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War Memorial

Robert Pike, author of The Victor Heroes, has provided the following details of the 159 men recorded on the Saffron Walden War Memorial, lost in WW1.

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Remembrance Day Parade and Related Posts

Sunday 10th November saw the annual Remembrance Day Parade, which took place at the top of the High Street by the War Memorial. The Society has a number of posts and articles relating to both World War I and World War II.

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Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 29 (Spring 2015)

Issue no 29 of the Journal features unusual view of Saffron Walden High Street, designed by Nick Crawley, cleverly blending a view from the top of the High Street in 1820 with the same view today

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Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 27 (Spring 2014)

The wide-ranging impact of the First World War on life in Saffron Walden is the theme of the Spring 2014 issue of the Saffron Walden Historical Journal

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ClerkofOxford avatar Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford ·
23 Jun 2069463737199677641

Tonight is Midsummer Eve, which was for centuries the traditional date for celebrating the summer solstice. It was once a high point of the festival year - a time of feasts, parades, ghosts, love, roses, and bonfires blazing in the short summer night.

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21 Jun 2068589480735338940

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-lengsta-dg-anglo-saxon-solstice.html

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9 Jun 2064242212242637176

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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