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Historic maps of Aldham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Aldham maps
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Lexden Heath| White Colne| Earls Colne| Coggeshall| Feering| Layer Marney| Bures| Colchester| Kelvedon| Tiptree| Little Maplestead
Aldham area books
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My Grandparents Ran The Post Office
My grandparents, William and Rose Broadway ran the Post Office stores in the late 60's and 70's. I can vividly remember jars of sweets, Grandad boiling his own ham, getting up at 5am to give papers to the paperboy Stephen. I remember Milly and then Jean who worked there too and a customer called Doris. When the shop was closed on a Sunday afternoon I would play shops in the real shop! I think I played with a girl (Valerie) who lived in a cottage by the church. Wonderful memories. Julie Thomson
Public House (Coach Stop)
During the 1960s I was a representative for a world known vermouth manufacturer and remember calling regularly on this large pub on the main road to Colchester and the Essex coast. The licensee John, and his wife, Marion, became good friends and I spent many happy hours just talking and joking away the hours. The coaches rolled in and were accommodated in a very large room attached to the side of the pub, this mainly served teas and light refreshments in large quantities. Any passengers that required stronger sustenance would wander into the welcoming bars.
The intervening years have affected my memory and I just cannot remember the pub's or the licensee's names and wonder if anyone can supply the answers. I believe Marion moved to a licensed outlet in Suffolk sometime in the 1970s.
Ken Cramer
Stanway Workhouse
I have been doing a lot of family research of late. Many of my relations lived in West Bergholt from about 1820 till the present day. Samue Long died in Stanway Workhouse in 1897. I wonder if any one could help me with some information regarding this instituion, and perhaps I could find out more about Samuel. Many thanks, Tony Long
Under an American Tank on The Bridge
My mother and I were returning from fetching water from the spring in the pub. Mother was carrying two full pails. As we were crossing the bridge an American tank came round the bend with one of its tracks on the pavement. I was knocked over and ended up under the tank, my foot luckily was under a gap in the track and apart from being stunned I was not injured. My mother was slightly injured as the pails pushed her through the railings, hurting her legs. At the time we lived in the first semi-detached cottage over the bridge as you came fron Birch.
Blacksmiths
I attended the grammar school 1936-9. Whilst waiting for buses home I used to talk to the local blacksmith. I said to him ,"My granddad uised to be a smith"
When I told him my surname was `King` he asked "Was he Tom King ?" I did not know as my relative had died when I was two but asked "Why?" I was told "All smiths named King were `Tom` Many years later checking the family tree I found it was correct ,three generations of smiths all surnamed King were either named or nicknamed `Tom`.The first was at Aingers Green Gt.Bentley. I then wondered was Dick Turpin`s partner in crime,Tom King a forebear of mine ? It seems NO, it was only a nickname ,his real name was Matthew !
'Threeways Cafe', Bures
My dad and mum owned the Threeways Cafe in Bures for a while in the late 1950s, they where Eddie and Margaret Morris. If anyone remembers them I would like to see their memories.
Mary
Happy Summer Days at The Pool
This photo' reminded me of those carefree summer days when we would cycle from Myland to the pool, leave our bikes, unlocked, in a heap outside, pay our 6d and go to the dank, cold, changing room under the bridge.
The girls had to cross the end of the pool by a boardwalk to their changing room on the other side.
There were high diving boards so the pool was about ten feet deep at the deep end. We discovered that there was a hole in the underwater wire netting beneath the boardwalk where we could dive down to come up under the boardwalk to bang on the boards as the girls walked over,
We spent many hours sunbathing and swimming, later to retrieve our bikes, intact, from beneath the pile.
Sadly, the pool is now closed. I'm sure the modern pools are nowhere near as much fun as that outdoor pool at Colnebank.
Peter Gant.
