Post Archive by Year

Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018

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Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 36 (Autumn 2018)

Journal No 36 has an interesting mix of stories from the loss of the town’s largest company to the Centenary of Armistice day. Other Subjects included Why was there a Quaker School in Saffron Walden?-by Tony Watson Memories of Bletchley Park in Wartime by Doris Lucy Saffron Walden Initiative: 20 years on by Peter Riding The Turbulent Times of Margaret …

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Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 35 (Spring 2018)

Journal No 35 is packed with a mix of stories from women’s’ suffrage to aspects of village life and intriguing history of Saffron Walden. Other Subjects included On being Saffron Walden MP; a reflection – by Sir Alan Hazlehurst. Saffron Walden Underground- by Malcolm White George Stacey Gibson- a pioneering Essex Naturalist by Martyn Everett The Spanish Flu Epidemic of …

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SWHS Programme 2021-22

Up and coming lectures for the Society in 2021 – 2022

The Sun Inn, Saffron Walden

More articles added to website

There are now over 100 articles freely available on the Saffron Walden History website, taken selectively from out-of-print issues of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal

‘Miles Graye Made Me…’
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'.
Australia-The Connection
The abolition of the whipping post and stocks in 1818 made Walden appear more respectable; and transportations disposed of troublesome inhabitants.
Gibson Library Society
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.
Demolition Line: WW2 Defences Littlebury Bridge to Shortgrove Bridge
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?’
Town Library, Saffron Walden 1834-1989, Saffron Walden
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