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May 2002

No 3: May 2002 The Site of the Battle of Assandun 1016  –  Patricia Croxton-Smith Miss ffytche and Clavering Church  –  Jacqueline Cooper How Saffron Walden correlates to the Demographic Transition Model between 1700 and 1850  –  James W. Bacon The Victorian Home Farm at Audley End  –  Geoffrey Ball Martin Robinson’s Notebook  –  Paul Wood The Impact of the
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June 22, 2013 • posted in Journal

November 2001

No 2: November 2001 The Compton Census in NW Essex  –  Imogen Mollet Pre-enclosure Maps of NW Essex  –  Laurie Barker Dates on Buildings and Exterior Walls in Saffron Walden  –  Neville &  Jean Price* Local Farming in a  Bygone Age: what was it like?  –  Geoffrey Ball Arthur Legge (1860-1942): Artist of Essex  –  Kenneth Neale The Misses Hart 
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May 2001

No 1: May 2001 Establishments for Young Ladies: Private Boarding Schools for Females c.1791-1861 – Fiona Bengtsen The American Bittern, an Historic first for Essex  –  Nick Green Treasure at Catons Lane, Results of Metal Detector Survey, Saffron Walden  –  Tony Carter Saffron Walden Town Football Club: History of The Meadow  –  Paul Daw Crime Doesn’t Pay? A Study of
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The Saffron Walden Historical Society, founded in 1933, organises eight lectures a year and publishes a magazine, the SWHJ, twice a year. We welcome new members

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2/2 I also recommend 'The Parish Churches of Norwich', available through all good bookshops or from Amazon at https://amzn.eu/d/03EhOSzU

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SimoninSuffolk avatar Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk ·
8 Jun 2063922056001917436

Gerard Manley Hopkins died #OTD 8 June 1889. He was 44.

'What would the world be,
Once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left,
O let them be left,
Wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.'

From his poem 'Inversnaid', on the Canongate Wall of the

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8 Jun 2064049764149149710

Brilliant as he was, he could be ungenerous and even snide about innovative and daring predecessors like Henry Winstanley of Littlebury who built the first Eddystone lighthouse in the 1690s. The grandfather or stepfather of civil engineering perhaps ...

Brilliant as he was, he could be ungenerous and even snide about innovative and daring predecessors like Henry Winstanley of Littlebury who built the first Eddystone lighthouse in the 1690s. The grandfather or stepfather of civil engineering perhaps ...
HistoryandHeritageYorkshire @GenealogyBeech

🧵Born on this day, 8 June in 1724 John Smeaton is often called the "father of civil engineering," He was a pioneering engineer known for his expertise and innovative design principles. From Austhorpe, Leeds, Smeaton showed an early fascination with mechanics. His most

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5 Jun 2062809257200791727

That "but" is a book of many volumes ...

That "but" is a book of many volumes ...
Vincenzo DM @DM_Vincenzo

#OTD in 1568, the Counts of Egmont and Horne were executed on the Grand Place in Brussels. They were leading noblemen in the Habsburg Netherlands but were accused and convicted of high treason.

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