Elsenham Report 2010

The last twelve months have been extremely busy. The Elsenham History Society has been successfully formed. It now has a good membership. In my capacity as Elsenham History Recorder I assisted the local Church to celebrate 900 years of worship. I produced a slide-show about the church history and its contents. This I repeated over two events for the local Old Folks Club. Also during this year NADFAS has done a complete inventory of the Church and produced a marvellous book of photos and information. This I scanned and then printed out and laminated so the Congregation could borrow and study. I have continued to collect pictures and photos chronicling our past, but have also been closely involved with the aforementioned History Society. I make no apologies for ending my account with a full account by the History Society. To a great extent they are able to cover far more than I could have attempted and I thank Chris Bush for his full report.

Ray Franklin
Elsenham History Recorder.

 

The Elsenham History Society

Annual General Meeting – Review of The Year

In May we visited the Essex Records Office

The six meetings during 2010:

Speakers –
March: David Verlander - History of Ordnance Survey
March: Film on Wartime Aerial Photography
June:   Roger Taylor- A Career on the Railway
Sept:   John Hurwitz - Elsenham Jam Factory
Nov:    Frances Lambert - Archaeology

We have also held six committee meetings.

We have submitted articles to the Village Magazine every month since April 2010.

We have had a society logo designed.

We have had a society banner produced.

We have set up a society email evhs@hotmail.co.uk

We are investigating the possibility of a web site.

We have become members of the Recorders of Uttlesford History.

We bid for funds to Heritage Lottery but were unsuccessful.

In June we had a stall and display at the village fete.

In August we put on a display and produced a timeline for the St Mary’s Church 900th Celebration Medieval Day.

We attended a tithe map workshop in Saffron Walden.

We have been collecting photographs of the village.

We have begun sound recording reminiscences of village residents.

We have arranged speakers for all of our meetings in 2011.

We have work in progress on the men of the village who are recorded on the War Memorial.

Work is in progress to produce a directory of village place names and their origins.

Work is in progress to plan an archaeological investigation.

Work is being carried out to record the story of the Broom Farm and its demise

One of our members is producing a presentation on his historic home.