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Boreham, Essex

Boreham maps

Historic maps of Boreham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Boreham maps

Boreham map

Historic map of Boreham

Essex map

Illustrated Victorian map of Essex

Boreham map

Historic Map of any Boreham postcode

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Boreham photos

We have no photos of Boreham, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Baddow, Springfield, Little Baddow, Hatfield Peverel, Little Waltham, Terling, Chelmsford, Great Baddow, Danbury, Woodham Walter, Great Waltham, Little Leighs, Witham, Langford, Woodham Mortimer, Widford, Wickham Bishops, Galleywood

Boreham books

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Braintree Town and City Memories
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Chigwell Photographic Memories
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Boreham books
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Memories of Boreham

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Displaying a selection of personal memories of Boreham .
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Borham Airfeild

We used to live on Borham Airfield when I was four until eight. They were nissan huts made of corugated iron, they had no baths but they had  electric. We had to have a tin bath hanging outside.
T think Robert Mitchum the actor's family lived there. They were called Miches.
There was an old man who used to invite us round to watch his black and white telly. He used to make pipe cleaner men. His name was Mr Keys. We lived in the big hut on site seven, then we moved to site four. There was a grocers, the Browns used to own it I think. My sister remembers more than I do. I went to Borham School, I remember walking home as I missed the bus, it was a long way. The person I remember from that school was Gillian Andrews. Does anyone else remember me, or the site?
From Pat Kings, nee Redman

Shared on 10 March 2009 by Pat Kings.

Essex memories

woodlands school

From 1961 to 1967 I attended Woodlands School in Oaklands Way, off Postmans Lane, Little Baddow. It was a tiny girls school run single handedly by the late Dorothy Bromley, the classrooms being two white wooden sheds in the garden. There was no playground but there was a grass tennis court that we the pupils had to maintain.

There were times when our court was not up to the job, then we would go and play tennis at The Rodney which I seem to remember belonged to Dr Kerr in those days (not sure about the spelling there).

The tennis court was completely isolated in woodland and a small group of us girls would walk there unsupervised down Postmans Lane, turning left at the end into Spring Elms Lane, up the hill and into The Rodney on the right. Very often Mrs Bromley would send us there to occupy us because she would be away at some political function, her main passion!

Shared on 02 February 2009 by Celia Argent.

Elijah Mecklenburgh of the Old Rodney Pleasure Grounds

Not a memory, but a mention of my ancestor great great great uncle Elijah Mecklenburgh, born 1837 at Bradfield and died 1913 in Maldon. All I know about him was that he lived at Ravens Farmhouse in Woodham Walter in 1871, and that he had connections to the Old Rodney Pleasure grounds. I have no idea what the pleasure grounds were, or even if they still exsist, so seeing this photo with reference to the Rodney was great, but if anyone can add any memories, it would be even better.

Shared on 26 August 2008

Another ghostly experience on Grace's Walk

The year is approximate as I was in my teens, so it was somewhere between 1972 and 1974. I had a horse called Shamrock, that I kept in Sandon and I used to ride him through Danbury and Little Baddow all the time. I went down Grace's Walk one day, from the Little Baddow end, alone with the horse, and when we were about level with the house, my horse suddenly froze and snorted. He was normally very calm so I was surprised, and looked down the bridle path, following the direction of his gaze. Down by the stream and the bridge I saw a figure of a woman dressed in black, with a long gown, standing very still looking straight up the track towards us. It certainly was not modern dress, so I knew that this was a strange happening. I stared too, for a minute or so, and then she vanished...not in the magic wand sense of the word, but it was almost as though she was still there but we just lost the ability to perceive her. I have never forgotten the experience, which I don't think was particularly frightening. I read Gemma's contribution with great interest and did not previously know about any reports of hauntings, so my experience was quite naive in that sense.

I have seen other ghosts since then, but this was the first one, I think.

Heather Chaplin, Somerest, UK.

Shared on 18 July 2008 by Heather Chaplin.

Extracts From Boreham & Essex books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Boreham, inspired by Frith photos.

Braintree Town and City Memories

Prior to 1935, all that would have been seen from in front of the church would have been the top of the church spire. In the foreground would have been a collection of dilapidated shops, and a large wooden maltings out of shot to the right. In 1935 the buildings, including the maltings, were demolished as part of a road improvement scheme.

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Braintree Town and City Memories

This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place in 1885. Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

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Braintree Town and City Memories

The large weather-boarded buildings on the left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who had taken over the business of Walters & Co in 1894. Daniel Walters came to the town in 1822, and these mills were built in 1856. Behind these is another range of buildings constructed in 1869. Both firms produced silk products for the royal family, and Warners have woven velvet for every coronation since that of Edward VII.

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