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Saffron Walden
River Cruise on Board M.C. Belle, August 28th 1937
I often think back to my dad and the wonderful stories he told about his life; I am lucky enough to have inherited a dairy he kept, one August in 1937. I have shared this before but I think it’s worth sharing again! My dad was born in 1919 in Saffron Walden in Essex; he was […]
MoreHappy birthday!
Today would have been my dad’s birthday; here is something I wrote a couple of years ago, about a holiday he and his best friend took seventy-nine years ago! My dad was born in 1919 in Saffron Walden in Essex; he was christened in Peterborough Cathedral, but spent most of his life in Cambridge. From an early age […]
MoreThe Old Sun Inn
The Old Sun Inn in Saffron Walden is over seven hundred years old! Apparently Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn both stayed here… not at the same time, obviously! Oliver Cromwell is reputed to have stayed here too during the Civil War; he was born in Huntingdon, which isn’t too far away, about thirty miles. Like many old buildings […]
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Pargeting
Pargeting is a term for the decorating of plaster on the outside of old buildings… maybe on the inside too, I’m afraid my knowledge does not extend that far! I’m not sure how old it is, but I would guess that people have always wanted to decorate their houses, and make them look attractive, so I think it is probably as old as the plastering the outside of houses […]
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Lois Elsden 