Thaxted, Church Of St John The Baptist c.1950
Photo ref:
T28076
Photo ref:
T28076
More about this scene
The Swan (left) has an extensive Georgian frontage, nine bays wide. Originally, there were eleven. It once had its own oasthouse and maltings, and a cattle-market used to take place in the inn yard. There are documented references to the `signum cygni` (the sign of The Swan) as early as the 1540s.
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A Selection of Memories from Thaxted
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Thaxted
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My great grandmother lived at 14 Newbiggen Street, just on the righthand side of this photo. A couple of the stories I know about the place are: The doctor would come from Saffron Walden to see the Thaxted people and then send the prescriptions over on the bus. My great grandmother would then have people sit in her front parlour and wait and she would take the precription delivery and administer itmto the ...see more
I am currently trying to research into the history of our home. It is now called 'The Borough' and is located at the bottom of the hill on Bolford Street towards Cutler's Green, opposite the pumping station. It was split up in the early 1900's into 4 cottages and separate farm buildings and was reunited again by the infamous Geoffrey Allen in the early 1960's. I was ...see more
I was only six years old when I was taken to Thaxted by my father, in 1941. We moved from Start Hill near Bishop's Stortford, reasons were the war and the Yanks which we will not enter into. The first thing that struck me and still lingers in my memories was the church and its very pointed and high steeple. When we arrived by bus we turned right at the school up the hill to Bardfield End Green to my ...see more
We came to live in Thaxted in about 1950, and though we lived in one of the Borough Cottages, Bolford Street, which then were in a bad state, for me, fresh out of an institution ( I was only eight), it was the most wonderful place - and I still feel that way about it. I had my own bedroom, and though all it held was a brass-knobbed bedstead and a wash bowl, it was MINE and I could see the beauty of the ...see more
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