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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...
A very clear aerial photograph here of Chrishall Grange House possibly from the 1960s? You can read here about Samuel Jonas, from the 1860s, who was just one of the forward thinking farmers who have run the Chrishall Grange estate over the years. Click on the...
This lovely postcard, recently acquired, shows Phoenix Cottage, Crawley End. The post date on the card is September 1916 but I wonder if the picture was actually taken in 1911 …
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.
Piccots - The Old Vicarage, diagonally opposite from the church
One of the vicars of Heydon was the Rev John Horseman. Rev Horseman came to Heydon where he married and settled on 10th October 1810. It seems that he was well loved in his parish and beyond. He would walk to Cambridge with a book in hand to read and a bag over his...
The postcard above has the following wording on the back: "Master Eric Ince at Clare from Aunt Jessie -"Can you guess who is on the other side?" So I guess perhaps Eric would have known the driver of the cart that was coming round by Heydon pond on the road from...
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 you can see...
As yet we know very little about this lovely old image of Kemps, the large house on the right of the picture, and the end of Brick Row. We're looking for a date and to be able to identify the people in the photograph. According to the Chrishall Scrapbook the cottage...
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