Chrishall Village History

We are joining the Parish Walk on 18th October this year to – endeavour! – to walk round all the parishes. Below are some images that I hope to talk about on the day. The first one below is part of the medieval graffiti from Chrishall Church. You can read more about that by clicking…

Below is the first selection of events relating to Chrishall history, some major, some more minor but with the intention of giving you a feeling of ‘flying through time’ and an overview of how the village developed over the years. Our timeline starts from the 8th century but human habitation on these hills goes way…

Chrishall Archive has received the following request for help with a research project. I must admit I know very little about ‘Mary Tins’ so if anyone does have one, or knows any more about them, it would be lovely to know. Please reply to Martin in the first instance. Hello, my name is Martin Barry.…

Members of Chrishall Archive Group joined with the Parish Council to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. The church service this year was held in Chishill where the names of all those listed on the war memorials from all the group of churches were read out. It was felt it would also be appropriate to have a small…

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. …

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…

The pretty girl in this photograph is reputed to be “Harry Flack’s daughter from Chrishall”.  The only Harry Flack we know (possibly actually Isaac Harry…) had two sons but we can’t find a daughter.  We know the young boy in the photograph is Esmond Flack from Orwell.  Can you help us identify the young lady?…