Heritage

Thorley Scouts are 65 years old this year – and their leadership team have thought outside the box to find ways to celebrate.

The classic K6 kiosk was adopted by Sawbridgeworth Town Council and repurposed as a tourist information point before being vandalised.

Pishiobury Park friends group chairman Bob Reed revealed an application for Local Nature Reserve status had been made in 2013.

It's 80 years since a bomb from a German plane killed two women and three children by destroying four houses in Sawbridgeworth.

Residents are usually invited to help pick apples at the historic orchard, but due to coronavirus restrictions that was not possible.

The project to replace vital working parts on top of Stansted's windmill has been completed with grant support from Uttlesford District Council.

The event was part of the National Trust’s Heritage Open Day and the Friends of Castle Park opened the gates to the castle mound.

Sunday's event in the heart of Bishop's Stortford is part of the National Trust’s Heritage Open Day.

Stortford Against Rhodes campaigners warn: "We must never forget the crimes of the ideologies of Cecil Rhodes."

Sawbridgeworth residents are being urged to decorate their homes and raise a toast on their doorsteps.

Daring duo drew a crowd as they returned old cockerel atop Tudor tower of 13th-century Great St Mary's after it had snapped in a storm.

The venue will be known as South Mill Arts from August 24, severing an 82-year-old link with controversial colonialist Cecil Rhodes.

The historic building, built in 1897, was used as stables for the Victorian colonialist and former prime minister of the Cape Colony's horses.

English Heritage is introducing arrival time slots, which must be booked in advance, and limiting visitor numbers by about a third.

Glaswegian-born Stortford father of three one of more than 1,000 bagpipe enthusiasts in 28 countries assembled for special commemorative performance.

Margaret Clift's daughter Esme Willcocks said: "I bet there's not many pictures left like this in the world. It made us all feel very nostalgic."

The golden memory of Thorley Park woman Beryl Bartlett as a nine-year-old girl on May 8, 1945, is a street party with pony rides.

Lifelong Bishop's Stortford resident Sandra Hayden, who was five on VE Day, shares her memories of wartime and the London Victory Celebrations of 1946

Royal British Legion branch chairman Denise Hudson visited Elmhurst care home before the lockdown to learn more about residents' experiences.

Lance Corporal James Heath's service on the battlefields of France, Belgium and Holland could not prepare him for the horrors of the Holocaust.