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Fingringhoe photos

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Fingringhoe maps

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

Fingringhoe map

Historic map of Fingringhoe

Essex map

Illustrated Victorian map of Essex

Fingringhoe map

Historic Map of any Fingringhoe postcode

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Fingringhoe books

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Harlow Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Saffron Walden Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Clacton-on-Sea Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Fingringhoe books
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Memories of Fingringhoe

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Essex memories

The Bowling Green, Elmstead Market

My great grandfather William Henry Parkins ran The Bowling Green from the 1920s until his death in 1953. I am aware that the Pub has now closed and the last time I visited (6-7 years ago) it was being converted into a private home. I would like to hear from anyone who remembers my great grandfather or any other... [more]

Shared on 06 July 2009 by John Parkins.

Leadership Course

We completed our Lance Bombadier Leadership training in these barracks, we referred to them as cavalry barracks (they are stables now). I was with 52 Bty 45 Fld Regt RA, stationed at Kirkee Barracks. One of my friends (Arnie Mccallion) was on stable duty but was allergic to horses, the BSM thought he was trying to pull a fast one -... [more]

Shared on 26 September 2009 by Ross Grant.

Donkey & Buskins public house, Layer-de-la-Hay

I was the licensee of the above for an all too brief time and had some regular customers who arrived every week-day evening at opening time and were called "The Club". Among them I remember a Ken & Penny Upton and a retired local Headmaster who was known as "Casey".
Time erodes memory, especially re: names, but I hope someone reads... [more]

Shared on 14 October 2008 by Ken Cramer.

So sad

This picture of High Street is very dear to me because it is how I remembered it when I was a boy in the 1940s & 50s. In 1955 I was called up to do my national sevice and was posted abroard, when I returned, to my horror, the church in the foreground had been demolished.  

Shared on 02 August 2008 by Roger Reynolds.

Extracts From Fingringhoe & Essex books

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

Essex Pocket Album

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve. In this view, the ancient St Andrew's church and the church school of 1887 stand together above the pond, fed by a spring seen in the foreground.The springwater was used by the villagers and sold locally.

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Essex Living Memories

This is a pretty, quiet village close to the Roman River. The Whalebone remains virtually unchanged from the time when this photograph was taken. Nearby is St Michael's church and the school. The church has a large square tower striped horizontally.

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Colchester Photographic Memories

Colchester was also visited by the Roman Emperor himself, who considered the capture of this capital vital to the success of the conquest from AD43 onwards. The next appearance on the chart of British history was less happy. Boudicca, or, as she used to be known, 'Boadicea', queen of the Iceni and daughter of King Prasutagus, ruled much of what is now East Anglia and rose in revolt after being... [more]

This is an extract from Colchester Photographic Memories.
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