hon Jim Paice M.P. will be with us next Friday November 4^th at around 1pm to plant a London Plane tree on the second section of Holt Fen (see map) opposite the entrance to no 11. You will be very welcome to attend this short ceremony and if you are a member of a local organisation and have the opportunity to make it known among your colleagues please do.

Dress code may be wellies and umbrellas but as it is only a short ceremony don’t let it deter you! The tree has been funded by the Parish Council and we are grateful to our M.P for finding this slot in his diary to ‘plant’ it for us.

Further information if needed from Jenny Staines or Cllr Robert Bullen.

Jennifer Edwards née Dewsbury from Australia has been in touch. She has sent us three old school photographs from the 1930’s showing Nadine Dewsbury.

See these photographs here.