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Sawbridgeworth People
21 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
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15 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
15 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by Douglas Coe
15 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
14 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
5 June 2024 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
26 July 2023 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
Articles Sawbridgeworth People
20 June 2022 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
An article by Tim Howard-Smith. The Unwin Family of Sawbridgeworth
15 June 2022 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
8 June 2021 / 21 June 2024 by David Royle
‘The Future of Local Government’: a speech by Mr E. B. Barnard M P at the Shaftesbury Hall, Sawbridgeworth on 14 November 1907 Note Edmund Broughton Barnard OBE JP DL (16 February 1856 to 27 January 1930) according to Wikipedia, was a British Liberal politician, landowner and sportsman. He was an original member of Hertfordshire County Council from 1888, serving on and chairing many different committees and becoming its chairman in 1920 and an Alderman. He was chairman of the County Council's Education Committee and took a strong stand in favour of the retention of village schools, emphasising their importance to the preservation of village life. Barnard also served on Sawbridgeworth Urban District Council and was its chairman between 1905 and 1907. He died suddenly, aged 73, during a meeting of the Hertfordshire County Council, which he was chairing, on 27 January 1930 in London in the Law Society's hall.
2 June 2021 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
Theo van de Bilt has been researching people of colour living in the Sawbridgeworth area in the past and he found George Ottea who worked as a butler at Terlings Park in Gilston. He was working there in 1891 according to the census.
15 September 2020 / 21 June 2024 by Chris Finch
Our latest article, written by Chris Finch, is about the life of a former Sawbridgeworth resident who was adopted by a local family, met her future husband, an American serviceman, […]
4 June 2020 / 21 June 2024 by Douglas Coe
This is an article about a photographer who had a business in Sawbridgeworth. He took many photographs of the local area, many of which were turned into postcards.
15 April 2020 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
John Wright and his Sawbridgeworth Fire Brigade website.
1 March 2020 / 21 June 2024 by The Editor
Hello again, Sheila Passfield, a churchwarden at Great St. Mary’s and an ex-pupil at Leventhorpe’s school recently wrote a nice little article about the Leventhorpe family and its relations with […]
12 March 2019 / 21 June 2024 by Gill Munro
The 1911 census was undertaken in April of that year. It is often referred to as the fertility census, the reason for that being that at the time eugenics had become very popular.
11 December 2018 / 21 June 2024 by Douglas Coe
A recent addition to our collection of articles is about Peter Tilbury, a resident of Sawbridgeworth, who took part in Antarctic explorations.
19 August 2018 / 21 June 2024 by Gill Munro
The Harlow Photos Facebook page has given us permission to use a photo posted by Jamie Fowler of the Morris and Barclay families in 1936. It shows how fox hunting […]
14 May 2018 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
This article concerns the Clements family and how two young boys travelled from the Bishop’s Stortford Poorhouse all the way to Canada where they built up a new life. It […]
2 June 2017 / 21 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt
If you are a Sawbridgeworth resident of riper vintage you may remember reading Kenneth Cook’s articles in the Herts and Essex Observer. From 1990 until at least 1998, every […]