Littleport has events planned for National Heritage Week

There are open days Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 from 10am until 4pm at the iconic Adams Heritage Centre, once the JH Adams hardware and ironmongers built in 1893 in Main Street, with plenty of old shop photos and shopping memorabilia on display, with afternoon tea and cakes (2-4pm) made and served by Littleport WI, itself founded in 1922.  

Local folk duo Mark Lemon and Jonny Ward aka Two Crows will provide musical refreshments for visitors. 

Also on both days, the Littleport Society, upstairs (chairlift) at The Barn, further along Main Street in the free car park, is open from 10-4pm, entry free, for you to view some of its 1,600 items of historic significance that includes the 1801 hand-written Littleport census!  

On Sunday 17 there is an open-air open day family event at Peacock’s Meadow from 2pm-4pm. 

A voluntarily cultivated and tended one-acre public garden with its entrance in Limes Close, there’s a plant and seed swap, a children’s treasure hunt, garden jumble, local stalls, organised by the ‘friends of the woodland garden’ and it’s free of course.  

Children are our real heritage – and Tuesday 19 at 1.30-2.30, and every Tuesday, there’s NHS breast feeding and infant feeding support at the child and family centre based at Littleport Community Primary School in Parsons Lane.  

It’s free and to book by phone or text 07731 467551 or call the centre 01353 612770.  

And the continuation of that national heritage was secured for the generations who came after them by all those who contributed to winning World War II, not least by the women in the Air Transport Auxiliary who flew Spitfire fighters and other war planes from the manufacturers to the squadrons.  

On Tuesday September 19 from 2-3.30pm at Littleport Library in Victoria Street, former headteacher Tim Young is giving a talk about them entitled Grandma Flew Spitfires.