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YOUR GUIDE TO THE FENS AND SURROUNDING AREA.
SPRING 2010
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to Spring’s edition of Your Community Magazine. We will be distributing this magazine every quarter so you know of the latest events and attractions around your local area for each season. We’ll also provide you with details of shows in your local theatres. If you know of an attraction we haven’t featured or can think of ways you’d like us to improve the magazine, please drop us an e-mail or call us; our details are below! Hope you have a fantastic Spring! Tel: 01354 669 958 E-mail: your.community@yahoo.co.uk URL: your-community.webs.com Subscribe to Your Community Magazine for free! Just let us know your address and we’ll deliver one to you every season!
contents Events - Spring 2010 Shows To Watch Out For Places To Go This Spring Puzzle Page Local Services
Events for Spring 2010 Animals And Wildlife Fri 1 Jan - Sun 14 March: Wild Swan Feeds Normal admission applies. WWT, Welney Wetland Centre, Hundred Foot Bank, Welney, Wisbech, Norfolk. 01353 860711
Fayres Sun Mar 7, May 23rd: Peterborough Book Fair Popular friendly fair held in pretty village not far from the A1. 18 dealers will offer a wide range of books and ephemera covering a variety of subjects. Highgate Hall, Elton (nr Peterborough) Cambridgeshire PE8 6RU. March 18th: St Georges Fayre 01945 583263
Historic And Beautiful Buildings 14th March: Mothering Sunday Afternoon Tea At Peckover House Special tea is available in the Reed Barn Tearoom at Pecking House in Wisbech. 01945 583463
History Thu 11 March: Living History Talk Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 19:30 01733 343329 Mon 9 Nov - Sun 4 April: Cromwell’s Medicine Chest Cromwell Museum, Grammar School Walk, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire,13:30 to 16:00 01480 375830 March - Mon 5 April: Sargent, Sickert, Spencer: Hidden Depths Works by three of the most original painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Free admission. Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 01223 332900 6th and 13th April: Oliver Cromwell’s House Ely Family Activity: Eels and Eggs Find out about Elisabeth Cromwell’s pantry, have a go at blowing your own egg and weaving your own basket! 11.00 am - 1.00 pm (drop in session) Normal admission prices apply. Oliver Cromwell’s House Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 4HF
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May - July: Guided Evening Walks Of Historic Wisbech And Area Wednesdays from 7pm 01945 583263 31st May: Fen Tiger’s Tale At Welney Demonstrations and celebrations for those who made their living from the fens. 01353860711
Kids’ Activities 3rd - 5th April: Easter Fun Trail At Peckover House 01945 583463
... out for h c t a w o shows t Circus Of Horrors Presents The Day Of The Dead Cresset Theatre Pop - 7 Mar 2010 - 20:00 (360 mins) £20.00 Following on on the huge success of The Asylum, The Circus of Horrors has had a major revamp & is back rocking & shocking with a brand new show ‘The Day of the Dead’.
Parks And Gardens 9th May: Elgoods Brewery Gardens Plant And Craft Fair North Brink, Wisbech, 10am - 4pm 01945 583160 30th May - 3rd June: Walpole St Peter Church Flower Festival 9.30am - 6pm except Sundays - 12.15 - 6pm. 01945 780206
Magic Of Motown Cresset Theatre 70’s Music - 12 Mar 2010 - 20:00 £19.50 The Magic Of Motown The Reach Out 2010 Tour Now including an extra-special tribute to Michael Jackson, get ready for a brand-new spectacular for 2010 from this year’s runaway success The Magic of Motown.
PLACES TO GO THIS SPRING Animals And Wildlife New Ark City Farm And Playground Reeves Way, Peterborough. 01733 340605 Welney Wetland Centre Hundred Foot Bank, Welney. 01353 860711 Woodhouse Farm Park Jew House Drove, Friday Bridge. 01945 860309
Parks And Gardens Central Park Park Crescent, Peterborough. Tel: 01733 348846 Dunhams Wood Admission is £2 for adults and 50p. Open from Easter until August. Rodham Road, March. Tel: 01354 652134 Ferry Meadows Country Park Ham Lane, Orton Waterville. Tel: 01733 234443
Historic Buildings Elgoods Brewery And Garden (28th April - 24th September) Traditional 18th Centuary family
brewery with 4 acre garden. Brewery tour at 2pm Tues, Weds and Thurs. Admission is £3 for adults or £2.60 for children/ over 60s. Tour tickets are £6 for adults and £4 for children/ over 60s. No children under 6 years. North Brink, Wisbech PE13 1LN. Tel: 01945 583160 Octavia Hill’s Birthplace (15th March - end of Oct) Includes Victorian Chamber of Horrors and a secret garden. Open Mon, Tues, Weds, Sat and Sun 1-4.30pm. Admission: £3.50 for adults, £2.50 for concessions and NT members. £1.50 for children and £8 for family (2+2). 8 South Brink, Wisbech, PE13 1JB. 01945 476358 Peckover House (14th March 1st November) Beautiful Georgian House with gorgeous 2 acre Victorian garden. Open Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues and Weds 12-5pm. Tickets are £5.80 for adults, £2.90 for children, £14.70 for a family ticket (2+2) or £3.70 for adults and £1.85 for children to enter garden only. NT members can enter for free. North Brink, Wisbech PE13 1ES. 01945 583463
puzzle page WORD BOX Can you work out the answers to the questions and fill in the grid? The answers are the same up and down.
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RIDDLES 1. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 2. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? 3. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
CONUNDRUM If you put a coin in an empty bottle and insert a cork into the neck of the bottle, how could you remove the coin without taking the cork out or breaking the bottle?
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Other Useful Numbers Anglian Water - 0845 7145 145 Childline - 0800 1111 Electricity - 08457 331 331 Fenland Council - 01354 654321 Fire Brigade (non emergency) 01480 444 500
Gas Emergency - 0800 111 999 NHS Direct - 0845 4647 North Cambs Hospital 01945 585 781 Police (non emergency) 0845 456 456 4 Samaritans - 0845 909090