
PLANS have been unveiled by Harlow Council for a new café and the future extension of education provision and exhibition space at Harlow Museum & Walled Gardens. The plans have been submitted to the council’s planning team. Once the application has been validated, public consultation…

HISTORIC England has revealed its Heritage at Risk Register 2023. The Register gives an annual snapshot of the health of England’s valued historic buildings and places. Over the past year, 31 historic buildings and sites have been added to the Register in the East of…

By Helen Miller STUNNING new statues of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, which were sculpted just a few miles from Harlow, have been unveiled at the Royal Albert Hall in London by their son King Charles and Queen Camilla. The King looked…

THE chaplaincy team were joined at the main hospital site on Saturday 11 November by members of the executive team, the Patient Panel, and a local war veteran to mark Armistice Day. A two minute silence was observed at 11am and wreaths were laid by Ann Nutt, chair of the…

LOCAL researcher and teacher, Jake Shepherd, will be representing Harlow at the New Towns All-Party Parliamentary Group’s Conference on Friday the 17th of November, in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Jake’s appearance follows from a successful virtual guest lecture at the University of Liverpool in 2021 as well as…

HUNDREDS gathered in the pouring rain to pay their respects to all those who had fallen in the conflicts around the world. The service was held at Netteswell Cross in the heart of the town park. Conducted by Reverend Albert Watson, the theme was one…

THE POTTER Street community gathered together on Armistice Day to remember those who had fallen in wars and conflicts around the world. The ceremony led by Rev. Alison Taylor of Potter Street Baptist Church spoke to the assembled crowd of local residents in what is…

THE HARLOW parkrun came together on Saturday morning to observe a minute’s silence for all those who gave their lives in conflict. Appropriately, the run is held every Saturday close to the Netteswell Memorial in Harlow Town Park. Many of the runners wore either black…

THE children of Holy Cross Catholic Primary Academy have been marking Remembrance Day this week by writing prayers and reflecting on the sacrifices made by servicemen and women in wars and conflicts. The Year 6 pupils walked to the War Memorial at the top of Potter…

THIS week, MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon, was in Parliament and went to the Constituency Garden of Remembrance in New Palace Yard to pay his respects to the fallen on behalf of his constituency of Harlow. Mr Halfon placed a Star of David cross in…

HERBERT’S parents were Charles Clements, born in Harlow in c.1860 and Emma Turner, born in Harlow in c.1862. They married in the summer of 1871 and Herbert Clements was born in early 1892. The 1901 census shows Herbert living in Potter Street with his parents Charles…

ARRIVA is offering free bus travel to past and present members of the military on its buses on Sunday, November 12, 2023. Service personnel, both regular and reservists, veterans and cadets will be able to take advantage of free travel on Arriva services all day.…

THE Big Burnt Miller Reunion Saturday 25th November 10am – 12pm All former students welcome! One last chance to visit the old buildings ahead of the school rebuilding. We’re looking forward to hearing your stories and memories, and providing a tour of the school. Book Here [https://forms.office.com/e/5K3i9sshvX]…

BACK in 2018, we paid tribute to the 126 men from Harlow and the villages, who left to fight in World War 1 and never came back. This took the form of 126 residents reading the biographies of the men. In the lead up to…

EUROPE’S largest conservation charity, the National Trust and Blue Diamond Garden Centres auctioned ten saplings propagated from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. At a presentation ceremony, held at Woolsthorpe Manor, the childhood home of Sir Isaac Newton and where…

HARLOW Museum will be carrying out our annual post-summer cleaning and conservation on the most urgent and fragile objects in the collection from Saturday 14 to Thursday 19 October. Therefore, the museum will be closed to the public on Saturday 14, Tuesday 17, and Thursday…