Monthly Archives: Feb 2022

By Andy Gee On 20 July 2019 I was awarded British Canoeing’s (BC) Community Champion Award on the back of our litter picks. After BC’s challenge in July 2019 Stuart & I decided to go after removing Floating Pennywort (FPW) from the River Stort. Peter & Helen Nash (Whoosh Principals) kindly sponsored the Project withContinue reading “Floating Pennywort and taking care of our Stort”

by Brian Field The machine is coming! We will feel the love when we meet with candles in hand but the bulldozers are coming to bury our feelings and soon our cries will go silent. Our hearts and the beauty have little value to the economic rewards from the development. This machine has rode overContinue reading “The Machine”

by Neil Warner-Baker The proposed route for The Stort Crossing is steeped in archeology and history. Here follows a brief snap shot. The Stort Valley was formed during the Glacial Maximum and The Stort is where the Ice Age stopped. Like a tide, huge deposits of clay silt, chalk and other aggregates were deposited onContinue reading “Harlow’s Rich Past”

Originally posted on The Heritage Journal:
‘They’ say that our past is all around us, if only we know where to look. Well, out on a Bank Holiday drive earlier this week, I wasn’t looking but stumbled over it anyway. I knew that there were Roman remains in Harlow, Essex but Roman is not really…

“The River” by Bruce Springsteen modified by Nicholas Cox I come from down in HarlowWhere, mister, when you’re youngThey bring you up to do like your daddy doneMe and Mary we met in The MoorhenWhen she was over eighteenWe walk along the towpathDown to where the fields were greenWe’d go down to the riverAnd intoContinue reading ““The River” by Bruce Springsteen”

by Julie Taylor After a long silence news has just arrived detailing the new dates for both council’s Planning Development Meetings to consider the applications to erect a new road and crossing 3/19/1051/FUL. Widening of the current road 3/19/1046/FUL. East Herts Development Management Committee – 22nd February 2022, commencing at 5.30pm and being held at The Council Chamber, Wallfields,Continue reading “New Meeting Dates”