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Special 4 Event Saturday 14th October 06 Special Event Saturday 14th October 06 Sp The Mystery of St Neots Priory Who was St Neot? Was he Cornish? Whose is the face on the Alfred Jewel on our Market Square? Where are the bones of St Neot? Is it true he was only three feet high and a relative of King Alfred? What lies under the three manhole covers in the Waitrose car park? How big was the Priory and where was it? What plans are there to develop the heritage of the area? © Photographs Peter Ibbett The Waitrose car park behind St Neots Market Square has no trace of the monastic heritage that provided our town with its name. The last forty years have seen an upsurge in interest in the heritage of the largest town in Cambridgeshire with excellent books by C F Tebbutt; Rosa Young and David Bushby and the development of an award winning museum. There have also been real improvements in the Market Square and the Riverside Park. Yet a recent Civic Trust report pointed out that the Priory area was underdeveloped and lacked heritage information to bring out that it was the birthplace of our present town. The St Neots Town Centre Management Initiative has gained the funding to provide a leaflet and an exhibition about the history of the Priory as part of an ongoing programme to enhance this area of the town. The Monks and the Alfred Jewel on the Market Square reflect the heritage of St Neots. Could the Priory area could be enhanced by its own historical items? The exhibition in the Priory Centre on Saturday 14th October will provide answers to the questions above as well as many others. A new leaflet about the Priory site will be launched at the event and a children’s quiz will also be provided. There will also be an exhibition on the latest information on the Love’s Farm excavations. If you have any information about the Priory site, especially any knowledge of stonework from the site please let Peter Ibbett know at pjibbett@aol.com 01480 812756. © Photographs Peter Ibbett
ecial Event Saturday 14th October 06 Special Event Saturday 14th October 06 5 Love’s Farm on Display Following the successful completion of the year-long excavations at St Neots at Loves Farm which is situated on the outskirts of St Neots between the railway line and the football ground the archaeological team led by Mark Hinman have begun the long and complex task of reconstructing the past history of this fascinating site. The Project was funded by Gallagher Estates and carried out by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Archaeological Field Unit. It is clear that the site was occupied by a farming community for over 500 years and analysis of the materials recovered by AFU staff and other experts from across the country promise some exciting results. On Saturday October 14th AFU staff will be assisting with an exhibition in The Priory Centre to prepare information display boards, and display some artefacts from the Loves Farm site. They will also be there to answer questions. The hope is that visitors will be sufficiently stimulated d by the exhibition to take advantage of a long term display of Loves Farm material in the St Neots Museum. http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archaeology/ afu/projects/current/ Loves+Farm+Project.htm http://www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/events/#exhibitions ST. NEOTS TOWN CENTRE INITIATIVE HISTORY MATTERS ST. NEOTS HISTORY DAY ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2006 FROM 10.00 AM TO 4.00 PM IN THE PRIORY CENTRE Healthy Eating in St. Neots A group has been set up to encourage us to eat more healthily. Hunts Primary Care Trust have set up the St. Neots Family Group last June. The group has created a Seasonal Cookbook full of easy ways to get St Neots families to eat 5 or more portions of locally sourced fruit and vegetables a day. The book is to be distributed to families in the area. They would like more people to join them. They meet every Wednesday at the Community Room, Winhills School from the 13th of September 1- 3pm. Families with young children are welcome! This is one of the recipes. Caerwyn Creak’s fabulous Pumpkin Soup 1 litre of vegetable stock 1 butternut pumpkin (about 600grams) (steaming soup bowl) 1 onion (finely chopped) 1 teaspoon Cinnamon A sprinkle of Nutmeg 3 garlic cloves (crushed) 2 teaspoons of oil or 3 squirts of “light fry” Method Cut the skin off the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Chop the flesh of the pumpkin into small squares. Put the oil, cloves and onions in a pan and heat until they soften, add the pumpkin and stir constantly for 5 minutes. Gradually add the vegetable stock and cover. Allow the soup to simmering for 20 minutes, stirring it occasionally. Add Cinnamon then blend it with a masher or blender. Serve with crusty brown bread. A handful of pumpkin roughly counts for a portion.
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