Mar 30, 2018 | Village Folk
This lovely photograph has written on the back “Stan Loveday as a baby” and “Small boy Walter Loveday”. Checking on the 1901 census it looks like this could be the Loveday family of High Street. In 1901 William was 34 and a horsekeeper on a...
Dec 24, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
The picture above is Mrs Albert Flack outside Chapel Cottage in Crawley End. Mrs Flack lived in Chrishall all her life but in the story below you can hear the tale of what happened to her one day when she got lost in Chrishall… She tells her story to Mrs Irene...
Dec 17, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
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...
Dec 8, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
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...
Dec 4, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
Samuel and Lucy Abrams lived at Builden End and had four children. Here they are outside their house in Builden End with two of their daughters. We have some lovely photographs of the Abrams family thanks to Jane Spengler and Penny Swift, relations of the Ives...
Dec 3, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
A lovely photo of Charlie Rogers looking confidently down into the camera standing out the front of Home Farm in High Street. Charlie went on to marry Dorothy Rush whose parents ran the garage (see yesterday’s advent post). Click on the photo below for a larger...
Dec 2, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Folk
Mr and Mrs Rush ran the garage in the centre of the village. Among other things they provided taxi services. You can see a picture of the garage here when it was run by Mr Pigg. (Click on the photograph below to see a larger version)....
Nov 1, 2017 | Village Folk
The painting above of Chrishall Chapel was done in 1915 by George Cranwell. George was the youngest son of Oswald and Ann Cranwell who lived at what is now Ramblers, Crawley End, Chrishall. Oswald and Ann had seven children, six boys and one girl: Charles, Walter,...
Sep 16, 2017 | Village Folk
I like the old fashioned fruit, we had everything in our garden at B Green [Broad Green], even a Quince tree over the pond. I often wonder if it is still there. The following article is taken from a letter written to Irene Cranwell in 1986 from Sarah Lucy Flack who...
Aug 16, 2017 | People, Village Folk
William Ives (left) photographed by Maxwell, photographer at Bishop’s Stortford. This is the story of William and Jessie Rosetta Ives, a couple who were both born in Chrishall. William Allen Ives married Jessie Rosetta Abrams when she was 21 and he was 20. They...
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