Recreation Ground Deed of Trust

On the 21st December 1925 the land known as Little Field was sold to the Trustees by the Rev Robert Doble, acting for the Church, to be held in trust for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Great Chesterford as a recreation ground. It was signed by all the...

Col. Wentworth Stanley Photograph

A framed photograph of Alan Sidney Wentworth Stanley taken in c.1885. Colonel Stanley lived in Chesterford House at the top of the High Street with his Australian wife Lilian. The brown wooden frame measures 48cm x 62cm, and the photograph 28cm x 23cm. For more...

Horticultural Society Annual Flower Show Brochure 1927

Brochure and entry form for the Great Chesterford Horticultural Society’s Annual Flower Show which was held on Thursday July 14th 1927 in the grounds of Chesterford House by kind permission of Col. and Mrs A.W. Stanley. The Society was founded in 1883. The first...

Fire Brigade Drill Book 1902

National Fire Brigade Union Drill Book from 1902 used by the Chesterford Fire Brigade until it was disbanded in 1955. The inside front cover has a list of names of the fire crew in 1904 when Colonel Stanley was 1st Officer, and the inside back cover from 1931-1955...