I've spent a good deal of time in Duxford in the last week - beginning with the annual meeting of the Kings Trust - a charity that makes awards of small sums of money to help educational needs of local young people and of which I'm a trustee. Its funding derives from a parcel of land and the rent paid there on. It's named after a Rev'd King, and the minute books go back to the beginning of the last century. The pic here is of the receipts for 1916, including for "shooting".
Then we had a useful session with the county's highway manager at St Johns St and the junction of Green St to find a way of making that blind corner safer for both drivers and pedestrians. Amazed at the speed at which people drive along a narrow road like that, with the school at one end. The result was that the county will put slow signs in the road and the parish will affix a mirror to an obliging resident's wall.
We then repaired to the John Barleycorn for a discussion with the PC finance committee and to discuss the upcoming meeting with Abellio railway company and Network Rail arranged with our MP Heidi Allen to try to move forward our idea for a footpath under the A505 road bridge connecting Moorfield Rd to the Whittlesford rail station.
Last night was the parish council meeting itself. 
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