Last updated:

13 February 2012

Chelmsford CHESS

Coelmer's column

Coelmer

Coelmer first appeared in our August 2006 Newsletter. He appeared regularly in each quarterly issue from then until August 2011. He has appeared on this website since April 2008.

"Coelmer's column" was designed to take up a single column in the Newsletter and the equivalent space on the website. In it Coelmer muses on some incident or thought and links it with homelessness.

The name Coelmer was supposed to be that of the Anglo-Saxon who controlled the ford at what was to become Chelmsford and who gave his name to both the river and the town. We subsequently discovered that we got the spelling wrong, although "Coelmer" does appear to be a German surname.

We still can't remember what the Anglo-Saxon spelling was. Still, given the lower rate of literacy in Anglo-Saxon times, perhaps Coelmer didn't know how to spell his name either.

To read any of Coelmer's pieces, click the appropriate button in the second column.