Victorian
1837 – 1901
Early on in the Victorian period there was a regular exodus of people from the village leaving for far flung parts of the world, many travelling to Australia to make their lives there. Those who stayed in the village were setting up businesses – local shops flourished and towards the end of this period transport in the form of charabancs and buses were to take villagers further afield.
Village Families: Brands
Some articles for this period
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Church Seating Plans
Robert Brand, farmer, who farmed Builden End farm in the 1800s was also a writer. He wrote down everything, and what is more he kept it. Although we only have part of his collection of papers he gives us a wealth of information about Chrishall, as well as other places as he was a bit…
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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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Exodus
Welcome to Exodus! – an online exhibition of articles and activities exploring the Chrishall villagers who left the village for Australia in the mid to late 1800s. CAG (Chrishall Archive Group) are very grateful to ALL the people who have contributed to these articles from both sides of the planet! There is an awful lot…
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Wenden Lofts Mill
Wenden Lofts’ Mill “Miss Nellie Smith who lived at Hamlet House, Pond Street, is shown on the photograph as a young girl on the steps of the Mill. Her family lived at Hope Farm and farmed the land round about. The Mill was taken down very soon after the First World War.” (Handwritten note on…
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Farming in 1864
October 1864 and Samuel Jonas down at Chrishall Grange has had a trying year on the farm. This is his report he sent in to the Agricultural Gazette and published in the Chelmsford Chronicle on the 7th October 1864. The crops about Saffron Walden – Mr Samuel Jonas, of Chrishall Grange, near Saffron Walden, writing…
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Parish Magazine December 1898
This is the start of our Christmas Articles published for 2018 and I thought it might be appropriate to start with a little light reading. So below is the Parish magazine for December 1898. This magazine covered the Chesterfords, Great Chishill, Chrishall, Debden, Langley, Heydon, Littlebury, Wenden Lofts, Elmdon and Wendens Ambo. There were concerts…
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Re-opening of the church 1869
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 not visited the church in the last…
