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Lexden Heath, Essex
Lexden Heath maps
Historic maps of Lexden Heath and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Lexden Heath maps
Historic map of Lexden Heath
Illustrated Victorian map of Essex
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Lexden Heath books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Lexden Heath and the local area. View all Lexden Heath 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
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2 Lexden Heath photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Lexden Heath
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Essex memories
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... [more]
Shared on 23 April 2009
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
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
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
Extracts From Lexden Heath & Essex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Lexden Heath, inspired by Frith photos.
Essex - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
When it was rebuilt in 1821, several observers found St Leonard's 'by no means handsome'. The rather apologetic little chancel was replaced by a grander model two years after this picture was taken. Lexden is dotted with Roman earthworks, and it has been suggested that the church may stand on the site of a temple.
This is an extract from Essex - A Second Selection Photographic Memories.
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Lexden was once a little village a few miles to the west of Colchester, but has now been subsumed as a suburb. This 1904 view shows the village pub and the then brand-new tramway, which ran out from Colchester to terminate here. The trams were replaced by buses in December 1929.
This is an extract from Essex Pocket Album.
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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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