Author: Theo van de Bilt

World War 1

15 June 2024 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Sawbridgeworth Events and Places

15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Sawbridgeworth People

15 June 2024 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Pubs and Cafes

15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Articles Pubs and Cafes

15 June 2024 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Pubs and Cafes

15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Churches

15 June 2024 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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Sawbridgeworth People

26 July 2023 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

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World War 2

28 August 2021 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Stan Kempthorne was an inhabitant of High Wych who spent some time in a prisoner of war camp during World War Two.

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Parish Magazines and Town Guides

1 July 2021 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Theo van de Bilt has written a new article on The Banner of Faith which contained the parish magazine of Great St Mary's church.

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Articles Sawbridgeworth People

2 June 2021 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Theo van de Bilt has been researching people of colour living in the Sawbridgeworth area in the past and he found George Ottea who worked as a butler at Terlings Park in Gilston. He was working there in 1891 according to the census.

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World War 2

4 October 2020 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

By Theo van de Bilt October 10th marks the 80th anniversary of the bomb that caused damage and death on Cambridge Road

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Parish Magazines and Town Guides

2 October 2020 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Scanned from Sawbridgeworth Parish Magazine 1960 to 1976

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Sawbridgeworth Events and Places

1 September 2020 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Our latest article is about the fire on the corner of London Road and Hoestock Road in 1905. It was reported nationally in the Daily Mirror.

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World War 2

6 June 2020 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

People were living in the old airfield buildings until the late 1950s. This is their story.

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Sawbridgeworth Events and Places

6 June 2020 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Many people will remember this building before it closed in 1953.

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Sawbridgeworth People

15 April 2020 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

John Wright and his Sawbridgeworth Fire Brigade website.

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Articles Churches

4 March 2020 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

An article by this name was written by Herbert C Andrews in 1929. It was found a few years ago in a cabinet at Sawbridgeworth library. It gives some extremely […]

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Pubs and Cafes

30 November 2019 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

The above picture shows London Road in 1951 with on the right a sign advertising the Cosy Cafe, also known as the Cosy Rosy. To read the full article go […]

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World War 2

14 October 2019 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

Here come the Mosquitos - 2nd Walter Lawrence article published

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Sawbridgeworth People

17 September 2019 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

An article about the celebration of Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in Sawbridgeworth. 

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News

17 July 2019 / 14 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

On Monday 15th July some SLHS members paid a visit to HALS, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Services and were given a tour of the premises. We saw some very old […]

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World War 2

29 April 2019 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

The name of Walter Lawrence brings back many memories to people in East Hertfordshire. Indeed from 1907 to 1982 a factory with that name stood at the Stort riverside and […]

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World War 2

26 July 2018 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

His Majesty’s Motor Launch 146 which was financed through contributions from the Sawbridgeworth population in the first years of the Second World War. 

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Sawbridgeworth People

14 May 2018 / 15 June 2024 by Theo van de Bilt

There is a new article concerning the Clements family and how two young boys travelled from the Bishop’s Stortford Poorhouse all the way to Canada where they built up a […]

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