What's On and Things To Do Around Huntingdon

Come along to this lovely museum & see our small ponies, also the cute donkeys. Trade stands too ! Claire Bourne LHHI will be on hand to help British Driving Society members with their carriage driving turnouts, they will drive or long rein round the cones & do Trec skills .

Four interesting and contrasting gardens in the village of Ramsey Forty Foot. The Elms is a 1½-acre informal garden with ancient water-filled clay pits teeming with wildlife and backed by massive elms. Large collection of shrubs, perennials, bog and aquatic plants. Woodland and arid plantings.

Four lovely rural gardens. Alderley, with professionally designed areas, interesting plants and a well-stocked kitchen garden. 1 Fields End Bungalows, a new renovation project in the hands of a landscape gardener.

About an acre of herbaceous borders, lawn, rose arbour, secluded seating areas, kitchen, cottage and wildlife garden. A photo opportunity around every corner. Our Winter open evening provides an enchanted evening view of a garden full of nostalgia.

There is no greater pop comeback than Steps who have returned to claim their pop crown! Their concert at Peterborough is part of their Summer of Steps 2018 Tour with special guests Aqua and Blue.

In May we usually feature some of the finalists from Peterborough Music Festival, and this year we’re delighted to welcome Annie Wakefield, Amelia Glendinning and Sophie Lewis to the Glasshouse. All three are outstanding singer-songwriters, and each will perform for around 20 minutes in the first hour.

Presented here is a unique opportunity to hear a comprehensive selection of chart hits America’s biggest pop band ever recorded including: God Only Knows - Good Vibrations - I Get Around - Surfin’ USA - Fun Fun Fun - California Girls - Sloop John B and many more that you will surely know and by the end of the evening

Alconbury Weston Village Fun Day! Sunday 3rd June 2018 12 - 4pm Alconbury Weston Village Green Food and Fun on the Village Green as the Tour Of Cambridgeshire passes through the village! Bring along a picnic blanket and cheer on the cycles!

The UK’s ‘Best Vintage Fair’ returns to Peterborough Cathedral this June! Find unique, handpicked quality goods with stalls of vintage fashion, accessories, home, collectables and more from some of the UK’s finest vintage traders.

Peterborough is old. Really old. This year our glorious cathedral celebrates its 900th birthday and we’re throwing the entire city a party! ‘This Is Peterborough’ is a very special kind of garden party. Join us in the Peterborough Cathedral Precincts, bring your own picnic and prepare for a summer evening of fun!

Peterborough Museum and City Gallery present works by internationally renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and modernist painter Sheila Girling.

Join in the fun with Alconbury Weston’s annual yard sale! Saturday 2nd June 2018 10am-4pm FREE to join! Set up a stall on your garden/garage/driveway and sell your pre-loved items! Please email alconburywestonyardsale@gmail.com to register your address!

This May half term, help jolly pirates Long Joan Silver and No Beard Jack as they travel the high seas to find buried treasure and make anyone that gets in their way, walk the plank!

Two acres, part farmer’s field part local tip, were combined as a building plot in 1960 and have been transformed over the past 25 years into a place of of peaceful relaxation. Trees and shrubs, wildflower meadow, wildlife ponds, scrap metal sculptures and an impressive and varied collection of plants and shrubs.

Come to the AA-signposted St Ives Antiques Fair held at Burgess Hall (One Leisure), Westwood Road, St. Ives, Cambs, PE27 6WU, for a fun and friendly event that also offers the ultimate in recycling!

Macmillan Cancer Support’s mobile service will be visiting the area, with cancer information specialists on hand to answer questions and offer information.

The beautiful Hinchingbrooke Country Park, located in Huntingdon, is the perfect place to learn how to forage for edible plants and fungi growing all around us in the UK in springtime. This foraging course is easy to get to from Peterborough, Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge.

Macmillan Cancer Support’s mobile service will be visiting the area, with cancer information specialists on hand to answer questions and offer information.

A Vintage Tea Dance with duo ’Back Two’ singing live. Take a trip down memory lane with Back Two who will be singing great songs from the golden era of dance. Strict tempo with a bit of sequence... visit www.backtwo.us

3-acre grounds. Tranquil riverside setting with mature trees. Chinese bridge over Saxon mill race to embowered island with wild flowers. Garden restored in 1983 to mid C18 formal design, with box hedging, clipped hornbeams, parterres, topiary, good vistas over borrowed landscape and C18 wrought iron and stone urns.

A Night Of Jazz! Featuring Barry Palser’s Hot Jazz Five! Buckworth Church Saturday 16th June 2018 7pm onwards £15.00 per ticket, to include a light supper.

Nigel Attar will be giving a talk on the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War - and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of information on it including the methods of recruitment; the initial training (or lack of

½ acre walled courtyard garden of formal design, set against a backdrop of a restored C16 thatched barn. Orchard and sculpture at front of house. Also a cottage garden and a new vegetable plot.

Walled garden surrounding 17th century farmhouse, divided into rooms with tall hedges, topiary and mixed borders. Paths leading to wild garden overlooking Nene valley.

Join us for EACH’s first ever Inflatable Colour Dash at Huntingdon Racecourse. We are very excited to bring to our popular Colour Dashes to Huntingdon! However this event is no ordinary Colour Dash… This course also has Giant inflatable obstacles!

John Sime and Friends - An evening of acoustic roots blues music with John following his fabulous solo concert last year. Now he’s joined by three other fine musicians: Mike Permaker, Brian Ogden and Dougie Chapman.

An evening of Rock n Roll from the 50’s and 60’s with live band Reelin n Rockin bringing back memories of classic hits from that era. If your young bring along Mum and Dad or Grandad as a surprise. If your older bring along your children to show them what music was like.

2 styles of planting showing how to make a garden complement the building it surrounds. Molesworth House is an old rectory garden with everything that you’d both expect and hope for, given its Victorian past. There are surprising corners to this traditional take on a happy and relaxed, yet also formal garden.

2018 marks 70 years since the death of Alexandrina Peckover, the sale of the contents of the House and the property coming under the ownership of the National Trust. To mark this occasion we have worked with Trust New Art, East Anglian Art Fund and the A. Booking Not Needed. Children welcome.

Explore parts of the property not normally open to visitors. Note: tours will involve several flights of stairs. Booking Advisable. Phone: 01945 583463. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

During the afternoon, come and experience the frantic activity in the kitchen while the servants prepare for a birthday tea party for Alexandrina, age 10, and engage in a bit of gossip. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

A cottage garden where perennials and grasses are grouped creatively together amongst gravel paths, complementing one another to create a natural look. Some unusual plants and quirky oddities create a different and colourful informal garden. Lots of flowers for cutting, and a shop in the barn.

Walled Georgian cottage garden of 1 acre, opening into wild flower meadow and paddocks. Long herbaceous border, 2 ponds and unusual weeping ash tree. Terraced areas and outdoor kitchen! No hills but lovely open Fen views, bridge over wildlife dyke ( Monet!) and par3 golf hole come and have a putt!

At this charity concert in aid of Medecins sans Frontieres and Save the Children, viol players Jonathan Rees and Emily Ashton will give a concert introducing listeners to the wonderful and diverse music written for the viol (also known as ’viola da gamba’) over the last 500 years.

Stay and bounce Every Thursday at the Sunset indoor sports facility at Wisbech St. Mary. We offer a hall full of Inflatables, soft play, ball pool ride on cars, we also have a baby area for the little ones.

Approximately 3 acres, partly woodland with more formal gardens, some designed by Sylvia Newman, featuring large herbaceous borders, conifers, lawns, small pond garden and an enclosure for chickens.

Childerley Hall is a hidden gem 8 miles west of Cambridge. Take this rare opportunity to see the stunning private gardens and atmospheric Elizabethan chapel with balcony overlooking the lake.

A delightful and varied group of gardens in an historic Cathedral city: The Bishop’s house is a monastic building adjoining Ely Cathedral and has mixed planting with a formal rose garden, wisteria and more.

4½ acres extended and laid out since 1972. Special collections of magnolias, spring bulbs, iris, peonies and roses with many rare trees and shrubs. Walled ornamental vegetable garden and ancient yew hedge. Some newly planted areas; please refer to the website.

Wednesday 30th May2.00pm - 4.00pmWould you like expand your glass fusing knowledge and learn new techniques from a professional stained glass artist? If you have done glass fusing before, join us for our Children’s Advanced Glass Fusing Workshop.

Thursday 31st May and Friday 1st June Family Fun Extravaganza!  on Thursday 31st May and Friday 1st June. We shall be celebrating all that the Stained Glass Museum has to offer with family friendly and fun activities throughout the two days!Family Fun Extravaganza!

Join us for a special Bead Buddies family workshop for Children’s Art Week!   In this weaving workshop, be inspired by the colours and materials used in our collection as you use glass beads to create lizards, snakes, flowers and other seasonal decorations.

There is a historical significance to the marketplace. Before the supermarkets, before the internet; the marketplace was where traders would introduce their world to the world.

BBQ & , Licenced Bar & Refreshments Dog Show - Starting at 14:00 sharp. Bring your furry friend along From 12:30 - Bouncy Castle, Bouncy Slide, Rodeo Bull, Hook a duck, Children Fairground Ride etc.

Stageworks College is a performing arts college in St Neots providing full-time training in musical theatre and acting.

A unique and inspiring modern group, all created from new build in just a few years. This selection of seven demonstrates how imagination and gardening skill can be combined in a short time to create great effects from unpromising and awkward beginnings.

Market Square Group’s Food and Drink Festival will be in St Neots again in 2018, following our launch in 2017. St Neots is the largest town in Cambridgeshire, and within easy reach of the A1 and A14.

A wide range of stalls and games. Refreshments and light snacks. Raffle with wonderful prizes.

TimeBank welcomes people to pop along and meet old friends and make new Friends at our monthly ‘NEW FRIEND’s’ group. No charge just a chance to chat and make friends with our members.