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…

A STREET in Harlow has been officially unveiled as the UK’s first road named after the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Fifth Avenue in Harlow has become Fifth Avenue – Zelenskyy Avenue, using an alternative spelling. The name of the late President of Chile, Salvador…

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…

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…