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Unraveling Mr Brand’s Church Music Dispute
Before 1870 the church did not have an organ to provide music for the church services. Instead there was a church band. It seems that various people played various instruments, the most common being the Bass Viol, the Harmonium, flute, clarinet and violin or viola. Church band players Rev. William Way was vicar of Chrishall…
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Chrishall Women’s Institute
(This article was first written for the Chrishall Scrapbook in the 1950s. You can see copies of the scrapbook on our open days.) The Chrishall Womens’ Institute was formed in February 1926, and it has plodded on staunchly and steadily, without let or hindrance, ever since. During the last war, 1939-45, even Hitler’s bombs did…
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John Lucas, Village Constable
On a Spring morning, just over 350 years ago, we know precisely what one of Chrishall’s farmers was doing. Was he on his farmland in Church Road instructing his men on the crops he wanted planted? No. He was in Newport. For John Lucas, a yeoman farmer of Chrishall, was also one of the Parish…
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POW Camp
Over the past few years we have explored the history behind the POW camp(s) at Chrishall Grange. This has been done in association with The Ickleton Society and you can see a full report of the findings on their website here.
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Chamberses
(The following article was written by Irene Cranwell) I suppose everyone has a favorite saying, or sayings – nearly 60 years ago Richard Llewellyn was the author of one of mine. He wrote “There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have as much of it as…
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Thomas Green
Thomas Green was a farm labourer living with his parents, Charles and Naomi Green and his younger brother Ernest. We think the Green family were living in one of the cottages that was originally on the left hand side of the chapel (now the village hall). There were eight families with the surname Green in…
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Leonard Rogers
Leonard Rogers lived at Home Farm in High Street and was the son of Albert and Alice Rogers. Albert was a carpenter who later became a farmer. Leonard was an agricultural worker and was therefore exempt from compulsory military service. However he still signed up. Leonard was killed in action on 30th November 1917 aged…
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Herbert Margham
Herbert Margham was a Shepherd at Chrishall Grange, living with his parents Herbert and Hannah. He served with the Hampshire Regiment and was posted Killed in Action on 20 September 1917 aged 26 years old. From the Church Magazine, January 1918: A memorial service was held on Nov. 15th for Herbert Margham. Sergeant Vardigan of…
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Robert Brand
Robert Brand was born in Chrishall in 1899, the son of William and Beatrice Brand from Builden End Farm. He was the older brother of William Walter Brand and the family were farmers and fruit growers. Robert was posted as Killed in Action on 23rd August 1918 aged 19 years old. He was a Private…
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Harry Easter
Harry was born at Cheveley in Newmarket but moved with his parents to Brick Row where they are listed on the 1911 census: parents Fred and Elizabeth, children George, Walter, Harry, Sidney and sister Mabel. Harry’s father was a gamekeeper and they moved into the village sometime between 1901 and 1911. Harry enlisted at Saffron…
