Saffron Walden Blue Plaques

Born in Great Yarmouth in 1914, C:<D Jack Cardiff’s career spanned 1. GABRIEL HARVEY 4. GORDON JACOB John Newman <:K=B?? the development of cinema C 16th poet and scholar Composer and arranger , a pewterer *2*-&+))2 from silent film, through Saffron Walden Laundry Office 1 Audley Road CB11 3HW from Maidstone, was one HL<:KPBGGBG@ early experiments in 13-17 Gold Street CB10 1EN 5. EDWARD BAWDEN of many non-conformists <BG>F:MH@K:IA>K Technicolor to the production 2. HENRY WINSTANLEY who were persecuted and Blue Plaques in ebo^]a^k^*22,&+))) Designer, printmaker and illustrator sophistication of the late 20th killed during Queen Mary’s 2 Park Lane Studio CB10 1DA century. He was best known for Inventor and builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse reign. A follower of John Bradford, 6. JACK CARDIFF his visionary colour Former Conservative Club who preached in Saffron Walden, he was 5 Museum Street CB10 1JL Saffron Walden cinematography, while working with Oscar winning film Cinematographer and Director arrested in August 1555 on suspicion of being a 3. GEORGE STACEY GIBSON major directors such as Powell and Pressburger, 7a High Street CB10 1AT Protestant and, after a summary conviction, was Huston and Hitchcock, which was strongly Banker, philanthropist and botanist two existing plaques, see back cover burnt at the stake in the town influenced by his deep knowledge of Old Master Hill House, High Street CB10 1AA paintings. A. JOHN NEWMAN In the post war years, he made his reputation as the “A Matter of Life and Death” “The Red B. WILLIAM CAMPLING cameraman for , Shoes” “Black Narcissus” William Campling and and other big-budget was the “The African Queen” films followed, including with High Constable of Saffron “War and Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, Walden Borough police, who Peace” “The Prince and the with Audrey Hepburn and was shot in the legs near The Showgirl” with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Eight Bells public house and died He claimed to have discovered Sophia Loren and was B from gangrene on November 9th responsible for her first screen test. As a director, his 1849, nine days after the attack. A local man, “Sons and Lovers” 1960 adaptation of won seven Benjamin Pettit, was arrested and tried but was Academy award nominations and a Golden Globe found not guilty by the jury, despite a signed and he also directed statement given by Campling on his death-bed. Marianne Faithful in “Girl on a Motorcycle” in this period. During the Funded by Uttlesford District Council and the Saffron 1970’s and 1980’s, he Walden Initiative and supported by Saffron Walden returned to Town Council and the Tourist Information Centre cinematography and worked on mainstream For more information commercial films such as “Death on the Nile” “The , www.visitsaffronwalden.gov.uk Dogs of War” “Conan and www.swinitiative.org the Destroyer” A In 1995, he was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Society of Cinematographers, awarded an OBE in 2000 and in 2001 received an Honorary Oscar for his contribution to the development of cinema. Jack Cardiff retired to live in Saffron Walden from 1995 to 2000 and took part in the first film presentation and interview organised by the newly formed Saffron Screen Community Cinema in 2006. He died in 2009 aged 94. Design: James Butler www.jamesbutlerdesign.co.uk A A A> The lives of the Saffron Walden Though better known as a resident of Littlebury, A member of the notable Quaker family of Saffron Born in London in 1895, Gordon Jacob was educated Born at Braintree in 1903, Edward Bawden was Henry Winstanley was born in Saffron Walden in Walden, whose wealth was accumulated through at Dulwich College before enlisting in the Artillery at ed ucated at the Frien ds’ School, Saffron W alden, and residents commemorated by the March 1644. As a young man he worked at Audley brewing, banking, and land ownership, George Stacey the outbreak of the First World War. In 1917, he was the Cambridge School of Art before End, first as a porter and then as a secretary, before Gibson was born in the town in July taken prisoner and was one of only 60 men who winning a scholarship to the town’s first six blue plaques span embarking on a grand tour of Europe which lasted 1818 and died in April 1893 after survived the conflict out of a battalion of 800men. >=P:K= Royal College of Art. Here, E ric from the mid-16th to the beginning of nearly five years and stimulated a strong interest in @>HK@>LM:<>R a lifetime of public service, With the return of peacetime, he gained a place at the ;:P=>G Ravilious w as a fellow architecture. On his return, Winstanley made a fine @B;LHG scholarship and philanthropy. Royal College of Music to study composition, theory *2),&*212 stud ent and their talent was the 21st century and are marked by a set of engravings of Audley End House, which took *1*1&*11, As well as being a town and conducting and, during his student years, =>LB@G>K%IKBGMF:D>K recognised by a commission I:BGM>KBEENLMK:MHK 10 years to complete and, from 1679 ;:GD>K%;HM:GBLM councillor and alderman for published the popular William Byrd to paint a large mural at diversity of achievement that ranges to 1701, held the position of :G=IABE:GMAKHIBLM 24 years and twice electe !%.d Suite and arrangement of Ralph ebo^]a^k^*20)&*212 Morley College, Lond on from A>GKR Audley End’s Clerk of Works, a ebo^]a^k^*1-.&*11, @HK=HG Mayor, he was also treasurer Vaughan Williams’ English 1928-9. By 1930, Baw den was from the creative arts to scholarship, PBGLM:GE>R role in which he earned the of the local British Schools for Folk Song Suite for full producing illustrations for C:<H; */--&*0), respect of Sir Christopher Wren. *12.&*21- invention, banking and philanthropy. 45 years, Vice-Chairman of the orchestra. London Transport, Westminster BGO>GMHK:G=;NBE=>K Winstanley was well known Board of Guardians, and Chairman From 1924 until his B ank, Twinings and Shell-Mex and in the early 1930’s h_ma^_bklm <HFIHL>K in Essex for his fascination of the Management Committee of the Saffron Walden :G=:KK:G@>K retirement in 1966, Jacob some of his most innovative work was commissioned >]]rlmhg^Eb`amahnl^ [hkghgmabllbm^ with mechanical and hydraulic Hospital. He played a prominent part in bringing the ebo^]a^k^*2.2&*21- taught at the Royal College of by Fortnum and Mason and Imperial Airways. bg*/-- @:;KB>E The eldest son of a local rope- gadgets and had a house built railway to Saffron W alden, took a keen interest in the Music, where his personal Following marriage in 1932, Bawden moved to Brick A:KO>R maker, Gabriel Harvey was for him at Littlebury which was early development of electric light and photography teaching skills and influential Hou se at Great Bardfield, Esse x. In addition to his *.-.&*/,) born in Saffron Walden about filled with mechanisms of his own and as a distinguished botanist, was the author of the books on orchestration were highly commercial work, which included the design of “Flora of Essex” L<AHE:K% 1545, matriculated at Christ’s design and construction. This “Essex House of which remained the standard work on regarded and Imogen Holst and Malcolm Arnold block-printed wallpapers in collaboration with John PKBM>K:G=IH>M College Cambridge in 1566 Wonders” became a local landmark which attracted a the subject for m any years. were among his pupils. He became a Fellow in 1946 Aldridge, he also developed h is watercolour abliZk^gmZeahf^ and was elected fellow of number of distinguished visitors and, in the 1690’s, he The Saffron W alden and North Essex Bank, of wh ich and, throughout his career, also maintained a prolific technique by painting local rural scenes. During the Pembroke Hall in 1570. Here also opened a commercially successful Mathematical he was the founder, proved to be a profitable business output of original compositions and arrangements. Second World War he served as an official war artist, he formed a lasting friendship Water Theatre in London’s Piccadilly. Known as venture and, after his death in 1896, was joined with These included concertos, ballet scores for Sadler’s initially with the British army in France and then in with Edmund Spenser, author of The “Winstanley’s Water-works” it combined fireworks, Fairie Queen others to form Barclay’s Bank. Gibson’s imposing Wells, two symphonies, and works for wind band. the Middle East and Iraq. and, as a poet on his own account, perpetual fountains and ingenious automata. “epitaphed as the Inventour of the premises, built in 1874 to the design of E den Nesfield, The height of Gordon Jacob’s reputation was in the Returning to north-west Essex, Bawden was a key > >A> sought to become Henry Winstanley is most associated, however, with A A A> English Hexameter” house the current local branch o f Barclay’s and the 1950’s, during which his Music for a Festival was figure in the Great Bardfield group of artists that lived . Having become professor of the construction of the Eddystone lighthouse. After main faç ade contains played at the opening o f the Royal Festival Hall and in and around the rhetoric in 1576, he was invited two years later to failed attempts by others, he managed, despite carved bas-reliefs of his arran gements of the National Anthem an d village.

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