A community would not be a community without it’s people of course and here you can read about people who have lived in Chrishall over the years.
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This article has been written with information provided by Alan Knight in memory of his cousin Margaret Brooks who did extensive research on her family history. Hold onto your hats here as this is a real ‘tour de force’ linking so many of the Chrishall village...
Enjoy the photographs in our gallery below. Click on a photograph to see the enlarged version. Arrows will appear either side of the photograph so that you can move forward, or backwards, through the gallery. Or you can click the cross to the top right of the...
Looking in our newspaper archive the other day I came across an article about Mr Thomas Charles Pigg of Gentleman’s Farm. Published in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of May 28 1926 was Mr Pigg’s obituary which I thought might be of interest. Gents or Gentleman’s Farm...
(This article was first written for the Chrishall Scrapbook in the 1950s. You can see copies of the scrapbook on our open days.) The Chrishall Womens' Institute was formed in February 1926, and it has plodded on staunchly and steadily, without let or hindrance, ever...
On a Spring morning, just over 350 years ago, we know precisely what one of Chrishall’s farmers was doing. Was he on his farmland in Church Road instructing his men on the crops he wanted planted? No. He was in Newport. For John Lucas, a yeoman farmer of Chrishall,...
Being in school any later in the day than is necessary, isn’t the desire of many children. However, turn back the clock fifty years to the 1970s; Chrishall Primary school, on October 31st, after 5pm was the place to be. Earlier in the week, Sheila and Colin Nelson...
In the reign of Elizabeth I, a Chrishall woman set up charities for the benefit of the poor of a number of villages. Who was this Chrishall lady? How was she so wealthy and why did she give so generously? Her name was Lettice Martin and in 1568, when she made her...
Above is Mullion Cottage at the top of Church Road as you might not have seen it before. Mullion used to be two cottages with a shop in the middle. The shop at the time of this photograph was Hicks’ Butchers, and the Hicks family lived in the cottage on the right of...
This lovely news story was found in The Daily News, Perth and published on 26 November 1903. Two disappointed lovers brought together In September last an old lady, accompanied by her daughter, called at the house of the relieving officer at Saffron Walden, England,...
Exodus Timeline Who left for Australia and when did they go? 1849 Wrights and Pitches The first to leave Chrishall in this era. We have a report of Joseph and Mary Pitches (nee Pigg) arriving in Melbourne 7 January 1849 and setting up divine worship in their home. The...
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