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Dry Drayton Village Newsletter

 


Dry Drayton Newsletter October 2023

Online versions of the Newsletter can be found using the following links:

2023

February 2023 , March 2023 , April 2023 , May 2023 , June 2023 , July/August 2023, September , October 2023 , November 2023, December 2023/January 2024

2022

February 2022, March 2022, April 2022, May 2022, June 2022, July 2022, Sept 2022, October 2022, November 2022, December 2022/January 2023.

2021

February 2021, March 2021 , April 2021, May 2021, June 2021, July / Aug 2021 September 2021, October 2021, November 2021, December 2021 - January 2022.

2020

December 2019 / January 2020, February 2020 , March 2020, April 2020, May 2020 , June 2020 , July/August 2020, September 2020, October 2020, November 2020 , December2020-Jan2021

2019

February 2019 , March 2019 , April 2019, May 2019 , June 2019 , July / August 2019, , September 2019 , October 2019 November 2019

2018

February 2018, March 2018 , April 2018, May 2018, June 2018, July 2018 / August 2018, September 2018, October 2018, November 2018, December 2018 / January 2019

2017

June 2017, July 2017 , September 2017 , October 2017, November 2017 , December 2017



Back Copies of the Newsletter - an archive

 

 


 

Back copies of the Newsletter

 

There is a superb local studies library collection in the Lion Yard Library, Cambridge, called The Cambridgeshire Collection. This is the ideal place to research anything connected with Cambridgeshire history.

Among the most interesting sources of of information for current and future historians are contemporary newspapers, magazines and newsletters. We have in the past deposited copies of the Dry Drayton Village Newsletter in the Cambridgeshire Collection, but sadly there is far from a complete run of them.

The Newsletter was started in February 1975 by Peter Cornwall, the then headmaster of the Village School. In the first issue, an A5 sized production, Peter said, prophetically,

"This is the first of what I hope will be many Newsletters. It is a Newsletter for the School, but also has items of interest for the community at large and I hope that it is developed further so that the village organisations will consider it as a means of communication"

Over 400 issues later and it is living up to that expectation.

The Cambridgeshire Collection has a bound volume of the first 47 issues of the newsletter, and a box file with an incomplete later run. Cambridgeshire Collection staff have offered to have later copies bound if we can make up the run. A project was launched via the Newsletter in January 2003 listing the missing copies and asking people in the village to search their attics, garages and garden sheds for them. Thanks to the generosity of John Hacker, Mrs Hamit, Pam Ducker, Mr and Mrs Johnston and David Wyatt, over 140 old copies of the Newsletter were found and deposited. However, 6 back copies have yet to be found. The missing issues are: Nos 108, 111, 112, 113, 114 and 142.

If you have any copies for the Cambridgeshire Collection, you can drop them into the Cambridge Central Library in the Lion Yard or phone Les Waters on 01954 781036 and he will pick them up and take them in for you.