Chigwell
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Great place lost.
Grange Farm was the place to go for all teens. You could swim or just hang around with friends. To get there we walked across the fields and over the bridge across the Roding. Now of course this place is no more. A great loss.
Contributed by kathleen rice
Grange Farm Restaurant.
I worked in the restaurant at Grange Farm until 1957. The West Ham United football team used to come in for a meal after their training session.
Contributed by Mrs E Lewis
Grange Farm swimming pool by Carol Gook
I lived in nearby Abridge, and swam at Grange Farm pool around this time, with my school, Lambourne Primary in Abridge. I learnt to swim here, in the cold water. I loved this pool, it was a magical place for me, and I spent many summers splashing and swimming and then, later, posing and flirting teenage style. So sad that this lovely outdoor pool is no more. It was one of my favourite places and contributed to my love of swimming in cold water. I still swim now, outdoors every day - I am lucky to live near a big outdoor pool that has survived but I always think of those beautiful summer days at Grange Farm, gone but not forgotten. ...read more here
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Grange Farm swimming pool by Carol Gook
I lived in nearby Abridge, and swam at Grange Farm pool around this time, with my school, Lambourne Primary in Abridge. I learnt to swim here, in the cold water. I loved this pool, it was a magical place for me, and I spent many summers splashing and swimming and then, later, posing and flirting teenage style. So sad that this lovely outdoor pool is no more. It was one of my favourite places and contributed to my love of swimming in cold water. I still swim now, outdoors every day - I am lucky to live near a big outdoor pool that has survived but I always think of those beautiful summer days at Grange Farm, gone but not forgotten. ...read more here
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Extracts From Chigwell & Essex books
This next group of photographs, this one along with C88015 and C88075, again shows gradual change. At this time the
stores (centre) were run by George Watts, and the bakery by George Hayden. Notice the complete lack of road traffic.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
In April 1941 the house suffered some damage during an air raid, but it was in good enough repair to provide Winston
Churchill, then the local MP, and his wife with luncheon whilst touring the district during the General Election of 1945.
The interior is at present being refurbished.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
Samuel Harsnett, eventually Archbishop of York, was Vicar of St Mary’s from 1597 to 1605. Being fond of the parish, Harsnett
established two schools in Chigwell: an English school, and a Latin school. It was the latter institution that became today’s
private school.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
This is the Anglican parish
church of Chigwell. Parts
of the fabric of the church
are Norman, from the 12th
century. The population of
the parish increased from
1,351 in 1801 to 2,059 in 1841,
making the small medieval
church unsuitable. The
extensions were designed
by Sir Arthur Blomfield and
completed in 1886, and by
and large this is the church
we see today. Outside is
the war memorial; it was
unveiled by Sir Francis Lloyd,
with a guard of honour from
the school cadet force, on
6 November 1921.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
Guyden’s Bakery (left) is a long-time landmark of the village; the front is 19th-century, but the building behind dates from
the 18th century. At the time of this photograph, John Delaney ran the shop. It is now the Bluebell Restaurant, a location
in the BBC documentary ‘Essex Wives’.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".