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

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

Reflections on Journals Old and New Catuvellaunian and Roman discoveries from a field walk in Littlebury Parish  –  Lizzie Sanders Churches of N.W. Essex  –  Rosanne Kirkpatrick Clavering Castle Geophysics Audley End Engravings Wimbish & Thunderley: the development of settlement in a boulder clay landscape (Pt 2)  –  John Hunter The 17th Century Copper Tokens of Saffron Walden  –  Tony

Articles in this issue include:

The Lost Parish of Thunderley  –  Tony Fox Clavering Castle  –  Jacqueline Cooper St Botolph & Hadstock  –  Patricia Croxton-Smith & David Andrews A Lost Historical Graffitto from Debden Church  –  Bari Hooper John Newman Martyr  –  Jeremy Collingwood Saffron Walden Market Place 1790 A Canal for Saffron Walden?  –  Geoffrey Ball Mynott Pledger: His Book  –  Megan Ridgewell Saffron

No 8: Autumn 2004 Lieutenant of the Tower of London, Sir William Waad of Battles Hall, Manuden  –  Fiona Bengtsen Uttlesford Local History Recorders The Dissenters’ Burial Ground at Wimbish  –  Lucie Nottingham Closure of Langley Methodist Church  –  Jacqueline Cooper The Floor Maltings Industry of NW Essex and East Hertfordshire up to c.1914 (Pt 2)  –  Geoffrey Ball The

No 7: Spring 2004 Cotman Connections: a case of serendipity  –  Clare Padfield Recent Archaeology in Saffron Walden Town Centre  –  David Andrews The Sampfords Project Observations on Graffiti in the Church of SS Mary & Clement, Clavering  –  Bari Hooper Saffron Walden Convent  –  Bruce Munro Radwinter’s Remarkable Reredos  –  Michael Southgate The Floor Malting Industry of NW Essex

No 6: Autumn 2003 John Harvey’s Carved Mantle-piece  –  Peter M Daly & Bari Hooper John Collin, Attorney of Saffron Walden  –  Chris Collin History and Architecture of No 1 Myddylton Place, Saffron Walden  –  Zofia Everett Saffron Walden Borough Arms Saffron Walden V.A.D. Hospital  –  Robert Pike ‘Miles Graye Made Me’  –  Joy Pugh Opening a Door on Saxon

No 5 Spring 2003 Mitchells Farm, Little Walden  –  Geoffrey Ball The Gibson Boulders: a remarkable collection of Ice Age boulders in Saffron Walden  –  Gerald Lucy Littlebury Millennium Album  –  Gillian Williamson Some Saffron Walden Buildings and their Architects  –  Bruce Munro Local History Recorders  –  Dick Lloyd The Roman Road at Clavering  –  Jacqueline Cooper The Town Library,