This page features issues from February 2020 onwards – including the current issue. For previous issues and the history of the Hickling Standard, click on the buttons, below.
We are always looking for contributions to the newsletter; it is, first-and-foremost, created by the village, for the village – everyone is very welcome to contribute.
Personal messages; Adverts; Events; Reports; Thoughts; Suggestions; Your favourite things; Information articles – natural history, village history, anecdotes, seasonal; Are you an expert and in something and want to share advice; Things that make you laugh; Poetry – your own or favourites.
We are also looking for someone to index back issues of the newsletter; we can help with how to do it – please contact us if you would like to give it a try!
Hickling Standard: 2022
(Issue 141) The April/May 2022 issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter can be found by clicking on the front cover image – we hope you enjoy the first of our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee editions!
(Issue 140) The February/March 2022 issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter can be found by clicking on the front cover image – we hope you enjoy it!
Local History Articles in this issue:
- The Plough local History Quiz; how much do you know about your village?
- A History of the Hickling Standard newsletter (all issues now available on the website)
- Are you interested in local history?
- Fred Maltby Warner and Farmington in Michigan (Fred Maltby Warner)
- Hickling animals & wildlife calendar on sale now; £7.50
Hickling Standard: 2021
(Issue 139) The December 2021/January 2022 issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter can be found by clicking on the front cover image – we hope you enjoy it!
Local History Articles in this issue:
- Speedy the Snail; an update
- A taste of Christmases past
- Are you interested in local history?
- A letter from our ‘sister city’, Farmington in Michigan (Fred Maltby Warner)
- Hickling animals & wildlife calendar on sale now; £7.50
(please note the following correction; p47. the swans referred to have since been tested and identified as victims of avian flu.)
(Issue 138) The October/November issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – we have returned to delivering print editions to all households in Hickling and Hickling Pastures; this is an e-version. This time we’ve managed to arrange the pages in the right order (we’ll gradually work back through previous editions) and you still get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
Local History Articles included in this issue:
- Nelson Outhwaite (including; disappearing down a rabbit hole when researching).
- Are you interested in local history?
- A letter from our ‘sister city’, Farmington in Michigan (Fred Maltby Warner)
- Date for your diary: The Plough Inn presents a Local History Night – November 25th (tbc)
- Hickling animals & wildlife calendar on sale now; £7.50
- ‘There but There’ – Remembrance.
(Issue 137) The August/September issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 8th e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are currently circulating the pdf version; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
Local History Articles included in this issue:
- Black Cat for luck: news clipping from 1971 (not helping the fishermen …)
- Vashti Daft: news of a sampler stitched in Hickling by 10-yr old Vashti Daft
- Women’s Institute: new page published on the website
- 2022 Calendar on sale now
- We need your help!
(Issue 136) The June/July issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 7th e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are currently circulating the pdf version; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
Local History Articles included in this issue:
- A letter to Farmington (Fred Maltby Warner)
- An Appeal for your memories of growing up during WWII – please contact us if you would like to contribute to this project.
- Our 2022 Calendar; Animals and Wildlife of Hickling, will shortly arrive from the printers; to reserve a copy (price £7.50) please contact us.
(Issue 135) The April/May issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 6th e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
Local History Articles included in this issue:
- Census Records (& 1939 Register)
- Cruck Cottages
- The Boulder Causeway and the evolution of Main Street
- Letter to Farmington (Fred Maltby Warner)
(Issue 134) The February/March issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 5th e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
Hickling Standard: 2020
(Issue 133) The December/January issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 4th e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue
(Issue 132) The October/November issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 3rd e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue
(Issue 131) The August/September issue of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – welcome to the 2nd e-issue of the Hickling Standard. We are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue
(Issue 130) The June/July of the Hickling Standard newsletter is now available – we are circulating the pdf version because we can’t produce the usual door-to-door printed version under the current lockdown restrictions; the advantage is that you get to see the full colour version! Click on the cover to open up this issue.
