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August 13, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading

Radwinter to Beeleigh Abbey

This booklet is attractively presented with a subtitle designed to lure the reader in by referring to a medieval route of paths and a river cutting through the ‘Heart of Essex’
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August 7, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading

The Map that Changed the WORLD

This book is about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland.
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July 25, 2026 • posted in Recommended Reading

Reuben’s Corner

This book has been referred to as a minor classic. It covers the early part of the author’s life, in the village of Ashdon.
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July 18, 2026 • posted in Articles

Hunger Marchers in Saffron Walden (‘We refuse to starve in silence’)

The Hunger Marches took place in Britain between 1922 and 1936 against a background of severe unemployment
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July 6, 2026 • posted in Articles

Samuel Pepys and Saffron Walden

Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660.
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June 30, 2026 • posted in Articles

Braybrookes-The Succession

The recent death of the 10th Lord Braybrooke, and subsequent national and local press stories around the title only going to a male heir.
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June 24, 2026 • posted in Articles

Four Acres Community, Saffron Walden 1962-2012

A front page report in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of 20 November 1959 declared: £65,000 FOR ELDERLY FOLK’S HOME
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June 18, 2026 • posted in News

SOCIETY MEMBERS GO UNDERGROUND

On 17th June 2026 for their annual summer outing, a group from the Society took a dive into Royston Cave,
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June 16, 2026 • posted in Articles

Portrait: David Campbell (1921-2001)

Everyone and no-one knew David Campbell. Everyone from Rab Butler and Stanley Wilson to the little boy playing an angel in the Nativity play
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June 10, 2026 • posted in Articles

Gold Street Chapel

I was born in Walthamstow, in April 1940 during the WW2 Blitz. As a family we were sent to live in Saffron Walden,
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June 3, 2026 • posted in Articles

Saffron Walden Survey 1912

The few dog-eared carbon copies that provided my introduction to the Saffron Walden Survey failed to reveal the unusual story behind its compilation.
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