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Chrishall school makes some improvements as can be seen from this article from the Essex Newsman of 1894 (32 years after the school was built). The Essex Newsman was a weekly paper first published in 1870, according to the Canvey Island Community site here who have...
She was Aunt Daisy to generations of Sunday School children in Chrishall. But to give her her full title she was Miss Daisy Maud Revell. Aunty Daisy was one of her the most placid persons I have ever known. Nothing ruffled her and she was completely devoid of physical...
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 but...
Methodist Chapel Built 1862. "that piece of land containing by estimation twelve perches situate at Crowley End, whereon a cottage in the occupation of Widow Read formally stood, but whereon there has since been erected a Primitive Methodist Chapel." The Trustees...
Hop on the train at Chrishall Railway Station? In January of 1893 there was a proposal that would have included Chrishall in the railway line that ran through to Haverhill. (Spelling as in the original article). Chelmsford Chronicle 27 January 1893 ANOTHER RAILWAY...
Samuel and Lucy Abrams lived at Builden End and had four children. Here they are outside their house in Builden End with two of their daughters. We have some lovely photographs of the Abrams family thanks to Jane Spengler and Penny Swift, relations of the Ives...
A lovely photo of Charlie Rogers looking confidently down into the camera standing out the front of Home Farm in High Street. Charlie went on to marry Dorothy Rush whose parents ran the garage.
The Green at Chrishall looking somewhat different to what it does today. This postcard is undated but possibly comes from the 1920s? It is obviously after the War Memorial was placed on the Green but I'm not sure when those large telegraph poles appeared in the...
(Picture above: the old brewhouse at Gents Farm, now Broad Green Farm). Forasmuch as nothing conduceth more to the peace and prosperity of a nation, and the protection of every single person therein, than that the public revenue thereof may be in some measure...
This newspaper article shows a digging party in action to 'save' the chapel from being flooded. But we are not really sure where they are digging! Can anyone enlighten us? Unfortunately the newspaper clip is undated but we think it is possibly early 1960s? As far as...
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