By Ben Scott Marketing Manager On the 26th March 2017, the clocks will go forward indicating the start of British Summer Time (and hopefully we may get one this year). Daylight Saving time was the idea of William Willet in 1907 to stop people wasting precious daylight house in the summer months. Williams suggested that the clocks should be advanced […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive This year Pancake Day is celebrated on Tuesday the 28th February. Pancake Day always falls 47 days before Easter so the date does move around but it will always be between February 3rd and March 9th. Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday and is the day that precedes Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday comes from the word ‘shrive’ meaning absolution for sins by […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Armistice Day takes place on the 11th of November every year to commemorate the signing of the armistice between the Allies (Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States) and Germany at 11am on November the 11th 1918 at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It brought an end to […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Bonfire night commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot by a gang of Roman Catholic activists led by Robert Catesby. When Protestant King James 1 acceded the throne, English Catholics hoped that the persecution they had been suffering for 45 years under Queen Elizabeth I would finally be over and they would be free to […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Halloween’s origins date back to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain (pronounced sow-in) which was celebrated around 2000 years ago. The 1st of November is where the Celts celebrated their new year and it also marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of winter meaning dark and cold nights and usually […]
By Georgina Bailey Marketing Executive Sadly summer has come to an end meaning that the sun cream and Hawaiian shorts get put back away for another year. So this now means that the days are getting shorter and the nights longer, but it’s not all bad because we get to have an extra hour in BED! The clock movement was […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Connect Insurance Brokers will be closed for the May Day Bank Holiday from 13:00 on Saturday 30th of April until 09:15 on Tuesday 3rd of May. Every year we celebrate May Day, and granted, for most of us these celebrations stretch only so far as nursing a hangover thanks to the Bank Holiday – but […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Over the Easter period, we will be closing for Bank Holidays as usual. The Easter Opening Hours can be found below. We hope all of our customers, partners and staff have a wonderful time off. Please be aware of our amended opening hours for the upcoming holidays: Friday 25th March: CLOSED Saturday 26th March: 09:15 […]
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Please be aware of our amended opening hours for the upcoming holidays:
By Ben Scott Marketing Manager Please be aware of our amended opening hours for the upcoming holidays: