GREENE King worked with historian and curator, Tony Fairweather, to bring the social history of the Windrush Generation into its pubs to celebrate Black History month. The exhibition was recently based at the Moorhen pub near Harlow railway station. The “Windrush Front Room” is a…

POSTWAR Britain experienced massive political, economic, social, technological and architectural changes. This free film screening includes professional and amateur films that highlight some of these changes focusing mainly on the built environment. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-and-the-postwar-built-environment-tickets-1828238242799?aff=oddtdtcreator Across Britain social policy changes were being implemented to rapidly address the…

YOUR Harlow has just published its 40,000th story. We would like to thank everyone who has helped us to get to that remarkable landmark. Your Harlow was started in 2012 after we won a competition (and start-up grant) from the Carnegie Trust called Neighbourhood News.…

BACK in 2011, our sister website, YourThurrock went down to Waterstones in Lakeside to interview legendary jazz musician, Kenny Ball. He was there to launch his autobiography. After answering a question on New Orleans, where he was described as one of the best trumpeters in…

THE FUNERAL is set to be held for Frank Brennan, who passed away on March 3rd, aged 94. Many will know Frank, his late wife Bridie and his family as part of the Holy Cross community. Frank hailed from Clonmel in County Tipperary and was…

An affectionate memoir of my Spinney Primary School: 1955-1960 By John G.R. Proctor I JOINED, seventy years ago this year, in March 1955, aged six, along with my brothers and our sister, “The Spinney County Primary School” in the then new town of Harlow, Essex,…

A BLUE plaque dedicated to the work and legacy of Lord Stephen Taylor was unveiled at the Memorial University’s Harlow Campus on Monday. The unveiling was organised as part of the Harlow Civic Society’s series of blue plaque installations to those who have made a…

HERE at Your Harlow, we like to celebrate the work of individuals who have made this town. That has been shown in our 2017 and 2022 projects, Why They Came Here. Bush Fair resident, Bernard Field was instrumental in preserving a group of buildings called…

LAST week, a reception was held at Harlow Council as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations for Harlow Cricket Club. The leader of Harlow Council, Dan Swords, led proceedings as he spoke warmly of the role that club has played in the history of the…

ON this date in 1947 Lewis Silkin MP, Minister for Town & Country Planning signed the Designation Order that was the official starting document for the construction of a New Town at Harlow. Over the years, we have conducted a large number of interviews with…

HARLOW Cricket Club is looking forward to a wonderful season which sees them celebrate their 250th anniversary. In many ways, they have a history that encapsulates the social history of the area. It is also a history that has one common denominator and that is…

THIS short piece is dedicated to Kathleen Casey (nee O’Halloran). My mother left her farm in the village of Barefield, County Clare, Republic of Ireland on a cold morning back in 1949. She went to follow her sister Maureen (Hole nee O’Halloran) into the nursing…

FOUR years ago, the Danish Broadcasting Company teamed up with Your Harlow as part of a news item on how Brexit was coming along in the country. They were very pleased when we told them we knew a Dane living here. When we took them…

THE word legendary gets bandied about a bit much these days. So who says that Harlow cyclist Vin Denson is a legend? Well, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Chris Boardman to name just a few. Vin, now aged 87, was the first British professional to take…