Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Clarence Huest Hurst was born 1922 and passed away 20th April 2020, well known within the Whittlesey community as Barclays Bank Manager from 1968 to 1986.
Ruby Alice Hurst (nee Robinson) well know within community groups including 60+ years @ Whittlesey WI passed away 28th March 2020
Both Clarence and Ruby were at the Ruddington Manor Care Centre when they passed away.
Keen Caravaners for well over 60 years.

RWT Photography

(l – r) Kay Mayor (Mayor)
Clarence Hurst
Ruby Hust
Ken Mayor

I have been informed the mobile testing units will be closing down from 30^th March 2022. These community facilities have been well received.

Press Release - Kirkgate Steet - 28.03.22

F/YR19/0188 @ Fenland Dstrict Council – Conversion to 11 Unit Hotel – For sale for development?

From the Fenland Youth Radio Newsroom .

The High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire Mrs Caroline Bewes DL was in Whittlesey this morning to present High Sheriff Awards to those who have contributed to the community. The following received awards

Geoff Howes (Park Run & Whittlesea Station)

Roy Bridson (Volunteer Water Bailiff)

Mrs Pauline Richards (St John Ambulance 30 years)

Owen Bosworth (Fenland Youth Radio & Young Technicians)

Liam Osler (Fenland Youth Radio & Scouting)

Mrs Rita Jolly ( Magistrate 22 years)

Mrs Sue Piergianni (Whittlesey Town Clerk 14 Years )

Cllr David Mason ( Churchwarden St. Andrew’s Church 30 years)

Congratulations to them all .

Photographs courtesy Robert Windle RWT Photography / Fenland Youth Radio

WTC High Sherifff Awards 220328
Photos RG.

Traffic has been using the western roundabout temporarily (pictured right) as part of our works, and we would like to thank commuters for their patience and care while navigating the new layout.

The current phase of works that requires traffic management has been completed one week early, which means traffic lights will not be required now until May.

Elsewhere on site, earthworks are ongoing between the underpass and the railway bridge, and as the embankment is raised, so are the wing walls for the underpass (pictured left).
A wing wall is part of the structure of the underpass, which provides support and protects the embankment.

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Earlier this week a very good friend and schoolmate Ernie Walter Gale, passed away.
Below a photo taken at one of our school reunions in 2002 under happy times.

(l) Malc Ladds                             &                         (r) Ernie Gale

For more than 20 years I have been highlighting the dangerous corner to pedestrians,
prams and mobility scooters at the corner of Church Street.
I asked for one of those ‘Bells’ to be place there. I have witnessed on many occasions large 40 tonne lorries, trying to negotiate the entrance, most do, but some do not.
A number of times the Street Pride/Rose Garden wall has been damaged.
Yesterday a ‘Bollard’ has ‘appeared’ – who instigated this I do not know, for how long it lasts I do not know, but at least a step in the right direction – Thank You….