Dry Drayton Village Newsletter
- The Dry Drayton Village Newsletter is published by the Dry Drayton School and Village Association, Reg Charity No 269765
- It is edited by Sylvia Pryer 01954 781680, sylviapryer@aol.com. The Editor reserves the right to edit, accept or reject any material submitted for publication.
- The views expressed in the Newsletter are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial team.
- Contact Fleur Clegg 01954 789780 to advertise in the Newsletter
- The Newsletter has been entered into the 2010 competition for Village Newsletters organised by the Cambridge Building Society.
- It is printed by Victoire Press, Bar Hill, tel 01954 781919, and delivered by local volunteers.
- This link will take you to the latest copy of the newsletter without block advertisements:
The Newsletter warmly welcomes contributions from any members of the village and school. In common with all similar organs, anonymous contributions will only be printed if name and address are supplied. The Editor reserves the right to exclude from publication any remarks which may be construed as personal criticism of other residents.
Deadline for the next issue is: 20 August 2010
Back copies of the Newsletter
As most of you will know, 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 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 330 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 and Mr and Mrs Johnston, over 100 old copies of the Newsletter were found and deposited. However, some 48 copies have yet to be found. The table below shows the copies in the Cambridgeshire Collection and those still outstanding. 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.
Issues Already in the Cambridgeshire Collection or on the way to them Issues still required by the Cambridgeshire Collection 1-47 (bound), 48, 49 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 60, 61 (Mar 1983), 62, 65, 67, 68 63, 64, 66, 69 70, 71, 73, 74, 78, 79 72, 75, 76, 77 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 82 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109 103, 108 110, 119 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129 120, 121, 123, 124, 126 130, 135, 139 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149 140, 141, 142, 146 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156 154, 157, 158, 159 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239 236 240 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 248, 249 246, 247 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269 270, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 271, 272, 273, 274 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 286 (2) 287, 287(2), 288, 289 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 296(2), 297, 298, 299 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309 310, (no num Aug 2007), 311, 312, 313, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319 314 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339,240 341 on Not yet deposited, but ready to go to the Cambridgeshire Collection: 335, 336, 337, 338