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Some more aspects of our Industrial Heritage

The catchment area covered by the Colne-Stour Countryside Association (CSCA) has a rich industrial heritage. It is principally a rural agricultural area, both traditionally and to the present time. An article about some of the extractive and manufacturing industries appeared in the CSCA April 2017 edition. This second article explores some further industries, particularly those closely associated with agriculture including milling, malting, brewing and agricultural engineering. The agricultural industry depended upon many other industries for support, particularly prior to improvements in transportation, such as iron foundries and agricultural engineering works. This article briefly explores a few of these industries and surviving heritage.

Milling

Watermills
The milling of grain is one of the oldest industrial activities emanating from farms. The Domesday Book recorded watermills at Assington, Baythorn End, Bures, Cavendish, Clare, Coggeshall, Cornard, Glemsford, Halstead, Hundon, Kedington, Liston, Long Melford, Pentlow, Shalford, Stisted, Sturmer, Sudbury, Wethersfield, Wixoe, Wormingford, the Colnes and theHedinghams. A minority of watermills were later used for other purposes such as fulling mills in connection with the textileindustry and paper mills. A paper mill existed on the Bourne Brook at Greenstead Green, which operated from 1823 to the 1870s when the business relocated to Halstead.

Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham

Alderford Mill at Sible Hedingham, a grade two star listed building, has been restored and recently ground corn on open days. It is owned by Essex County Council and cared for by the Friends of Alderford Mill whose members provide guided tours. (See website: www.alderfordmill.org.uk for furtherdetails).

Hulls Mill (Hovis Mill), which straddles the boundary between Sible Hedingham and Great Maplestead is now a private residence and the former Clovers Mill at Sudbury has been a hotel for the last forty years. The Townsford Mill in Halstead, which was rebuilt in 1788, was originally a water powered corn mill but in 1828 was acquired by Samuel Courtauld for silk weaving and later converted to steam power. This large attractive building is now an antiques centre.

 

Box Mill, Halstead.

Other watermills on the River Colne were Box Mill at Halstead, Langley Mill, Whites (formerly Ford Mill) and Colneford (Priory) Mill at Earls Colne, Chalkney Mill at HWite Colne, Wakes Colne Mill, Ford Street and lower Mills at Fordham. There wree two mills sitauted on the Peb or Mill brook tributary of the River Colne, namely a cron mill, and Overshot Mill at Colne Engaine. On the edge of the CSCA area, on the River Pant, were Wethersfield and Codham watermills and, on the River Blackwater, watermills at Bocking and Stisted.

The Mill, Bures.

There were a large number of watermills along the River Stour of which some were in Essex and some in Suffolk. Those on the Essex side were Ashen, Baythorn, Borley, Henny, Liston and Pentlow. In addition there was a watermill at Belchamp Walter on the Belchamp Brook, which was an Essex tributary of the River Stour. The Suffolk mills were at Brundon, Bures, Cavendish, Clare, Cornard, Glemsford, Kedington, Long Melford, Stoke by Clare, Sudbury, Wixoe and Wormingford. (For further information about Bures and other Suffolk watermills please see CSCA newsletter 2011)

Windmills
Windmills did not appear until the late twelfth century and there were examples of all three types, namely tower, smock and post mills, in the area. Among surviving examples are post mills at Bocking and Finchingfield, a tower mill at Gainsford End and the base of a smock mill in Halstead. Other remains include a roundhouse at Belchamp Walter and the base of a smock mill at Bulmer, close to its boundary with Ballingdon.

The Post Mill, Cut Maple, Sible Hedingham.

Occasionally, post mills were replaced with smock or tower mills. One example was North Mill at Halstead, where the post mill, which was in existence during the eighteenth century, was replaced with by a smock mill on a brick base during the early nineteenth century. The original post mill at Lamb Lane, Sible Hedingham, was replaced with a tower mill, which contained some of the timbers from the earlier mill. The windmill at Cut Maple was a post mill, which was last in operation during the First World War and finally demolished during the early 1950s.

The Tower Mill, Belchamp Otten.

At Box Mill Lane, Halstead, there were two mills, namely a watermill and a windmill operating side by side. The post mill was blown down during a storm in 1882, but the watermill survived until 1926. A tower mill, near Langley watermill at Colne Engaine, was erected in 1880 for the disposal of sewage.

In addition to the above, there were windmills in Alphamstone, Ashen, Belchamp St. Paul, Belchamp Otten, Birdbrook, Blackmore End, Bures St. Mary, Castle Hedingham, Foxearth, Gosfield, Great Henny, Great Maplestead, Great Yeldham, Greenstead Green, Lamarsh, Middleton, Mount Bures, Pebmarsh, Ridgewell, Stambourne, Steeple Bumpstead, Toppesfield, Wakes Colne, Wethersfield and Wickham St. Paul.

In the Suffolk part of the CSCA area, the base of Highfield Mill at Sudbury, which was a large smock mill, has been converted into a house, and the derelict tower at Chilton Street Clare remains, but another windmill in Clare was blown down in 1875. There were also windmills, with no surviving remains, at Assington, Glemsford, Great Cornard, Great Waldingfield, Hundon, Kedington, Leavenheath, Long Melford, Stoke by Clare and Sudbury.

Hop growing, malting and brewing

Hops were grown commercially for some 300 years until the mid-nineteenth century in the Hedinghams, the Maplesteads, Wethersfield, Colne Engaine, Belchamp Walter and Bocking. Woods were planted in Sible Hedingham, Finchingfield and Wethersfield specifically for hop poles. Wild hops can still be seen growing at various locations along the banks of the River Colne through Sible Hedingham. Oast houses or hop kilns survive at Blackmore End and at Mumford’s Hill, Wethersfield.

Until the early twentieth century, there were numerous maltings in Halstead, Sudbury and the Hedinghams. The small village of Little Yeldham even had two maltings one at Sewells Farm and the other at Upper Yeldham Hall, which partly survives. In the previous century there were maltings at Alphamstone, Bocking, Bures, Coggeshall, Earls Colne, Greenstead Green, Pebmarsh, Shalford, Stisted and two at Great Yeldham. One of the former maltings at Alderford Street Sible Hedingham has been converted into a row of houses.

In addition, breweries often had integral malt-houses such as Mauldons at Ballingdon; Goslings at Bocking; Beards of Coggeshall; Adams & Sons of Halstead and T. W. Raven of Wethersfield Brewery. Brewing was also carried out on a small scale at some public houses, such as James Pearson of The Eight Bells, Belchamp Walter; and Frederick and Sarah Clarke of the White Horse, Sible Hedingham.

Ward’s Brewery, Foxearth.

There were some ten brewers in Halstead at various times and locations. Two were quite large and existed well into the twentieth century namely Adams & Sons of Trinity Street and G. E. Cook and Sons Limited of Tidings Hill. Some of the remaining buildings of both former breweries have been converted into housing. Another large brewery was at Foxearth where the Ward family were active from 1848 to 1980. The site of the brewery has since been redeveloped for housing. (For further information about breweries please see the article ‘Brewing in East Anglia’ in the CSCA newsletter 2011)

Iron foundries and engineering.

Agriculture was the stimulus for the development of foundries and engineering. The earliest iron foundries were established at Ashen, Earls Colne, Gestingthorpe, Greenstead Green and Sible Hedingham, mainly to produce agricultural implements.

Downs Iron Foundry, Gestingthorpe.

The Gestingthorpe iron foundry, which was in operation for over 80 years, was owned by John Downs and later King Downs. John Downs had started his working life as a blacksmith at Ovington before moving to Gestingthorpe in 1823 and establishing his foundry. He also carried on business as a wheelwright, master brickmaker, farmer and postmaster. The foundry specialised in making a variety of agricultural implements, pig troughs and particularly ploughs. These included the Essex A plough and the popular T.D.O. (Turn Dirt Over) plough. King Downs closed the Gestingthorpe Iron Works in 1908 but continued selling off stock for some years. (For further information see: ‘The Downs Family and Iron Foundry of Gestingthorpe’, by Adrian Corder-Birch, published in Essex Journal, Vol. 40 No. 1, Spring 2005)

Another blacksmith was John Atterton, senior, of Colne Engaine and Halstead whose son, also John, an engineer, was a partner of the Colne Valley Iron Works, engineers and millwrights of Rosemary Lane, Halstead. In 1875 John Atterton, junior, became a mechanical engineer and agricultural machine maker at Haverhill. His business later became well-known as Atterton and Ellis. The former Colne Valley Iron Works was eventually purchased by Charles Portway and became the foundries of Charles Portway & Son Limited and of The Tortoise Foundry Company Limited. These foundries, which employed about 200, existed for nearly a hundred years until closure in 1974. Another Halstead iron founder and engineer was Edward Raven, who was also a machinist and threshing machine contractor. During the mid-twentieth century, Evans Foundry operated in Oak Yard, prior to relocation to Factory Lane West, when it amalgamated with Nokes Foundry, where the foundry of Maycast Nokes Limited continues to operate.

The agricultural engineering works of Whitlock Brothers, Gt.

There were two forage merchants in the area, namely Charles Row at Long Melford and Walter Whitlock at Great Yeldham, who was later succeeded by his son Christopher. At Walter Whitlock’s chaff works at Poole Farm, hay and straw was pressed into bales to provide food for horses and cattle. At its peak, 100 men were engaged sending over 100 tons of chaff to London every week. Walter sometimes had difficulty obtaining parts and repairs to his machinery and therefore encouraged two of his sons to become engineers. They established the foundry of Whitlock Bros. in 1899, which was incorporated as Whitlock Bros. Limited in 1941 and specialised in agricultural engineering. The firm also had a carpenter’s shop where all types of wooden buildings were made mainly for farmers. Agricultural trailers were manufactured and grain drying and storage plant was installed on farms. From 1950 earthmoving machinery, including the well-known Dinkum Diggers, Dumpers and Dredgers, became a speciality. The company eventually employed about 600 people at Great Yeldham and, following a takeover in 1972, the factory closed in 1975. (For further information see: ‘Whitlock Brothers – A history of the family, farms, forage works, foundry and factory at Great Yeldham’, by Adrian Corder-Birch, published 2017)

Another local agricultural engineering company was Blyth and Pawsey Limited, which operated at Ridgewell and Saffron Walden. In Suffolk, Thomas Orbell & Son were agricultural engineers, ploughing and threshing contractors at Clare. They owned several traction engines used for ploughing and threshing and carried out repairs to farm implements and steam engines.

R.Hunt & Co. limited, Earls Colne.

The foundry of Hunts, later R. Hunt & Co. Limited and finally Christy Hunt at Atlas Works, Earls Colne, was originally established by a millwright to provide machinery for water and windmills. It later specialised in the manufacture of all types of agricultural machinery and mechanical power transmission equipment. It employed 300 and eventually closed in 1988, following an existence of about 150 years. (For further information see: ‘Hunt for Machinery – The Rise, Success and Demise of R. Hunt and Company Limited of Earls Colne, 1825- 1988’, by Patricia Burton-Hopkins,  published by Halstead and District Local History Society in 1995)

A significant part of the Atlas Works has been preserved and many former buildings converted to other uses. The Victorian buildings, which are grade two listed, have been renovated for commercial uses. The former water tower, built in 1885, is now the Earls Colne Heritage Museum. A Doctors’ Surgery exists and much of the site has been redeveloped for housing. It is pleasing that former industrial buildings have been retained and are still recognisable, which are part of our rich industrial heritage.

Adrian Corder-Birch

Adrian Corder-Birch is a founder member and Vice Chairman of Essex industrial Archaeology Group, which is a subgroup of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History of which he is President. He is a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Essex Journal. His many other positions include being the Clerk to Little Yeldham, Tilbury Juxta Clare and Ovington Parish Council since 1971 and Patron of Halstead and District Local History Society. Following 36 years in the legal profession, he was Clerk to Sible Hedingham Parish Council for ten years until his recent retirement. He is an active member of the British Brick Society and of The Association for Industrial Archaeology. He has been a member of the Colne- Stour Countryside Association for many years, served on the committee for five years and became a Life Member in 1988.

He is the author of the following books:

‘Our Ancestors were Brickmakers and Potters – a history of the Corder and related families in the clayworking industries’ in Gestingthorpe, Castle and Sible Hedingham, Gosfield, Great Yeldham, Bulmer and other locations.

‘Bricks, Buildings and Transport – A history of Mark Gentry, the Hedingham red brick industry, buildings, road and rail transport’ ‘Whitlock Brothers – A history of the family, farms, forage works, foundry and factory at Great Yeldham.’

He is joint author, with his wife Pam, of ‘The Works – A history of Rippers Joinery Manufacturers of Castle and Sible Hedingham’

The above books are available from: Adrian Corder-Birch, Rustlings, Howe drive, Halstead CO9 2QL price £14.95 each plus £2.90 p&p. Cheques in English pounds sterling payable to: Adrian Corder-Birch, please. Any enquiries to: adrian@corderbirch. co.uk

2023 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 - Read about the wonderful new gallery being built in Sudbury for Gainsborough's masterpieces; follow the trail of a tireless local environmental campaigner; get ready for the second EA cultural festival, the Bures music festival and Opera at Layer Marney; discover the beautiful garden of Holm House with its wildflower meadow and lake; travel through the Colne valley along the Gainsborough line; find out where you can get local financial advice; enjoy an illustrated walk in the Stour Valley; and read our Chairman's update on proposed housing developments, solar farms, and the National Grid's Bramford to Twinstead electricity grid reinforcement project. 

2022 Magazine
Year: 2022
Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2022
Rebel with a cause
Year: 2022
A National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough’s Masterpieces
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EA Festival at Hedingham Castle
Category: Culture
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The Gainsborough Line
Category: Adventure. Travel, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2022
Music, Mischief and Mayhem – Opera at Layer Marney
Year: 2022
Bures Music Festival
Year: 2022
Holm House Gardens in Suffolk
Year: 2022

2020 - Welcome to our 2020 lockdown edition - only published ONLINE. Read about the wonderful Alfred Munnings Exhibition "Behind the Lines"; find out how the beavers have been getting on at the Spains Hall Estate in Finchingfield, introduced back into Essex after an absence of 400 years; explore the link between Ferriers in Bures and the Voyage of the Mayflower, the Salem Witch trials and Wampum belts; read a fascinating interview with Carl Shillingford, talented Michelin chef and keen local forager; and enjoy a celebratory update from Ken Forrester on South African wines and his support for a wonderful local school.  

2020 Magazine
Year: 2020
Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2020
Behind the Lines: Alfred Munnings, War Artist
Category: Art, Culture
Year: 2020
The Foragers Retreat – Michelin chef in Pebmarsh.
Category: Food, Nature
Year: 2020
Dam Good Job – Beavers back in Essex after 400 years.
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature
Year: 2020
Ferriers – a Bures house and its connection to the Mayflower.
Category: Adventure. Travel, Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2020
Three special milestones for Ken Forrester Wines  
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2020

2019 - Read about Tudor living on a grand scale at Alston Court, how Samuel Courtauld & Co. shaped our towns and villages, hear inspiring stories of local vineyards Tuffon Hall and West Street, get an update on the Dedham Vale AONB extension, and take a tour round Polstead Mill, one of East Anglia's beautiful secret gardens. 

Chairman’s Letter
Year: 2019
Dedham Vale AONB extension
Year: 2019
The Tuffon Hall Transformation
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
A Hong Kong racehorse in an Essex field
Category: Nature
Year: 2019
Andy Gentle – A chainsaw love affair
Category: Business
Year: 2019
A vivid insight into Tudor living on the grand scale.
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2019
Underground Moats & Zinc Cathedrals
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2019
Secret Gardens of East Anglia – Polstead Mill
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Repairing the damage of a supermarket delivery van
Year: 2019
How Samuel Courtauld and Co. shaped our towns and villages
Category: Architectural Interest, Culture, History
Year: 2019
Ken Forrester
Year: 2019
CSCA Photography Competition
Year: 2019
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2019
Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2019

2018 - Read about Hedingham Castle, a new National Centre for Gainsborough in Sudbury, award-winning new Gins from Adnams, aspects of our Industrial Heritage, the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, the Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project, and take a look at the proposed new Constitution for CSCA.. 

Chairmans Letter April 2018
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
History of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, Culture, History
Year: 2018
Another Suffolk Success Story – Time for a G & T?
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2018
Some more aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: Agricultural, Brewing, distilling and wine, History
Year: 2018
An Earl’s Tower
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
A Castle Reborn
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2018
Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project
Category: Explore Colne Stour, Nature, Planning Issues
Year: 2018
A National Centre for Gainsborough set within the town where he was born and the landscape that inspired him
Category: Architectural Interest, Art, History
Year: 2018
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens, History
Year: 2018
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2018
New Constitution
Year: 2018
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2018

2017 - Read about our local industrial heritage, Paycocke's House history, why heritage matters, the art of Alfred Munnings, a haunted house in Lamarsh, celebrating Gainsborough, the beauty of recreating Cedric Morris's Iris collection and a small wine snippet from Ken Forrester. 

Chairmans Letter April 2017
Category: Annual, News, Planning Issues
Year: 2017
Heritage Matters
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2017
Some aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: History
Year: 2017
Paycocke’s House: a witness to history
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
The House of his Dreams: Reimagining The Munnings Art Museum
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
‘The Haunted House’ of Lamarsh – Some Early Reflections
Category: History
Year: 2017
Gainsborough’s House: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2017
Another, highly unusual, Suffolk Success Story
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Garden Visits 2017
Category: Gardens, Nature
Year: 2017
Dirty Little Secret
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2017
Website
Category: News
Year: 2017
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2017
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2017

2016 - Interesting articles on medieval graffiti, farming in the Stour Valley, exploring our AONB, early settlers from the Stour Valley to America, the archaeology of a local farm, a wonderful catalogue of British birds, celebrating a Suffolk joinery business, the weather from a South African winery. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2016
Medieval Graffiti: the hidden histories…
Category: History
Year: 2016
Stour Valley Farming
Category: Business
Year: 2016
The Godly Kingdom of the Stour Valley
Category: History
Year: 2016
Keeping It Special in the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and Stour Valley Project
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Lodge Farm, Rectory Road, Wyverstone Street, Suffolk
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2016
A Miscellany of Information about British Birds
Category: Nature
Year: 2016
Another Suffolk Success Story
Category: Business
Year: 2016
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens
Year: 2016
Harvest, Fires and Fynbos
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
LOOKING FORWARDS, BEFORE I GET LEFT BEHIND….
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2016
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2016
Annual General Meeting and Summer Party
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2016
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2016

2015 - The life and times of a flint knapper. A continuation about the history of the ancient farm at Henny and a visit to the inside of Alston Court, Nayland as well as an insight into The Antiques Roadshow.  

Chairman’s Letter – February 2015
Category: Annual
Year: 2015
Caught Knapping
Category: History
Year: 2015
ALSTON COURT
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2015
ORGANIC MUTTERINGS
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY – PART 2
Category: History
Year: 2015
ON AND OFF THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Category: Business
Year: 2015
UNLOCKING THE ARTIST WITHIN: FINE ART LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2015
BADGERS – LOVE’EM, OR HATE’EM?
Category: Nature
Year: 2015
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Gardens
Year: 2015
FORRESTER VINEYARDS, SOUTH AFRICA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2015
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2015
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2015

2014 - A hair-raising flight from UK to South Africa and an insight into the Wineries of Stellenbosch. An exceptional old mill just outside Bures and a most unusual chapel on the hill behind, as well as a time warp farm at Henny. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2014
Category: Annual
Year: 2014
ST. STEPHEN’S CHAPEL, BURES
Category: History
Year: 2014
THE STELLENBOSCH WINE ROUTE – THE PEOPLE AND THE DOGS!
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2014
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A FLIGHT TO STELLENBOSCH AND BACK
Category: Adventure. Travel
Year: 2014
A SUFFOLK SUCCESS STORY – JIM LAWRENCE LTD
Category: Business
Year: 2014
HOLD FARM, BURES ST MARY; A RARE TUDOR WATERMILL
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2014
THE STORY OF SPARROW’S FARM, GREAT HENNY
Category: History
Year: 2014
YOUR COUNTRYSIDE – FIGHT FOR IT NOW! your Britain fight for it now
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2014
TUNBRIDGEWARE
Category: History
Year: 2014
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB) – UPDATE
Category: News, Planning Issues
Year: 2014
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2014
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2014
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2014

2013 - Watermills on the Stour. How Constable and Gainsborough would have seen many of the buildings in our area. Let’s protect the Stour Valley by extending the AONB from where we take over from The Dedham Vale at Wormingford towards Sudbury. 

Chairman’s Letter – February 2013
Category: Annual
Year: 2013
THE WATERMILLS OF THE RIVER STOUR
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
MANAGING A MASTERPIECE: THE STOUR VALLEY LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
EXTENDING THE DEDHAM VALE AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY (AONB)
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
BUILDINGS IN THE EAST ANGLIAN LANDSCAPE – AS SEEN BY JOHN CONSTABLE
Category: Art, History
Year: 2013
THE ROUND CHURCH AT MAPLESTEAD
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2013
THE FINE WINES OF ENGLAND
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2013
PROGRESS AGAINST PYLONS: A ROUNDUP OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PYLONS SAGA
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2013
TEA AND THE TEA CADDY A BRIEF STUDY OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF TEA AND ITS CONTAINERS
Category: History
Year: 2013
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2013
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2013
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2013

2012 - A walk through many of the churches along the River Stour and how the Romans once lived right here in our midst, and how your pint is brewed. Also the ongoing fight to rid the Stour of the blight of Pylons. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – FEBRUARY 2012
Category: Annual
Year: 2012
TREES R US – AN AMATEUR ARBORETUM
Category: Nature
Year: 2012
GLIMPSES INTO SOME STOUR VALLEY CHURCHES
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2012
THE ART OF BREWING
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2012
PLANNING REFORM
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2012
‘ELF ‘N SAFETY . . . AND ALL THAT
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
BRINGING OUR PAST TO LIFE: GESTINGTHORPE ROMAN VILLA
Category: History
Year: 2012
MINIATURE OR APPRENTICE PIECE?
Category: History
Year: 2012
GAINSBOROUGH’S VIEW
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2012
NEW STOUR VALLEY ENVIRONMENT FUND
Category: News
Year: 2012
TREASURER’S REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2012
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2012
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 46TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 12TH MAY 2011
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2012

2011 - The brewers of East Anglia. The gardens of Marks Hall as well as the paintings of Alfred Munnings on display in Sudbury. How a small church became the Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds and all you need to know about antique birdcages. 

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER – APRIL 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
Pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2011
THE PAINTED CHURCH BECOMES BURY’S CATHEDRAL
Category: History
Year: 2011
MARKS HALL AND THE PHILLIPS PRICE TRUST
Category: History
Year: 2011
BREWING IN EAST ANGLIA
Category: Brewing, distilling and wine
Year: 2011
BURES MILL OVER NINE CENTURIES
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2011
LANDSCAPES BY MUNNINGS EXHIBITION AT GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSE
Category: Art
Year: 2011
BIRD-CAGES – A FASCINATION
Category: History
Year: 2011
DAWS HALL EVENTS 2011
Category: Annual
Year: 2011
EDITOR’S NOTES
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2011
GARDEN VISITS
Category: Annual, Gardens
Year: 2011
TREASURERS REPORT
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2011
THE COLNE STOUR COUNTRYSIDE ASSOCIATION. MINUTES OF THE 45TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD AT FERRIERS BARN, BURES ON THURSDAY 6TH MAY 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2010
Category: A.G.M.
Year: 2011

2010 - An artist who enjoyed his port and a canoe adventure along the Stour. Sudbury’s history and Coggeshall Abbey and a fight to get rid of Pylons from the Stour Valley. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2010
A Pint of Port to Paint a Picture
Category: Art, History
Year: 2010
A Walk Round Coggeshall Abbey
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
By Canoe to Cattawade
Category: Adventure. Travel, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2010
Nocturnal Visitors
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Sudbury New Town – c.1330
Category: History
Year: 2010
A Stay in a Nomad’s Tent
Category: Business
Year: 2010
Freeing our countryside of the blight of pylons
Category: Planning Issues
Year: 2010
Hobbies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2010
Editor’s Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2010
Website
Category: News
Year: 2010
Annual General Meeting 2009
Category: Annual
Year: 2010

2009 - Norwich School art and the Maplesteads. Ancient wallpapers, and is Long Melford the epitome of a Suffolk village? and don’t throw away a rug before checking what it is. 

Chairmans Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
By Hook or by Crook
Category: Art, History
Year: 2009
Unwanted Wildlife – Some Handy Hints
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
East Ruston Old Vicarage
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Squash a Squirrel – Save a Tree
Category: Nature
Year: 2009
Historic Wallpapers and Cole & Son
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Long Melford – ‘Suffolk in a day’
Category: Architectural Interest, Explore Colne Stour, History
Year: 2009
Don’t throw away a fortune!
Category: Business
Year: 2009
Garden Visits. Away Days
Category: Gardens
Year: 2009
Website
Category: Annual
Year: 2009
Editors Notes
Category: Editors notes
Year: 2009
Annual General Meeting 2008
Category: Annual
Year: 2009

2008 - The bell founders of Sudbury and all about a rogue from our area, Sir John Hawkwood, and a Sudbury secret – Gainsborough’s House. 

Member’s Letter
Category: Annual
Year: 2008
Cycling in Suffolk – An Environmental Holiday
Category: Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
The Sudbury Bell Founders
Category: History
Year: 2008
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2008
From Sible Hedingham to Florence. The Remarkable Life of Sir John Hawkwood
Category: History
Year: 2008
‘One of Suffolk’s Best Kept Secrets’- Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
Category: Art, Explore Colne Stour
Year: 2008
Discovering Historic Wallpaper in East Anglian Houses
Category: History
Year: 2008
The not so humble Mole (Talpa Europaea) and how to catch him
Category: Nature
Year: 2008
Annual Report 2007.
Category: Annual
Year: 2008

2007 - Why a bell had to be chipped to get into the belfry at Lamarsh. Watermills on the Colne and Dragonflies. 

Water Mills on the Upper Colne
Category: Architectural Interest, History
Year: 2007
Dragonflies on the Stour
Category: Nature
Year: 2007
Lamarsh Bell Restoration
Category: Architectural Interest
Year: 2007
The CSCA Website
Category: News
Year: 2007
What is wrong with our Horse Chestnuts?
Category: Nature
Year: 2007

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