The Gate cottage and garage used to look very different to what they do today. Read on to find out more about the cottages that have now disappeared and a little history of The Gate and the garage.
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...
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...
On the evening of the 15th of June 1904 a steam engine team from Pamplin Brother’s Engineers, Cherry Hinton, was ploughing a field at Catley Park, Great Chesterford.
This photograph dates from, we think, around the 1930’s, and shows Mrs Hedley Hicks holding one of her sons, Frank, and her daughter May standing beside the fence. Just next door to the left you can see Hedley’s butchers shop. If you look very carefully...
Set slightly apart from the village and looking across from its hill to the church there has been a house on this site since 1066. Previously the house was called Flanders but today known as Chiswick Hall the current house dates from the 1600s. We are lucky enough to...
This image of Church Road is undated but I imagine to be around 1900? It is taken just outside Park House looking towards the centre of the village. In the middle of the photograph you can see one of the cottages that stood end on to the road. These have long been...
This is a view of Church Road in Chrishall looking towards the centre of the village. On the left hand side is the cottage named Saffron which was inhabited at the time by Luke and Emily Brooks (pictured right) and Carrie and Cornelius Miller. Unfortunately I do not...
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