Rosemarie
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Parish Magazine December 1898
This is the start of our Christmas Articles published for 2018 and I thought it might be appropriate to start with a little light reading. So below is the Parish magazine for December 1898. This magazine covered the Chesterfords, Great Chishill, Chrishall, Debden, Langley, Heydon, Littlebury, Wenden Lofts, Elmdon and Wendens Ambo. There were concerts…
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Christmas Articles 2018
As you may know from the last newsletter – (sign up for your copy here if you currently miss out!) – I was hoping to do an advent calendar on the website again this year but other things have got in the way and I have not had time to put all the articles together. …
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Chrishall Remembers World War 1
Thank you to everyone who supported the events to commemorate World War 1 that we held at the Archive in November. Thank you to our many visitors, people who loaned items for the display, gave us items for the Archive, came to the talk and supported us by email even if they couldn’t attend. We…
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Saffron Walden Blast From the Past Facebook Group
If you are a Facebook user you might be interested in the Saffron Walden ‘Blast from the Past’ group which has a real treasure trove of images and information from Saffron Walden and surrounding villages. It is a public group so you should be able to view the posts by clicking the link below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/178659268934816/…
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Football Handbook 1947-48
We have a picture of Chrishall’s ‘winning’ football team (pictured above). However we only assume they were ‘winning’ because they were holding a cup. But what did they win? If you can help us with what they won or who they were please do get in touch. It would be lovely to name the team…
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Two Ears of Barley
I was recently loaned a lovely little book called Two Ears of Barley, written by Jack Wilkerson and published in 1969 and all about the history of Barley in Cambridgeshire. Barley is only about three miles from Chrishall as the crow flies and there are lots of village connections, some of which are mentioned in…
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Church Newsletter July 1950
Some things don’t change, thankfully, and it is good to know that we can all still enjoy a good local village fete. I thought you might enjoy Rev. Bagley’s report of the success of Chrishall fete in July 1950 from the church magazine of that time. Walter and Bessie Negus went on to spend the…
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1900 September 29
The following report appeared in The Newsman on September 29th, 1900: KILLED AT CHRISHALL _________ THE CORONER’S INQUIRY _________ VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER _________ “YOU HAVE KILLED DAVID” The inquiry into the death of David Rodgers, the result of a quarrel at a harvest jollification at the Gate beerhouse at Chrishall, was adjourned till Friday, when…
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The boy with the birds
The boy with the birds continues to fascinate Just over a year ago I wrote about a picture of the boy with the birds. This was around the time when we found the photographs that turned out to be (we think) the Mallow family from Hamlet House, Pond Street near Duddenhoe End. The Mallows family…
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The story of Engleric
We have recently been asked the reason behind the name Engleric and are delighted to re-produce this article written many years ago for the village magazine. Mrs Irene Cranwell, village historian, wrote articles for many years under the guise of the village pumps. They were written in Essex dialect as she imagined the pumps would…