News in Maldon

A new Covid vaccination centre has opened at Chelmsford City Racecourse today (Monday, 1 February).

The centre in Great Leighs, Chelmsford started delivering the life-saving vaccines to people in the top four priority groups this morning.

Nub News reported last Autumn on the renovation work at 4 Silver Street ("Chandlers") which involves peeling back layers of later alterations prior to sympathetic restoration. Since then, exciting new discoveries have enabled experts to date the building significantly earlier than previously thought.

The house is currently listed as a late 16th Century building, but work confirms that it contains the remains of a 15th Century house, with a single-storey central hall and two two-storey cross-wings.

IT'S been another seven days of big news stories in Maldon, from news of a council committee's vote to halve the wharfage fees for Hythe Quay's Thames barges this year through to the news that the district's Covid infection rate is now less than a third of what it was at the start of national lockdown.

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A Maldon woman who ran 60k to raise £1,131 for the Royal British Legion Industries (RBLI) charity is asking for people to send cards to help a Second World War hero who will have to celebrate his 100th birthday in lockdown.

Lisa Hawkes signed up for the RBLI Tommy Club 10k Challenge in lockdown last year after taking up running with her friend and neighbour Alison Vincent, who is also in her support bubble.

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Here in his latest column, Maldon District Council Chairman, Councillor Mark Heard, talks about Maldon's royal connections.

I wouldn't want to (nor could I) compete with any of our brilliant local historians but I have always been somewhat intrigued by Maldon's long historical and royal connections.

After a year when there has been little income for the iconic Thames sailing barges of Hythe Quay, Maldon councillors will vote on whether to reduce their wharfage fees this year - and how much by.

Members of Maldon District Council's Strategy and Resources Committee will discuss three possible options on the fees for the 2021/22 financial year at a meeting on Thursday, 28 January.

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.

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.

Here at Nub News we like to make your life easier so if you've missed any of the local news this week, don't worry.

Maldon Nub News aims to be supportive to EVERY element of the community from business and shops to people and charities and clubs and sports organisations.

Everyone is finding it tough at the moment and wants life to get back to normal.