Crawley End
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Chrishall Village Archive – a personal view
Chrishall Village Archive – a personal view from a newcomer’s perspective When we think of history we usually think of the history of kings and queens, church and state, wars and conquests. In other words, the history of very big events. But local history, the history of your own village, your street, your house and…
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Alfred Brand and the bees
Alfred Brand lived at Peacock Cottage in Crawley End Chrishall. We don’t know where the above photograph was taken – whether it was in Peacock Cottage garden or at an allotment. At the time Alfred Brand lived there, there would have been allotments just over the road from his house. As you go along Crawley…
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The story of Engleric
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. They were written in Essex dialect as she imagined the pumps would…
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And then it snowed
The photograph above is looking up Crawley End from near the pond on the green, in 1963. You can just see the top of the bus as it comes round the corner and the roof of Wire Farm. Irene Cranwell had some memories of heavy snow falls in Chrishall. On Christmas Day in 1927 it…
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Chambers Milk Cart
This was probably taken in the 1940s. Milkman Charlie Cane poses with Robert Chambers’ milkcart in Crawley End in front of Peacock Cottage. (From the Bruce Drury Collection)
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Dormers cottage crawley end
This view of “Dormers” is probably from the 1920s or ’30s, although this view looked very similar as recently as the 1960s. The road is much wider now with modern houses on either side. The thatched building on the right no longer exists. Rather strangely it almost appears that there is a house behind Dormers…
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Crawley End 1900
This lovely old picture from 1900 shows Crawley End. Note no railings around Rooks Pond. Left to right can be seen the Chapel, Chapel Cottage, Manana, Phoenix Cottage, Rose Cottage, Cobblers and Faerie Cottage. (With thanks to the Rogers family collection for this photograph).
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Crawley End Chrishall – sheep grazing
This unusual view (1980s) is from the field on the east side of Mill Causeway looking at the backs of the former council houses. Rosemarie Gant (Davies) remembers driving her small first car, a renault 5, along Crawley End and meeting the sheep which were being herded along the road to go to grazing further…
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Crawley End north
View north: the car – an Austin 3000 – suggests this photo was taken in the 1970s and predates the building of the council houses and the little close Engleric, which now exists where the car is parked.
