Chrishall Archive Group is a group of individuals who are interested in researching and preserving the village history. The first official meeting of CAG was Thursday 3rd November 2016. However there had been informal meetings before that to share village stories and...
Mr Harvey was blessed with a phenomenal memory and the stories he could tell of Chrishall and Chrishall worthies of yesteryear were legion. He was a raconteur par excellence…
In the 1980's Irene Cranwell wrote a series of articles for the Village Magazine under the 'disguise' of one of the village pumps. These articles told elements of the village history and were often written to reflect the broad Essex dialect that used to be heard...
The Red Cow Public House has stood at the centre of Chrishall for many many years. At one time there were several pubs in the village, including The Gate which stood just at the back of the Red Cow in Church Road. There was also the Moon and Stars at Broad Green....
Introduction This is a copy of a piece that was written for the Village Web Magazine in celebration of Joyce Loveday's 90th birthday in 2013. Mrs Loveday has since passed away but there are still family locally. (Sadly none of the ladies in the lovely picture above...
Here are Chrishall Women's Institute (WI) in 1995 with three generations of the same family being members at the same time (grandmother, mother, daughter shown in bold). We were meeting in the Chapel Hall and it must have been a special occasion to warrant and...
I was born and bred in Islington, North London, as was my father, Cyril Wilfred Brand, but my paternal grandfather, William John Brand, was born at Peacock Cottage, Crawley End on 10th February 1878. I first visited Chrishall when I was about 12 years old, when my...
Set slightly apart from the village and looking across from its hill to the church there has been a house on this site since 1066. Previously the house was called Flanders but today known as Chiswick Hall the current house dates from the 1600s. We are lucky enough to...
(This beautiful Victorian Christmas card was rescued on the clearing of an old cottage in Chrishall and is one of a collection that can be seen in the Chrishall Scrapbook.) Irene Cranwell, one of Chrishall’s oldest residents, remembers Christmas as it used to be. ...
The following details show ancestors of Walter Brand who died at Chrishall in 1984. On the death of his wife Dorothy in 1991, the Brand Trust was established for the benefit of parishioners. The tree has been supplied by Keith Hayden of Australia whose great, great...
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