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How Samuel Courtauld and Co. shaped our towns and villages

Some further aspects of our Industrial Heritage – by Adrian Corder-Birch

This is the third and final article in the series about our industrial heritage. The first article in April 2017 was mainly devoted to extractive industries, the second in April 2018 looked at industries relating to agriculture and both included manufacturing industries. This final article considers some remaining industries, particularly manufacturing industries, together with industrial housing and Local Heritage Lists.

Isinglass and Gelatine

Making An unusual industry associated with Coggeshall was Isinglass (a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish. A form of collagen used mainly for clarification of beer and wine) and Gelatine making, which flourished during the last half of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. A bye-product of this industry was glue-making.

Mat and Rope Making

Ashley Adkins & Co., of Bocking, founded in 1825, which chiefly made mats, also made some rope. In 1902 they established another factory in Cavendish. In the Sudbury area, during the nineteenth century, there were five firms engaged in the coconut mat and matting industry. During the inter war years, J. Holdsworth & Co., and Charles B. Smith were coconut matting manufacturers at Glemsford. The largest was Armes & Son in Cornard Road, Sudbury which opened in 1884 and survived until 1969.

Paper Making

Paper making started about 1828 at Greenstead Green by William Riddle and was continued by W & T Bentall. In 1870 Alfred Potter purchased the plant and established the Halstead Paper Mills Company Limited in Chapel Street, Halstead, which made about 20 tons of paper a week until 1889.

Printing Industry

The printing industry was active in Halstead and Sudbury. Carter & Son started the Halstead and Colne Valley Gazette in 1857, which was continued by W. H. Root Limited at the appropriately named Caxton Works. A competitor, the Essex and Halstead Times was founded in 1861, but in 1920 was absorbed by the Halstead Gazette. In Sudbury the Free Press has been printed since 1855.

Seed Industry

The seed growing industry centred upon the Coggeshall and Kelvedon area for two hundred years was also active in the Hedinghams during the mid-nineteenth century. In 1906 Frank Martin established his seed growing business at Lodge Farm, which later extended to Millbrooks Farm, Colne Engaine. The business was active throughout the majority of the twentieth century and closed during the 1980s. Flax A flax factory, known as English Flax Limited, was established at Glemsford during the Second World War and operated for the Ministry of Supply. Flax was grown over a wide area and seed and waste products used in animal feed were supplied.

Whitening Manufacture

The manufacture of whitening, from lime, used for whitewashing walls and ceilings was carried out at Great Henny, Wickham St. Paul and Sudbury. One manufacturer was David ‘Whiting’ Turp who made whitening at Wickham St. Paul and continued his trade when he moved to Sudbury.

Horsehair Weaving Industry

The horsehair weaving industry flourished in Glemsford, Hadleigh, Lavenham and Long Melford. The horsehair, from manes and tails, was dressed for brush making and used for stuffing in upholstery. During the inter war period there were four horsehair manufacturers in Glemsford alone, namely Joseph Tompkins & Sons Limited and Arnold & Gould, with Alexander & Sons specialising as seating manufacturers and Andrew Arnold as hair cloth manufacturers. The last surviving horsehair factory belonged to Arnold and Gould where about 70 people were employed as recently as 1973.

Textiles

The wool trade flourished in Essex and Suffolk for several centuries, but gradually declined during the eighteenth and into the early nineteenth centuries. As it disappeared the silk industry expanded and largely replaced it. Textile mills existed at Pebmarsh, Halstead, Bocking, Earls Colne, Coggeshall, Glemsford, Sudbury and Castle Hedingham. The principal manufacturer was Courtaulds whose main product during the second half of the nineteenth century was mourning crepe, which was followed by diversifying into artificial fibres. Their first mill at Pebmarsh operated from 1799 to 1809 and was later occupied by E.L. & H. Roddick, silk throwsters until 1883. The mill was demolished in 1893 although the adjacent Mill House is still occupied. The Townford Mill at Halstead was built in 1788 for grinding corn. In 1825 it was converted by Courtaulds for silk production. They constructed several more buildings in the vicinity and eventually employed about 1400 in Halstead alone. The factory closed in 1983 following which some buildings were demolished but the original mill survives and is now an antiques centre. Apart from Courtaulds there were other silk manufacturers in Halstead during the early nineteenth century namely John Davies in the High Street and Jones and Foyster in Parsonage Street.

At Earls Colne, Courtaulds constructed a purpose built mill in 1884 for mourning crepe, which they later used for weaving artificial silk, until closure in 1925. It was later used by R. Hunt & Co. Limited for a store and still remains in light industrial use and is in a Conservation Area. In Coggeshall, John Hall & Son were silk throwsters at West Street, Abbey Mill and Gravel Mill. Lace-making was also carried on at Coggeshall and in the nearby villages of Chappel, Marks Tey and Great Tey.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were silk throwsters in Sudbury and Glemsford employing many people. In 1840 there were no less than four silk weaving factories in Sudbury employing about 500 people, which increased to over 850 by 1851. During the latter half of the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, new businesses continued to be attracted to Sudbury. The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Co. Limited was established in 1903 and in 1925 opened a newly built factory in Chilton. During the 1920s, Anderson & Robertson Limited were silk throwsters in Glemsford. Other well-known silk manufacturers were Daniel Walters & Sons in North Street (also at Braintree), Stephen Walters & Sons in Acton Square and Vanners at Glemsford. In 1971 Richard Humphries re-assembled some old hand looms in Sudbury and in 1975 moved them to a former school at Castle Hedingham. The Humphries Weaving Company operated the De Vere Mill for some years and was one of the last handloom silk weavers in the country. He also operated in the Courtauld’s Mill at the Causeway, Halstead 1961 27 Halstead Cottage Hospital built by George Courtauld in 1884 Homes of Rest at Earls Colne built by Reuben Hunt Bocking Village Hall, built by Samuel Augustine Courtauld restored Warner Mills in Braintree before returning to Sudbury Silk Mills in 2004 where production continues.

Industrial Housing

Some of the industrialists referred to in this and the two previous articles, built houses for their employees. The most outstanding architecturally were built by Samuel Courtauld & Co., and by various members of the Courtauld family at Halstead, Gosfield, Bocking, Braintree, Blackmore End, High Garrett, Penny Pot, Colne Engaine, Wakes Colne and one farmhouse at Sible Hedingham. These were built in various styles from the 1850s to the 1950s. Some of the earliest cottages were built by Samuel Courtauld in Gosfield and High Garrett. He also built Gosfield Primary School in 1858 and the Reading Room. The five pairs of cottages in Church Street, Bocking and the sixteen three-storey dwellings in Factory Terrace, Halstead were designed by John Birch, an architect, who specialised in country cottages and built in 1872. They were followed in 1883 by a row of twelve two storey houses in the Causeway, Halstead designed in Queen Anne style by George Sherrin. He was also the architect for the Workmen’s Hall in Bocking and Halstead Cottage Hospital built by George Courtauld in 1884. During the 1920s and 1930s over fifty houses were built by Samuel Augustine Courtauld in Halstead, with more in Blackmore End. They were designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Coldwell, Coldwell and Courtauld, architects, who also prepared plans for houses built by other members of the family. Almshouses for retired employees such as twenty Courtauld Homes of Rest, Hedingham Road, Halstead, were built by Samuel Augustine Courtauld in 1923. He also built the Village Halls at Bocking and Blackmore End and Katherine Mina Courtauld built the Village Hall at Colne Engaine.

In Earls Colne, Reuben Hunt of R. Hunt & Co., agricultural engineers’ built a significant number of houses for employees between 1872 and 1911, including almshouses for retired workers. These are found in Halstead Road, Hayhouse Road, Foundry Lane, Burrows Road and York Road. He also built houses in Brook Road and other locations in Great Tey from 1895 to 1910. The Hunt family, like the Courtauld family, also erected a number of community buildings.

At Marks Tey, W. H. Collier Limited, brick-makers, built four houses and a bungalow in Church Lane for employees. Similarly in Sible Hedingham, Mark Gentry, another brickmaker, built twelve houses in Wethersfield Road for his employees during 1886 and 1887. In 1890 he built four houses in Nunnery Street, Castle Hedingham. All these houses contain some fine ornamental brickwork.

During the inter war period, Rippers Limited, joinery manufacturers built fourteen wooden bungalows in 1920-21, which were demolished in the 1970s, followed by 94 semi-detached houses between 1924 and 1928, located in Swan Street, Brook Terrace, Crosspath, Station Road and Yeldham Road.

Examples of dwellings associated with public utilities are a house in Colneford Hill, White Colne built in 1864 for the manager of the former Earls Colne Gas Light and Coke Company and two pairs of houses by the former Halstead Rural District Council at the Drawwell, Great Yeldham for employees of the water pumping station.

Local Heritage Lists

A few of the industrial buildings and houses mentioned in this and the two previous articles are already on the National Historic List for England register of listed buildings and hence have statutory protection. Many other buildings are in Conservation Areas and/ or included on Local Heritage Lists. In 2015 the author was elected onto the Braintree District Local Heritage List Panel, which initially considered all buildings associated with the Courtauld companies and family in the district. The Panel made recommendations to the Planning Committee of Braintree District Council and as a result the majority of Courtauld buildings in the district have been included on the Local Heritage List. ‘Local Heritage Listing is a means for a community and a local planning authority to identify heritage assets that are valued as distinctive elements of the local historic environment. It provides clarity on the location of assets and what it is about them that is significant, helping to ensure that strategic local planning properly takes account of the desirability of their conservation’. Upon the application of the author, Colchester Borough Council has since included on its Local Heritage List some of the farm workers cottages built by Dr. Richard Minton Courtauld in Crepping Hall Road, Wakes Colne during the 1930s. The Local Heritage Lists in the Braintree District and Colchester Borough Council areas continue to consider industrial and other buildings of architectural and/or historic importance to provide some protection for our heritage. Commemorating our industrial heritage During the last couple of decades, architects and planners have become increasingly aware of the importance of our rich industrial heritage. This has occurred where surviving buildings have been incorporated into developments particularly in Halstead and Earls Colne. In addition artwork, with local industrial connections, has been included in developments at Earls Colne, Halstead and Sible Hedingham.

Adrian Corder-Birch is a founder member and Vice Chairman of Essex industrial Archaeology Group, which is a sub group of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History of which he is the Immediate Past 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 Clerk to the Trustees of the Courtauld Homes of Rest since 2004. He is Patron of Halstead and District Local History Society and a member of Hedingham Heritage Society. 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 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 £2.95 p&p. Cheques in English pounds sterling payable to: Adrian Corder-Birch. Any enquiries to: adrian@corder-birch.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. 

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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
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Some more aspects of our Industrial Heritage
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Year: 2018
An Earl’s Tower
Category: Architectural Interest, History
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A Castle Reborn
Category: Architectural Interest, History
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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
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Year: 2018
Garden Visits
Category: Gardens, History
Year: 2018
Treasurer’s Report
Category: Treasurer’s Report
Year: 2018
New Constitution
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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
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Some aspects of our Industrial Heritage
Category: History
Year: 2017
Paycocke’s House: a witness to history
Category: Explore Colne Stour, History
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The House of his Dreams: Reimagining The Munnings Art Museum
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‘The Haunted House’ of Lamarsh – Some Early Reflections
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Gainsborough’s House: Celebrating the Past and Looking to the Future
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Another, highly unusual, Suffolk Success Story
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Garden Visits 2017
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Dirty Little Secret
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Website
Category: News
Year: 2017
Editor’s Notes
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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

 

 

 

Courtauld Homes of Rest, built by Samuel Augustine Courtauld in Hedingham Road, Halstead in 1923

 

Courtauld’s Mill at the Causeway, Halstead 1961

 

Halstead Cottage Hospital built by George Courtauld in 1884

 

Homes of Rest at Earls Colne built by Reuben Hunt

Bocking Village Hall built by Samuel Augustine Courtauld

 

The Silk Mill at Glemsford

 

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