Helions Bumpstead

This picture appeared in the Echoes of the Past on April 14 and it prompted Neil Winter to get in touch and explain that it shows Helions Bumpstead after their 1999 RA Cup win over Abingdon at Thurlow recreation ground. Back row, from left: Gordon ...

Villagers in Helions Bumpstead have formed a steering committee to take forward their ambitions of purchasing the Three Horseshoes as a community interest investment and restoring it as a pub. The pub has been under the ownership of Jack and Ann ...

Jack and Ann Jennings want to turn the Three Horseshoes in Helions Bumpstead into an antiques, bric-a-brac and book shop, despite the fact that the parish council has already successfully had the pub listed as an asset of community value by Braintree ...

Steel balls filled with flames that create dancing shadows are being sold by an innovative new business in Helions Bumpstead. Andrew Gage, 34, has set up The Firepit Company, which is now offering the hand sculpted bespoke steel balls to contain LED ...

Sue Lloyd, of Helions Bumpstead, is being awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List for her services to education. When Mrs Lloyd, 70, was teaching reception class at Woods Loke Primary School, Lowestoft, in the 1970s the school decided to change ...

Real ale lovers in the CB9 area now have a little slice of heaven right on their doorstep after the launch of a new micro-brewery in Helions Bumpstead. Prior to the opening of the Dropping Well Brewery at the Three Horseshoes pub on Saturday (Oct 5), ...