The Curator’s Blog

Chrishall Archive Group are interested in promoting and preserving the history of Chrishall and its locality for the enjoyment of current and future generations. This is done via the website, the Archive at the Pavilion and via local events.
You can view the Chrishall Archive Group Constitution here.
Read more about the aims of the group and current projects here.

Mary Tins – a request for help with research

Mary Tins – a request for help with research

Chrishall Archive has received the following request for help with a research project. I must admit I know very little about ‘Mary Tins’ so if anyone does have one, or knows any more about them, it would be lovely to know. Please reply to Martin in the first instance....

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Chrishall History Facebook Page

Chrishall History Facebook Page

New Chrishall History Facebook page so we can continue to share the collection even when the Archive is closed. As I write this we are in the midst of a pandemic - Corvid-19 has changed our lives and is a historic event in itself. One of the impacts of the virus is...

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Art and Archive 2019

Art and Archive 2019

On November 23rd we ran the third Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture. This year it took the form of an afternoon exhibition plus evening talk. We were very pleased to work with SOCA, the Society of Chrishall Artists at this event. Chrishall Archive Group had a history...

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Remembrance Sunday 2019

Remembrance Sunday 2019

Members of Chrishall Archive Group joined with the Parish Council to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. The church service this year was held in Chishill where the names of all those listed on the war memorials from all the group of churches were read out. It was felt it...

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Postcards and Pens

Postcards and Pens

The old photographs in our collection are much admired and now you can own some of your own copies - or send them to friends.  We have a lovely collection of five postcards depicting old scenes of the village and one modern beautiful Springtime image of the church. ...

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Christmas Articles 2018

Christmas Articles 2018

As you may know from the last newsletter - (sign up for your copy here if you currently miss out!) - I was hoping to do an advent calendar on the website again this year but other things have got in the way and I have not had time to put all the articles together.  So...

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Chrishall Remembers World War 1

Chrishall Remembers World War 1

Thank you to everyone who supported the events to commemorate World War 1 that we held at the Archive in November. Thank you to our many visitors, people who loaned items for the display, gave us items for the Archive, came to the talk and supported us by email even...

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Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole

This summer's project for Chrishall Archive is Through the Keyhole We want to find out who lived where in Chrishall.  With approximately 250 homes and at least 500 years of history we felt that this was a project that offered plenty of scope!! On a more serious note,...

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The boy with the birds

The boy with the birds

The boy with the birds continues to fascinate Just over a year ago I wrote about a picture of the boy with the birds.  This was around the time when we found the photographs that turned out to be (we think) the Mallow family from Hamlet House, Pond Street near...

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You never know

You never know

One of the, many, fun things about this process of setting up the Archive and working through the collections is that you never know what you might find.  Every time I enter the Archive and pick up a folder to flick through, something new catches my eye. ...

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Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture 2017

Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture 2017

  CHRISHALL ARCHIVE GROUP PRESENTS The Inaugural Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture A talk by Kevin Swann THE TRACTION ENGINES OF DRAGE AND KENT, CHRISHALL   8pm Wednesday 4th October 2017 at Chrishall Village Hall (South Hall)   Tickets on the door: £3...

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Prints from glass plates

Prints from glass plates

I have had such a fun morning.  A little while ago I was handed a box of glass plates which had been found many, many years ago when a local house was being cleared.  These were glass plate negatives of photographs and contained pictures of family groups as well as...

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A virtual tour of the old museum

A virtual tour of the old museum

Before the Archive we have today, Chrishall Museum was housed in a large site caravan and for a while was actually mobile! This mobile museum travelled round the county visiting shows at Wimpole Hall and Radio Cambridgeshire. It was immensely difficult taking a very...

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Official Pavilion Opening

The weather kept dry, just about, on Sunday 25th June 2017 when the official opening of the Chrishall Pavilion community building took place.  The whole building was looking very spick and span and decked out with flowers and bunting to celebrate the day.  Teas and...

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Archive to be open 1st May

The Archive will be open for you to visit from Monday 1st May 2017 Last weekend was spent starting to move in some of the files, folders, books, CDs and tapes that make up most of the Archive collection.  This will all be sorted gradually over the coming weeks and...

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Archive at the Pavilion progressing well

Archive at the Pavilion progressing well

The new Chrishall Archive at the Pavilion is progressing well and should be open soon.  We hear the official date for the opening of the new facilities at the pavilion is to be the first May bank holiday, Monday 1st May.  More details will be available nearer the...

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The development of CAG

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...

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