Rosemarie
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Loveday family of High Street
This lovely photograph has written on the back “Stan Loveday as a baby” and “Small boy Walter Loveday”. Checking on the 1901 census it looks like this could be the Loveday family of High Street. In 1901 William was 34 and a horsekeeper on a farm, and his wife Esther was 30. They had Walter who…
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Rev Sharman Chrishall Chapel
After a recent conversation I was reminded of the images we have of the Rev. George Sharman. He was at Chrishall Chapel at the time of the opening of the school room. You can see him in the photograph below, fourth from the right. And we also have the picture above which comes from a…
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Village Green 1940s
Photograph from the Bruce Drury Collection View from Church road towards Martenholme in the 1940s or early 1950s. Note the (red & white?) kerbs – was this a wartime safety measure? The gates you can see in the centre of the picture were apparently, at one time, the entrance to where Will Brand had his workshop. …
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Mrs Flack’s story of Mary Rumbell
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 Cranwell who relates it…
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School Christmas Party 1963
Held in the same school rooms as yesterday’s School concert, today we have a Christmas Party from 1963 when Mr and Mrs Nelson were head teachers at Chrishall School. Mr Nelson was trying the ‘new technology’ of film so there is no sound on this clip, although you can work out that the children are…
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1886 29 January
On Friday 29th January 1886 the ‘Herts and Cambs Reporter’ reports on a most enjoyable concert evening held in the old school. CHRISHALL CONCERT. – On Friday, 15th inst., a concert was given in the Schoolroom. The programme was as follows: – Part I, duet, pianoforte, “War March,” Miss M. Leachman and Mr W. Beavan…
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Celebrating Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in Chrishall
On the 20th and 21sr June 1887, Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee. Chrishall took part in the celebrations with a tea in the field called Thorns to the east side of High Street. Herts and Cambs Reporter Celebrations of the Queen’s Jubilee in the District CHRISHALL. In this parish the children, about 170 in number, at…
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Chapman and Andre 1777
Time for a game – spot the difference. Above you can see an extract from the Chapman and Andre map of 1777 (reproduced with permission from Essex Record Office). The Chapman and Andre maps of this date are reputed to be the most accurate maps of the time, but I can see one large part of…
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The Schools postcard
A clear picture of Chrishall old school on this postcard, interestingly titled as ‘The Schools’. This was presumably because there were two classes held in the school at the time. The school mistress or master would have lived in the school house to the right of the picture and this was the case from the…
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And then it snowed
The photograph above is looking up Crawley End from near the pond on the green, in 1963. You can just see the top of the bus as it comes round the corner and the roof of Wire Farm. Irene Cranwell had some memories of heavy snow falls in Chrishall. On Christmas Day in 1927 it…