Welcome to the August 2008 issue of Great Baddow Online Newsletter

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Introduction

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Changes to local businesses

Dale Hire has now vacated its premises on Church Street and moved to 39 Robjohns Road, Chelmsford; the adjacent hairdressing parlour is now Salon Nineteen. 

Tiffanys cafe at the Vineyards has announced its intention to open on Mondays instead of Sundays from Sunday 3 August.

Patrick Green, a well known hardware store and general merchant in Ingatestone is advertising on this site and  invites local residents to take the 10 minute journey to Ingatestone. Having at one time lived in Ingatestone, I can recommend this shop for the wide range of household and garden items stocked.

Forthcoming event - "It's Show Time"

Many local residents will be aware of the local Children's hospice, 'Little Havens' and the regular fundraising undertaken by some Great Baddow residents. This year the annual "It's Show Time" event takes place on Sunday 17 August at the new venue of Purleigh Halt, Barons Lane, Purleigh, Chelmsford with the kind permission of the Livermore family. Lots of live entertainment - come and enjoy a festive day out and support this worthy cause. Full details are on the web site and on posters around the village.

Great Baddow Play scheme

This runs from Monday 4th August - Friday 8 August and is for children aged 6-11. Morning and afternoon sessions between 10-12 noon and 2-4 pm. There will be various activities including crafts and games. Full details on the Parish Council website.

Great Baddow Parish Sports Programme -  Coaching games and competitions

Remember also there is free coaching, games and competitions for 6- 14 year olds on certain days between Tuesday 12 August - Thursday 21 August at the Recreation Ground. Limited spaces, just turn up, but first come - first served! More information is available from Chelmsford Borough Council's Sport Development Unit on 606978 or the Parish Council website.

U3A news

At the monthly meeting on 9^th July, members listened to Tony Earle talking about his career spanning 40 years at Kodak, and in particular, the development of the camera.

It was in 1885, that a bank clerk named George Eastman established the Kodak company and built a factory at Rochester (USA) to create cameras for all. In England, a factory was built at Harrow in 1889 and production commenced in 1891.

Success was achieved when pictures were possible using paper film, and photography was soon popularised. The first cheap camera for the masses was the ‘Brownie ‘ which was built of cardboard, took 2¼ x 2¼ pictures using a camera which sold for 1$. Later ‘Brownie’ camera models were produced, the final model being produced in 1962.

During the course of photographic history, Kodak developed various camera technologies some of which remained in production until the latter part of the last century e.g. the Instamatic. Today, the emphasis is on the continuing merger of picture and telecommunication techniques in the camera phone and in 5 – 10 years time traditional roll film cameras will probably become obsolete.

Overall, this was a fascinating subject and Tony illustrated his talk with many slides showing the history of Kodak and pioneers in early photography, as well as providing a display of Kodak cameras from various periods in the company’s history.

Bus route changes

Routes 40/50 continue to be diverted Mondays  - Fridays via Baddow Road and Longfield Road thus not serving Meadgate shops. This diversion is expected to continue for a further month or until the roadworks currently taking place on Meagate Avenue are completed.

Hylands Park

The main website highlights the garden centre at Sandon, as well as local flowers within the village and at RHS Hyde Hall which was mentioned in last month's newsletter. It was at the latter on a recent visit we were fortunate to see a brown hare nestling in meadow grass.  

We also recently visited Hylands Park, and again the gardens at present are very colourful and worth a visit along with the house. Chelmsford and Great Baddow are fortunate in having free access to such a large estate with extensive parkland - and the restored house - in close proximity to a major urban area.

Please note that the gardens will be closed from 15 - 24 August and access restrictions will apply between 4 and 24 August because of the 2008 V festival.

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Chris Harvey
Site manager
4^th August 2008
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