Audley End, The Mansion c.1910

Photo ref: A109044

My mother was the private nurse employed by Mr Talbot to look after his Wife at The Old Hall Bartlow near Audley End. She spent some of her happiest years there. Her name was Catherine Mary Jeeves

My mother and father met at the cricket ground at Audley End in the early 1930's - my father was a shepherd on the estate and my mother was a ladies maid at the Mansion. My father's hobby was beekeeping, later to become his sole profession and he always housed his bees on Audley End Estate with the permission of Lord Braybrooke.We lived at Gamages Lodge which sits in the middle of the ...see more

My father Frank Hardwick was the youngest son of Thomas Hardwick,fishmonger and poulterer of King St ,Saffron Walden. As a boy he used to tell me of delivering by pony and trap to Audley End Mansion.

Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a clerk at the Station before moving to London. For years I have been searching, writing and hoping for a photo of William, without success. There must be one out there somewhere. Can anyone help please! David Saward (now resident in Devon)