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Rebel with a cause

Environmental campaigner Rosie Pearson

Rosie Pearson is a fearless and tireless environmental campaigner for the beautiful North Essex countryside, its rivers, and its wildlife. An Essex girl born-and-bred, she has looked on with horror as huge tracts of the green landscape she knew and loved as a child disappear under concrete. However, she is hopeful that perhaps the tide is turning as the world begins to focus on preserving green spaces, restoring habitats, protecting ecosystems, replanting lost forests, and giving wildlife a chance. 

For many years Rosie dreamt of creating a North Essex Woodland Corridor and now she and another Colne-Stour member, Tim Came, are part of a group talking to farmers about joining together to make this concept a reality.

“The aim is to create a wild corridor throughout this area because connected habitats are essential for wildlife to flourish.”

  Already, around fifteen landowners between Wethersfield and Coggeshall have expressed interest. There is also an opportunity to link the unusually wooded hilltops between Coggeshall and Gosfield, and onwards towards Wethersfield, where three hundred acres has been purchased for rewilding by a company called Ground Control.

 

Rosie recently met up with inspirational environmentalist Mike Wadham who is spearheading a project known as The Big Green Internet to connect all the woodlands from Epping Forest to the North Sea. The target is to plant one hundred miles of tree corridors and half a million hedgerow whips over the next ten years. Included in the hedgerows will be heritage Essex apple and pear trees, and pollarded boundary oaks. 

“It was really exciting to meet Mike – his enthusiasm is infectious” says Rosie.  “He has council backing and he’s just getting on with it. In this area he is planting twenty-two thousand trees in hedgerows on a farm in Great Maplestead and virtually no land is being taken out of food production.  Mike hopes to connect this scheme to Grays Farm, adjacent to the old Wethersfield Airfield.”

Wethersfield Airfield is now in the process of being sold by the Ministry of Defence and a battle looms over its future. The site was not considered suitable for housing by Braintree District Council in 2016, but there was no public consultation at the time as to what should happen to it. One only has to look at the old airfield Tempelhofer park in Berlin, with its old runways full of happy roller-skaters, and cyclists, and its green spaces full of dog walkers, picnickers and community gardens to see  what could be possible. Indeed, local people have come up with a range of ideas that could bring jobs and tourism to the area if the airfield had wildlife walks, a visitor centre, cycle trails, horse riding trails, and a training centre for people working with nature,  Now, however, there are plans for it to become the site of two mega-prisons capable of housing three thousand five hundred inmates.

“This make will make them the two largest prisons in Europe!” 

Wethersfield Airfield

“The prisons proposed will be in open countryside where there is no infrastructure,” says Rosie. “The roads are narrow and pass through the historic villages of Finchingfield, Wethersfield and Sible Hedingham. Locals are understandably concerned about the construction traffic and traffic when the prison is up and running. The prison buildings themselves will be up to seventeen metres high, and therefore visible from a great distance, day and night, in this beautiful rural area – with its dark night skies.”

 

“The plan presented to the Ministry of Justice fails to mention the hundreds of species of birds, plants and invertebrates on the site, many rare or protected.  The habitat is ‘open mosaic’ – the best kind of undisturbed habitat on previously used land, and is home to rare grasses and orchids. The plan does not mention the extraordinary heritage – the presence of the last remaining Cold War ‘Victor Alert’ station in Europe, a possible Roman Road, and the site of a Norman farm house. It is also one of the top twenty-five scoring airfields in a survey of four hundred carried out by Historic England – it probably should be listed.  Nor does it talk about the cultural heritage of the area. Eric Ravilious lived in a house that looked up towards the hill where the prisons will be situated and indeed the whole area was much loved by the Great Bardfield artists.”

There is scope for rewilding the whole eight hundred hectare site and Rosie knows of two bidders who have already expressed interest in buying it, but cannot move forward due to the prisons. Rosie has joined a campaign group called Stop Wethersfield Airfield Prisons (SWAP) and has written to Dominic Raab to alert him to the fact that Ministry of Justice public consultation principles were breached, that the Ministry of Justice is ignoring its own guidelines for the location of prisons, and that the proposal is contrary to planning policies by affecting habitats, species and heritage.

“The MoJ’s guidelines state that a prison should be near jobs, homes, families and crime and have good access roads. This site is none of those things.”

“I know we need more prisons and more affordable housing in the UK and I am not against development per se. However I am driven by an inner sense of outrage and sadness whenever unnecessary or poorly thought-through proposals threaten our countryside and wildlife. My sense of justice also means that if something is done badly by the planning system, I can’t help but try to change it.  I always try to propose a better alternative when I oppose a scheme.” 

Indeed Rosie and a team of campaigners worked hard to engage with and suggest alternatives to council plans to build a huge ‘garden community’ called West Tey. 

“Perhaps fortuitously, the West Tey proposal reared its head in 2010 when I was at home with small children and unable to work”, says Rosie. “Petra Ward, a stalwart CPRE and Colne-Stour campaigner and family friend, approached me about a campaign group to oppose these plans so we set up CAUSE – Campaign Against Urban Sprawl (in) Essex. 

Proposed Site of West Tey

“West Tey really was a monster of a proposal.”  

“At one point it grew to twenty-eight thousand homes – there was another so-called ‘garden community’ to the west of Braintree and one of up to nine thousand homes east of Colchester.  They were sold to us by government, and the four councils behind them, as a solution to all of our housing needs. In fact, they were fraught with problems, and would not have resulted in affordable homes.”

CAUSE took its case to a planning inspector in 2018 and won. West Tey and West of Braintree were then rejected a second time in 2020.  

“The East Colchester proposal just scraped through the system. Sadly, all the early ideals are long gone. Instead of a visionary, new way of doing things to reduce car use, such as cycle lanes, and trams, it will be served by a dual carriageway. I am afraid that the end result will be no different from the soulless car-dependent housing estates now springing up at Tollgate, and the costs are already spiralling, just as we warned.”

Indeed, the costs to the tax payer during the planning and inspection phase were eye-watering. CAUSE managed to raise £120k in order to pay for experienced consultants to present alongside them at the various hearings, whilst Rosie and the CAUSE volunteers put in six years of unpaid work. The councils on the other hand have spent £8 million on consultants. At every stage CAUSE tried to engage with the councils and bring positive solutions, but felt that they were brushed aside. 

“The councils did everything they could to discredit our green Metro Plan alternative, so it was a great coup that the inspector recognized it as a valid scheme.” 

“It was so frustrating – we tried to involve the whole community by holding two conferences that explored what good development looked like,” says Rosie. “I even flew out to Freiburg in Germany with my children to see what the exemplar urban design projects are really like, and visited Poundbury and Ebbsfleet Garden City. We had an informed view, but we were ignored at every opportunity. The campaign became antagonistic and we had no choice but to fight.”

In the process of campaigning Rosie made many connections and alliances,  including lots of useful contacts via Twitter.  

“It was clear to all of us that the planning system is very broken and that groups all over the country are fighting the same battles.” 

So in April 2021 she co-founded the Community Planning Alliance, which now lists nearly six hundred community groups on its UK campaign map. The CPA, led by Rosie,  has been mentioned many times in the national press and also in planning publications. It has a Facebook group, and is fast approaching 2,000 members. It has already submitted responses to national consultations and inquiries, mostly written by Rosie with input from the other committee members. “We are united by our desire to protect the environment and promote grassroots planning” says Rosie. It was no surprise to many therefore that on International Women’s Day in March this year Rosie was nominated by readers of The Planner magazine as one of their 2022 women of influence. 

Recently the CPA has been drawing attention to the government housing target which seem to give as much weight to detached five bedroom high end housing as it does to affordable, eco or brownfield housing. Rosie has also been drawing people’s attention to a recent CPRE report “Beauty still betrayed – the state of our AONBs.” In the report Crispin Truman, CPRE chief executive, writes: “The fact that some of our most highly-prized areas of countryside are being lost to build more executive homes says a great deal about our planning system. Continuing with this ‘build and be damned’ approach just serves to line the pockets of greedy developers….doing next to nothing to tackle the affordable housing crisis. Rural communities are crying out for well-designed, quality and genuinely affordable homes in the right places. We know this kind of development is possible. To start building the right nature-friendly and low-carbon homes in the right places, we must see a swift change of tack from the government to put nature and countryside communities at the heart of any future Planning Bill.”

Rosie’s enthusiasm and drive, and the way in which she backs up all of her thinking with rigorous research and analysis is impressive. She regularly publishes articles on her LinkedIn page, tackling meaty environmental issues affecting the local area such as the recently announced ’30-year Transport Strategy for the East, and the rush of planning applications for vast solar farms. She is regularly asked to contribute to Press and TV coverage of local planning issues and has a growing number of followers on social media. Whilst she has been surprised by some of the hostile reactions towards her efforts by council members, it has not put her off standing up for what she believes is right.

“Our precious countryside and wildlife cannot defend itself – it needs all the help it can get.”

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You can follow Rosie and keep up with the campaigns as follows:

Twitter @RosieP4 

Rosie Pearson | LinkedIn 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-pearson-6a13784/

North Essex Wildlife Corridor 

rosiefarmclusters@mail.com

Rosie is Chairman of The Community Planning Alliance

www.communityplanningalliance.org.

@communityplann1

Community Planning Alliance: the grassroots group | Facebook

The Big Green Internet

https://www.thebiggreeninternet.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
Year: 2022
EA Festival at Hedingham Castle
Category: Culture
Year: 2022
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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