News in Maldon

Myra Sadd Brown in later life

The Sadd family is one of Maldon's better-known families: John Sadd and Sons were major employers in building and the timber trade, starting with a small business at Fullbridge in 1729 and remaining major employers until 1994.

John Granger Sadd, like many Victorians, had a large family of eleven children. His tenth child was a girl, Myra Eleanor Sadd, born 3 October 1872, and she was to become famous in her own right, not as a businesswoman but as a campaigner for women's suffrage (votes for women) Coincidentally, 1872 was the year that the National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed.

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IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from the announcement that a bank branch is to disappear from the town's High Street through to news that millions of pounds of pandemic grant money will be with local businesses in the forthcoming days.

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The Maldon Mud Race provides a notoriously sticky challenge

Organisers of Maldon's world famous mud race are planning to put the event on again in August - hoping that the threat from Covid-19 will have been reduced by then.

The challenge of The Maldon Mud Race is to race through the thick and sticky mud of the estuary off of Promenade Park.

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Nils Sundstrom, who graduated from the scholarship programme in 2019

The main company backing the Bradwell B project is encouraging Essex graduates to consider a career in nuclear power as part of an international scholarship programme.

CGN (China General Nuclear Power Group), the main shareholder in Bradwell B, is supporting Beijing's Tsinghua University's search for applicants for a scholarship on their International Master's Program in Nuclear Engineering and Management.

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H.G. Wells

A ruthless invader equipped with armoured war machines pursues a beaten army and thousands of civilian refugees to a small coastal town. A motley collection of civilian boats of all shapes and sizes – "fishing smacks… steam launches from the Thames, yachts" - comes to their rescue. The Royal Navy fights a heroic battle to gain them time as they flee.

This sounds like Dunkirk in 1940, in which Maldon's "little ships" played no small part, but it's actually a description written in 1897 of an alien invasion, and the evacuation of civilians from Maldon and the Blackwater.

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IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from news of the closure of the car park at popular Heybridge Basin in a bid to stop hundreds of visitors descending on the village to unexpected floods causing mayhem across the district and beyond.

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