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THE STELLENBOSCH WINE ROUTE – THE PEOPLE AND THE DOGS!

Vineyard in the beautiful mountains of Stellenbosch.

Heralded as the world’s first official “wine route” way back in 1975, this picturesque coastal wine region sprawled around the second oldest city in South Africa, has continued to dominate wine competitions and awards both International and local, with a steady stream of almost legendary, award winning wines.

Recent history tells us that three close friends, luminaries, and as it turns out, all visionaries got together and started the Stellenbosch Wine Route:

Spatz Sperling of Delheim, Oom Neil Joubert of Spier and Frans Malan of Simonsig and so initially there were just 3 estate wineries, that all grew the grapes, made and bottled their wines on the estate, with special tasting facilities to receive guests and present tastings and stories and not a few late night parties and the Wine Route grew from this humble start.

I recall many fond memories of going to visit Oom Neil at Spier. One seemingly couldn’t arrive and not stay for the next meal of the day, so an early call and morning coffee, extended to a walk through the cellars and tasting the new bottling. This was invariably followed by lunch and, yes, wine tasting and more wine tastings and if you weren’t careful it became dinner and wine tastings! But it didn’t end here, this could go on and then later in the evening from the little cellar under the staircase in the house out to the dusty cellar in the old barn, and here Oom Neil would wisely counsel that one’s body “actually provided the services of filtration, therefore if it spent all night working on filtering young, tannic wines, one would undoubtedly wake up tired!” Hence after midnight we never drank a drop that wasn’t at least 10 years old! He had some fine dogs, huge beasts that lay about, seemingly unaware, but frequently one would notice just one half interested eye observing the late night goings on and their tails were lethal! They could knock a glass off a table effortlessly, a most dangerous sort of canine indeed.

These stories of wine tasting experiences in Stellenbosch abound and are oft recounted amongst friends of old. One of our living legends, a Springbok rugby player, before the game became professional, one Jan Boland Coetzee, is often in the middle of these old stories. Only a few people can attest to ever having seen him in shoes, unless they were rugby boots. He speaks with the broadest Northern Cape accent, in fact to an untrained ear he sounds almost Welsh, (even early on any given day, that is to say before any “tasting”) a true Western Province rugby hero and Springbok rugby legend. Not to forget another such legend, Hempies Du Toit, with his own estate Annandale, dating back to 1688. Enough of the bulky forwards let’s move to the back line, that remarkable wing Jannie Engelbrecht who scored 2 tries with a broken collarbone to beat an opposition team and win the series for The Western Province. Ah yes those were the days, no substitutions, you played a full game, for the full duration and it was glorious, often muddy, always hard, running rugby. However I digress – there are plenty more legends, lots of their dogs to meet and loads of new wineries. Today the Stellenbosch Wine Route boasts over 190 members and, amongst our members, we are proud to have stalwarts and pioneers, from the early days, the likes of the Myburghs of Meerlust, Billy and Ursula Hofmeyr at Welgemeend with the Cape’s first Bordeaux blend, Gyles and Barbara Webb, of Thelema, she now almost 30 years later, still a top marathon runner having just completed the polar marathon! From Politics of the day, Paul Sauer and the Krige’s of Kanonkop, with their fine bevy of dogs. Hidden up in Ida’s Valley, underneath the Hell’s Hoogte pass another legendary Cape Estate and historic cattle stud Rustenberg, just now again transitioning from one generation to another, with young Murray Barlow having just been crowned “Young Winemaker of the Year!” The early export pioneer Rust en Vrede, The First Lady of Cape winemaking Norma Ratcliffe and Warwick, Stan, her husband and a man of uncommon common sense always kept some fine canines, and the property is now headed by son and CEO Michael, a major mover and shaker, auctioneer and public speaker. There were others that played a role before the next wave, The likes of Vergelegen, and then also Boschendal the jewels in the crown of mining giant Anglo American and adjacent, almost in silence, the demure, super consistent, stylish Morgenster, owned by one of the finest gentlemen in the business, Julio Bertrand. He too keeps a fine hound. And so the industry grew and grew and local Bosch boy, who did really well in Johannesburg in the banking sector, GT Ferreira with his ever so statement like Tokara, perched at the top of the Hells Hoogte, like a beacon and another Johannesburg mogul, Jeremy Ord a technology giant established Waterford with the aid of Kevin Arnold, who is also known for some fine hounds, large Rhodesian Ridgebacks and the like. Dare I say we launched Ken Forrester wines in this era, the early 90s, a new political dispensation, with Mr Mandela as President and South Africa had seemingly managed a miracle transition, investments were flowing and confidence returned under the guidance of President Mandela. We saw the multi- million rand development and establishment of Kleine Zalze, complete with immaculate De Zalze housing estate and magnificent 18 hole golf course, with the multiple award winning Kleine Zalze wines, closely followed by Camberley and then Clouds, both at the top of Helshoogte and then Ernie Els cellar standing as a sentinel on the Helderberg. At about the same time Murray Boustred, also ex Johannesburg, started Remhoogte on the slopes of the Simonsberg and filled the tasting room with some of the finest work of local taxidermists, trophies of every wild beast that ever roamed the African plains, lovingly stalked and hunted by Murray, a great African Bwana.

 

Tasting room overlooking Helderberg Mountain.

 

Of late, a new flurry, Delaire-Graff, destined to be one of the great wineries of the world, a newcomer that raised the bar seemingly forever now already almost 5 years old. This multi award winning winery, exquisite boutique hotel, fine restaurants and lush gardens to rival perhaps even Babylon is a must see, the views, the architecture, in a class of its own! Now with foreign interests renewed, French wine nobility, the Madame May de Lanquesang from Chateau Pichon Lalande, came and established a magnificent property, an amphitheatre of vineyards and a massive, modern gravity assisted cellar. Glenelly wines are certainly worth seeking out. She was followed by local nobility, South Africa’s richest woman, Wendy Appelbaum, and her husband Hylton at De Morgenzon; horse breeder property magnate, insurance heiress and tireless crusader for the underdog (that reminds me I digress, there are still many dogs to introduce you to, she in fact keeps a pair of fearless Jack Russells, and a secret cat, but that’s another story. . .).

Since then, more recently there’s been a slow but steady flow of new investment to Stellenbosch and the winelands, notably Michael Jordaan, outgoing CEO of First National Bank and businessman of the year 2013, and his vivacious wife Rose, a very clever architect in her own right, settled back in the home he was brought up in, high on Bothmaskop overlooking the Simonsberg after he clinched a deal to buy it back! Meanwhile in the valley below International businessman Adriaan Van Der Spuy revived a beautiful old vineyard, Oldenburg, a very fine location and some great wines already. Closer to the town of Stellenbosch in Devon Valley, a Belgian Industrialist Fons Aaldering has revived an old vineyard to establish his eponymous label, Aaldering. Another property development guru, Tom Breytenbach, and his wife have recently joined the industry and stepped in to rescue and revive another old vineyard, now called Brenaissance, complete with cattle stud and winery as well as what has fast become the home of pizza local! And so the beat goes on, Swartland is having its own revival with an eager young bunch of “terrorists”, making wonderful wines and cleverly capturing the imagination of the press. Both local and foreign journalists flock to the annual “revolution” and a host of small volume, quirky wines that are often snapped up within weeks of coming to market.

Remarkably Stellenbosch still however garners the lion’s share of all the awards medals and competitions, with just on 12,000 ha of vineyard, representing approx 10% of the national vineyard. Stellenbosch manages almost 70% of all the awards and certainly some of the very best names in the business. The area is remarkably complex, too wide really to be one single definition and to this end it has evolved from one to five separate routes, governed (rather practically) by their road access, to allow visitors to understand each sub route and make navigating easy. The five routes are Bottelary on the North West, Simonsberg in the North, Stellenbosch “berg” to the East, the Helderberg to the South and Stellenbosch Hills to the East.

Truly a remarkably broad area that really needs closer definition, if one considers that it runs from Villiera in the North West to Hellshoogte in the East, to the Hottentots Holland mountains and Journeys End in the South, all the way to Faure and Meerlust in the west; a vast, complex and varied topography, with a myriad soil types and multiple opportunities for varied and specialised viticulture. This complexity has the possibility to yield awesome deep rich Cabernet, wonderful, spicy Syrah, full rich buttery Chardonnay, some exceptional coastal Chenin and uniquely expressive Bordeaux styled blends that have placed Meerlust and Kanonkop firmly on “first growth” footing. Although one UK pundit would have it, that one only needs to have made one vintage and that from grapes purchased from someone else’s vineyard, in order to be elevated to First Growth status, but again I digress. Now where was I, ah yes I must introduce you to the vineyard dogs!

One of the most famous was a resident mutt, on the original Mulderbosch Farm before it moved, yes surely that’s easy enough to understand – why shouldn’t a farm be able to move? Just look at an old map and compare a recent one! however that’s entirely another story for another day, as I was saying. . . the farm needed considerable clearing, planting and development when Larry Jacobs and Mike Dobrovic set about crafting their first Mulderbosch Sauvignon Blanc and this faithful mutt would follow Mike through the vineyards all day and eventually take a nap under an elevated shady tree and then follow Mike home, but never actually came that close. He maintained a distance, but then as far as Mike is concerned one can understand that! succumbed to snakebite, named from an early Tom Waits song. The dog was called “small change” and today a very special Chenin Blanc is presented in a tin with a coin slot to collect your small change!

 

Ken with his dogs.

Today he has been immortalised on the Faithful Hound label a delightful Bordeaux style blend, crafted by Mike in honour of the mutt, but Mike had a soft spot and he made one more contribution to the canine wall of memory, he immortalised a fearless Jack Russell who succumbed to snakebite, named from an early Tom Waits song. The dog was called “small change” and today a very special Chenin Blanc is presented in a tin with a coin slot to collect your small change!

Beyers Truter, who famously fifteen years after we had first met, once asked my brother how long he had known me?! Now Beyers is the, did I say THE Pinotage man, from a solid grounding and years at Kanonkop he realised his dreams at Beyerskloof and his Flagship wine is named for a faithful hound called “Diesel”, certainly a brave name for a Pinotage!

The hounds of Stellenbosch abound and we too are not immune at the Forrester household. We seemingly have a season ticket to the local SPCA/Animal Welfare shelter and currently have 7 mutts, 4 German Shepherd types (approx.) and 3 long-legged Jack Russell’s; life is seldom dull, I can assure you.

So when next in the “Cape of Good Hope,” as King John of Portugal would have had it in the 14th century, do come and meet some of the old dogs, the rugby legends, the new dogs, the big city moguls, the imports and some great local strays. There be great wine, great stories and great people too, here in Stellenbosch at the very heart of the South African wine industry.

Ken Forrester

Ken is the leading light and owner of Forrester Vineyards, Stellenbosch, which he has built up over the last 21 years. He, with his wine maker, produce some outstanding wines such as FMC, an iconic Chenin, full and rich. The Gypsy, a wine made with predominantly Grenache, with some Shiraz, matured in oak for 24 months. These are very special wines but there are others for everyday drinking, try Workhorse in M&S. He is also one of the founding shareholders of a first rate restaurant close to his Vineyard called 96 Winery Road.

 

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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