Orford House at Ugley in NW Essex is an imposing Grade II* Listed Building thought to have been built in c.1699. It was owned by Admiral Edward Russell.

It is sad that we so often fail to notice the local history that is all around us. For 40 years I have sat in Newport Church Sunday by Sunday and seen the shield often, on the wall of the north aisle with the words: ‘Miles Graye made me 1620’.

The abolition of the whipping post and stocks in 1818 made Walden appear more respectable; and transportations disposed of troublesome inhabitants.

Hertfordshire puddingstone is one of the world’s most remarkable stones. Beautiful and distinctive, giant boulders of it can be seen in Saffron Walden and the surrounding villages.

It is over 70 years ago that the GHQ Defence line was finished. An answer to the public, who at that time were asking from the fear of invasion after Dunkirk, ‘and what are they doing about it?’

The Town Library in Saffron Walden was founded in 1834 by a group of Nonconformist local business men who were concerned to provide more opportunities for self help education in the town

Bourn Windmill is an open trestle post mill at Bourn in Cambridgeshire, England, built during the reign of Henry VIII.

Until Edward Colston’s statue was pulled from its pedestal and thrown into Bristol harbour in June 2020, most of Britain had no idea who he was.

The turf maze or labyrinth at Saffron Walden is one of the best-known and well-maintained historic turf labyrinths in Europe, and it is also the largest surviving example

When, in May 1940, the German Army quickly invaded France, Holland and Belgium, there was a real fear throughout the country that Britain would be next.

Brian’s recollections of his childhood years as an evacuee in Saffron Walden during World War 2 are sometimes funny and often poignant.