Borough Green history blog

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Found this on the web, lots of photographs and information on our neighbouring 'big' village of Borough Green.

Fairseat Folk Dance Society (F.F.D.S.)

http://hartleymorrismen.btck.co.uk/StanstedMorrisMen

Just found a great site with some really nice history on the Fairseat Folk Dance Society (F.F.D.S.), which came into being in the Summer of 1934. Click the line above to be taken to the page.

Winter storms of 2013/14 damage - tree clearance on Malthouse Road

Quite a few large and small trees came down during the wet winter of 13/14 - the wettest on records since records began. Many were conifers. Click the link below to see a video of the clearance of several huge conifers which came down at The Malt House, Malthouse Road, completely blocking the road for quite a few days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNW2SqdjCS8

Time lapse photography looking towards Hodsall Street

The View Project - A photograph (nearly) every day for a year, looking towards Hodsall Street. If you have 8 minutes of your time to waste, watch my not very expertly done changing seasons time lapse of 2013. Warning: it's boring, not a lot happens. Highlights are tractors, and the poo pit removal man!

Stansted Church in the snow.

Google+ is a strange thing. It has done this (click link below) to one of my photos. I never intentionally gave it the photo, nor asked it to make it snow, but look what it has done - it's really rather lovely!

Stansted church in the snow.

1842 apportionment of the rent-charge in lieu of tithes in the Parish of Stansted.

Click link below to find apportionment of the rent-charge in lieu of tithes in the Parish of Stansted. Received by the Tithe Commissioners 27th September, 1842. Lots of historical names and information. This has been put up by Frank Bamping of West Kingsdown 1.4.2004.
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Maps/STS/02.htm

The Old Malt House, Malthouse Road, Stansted

I passed The Old Malt House (over on Malthouse Road, Stansted) today and the removal vans are there, so it seems a new owner is about to move in. A few weeks ago I bumped into the man who had lived there for 32 years with his wife and family (or it could have been 38). He told me a little history of the House. When they bought it, it comprised of about five or six cottages. They converted the end two into a separate house (Malthouse Cottage) and sold that. They knocked the remaining cottages into the one house which is there today. He had done a lot of research on the house and previously it was some kind of rooming house where unmarried people would drive out from London to spend a dirty weekend - I bet the walls could tell a few stories! It was also known in times gone by as Pad----- Farm (sorry but I've forgotten exactly what he said…).

These were a few of the particulars of the house on the Estate Agent's website.
The Old Malt House has numerous attractions for those seeking a rural lifestyle in a property of outstanding character. This attached property is Grade II listed and features a thatched roof and numerous exposed beams and timbers. There are 4 characterful bedrooms and two bathrooms on the first floor, whilst the ground floor provides the superb living room and kitchen breakfast room. The beautiful gardens are an outstanding feature of the property, extending to almost an acre and including a former tennis court. There is also a triple garage with play room above and further woods and fields may also be available.