Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 40 (Autumn 2020)

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 evacuee at Audley End House by P. Freddie Harden

80 years ago: Wartime Tragedy at Takeley, Essex by Jacqueline Cooper

‘An Awful Case’: Child Cruelty -Victorian Style by Lesley & Mike Furlong

Additionally you will find obituaries for two active contributors to our local historical record keeping:

• Lizzie Sanders, Historian of Littlebury
• John Read, transcriber of St Mary’s records & Auditor for our Society

Front cover: St. Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden from Byrds Farm © Dominic Davey