Miscellanea
A range of articles and photographs, mostly of more modern Chrishall.
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Plants and folklore in village life
I am a keen gardener and love plants and flowers. I am fascinated too by the names and histories of wildflowers, many of which were perceived very differently by our forebears. Common plants we barely glance at today were once revered (or indeed feared) for their religious, magical or healing properties. Did you know, for example, that lady’s…
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A Chrishall Christmas 1850
Mr Robert Brand lived at Martinholme on the green where he ran the village store. A keen writer he recorded many of his activities, which is how we know what he was doing on Christmas Day one hundred and seventy years ago… “Attended to my home and answered about twenty people that called for trifles…
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Hamlet House Photographs
These evocative photographs are believed to be the Mallow family who lived at Hamlet House in Pond Street. This is the large house that stands back and is the first house as you go down the road to Pond Street from the main B1039 Saffron Walden to Royston road. I think it has been known…
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Are these the Mallows too?
Update: August 2017: I first made these photographs available under the title ‘Unknown’ trying to find out who they were. Some of them are definitely the same pictures as we have subsequently found on a collection of glass slides and have possibly been identified as the Mallows family. You can see the other photographs here.…
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A description of modern Chrishall
It is best to think of the centre of the village as the cross roads at the small triangular green where the war memorial and the village sign are located and to picture each road leading from this centre. Immediately opposite and to the south of the war memorial is Loveday Close, a small development…
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Pam Wyatt’s Collage and Photographs 1980
In 1980 former Chrishall resident Pam Wyatt made collages of 52 Chrishall buildings. Unfortunately the link to these images is no longer available. We will make enquiries and if we can get access to the images they will be linked here.
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Photos of Alfred Drury
Does anyone have any pictures of Alfred Drury who would have been 8 in 1901? We have had a request from one of his relations to see if there are any pictures of him. Please leave a comment below or get in touch.
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Chrishall today slideshow
This page displays a photographic tour of modern Chrishall. The photographs were all taken by Robert Walden, creator of the original version of this website. Please give the page a few moments to load, particularly if you are on a slow connection. This photographic tour takes you from the village centre, along Crawley End to Mill…