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

I was born in Walthamstow, in April 1940 during the WW2 Blitz. As a family we were sent to live in Saffron Walden,

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

At the junction of Gibson Gardens and Margaret Way in Saffron Walden is a mound of grass with a few trees. On closer inspection it becomes apparent that there are also a number of large boulders here.

George Stacey Gibson was not only Saffron Walden’s greatest Victorian benefactor but he was also probably the richest citizen of the town in his lifetime.

We will be hearing from Douglas Kent on the latest developments at the Old Sun Inn, famous for its association with Oliver Cromwell.

If you walked along Chestnut Avenue towards the Old Cambridge Road last winter, you’ll have had a surprise: a large lake seen through the trees to the south

It seems ironic that the biggest fire in the town during the Second World War was not caused by enemy action, but through what was probably an electrical fault.

At one time, the centre of any successful settlement was a fresh, clean water supply, but now many of the historic wells, their wellheads and handpumps are no more, and there is no understood programme for their conservation.

On Monday 27th of April 2026 our Society launched the new annual Journal at Hart’s Books, Saffron Walden

Richard Austen Butler was born in India to a family steeped in colonial administration and with a formidable educational background. With those initials it was inevitable that he would be known as Rab.