Harlow is 75: A Celebration of Global Harlow

ON Sunday 29 January the Civic Centre hosted a Holocaust Memorial service, following Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday 27 January. Holocaust Memorial Day, which falls on 27 January each year, comemmorates all those who were murdered in, and were affected by, the Holocaust and other…

WE thought we would film a v-log for our Harlow is 75 project up on Gilden Park on New Years Eve. Yes it is the last day of 2022, the year that marked Harlow New Town’s 75th anniversary. But we don’t see it as the…

MAY we wish a happy new year to all our readers, viewers, followers, listeners, likers, subscribers YourHarlow has published over 4,000 stories for the third year in a row. We have also had over four million page views for the third year in a row…

AS we enter the last two days of our Harlow is 75 project, we thought we would publish this vlog from October. There was a time when the area we now know as Parndon Wood Cemetery and Crematorium was just fields. But as new town…

OVER the year, whilst undertaking all these Harlow is 75 interviews, we have had a number of varied conversations on and off camera. These include discussing Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez with Sonia from Kabul in Afghanistan. However, these were topics she would have chatted…

A HARLOW man has marked our town’s 75th anniversary by filming the area from the air. Frank O’Hare’s films are a fascinating overview of Harlow in 2022. It is remarkable how quickly landscapes change and evolve. We are sure that in years to come and…

WE HAVE tried to avoid politics and conflict during our Harlow is 75 interviews. It is not easy. And so in Christmas week, we happen to interview residents from Afghanistan and Ukraine. Here we interview, Halyna who, as we hear, grew up and enjoyed life…

HARLOW charity Rainbow Services, which works to improve the lives of local people, arranged a Christmas party for families they have worked with over the last year. Rainbow Services invited families from the Ukrainian Get Together, a weekly meet up for Ukrainian refugees at Harlow…

CAN you imagine one day in August 2021, being at a cousin’s wedding. During celebrations, your father comes in and tells you that you must leave. Leave the wedding and leave the country. A few hours later, you are sitting at Kabul Airport…… Twelve months…

AS we near the end of our Harlow is 75 interviews, we wanted to showcase and celebrate Our Lady of Fatima Church in Harlow. With many masses in Polish, a large community from the Philippines and members of many other nations, it has real feel…

ONE of the things we have enjoyed finding out as part of our Harlow is 75 project is all about the towns, cities or villages where people grew up. You really do get a flavour of the many and varied rich cultures our residents have…

AS part of our Harlow is 75 project, we have interviewed residents who hail from the British Isles. Naturally, when we came to interview someone from Wales, we made our way down to Latton Park, the home of Harlow Rugby Club. There we interviewed, Club…

AS part of our Harlow is 75 interviews, we have tried to get across as many continents as possible. Today, we go to South America. To be precise: Venezuela. We spoke to Tony De Viveiros about his life growing up there https://www.youtube.com/embed/gsNqfXm140w To mark the…

LAST week, we went down to the Commonwealth Jubilee Tea at Parndon Mill. Whilst there we met Efua Sey Koi-Larbi. Efua has been the mainstay of the Black History Month event each year in Harlow. One of Efua’s passions is drumming, music and culture of…

OUR Harlow is 75 project has taken a number of tangents over the past year. Here we explore how schools celebrate their global villages. YH went down to Jerounds Primary Academy to speak to their highly regarded Headteacher, Laura Citici https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y5obrac3Yjk TO mark the town’s…

ON a few occasions, as part of this project, we have been signposted to a number of people, who our contacts said, would be suitable for our project. The people we are interested in should have been born or lived in another country. However, on…