Ad
related to: saffron walden high street
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hill House in October 2023. Hill House is a 19th-century building at 75 High Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, England.It is listed Grade II.. In 1845, George Stacey Gibson (1818–1883) and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Tuke, bought Hill House and lived there until their death.
Saffron Hall, which is attached to Saffron Walden County High School, opened in 2013. The 730-seater venue came about as a result of a £10 million donation by an anonymous music loving donor. [ 40 ] In 2014, former head of music at the Barbican Centre Angela Dixon became its director.
English: Hill House, 75 High Street, Saffron Walden, October 2023. The blue plaque marks Hill House as the residence of the banker, botanist and philanthropist George Stacey Gibson between 1845-1883.
In 1845, and they moved to Hill House, 75 High Street, Saffron Walden. [2] Their only child, Mary Wyatt Gibson was born in Saffron Walden on 19 April 1855. She had had learning difficulties, and lived at Hill House until her death in 1934.
Saffron Walden Museum is a local museum in Saffron Walden, Essex, east England. [1]The museum is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom. [2] It is located in Museum Street within the town of Saffron Walden, set in an enclosed grass meadow near the ruins of the 12-century Walden Castle.
As a cost saving measure, Saffron Walden Town Council relocated its staff, who had previously been based in offices in Emson Close, into the town hall in October 2020. [ 18 ] Works of art in the town hall include portraits by Daniël Mijtens of King Charles I [ 19 ] and of Queen Henrietta [ 20 ] and a portrait by Henry Scott Tuke of the ...
Saffron Waldon Borough Council sought long-term tenants for the building in 1969. [11] Essex County Council agreed to acquire the building in 1972 and commissioned an extensive programme of works to convert the building for use as a county library and arts centre: [ 12 ] the building was officially re-opened for that purpose on 11 June 1975. [ 9 ]
When the council was created in 1974 it inherited offices at 46 High Street, Dunmow from the Dunmow Rural District Council, at 5 Hill Street, Saffron Walden from Saffron Walden Borough Council and at 52 Debden Road, Saffron Walden from the Saffron Walden Rural District Council.