Chapel Cottage where it looks like some painting is in progress... The man appears to have just painted the gate. This postcard was posted in August 1913 to Alf and May Taylor in Peckham. "We are having lovely weather - the county is looking nice - plenty of apples...
This photograph shows the cottages that used to stand to the left of the chapel. The photograph is taken from Wire Farm meadow in front of Faerie Cottage (and I believe thanks are due to the Rogers family for this lovely photograph). In the close up below you can...
Methodist Chapel Built 1862. "that piece of land containing by estimation twelve perches situate at Crowley End, whereon a cottage in the occupation of Widow Read formally stood, but whereon there has since been erected a Primitive Methodist Chapel." The Trustees...
The following article was written some years ago by Margaret Richardson. Founding of Chrishall Methodist Chapel The church was started on the 5th May 1838 by two men from Upwell in Norfolk who founded the Saffron Walden Methodist Circuit. The church met in what is now...
Laying of the foundation stone to the school room which was an extension to the Chapel and is now the village hall. This photograph was taken in front of the cottages that stood to the left of the chapel and can be seen here. Far left, Eric Mancer, Mrs Langford (9th...
Thomas Green was a farm labourer living with his parents, Charles and Naomi Green and his younger brother Ernest. We think the Green family were living in one of the cottages that was originally on the left hand side of the chapel (now the village hall). There were...
The picture above is Mrs Albert Flack outside Chapel Cottage in Crawley End. Mrs Flack lived in Chrishall all her life but in the story below you can hear the tale of what happened to her one day when she got lost in Chrishall... She tells her story to Mrs Irene...
The painting above of Chrishall Chapel was done in 1915 by George Cranwell. George was the youngest son of Oswald and Ann Cranwell who lived at what is now Ramblers, Crawley End, Chrishall. Oswald and Ann had seven children, six boys and one girl: Charles, Walter,...
The following house names and place names are listed alphabetically. The list is still being compiled and is not yet complete. Notes are intended to direct the visitor or delivery person. This page can be accessed by the visitor or can be printed off and faxed to...
This lovely old picture from 1900 shows Crawley End. Note no railings around Rooks Pond. Left to right can be seen the Chapel, Chapel Cottage, Manana, Phoenix Cottage, Rose Cottage, Cobblers and Faerie Cottage. (With thanks to the Rogers family collection for this...
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