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February 25, 2025 • posted in Articles

Saffron Walden Museum Ethnography

Upstairs, in the semi-darkened rooms of Saffron Walden Museum, there lies a remarkable collection of cultural artefacts from all around the world, many of them gathered at the height of Victorian collection fever.
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February 22, 2025 • posted in Articles

Battle of Assandun, 1016- The Site.

The Battle of Assandun was the event which eventually gave Cnut the Crown of England.
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February 18, 2025 • posted in Articles

Carnival v Festival

‘About five minutes television film time’, estimated BBC Director, Don Howarth, when questioned by a Weekly News reporter about the results of a To-Night television film team’s visit to Saffron Walden on Sunday.
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February 10, 2025 • posted in Articles

Francis Gibson’s Garden

Francis Gibson (1805–58), the youngest of Atkinson Francis Gibson’s children, conceived and designed Bridge End Garden, previously known as Fry’s Gardens.
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February 4, 2025 • posted in Articles

Littlebury-a walk back in time around the bounds

On Sunday 21 May 2006 the History Group of the Parish of Littlebury Millennium Society re-created the ancient tradition of beating the parish bounds.
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January 31, 2025 • posted in Articles

Lief Aalbu’s Scrapbook

Amongst the papers of former Town Clerk H. C. Stacey in the Saffron Walden Town Library is a cheap red scrapbook that provides a unique insight into life in Saffron Walden during the second half of WW2
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January 30, 2025 • posted in News

Thaxted’s John Webb Windmill to be restored

John Webb’s or Lowe’s Mill is a 221 year old Grade II* listed[1] tower mill at Thaxted, Essex, England, which was closed to the public in 2018 after eroding brickwork led to extensive internal damage.
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January 24, 2025 • posted in Articles

Saffron Walden Borough Arms Deo Adjuvante Floremus

In 1784 William Robinson jnr made a drawing which included the Borough Arms as used then, based on the 1688 seal made after the 1685 Charter.
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Featured image for “St. Mary’s, Saffron Walden Burial Registers 1558-1892”
January 16, 2025 • posted in Articles

St. Mary’s, Saffron Walden Burial Registers 1558-1892

The burial registers officially continue until the end of 1856, when the churchyard was closed for burials due to overcrowding
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January 10, 2025 • posted in Articles

Seventeenth Century Copper Tokens of Saffron Walden: a commentary

Copper farthing and halfpenny coins were issued in the mid-17th century by the town’s tradesmen in the absence of royal copper coinage.
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December 29, 2024 • posted in Articles

Boys’ British School, Saffron Walden: Memories, 1937-1964,

‘A man’s world’ – or so it seemed to me when I joined the staff of B.B.S. in 1937.
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