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Langford, Essex
Langford maps
Historic maps of Langford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Langford maps
Historic map of Langford
Illustrated Victorian map of Essex
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Langford books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Langford and the local area. View all Langford books
Harlow Town and City Memories
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£13
Saffron Walden Town and City Memories
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£13
Clacton-on-Sea Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Langford
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Essex memories
The best memories of sailing with my dad most weekends and baleing water out of the dingy. It leaked.
Shared on 29 June 2007
In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. I had an older brother Neil and a sister, Christine. My mother had lived her childhood at Goldhanger, another delightfully unique part of Essex, bringing forth many joyful... [more]
Shared on 25 April 2009
My parents moved to Wickham Bishops in 1948 to help friends run the village Post Office Stores which sold everything - stamps, paraffin (you brought your own can and it was filled from a barrel at the back), vinegar (as for the parafin, it came from a barrel out back), cheese portions cut from huge cheeses wrapped in linen, and loose... [more]
Shared on 20 December 2006
My family and I moved from London in 1955 to Maldon, following a visit the year before with our Sunday School outing, and we moved near to the Prom. We had such happy times living there and as children my friends and I used to roam the Prom, the nearby sea-wall, fields, woods, and country lanes, in fact everywhere, in... [more]
Shared on 16 October 2009
Extracts From Langford & Essex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Langford, inspired by Frith photos.
Essex - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
St Giles's Church is virtually unique in possessing an apse at its west end - apses (rounded ends) usually occur at the east of churches. This is a Norman church, rebuilt in the 1880s. Langford was entirely agricultural until the arrival of a water-pumping and treatment plant in the 1920s. It employed around 50 local men.
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Chelmsford Photographic Memories
The building with the cupola was Chelmsford’s first purpose-built police station (erected in 1907), so the policeman in the picture was not far from home. His successors would stand in this same spot on points-duty. Note the car with its wheel- covers - a feature that was not phased out until the late 1920s.
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Chelmsford Photographic Memories
The Shire Hall was built in 1789-91 by John Johnson, the County Surveyor. It is Chelmsford's most imposing public building. Over to the left are the studios of Frederick Spalding, the well-known photographer. His premises are capped with a lantern-like structure, to let in maximum light. He also traded in gifts and knick-knacks.
This is an extract from Chelmsford Photographic Memories.
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