P UBLISHED BY R OTHAY H OUSE , M AYFIELD R OAD , E ASTREA .
Eastrea Village News N UMBER 14
T HE P UB O PENS T ODAY ! The Nag’s Head opens today, Friday October 26, after a license was granted yesterday to the new owners, Mr David Lepia and Mr John Harris, at Fenland Hall. The doors will be open by 6 pm. The landlord and landlady, Nog and Dot Paling, are eager to provide villagers with the relaxed, friendly ambience that the village needs. A copy of the pub’s new Christmas Menu is being sent to every home in Eastrea with this Newsletter. The aim is to
Our view of the Nag’s Head pub on the day the wind turbine blades passed through Eastrea, en route to McCain’s. The turbines are the largest in Britain, and if anybody doubted their size, they won’t now!
restore the Nag’s Head to its proper position as our local public house, with a new emphasis on good food and on homely accommodation for visitors to the district. In response to objections, the opening hours have been reduced and proposals for outside music have been dropped — except for the annual Straw Bear celebrations, for which a special exception has been made in agreement with objectors who attended the hearing. The Storers will be able to resume the lunches in Eastrea, and many local events can once more be based where they belong — at the Nag’s Head.
O CTOBER 2007
E ASTREA S TUDENTS This year, The Storers have awarded an unprecedented three bursary grants to Eastrea students. These applicants showed such promise that the awards were felt to be the best response to the high quality of all the entries. Each was reviewed by the Trustees, and independent academic referees. Rebecca Wenham of Coates Road has worked at Coates Primary School and at Alderman Jacobs. She is a qualified sports leader. Stefan Marseglia, also of Coates Road, has worked as a trainee journalist at the Peterborough Evening Telegraph and at the Salvation Army charity shop in Stanground. He gained a Brian Mawhinney Award for GCSE progress. Rachel Gardner who is from Thornham Way has been a teaching assistant and an au pair in Malta. She is studying primary education with foreign languages at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Rebecca Wenham is reading Natural Sciences at Durham aided by a Storer’s Bursary.
Our bursary student Stefan Marseglia is now studying journalism at City University.
T HE V ILLAGE S TATION Many of the senior villagers speak of there having been a railway station at Wype Road, by the level crossing. They are right. Old copies of the trade directories for the Isle of Ely mention a station for our village. Since you can travel from Whittlesey to Peterborough in less than ten minutes, would it made sense to have our station rebuilt? In the modern world of extensive car ownership, people might ignore it. Would you use it?