Rosemarie
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Charles and Mary-Ann Flack
Charles and Mary-Ann Flack who lived in High Street in Chrishall next door to the Guiver’s who lived at ‘Kemps’. Charles and Mary-Ann had two sons and a daughter according to the 1911 census. Charles was one of the traction engine drivers as was his eldest son, Isaac Harry Flack (known as Harry we think).
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Martinholme and The Green
Another picture of Martinholme here taken from further back near Ede Negus’s cottage. You can see how much the pond encroached on the road and also how much narrower the roads were then.
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Parish Registers
Following, in the Advent 2017 series, from a piece on Aunt Daisy, it seems appropriate to have something further about the church. Here Irene Cranwell explores the early church registers. These are currently being transcribed and it is hoped will be available to view in the Archive from Spring 2018. Parish Registers The first mandate…
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The Red Cow and brushwood
The Red Cow looking much smarter here and what looks like large piles of brushwood, stakes and poles stacked around the small shed that is now where the Red Cow car park is. It looks like someone was perhaps running a fencing and hedging business – do we know any more about this?
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1899 August 26
This little piece was reported in the Cambridge Daily News of Saturday 26th August 1899. From looking at the census, it looks like this was Dennis, son of Peter Harvey who fell from the cart. The family lived in Crawley End. Hopefully Dennis lived to tell the tale and went back to working for Mr Goode.…
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The Post Office at Martinholme
Martinholme clearly marked here as Chrishall Post Office. Run by the Chambers family for many years, this was apparently not only the Post Office but one of the several village shops in the village at that time. Not only was it well stocked with anything you needed but they would also order in items on…
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Chrishall at work
Trying something a little new for you today – a flip book of some “Chrishall Industry”. Give it a moment or two to load, particularly if you are on a slow connection. [3d-flip-book id=”5192″ ][/3d-flip-book]
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The Red Cow in harder times
The Red Cow as a basic drinking pub rather than the lovely restaurant and activities provided by the pub today: http://www.theredcow.com/
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1894 January 6
Chrishall school makes some improvements as can be seen from this article from the Essex Newsman of 1894 (32 years after the school was built). The Essex Newsman was a weekly paper first published in 1870, according to the Canvey Island Community site here who have some nice little articles from the paper. CHRISHALL. NATIONAL…
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Aunt Daisy
She was Aunt Daisy to generations of Sunday School children in Chrishall. But to give her her full title she was Miss Daisy Maud Revell. Aunty Daisy was one of her the most placid persons I have ever known. Nothing ruffled her and she was completely devoid of physical fear. Her whole life revolved around…