Spring 2011 Leave a reply No 21: Spring 2011 ‘Say it with Flowers’: the Engelmann Nursery, Saffron Walden – Geoffrey Ball House Renovation Project Blog – Douglas Kent Saffron Walden ERO Archive Access Point – Zofia Everett Obituary: Lawrence D. Barker 1939-2011 Saffron Walden Youth Hostel Water Wells & Handpumps of Uttlesford – Sibyl Thomas The Plough at Radwinter – Michael Southgate Chrishall Museum
Autumn 2010 Leave a reply No 20: Autumn 2010 Saffron Walden and the Battle of Britain: the ‘Few’ lie here – Malcolm White Saffron Walden Christmas Fatstock Show c1955 – Bruce Munro The Potato: early history and the struggle for acceptance – Geoffrey Ball Saffron Walden Museum’s 175th Anniversary – Carolyn Wingfield Conserving the Town Archives Saffron Walden Historical Journal 2001-2010 – Gordon Ridgewell Windmill Allotments – Jacqueline Cooper Who Lies in the Debden Church Vault? – Henry Blackie Imperial Strethall: 19th century links between the Empire and its smallest parish – Oriel Williams
Spring 2010 Leave a reply No 19: Spring 2010 Brocwalden, Brook Walden, Audley End Village (Pt 2) – Lizzie Sanders The Moat Farm Murder – new documents – Jacqueline Cooper The Mysteries of the Woolstaplers’ Hall – Martyn Everett An Introduction to Essex Poll Books as a Local History Source – Gillian Williamson A Trawl through our Crime Records 1657-1817 – Jeremy Collingwood Letters to the Editor: The Sun Inn Pargetted Figures Causewayed Enclosures and Stone Circles – Paul Daw Obituary: Charles Waite 1919-2009 – Kathryn Fiddock Obituary: Irene Cranwell 1910-2010 – Jacqueline Cooper Going to Town – Irene Cranwell
Autumn 2009 Leave a reply No 18: Autumn 2009 The Pargetting on the Westernmost Gable of the Old Sun Inn, Saffron Walden – Bari Hooper Nos 25-27 Church Street, Saffron Walden: the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings comes to the rescue – Douglas Kent Vineyards in NW Essex – Geoffrey Ball Uttlesford History Fair – Gordon Ridgewell Change in the Market Place – Jacqueline Cooper Brocwalden, Brook Walden, Audley End Village (Pt 1) – Lizzie Sanders The History of Wicken House – Deborah Lowe Eglantyne Jebb – Clare Mulley Right up my Street – Jean Gumbrell Launch of SWHS Publications
Spring 2009 Leave a reply No 17: Spring 2009 The Saffron Walden Survey 1912 – Martyn Everett Molehill Green: village in danger – Jacqueline Cooper Some Stately Homes of NW Essex (Pt 3) – Bruce Munro NW Essex c.1600: Camden’s Britannia Fund raising in the 14th Century: Walden Abbey and the Impediment of Government Regulation – Tony Fox True Tales of the Gibson Estate (Pt 2) – Zofia Everett Good – e Woolies – Jack Turnbull
Autumn 2008 Leave a reply No 16: Autumn 2008 (Special 75th Anniversary Edition) Foreword – Lord Petre 1908: Musical Prodigy Born in Walden: Miss Ruby – Violet Hurn 1908-2007 – Marilyn Holmested 1918: The War Ends: ‘Worthy of Laughter or Tears?’ – Armistice 1918 – Robert Pike 1929: Great Man Elected for Walden: R.A. Butler – Sir Alan Haselhurst 1933: Antiquarian Society Founded: The 75th Anniversary of the Saffron Walden Historical Society – Kathryn Fiddock Then & Now: The Changing Face of Walden – Dick Jemmett 1938: Walden Prepares for War: Preparations for the Possible German Invasion of Saffron Walden – Malcolm White 1948: Audley End bought for Nation: Partition, Restoration and Partition of Audley End and its Estate 1748-1948 – Lizzie Sanders 1958: Carnival v Festival – Saffron Walden Weekly News 1969: Tragedy Devastates Townsfolk: The Rose and Crown Inn 1359-1969 – Zofia Everett 1979: Blueprint for Walden Buildings Published: Saffron Walden Conservation Study – John G. O’Leary 1988: Red-Letter Day as the Royals Come to Town – Di Pohlmann 1998: Walden Takes the Initiative: Saffron Walden Initiative nearly ten years on – Barbara Wilcox
Spring 2008 Leave a reply No 15: Spring 2008 Littlebury Green during the Second World War – Sarah Casbolt Stately Homes of NW Essex (Pt 2) – Bruce Munro A Royal Brief – Imogen Mollet Deeds in Danger – Dick Lloyd A Moment in Time: Manuden during the Second World War – Ray Carter Clavering Castle Project – Jacqueline Cooper St Mary’s Medieval Fayre – Gordon Ridgewell The Windmills of Walden – Geoffrey Ball The Richest Man in Walden: the will and codicil of George Stacey Gibson – Jeremy Collingwood W.E. Nesfield and the Missing Archives – Dick Lloyd When Bananas grew in Saffron Walden and other True Tales of the Gibson Estate (Pt 1) – Zofia Everett Stacey Albums: the preservation of a unique historical record – Martyn Everett
Autumn 2007 Leave a reply No 14: Autumn 2007 The Wool Industry of NW Essex (Pt 3) – Geoffrey Ball Some Stately Homes of NW Essex (Pt 1) – Bruce Munro Manuden’s Gentleman Bushranger – Fiona Bengtsen East Anglia and the Abolition of the Slave Trade – Jeremy Collingwood Obituary: Dick Lloyd 1917-2007 – Jacqueline Cooper Walden 1647 – Gordon Ridgewell Comings and Goings in 18th Century Walden – Hilary Walker Saffron Walden College – Gillian Collins Growing up in Saffron Walden in the 1950s – Megan Ridgewell Closure of Harts Shop Villages History News Financing History Projects
Spring 2007 Leave a reply No 13: Spring 2007 Launch of RUTH Database The Stone Coffin, the Lost Chapel and the Miracle of the Ring – Jacqueline Cooper Memories of Broxted – Evelyn Carpenter The Wool Industry of NW Essex (pt 2) – Geoffrey Ball Francis Gibson’s Garden – John Bosworth Ethnography of Saffron Walden Museum Archives of Saffron Walden: The John Player Papers – Jacqueline Cooper Lief Albu’s Scrapbook – Martyn Everett The Legacy of Adrian Gibson – Martyn Everett Walden 1647 – Martyn Everett & Bruce Tice Country Notes (No 4) – Peter Dawson The Walden Slades – Jacqueline Cooper Saffron Walden Heritage Trail
Autumn 2006 Leave a reply No 12: Autumn 2006 Obituaries: Adrian Gibson 1931-2006; Eileen Ludgate 1924-2006 Historians of Essex – Ken Neale Wool Industry of NW Essex (Pt1) – Geoffrey Ball Byrdes & Woodhalls: two Walden families of Elizabethan times – John Read An Old Map of Church Street – Megan Ridgewell Littlebury walk photographs A walk back in time round the bounds of Littlebury – Gillian Williamson The Somme Anniversary – Robert Pike Saffron Walden in the mid-20th century – Bruce Munro Uttlesford Local History Recorders 2006 Update A History Resources Room for Saffron Walden Library