Apr 17, 2018 | Houses Crawley End and Hertford Lane, Crawley End
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. ...
Feb 22, 2018 | Places, Village Centre
Photograph from the Bruce Drury Collection View from Church road towards Martenholme in the 1940s or early 1950s. Note the (red & white?) kerbs – was this a wartime safety measure? The gates you can see in the centre of the picture were apparently, at one...
Dec 18, 2017 | Advent 2017, Crawley End
It seems appropriate for this winter that we include some snowy photos from years gone by. I cannot name any people on these pictures though – can you? The photograph above is looking up Crawley End from near the pond on the green, in 1963. You can just see...
Dec 14, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Centre
The Red Cow looking much smarter here and what looks like large piles of brushwood, stakes and poles stacked around the small shed that is now where the Red Cow car park is. It looks like someone was perhaps running a fencing and hedging business – do we know...
Dec 10, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Centre
The Red Cow as a basic drinking pub rather than the lovely restaurant and activities provided by the pub today: http://www.theredcow.com/
Dec 12, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Centre
Martinholme clearly marked here as Chrishall Post Office. Run by the Chambers family for many years, this was apparently not only the Post Office but one of the several village shops in the village at that time. Not only was it well stocked with anything you needed...
Dec 16, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Centre
Another picture of Martinholme here taken from further back near Ede Negus’s cottage. You can see how much the pond encroached on the road and also how much narrower the roads were then.
Dec 7, 2017 | Advent 2017, Church Road
This postcard, of a similar age to the earlier picture of The Green, shows Church Road with the Pigg / Rush garage on the left. You can also see Ede Negus’s slate roofed cottage on the far left of the picture. This cottage has been replaced with a modern house...
Dec 1, 2017 | Advent 2017, Village Centre
The Green at Chrishall looking somewhat different to what it does today. This postcard is undated but possibly comes from the 1920s? It is obviously after the War Memorial was placed on the Green but I’m not sure when those large telegraph poles appeared in...
Oct 20, 2017 | Church Road
This postcard of Chrishall has recently come to light and shows how much the trees and hedges have now grown up to obscure the view. This card is undated and was never used so it is difficult to say when the photograph was taken but it is of a similar style to other...
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