Chigwell Row
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Morgan's shop
The shop with the sunblind known as Morgan's sold confectionary and tobacco. It was established in about 1943 or '44 by -?- Morgan after he was invalided out of the forces. I believe he married Miss Freebody, the daughter of the butcher who had a shop at the village end of Gravel Lane, just below the Maypole.
Contributed by Sherwin Hall
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Morgan's shop
The shop with the sunblind known as Morgan's sold confectionary and tobacco. It was established in about 1943 or '44 by -?- Morgan after he was invalided out of the forces. I believe he married Miss Freebody, the daughter of the butcher who had a shop at the village end of Gravel Lane, just below the Maypole.
A memory of Chigwell Row contributed by Sherwin Hall
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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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.
A memory of Chigwell contributed by kathleen rice
Extracts From Chigwell Row & Essex books
This is the second public house of the village, and a lot less famous than the Maypole. It
was originally a beer house, which was established as the village grew. Here we see it in
its original condition before the first extensions were done in the second half of the 20th
century. At the time of writing, it was undergoing further refurbishments and extensions.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
The shop on the left
is Morgan’s, selling
confectionery, and the
shop is still an old-
fashioned confectioner’s
just as Morgan would
have remembered it.
These buildings were
built on the wastes in
front of the original
Chigwell Row in c1880.
F Harman & Co, whose
sign we can just make
out on the gate next to
Morgan’s, were builders,
and this was their yard.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
This pretty house
sits back away from
the road, and is the
Warden’s house for the
Girl Guides Camping
Ground. It is built
on the original line
of buildings which
ended with the first
Maypole Inn with
its pond and green,
which constituted the
Chigwell Row which
Dickens knew.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
This view was taken about ten years later than C240003 from a
similar position (the semi-detached houses are out of the picture
to the left where they should be). The garage to the right has
recently been demolished, and in the distance is the
Two Brewers.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".
This is the pond which is marked on mid 19th-century Ordnance
Survey maps as Sheep Water. It is most likely that this is where
sheep being driven up to London from Essex and Suffolk were
dipped and watered here, hence its name.
An extract from from"Chigwell Photographic Memories".