August 15, 2026 Return of ‘The Cuckoo’Some years ago while perusing the stock in a well-known Saffron Walden antique shop, I chanced upon an unusual, and at the time unidentified iron object…cuckoomillwrighttool
August 13, 2026 • posted in Recommended ReadingRadwinter 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’ Read More
August 7, 2026 • posted in Recommended ReadingThe 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.Read More
July 25, 2026 • posted in Recommended ReadingReuben’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.Read More
July 18, 2026 • posted in ArticlesHunger 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 unemploymentRead More
July 6, 2026 • posted in ArticlesSamuel Pepys and Saffron Walden Samuel Pepys began his diary at the age of 27 years on 1st January 1660.Read More
June 30, 2026 • posted in ArticlesBraybrookes-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.Read More
June 24, 2026 • posted in ArticlesFour 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 HOMERead More
June 18, 2026 • posted in NewsSOCIETY MEMBERS GO UNDERGROUND On 17th June 2026 for their annual summer outing, a group from the Society took a dive into Royston Cave,Read More
June 16, 2026 • posted in ArticlesPortrait: 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 playRead More
June 10, 2026 • posted in ArticlesGold 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,Read More
June 3, 2026 • posted in ArticlesSaffron 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.Read More