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In 2015 Chrishall Church underwent an extensive project to replace the floor, replace some of the pews with chairs and also make many of the pews moveable to make a more flexible meeting place for the village. This project has been a complete success and if you have...
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...
Before the Enclosure Acts, Chrishall Common was the land at the back of the High Street heading over towards Chishill. Exactly where it was I don’t know but you do see it marked on old maps …
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...
Jack was born at Chalky Lane in 1909 to Fred and Matilda Green. Both his mother and father were born in the village, his father at the old cottages that used to be to the left of the chapel. Jack started school at 5 but "didn't do any good at all". He would much...
Evacuee Norman Sherry tells us about his time in Chrishall during the Second World War (taken from an article sent to Mrs Cranwell in 2002). Norman arrived with a group of 14 children who were evacuees in the village. His memories are still very clear of the...
(Spenny Loveday interviewed by Stephen Foote) We recently caught up in the Red Cow and discussed the fortunes of the village cricket team over the years. Spenny joined the cricket team whilst still at Saffron Walden Technical and Modern school, having taken to the...
Chrishall Born and Bred Life-long resident Spencer (Spenny) Loveday shares some reminiscences about his life in the village in the years during and after the war, interviewed by Stephen Foote and first published in The Village Web. Born in Royston in 1942, Spenny grew...
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.
This extract from Kellys directory of 1933 for Chrishall shows the first appearance of telephone numbers (T N) in the directory. (It is also interesting that Mr Crocker felt he could advertise "any make of car supplied"!) We know quite a bit about the people...
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