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...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...
Through the Keyhole
This summer’s project for Chrishall Archive is Through the Keyhole We want to find out who lived where in Chrishall. With approximately 250 homes and at least 500 years of history we felt that this was a project that offered plenty of scope!! On a more serious...
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...
You never know
One of the, many, fun things about this process of setting up the Archive and working through the collections is that you never know what you might find. Every time I enter the Archive and pick up a folder to flick through, something new catches my eye. Sometimes...
Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture 2017
CHRISHALL ARCHIVE GROUP PRESENTS The Inaugural Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture A talk by Kevin Swann THE TRACTION ENGINES OF DRAGE AND KENT, CHRISHALL 8pm Wednesday 4th October 2017 at Chrishall Village Hall (South Hall) Tickets on the door: £3 per person or £2...
Prints from glass plates
I have had such a fun morning. A little while ago I was handed a box of glass plates which had been found many, many years ago when a local house was being cleared. These were glass plate negatives of photographs and contained pictures of family groups as well as...
A virtual tour of the old museum
Before the Archive we have today, Chrishall Museum was housed in a large site caravan and for a while was actually mobile! This mobile museum travelled round the county visiting shows at Wimpole Hall and Radio Cambridgeshire. It was immensely difficult taking a very...Official Pavilion Opening
The weather kept dry, just about, on Sunday 25th June 2017 when the official opening of the Chrishall Pavilion community building took place. The whole building was looking very spick and span and decked out with flowers and bunting to celebrate the day. Teas and...Get the Newsletter!
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