Issue No 42 (Autumn 2021) on sale at Tourist Information, Harts Bookshop, Waitrose and Saffron Walden Museum, price £4, or by post – see contact on website. ARTICLES A Changing Walden – photographs by Richard Jemmett Scenes from Old Walden: the 1910 Saffron Walden Pageant by Gillian Williamson Flashback: the 1951 General Election by Martyn Everett Paths to Salvation: Walden’s medieval wayside

Journal No 41 has several interesting articles on gardening & the countryside as well as two stories from WW2 . Other Subjects included A Gallery in the Garden: The Legacy of Bridge End Garden and the Fry Art Gallery by Nigel Weaver An Audley End Gardener’s Diary: 1795-1798 by Susan Jellis The ‘Fishmere’ and the Brickworks by Martin Rose RAF

Journal No 40 is a bumper issue of 40 pages with a spread of tales from slave owners and the anti slavery movement in Saffron Walden to a pictorial record of a Town in lockdown Other Subjects included Death of a Pauper in Thaxted by Martyn Everett Crisis 1940: The battle of Britain by Brian Sanders 80 years ago: Wartime

Journal No 39 has many interesting articles focussing on Saffron Walden again including memories by Bruce Munro, The Bells of St. Mary’s Church & Japan in Saffron Walden : The Grand Japanese Bazaar. Other Subjects included The restoration of Kings Mill at Littlebury by Bernard Jones The Francis Gibson Family & “The Quaker Line” by Jane Cole & Anne Hughes

Lavishly illustrated with old maps and artworks in full colour, and offers a fascinating insight into the countryside around Audley End

The Society’s lectures for 2021 to 2022

Journal No 38 has an eclectic mix of stories as diverse as press freedom in the eighteenth century to WW2 evacuation and invasion of Saffron Walden! Other Subjects included A Cement Works for Saffron Walden by Geoffrey Ball Henry Winstanley’s Women by Martin Rose Finding the Lost Church of Little Wenden by Robert Wilson Gold & Silver Treasures Acquired by

Journal No 37 has many interesting articles focussing on Saffron Walden including his well known memories by Bruce Munro, policing in the Town and Peace Celebrations 1919. Other Subjects included Crossing the River Cam by Lizzie Sanders Richard Pettit (1752 -1824) Farmer, Miller, Clock-maker and Baptist Minister, a Man of Many Talents by Mike Furlong Murder, Mystery & my Family:

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

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

Up and coming lectures for the Society in 2021 – 2022