Tag: Online Meeting

  • The Dead of Cambridgeshire – HIAG Talk

    The next HIAG talk, to be held by Zoom on Monday 17th January at 7.30 p.m. will be ‘The Dead of Cambridgeshire: excavations at a Roman roadside settlement and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery‘ by David Ingham of Albion Archaeology.

    David will be talking about the findings from two recent excavations local excavations which produced substantial numbers of graves – a Roman site at Fenstanton and 5th-6th century burials from Newnham.

    Use www.hiarchaeology.wordpress.com/contact to register for this free talk: a Zoom link will be sent in advance.  HIAG members receive the Zoom link automatically.

    The image shows a ditch burial at Fenstanton. Copyright: Albion Archaeology.

  • Histon Library – have your say on new building plans

    Proposals for our brand new library building on School Hill are about to be published and Cambridgeshire Libraries wants your input. Here’s how you can get involved.

    The new library building on School Hill has now been handed over to Cambridgeshire County Council and the work to transform it into a library will commence this summer before finally opening to the public in the autumn.

    From Monday 12th July, the proposed plans will be available on the mobile library currently situated in the old Infant School grounds. They will also be available on the Cambridgeshire Libraries website.

    Before these plans are finalised, Cambridgeshire Libraries would like to hear from our community with its thoughts on both the design and book stock recommendations. Two online meetings are scheduled; one with the designer and another with the library staff, where you will be able to hear more about the plans and share your feedback with the people directly involved in the project.

    Cambridgeshire Libraries is also designing shelf ends that will be distinct to Histon library and is seeking images of Histon and Impington which sum up our community and the ethos of our library to adorn the new shelf end panels. If you have photos you would like to submit, please email them to the Area Library Manager, Terri Lewis, at BarHill.Referral@cambridgeshire.gov.uk and the planners will look at incorporating them in the ​designs.

    An online survey is also now available, where Histon and Impington residents are invited to share their thoughts on book stocks and opening times. You can access the survey here.

    ‘Meet the designer’ will take place at 2pm on Tuesday 13th July, with the Library Staff Zoom planned for 6pm on Thursday 15th ​July. To attend either of these meetings, please email Terri Lewis and a Zoom link will be forwarded to you.