Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 28 April 1939
AWARD FOR GALLANTRY
The Silver Cross has been awarded by the Boy Scouts’ Association to Tenderfoot Scout William Twynham, aged eleven, of the Stanford Rivers Group, who last January saved his younger brother from drowning.
The pair of them were crossing a mill stream by means of a plank bridge, when the younger boy slipped. William, fully clothed, immediately jumped in after hi. Both boys were carried about forty yards down the stream and William, after having lifted his brother to the bank, was so exhausted himself that it was only at the second attempt that he was able to drag himself to safety.
Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 22 December 1939
A Dance was held at the Budworth Hall in aid of the Stanford Rivers Rat and Sparrow Club, 150 being present. Mr. A. Galloway and Mr. J. Gemmill were M.C.’s. Spot dance prizes were won by Mr. Oxley and Mrs. W. Pearl, jun., Mr. T. Kerr and Miss Ella Young. Mr. A. Nicholls and Miss M. Gemmill. Mr. A. Galloway, jun., was hon. Sec.
Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 28 August 1942
James Everett, aged 40, of Council Houses, Stanford Rivers, fell from a load of hay at Burrows Farm, Toot Hill, and was killed.
Chelmsford Chronicle, Friday 26 Feb 1943
MY SISTER AND I
To the Editor of the Essex Chronicle.
SIR, - My sister and I spent most of our life assisting our parents in looking after cows, and in all those years not one of them ever were diseased.
What is more, none of us was ever ill; so no doctor ever visited the farm.
During all the years that we sent milk to London we never had a complaint concerning the milk, and we never lost a penny. It was reported to us that the milkman placed the milk from a farm at Stanford Rivers, near Ongar, in a class by themselves; for the milk would keep twice as long as any of the other.
In our case, no one but father and mother and we his two daughters milked and fed and tended the cows. At Stanford, the cows were cared for and milked by a mother and her son and two daughters. So we consider that the reason why the milk from these two farms was so highly thought of was that the cows were never touched by hired workers.
We are of the opinion that in those counties in the west and the north of England where the family farm prevails no reasonable man could find fault with the milk.
The real reason for the demand for scalding, alias “pasteurising,” of milk is financial. Finance calls the tune to-day in every activity, and if scalding becomes compulsory, four out of five or more of the dairy farmers will be rendered superfluous.
It has been asserted many times that a thousand or more persons die every year from bovine tuberculosis, but the statement has never been proved. Bovine tuberculosis is not communicable to man.
When the last great propaganda was on for milk scalding, the champion of the Co-operatives, Mr. Walworth, B.Sc., was challenged by Mr. Newton, a Cheshire farmer, to subsist entirely upon pasteurised milk; he would stick to the “raw stuff,” anf the one that cried “hold” first was to pay the other £100.
Mr. Walworth declined.
TWO ESSEX DAIRYMAIDS