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Mountnessing maps
Historic maps of Mountnessing and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Mountnessing maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Essex
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Mountnessing books
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Harlow Town and City Memories
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Saffron Walden Town and City Memories
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Clacton-on-Sea Town and City Memories
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Memories of Mountnessing
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I was at school in the 1940s. I remember a teacher there, I believe he was a Mr Davis. I remember the annual sports, these were held on a field just a short walk from the school. The days of the great snow fall in 1947, living at Padhams Green it was a mile walk down to the village and the... [more]
Shared on 10 October 2008
My Great Grandfather, George Collyer, farmed at Bariff's Farm, Mountnessing in the 1870's and early 1880's. He farmed 40 acres with his son Richard and a boy. Does anyone know the location of Bariff's Farm?
Shared on 27 January 2008
Essex memories
I remember fragments about living at Hutton - I lived in Lilian Crescent, in a new bungalow, having moved from Hawskmoor Green. I learnt to ride a Fairy cycle - as little 2 wheelers were called then - by pushing myself along with the aid of a low brick wall.
I remember my first day at school, saying prayers, and how... [more]
Shared on 14 November 2008
Children's Home in Shenfield - around 1965 - 1969
I wish to communicate with anyone who may remember a children's home that used to be located on a large field in Shenfield.
The individual wood and brick 2 floored (Swiss styled I think) homes were dotted around the perimeter and of different names. One I know was called 'Thames.'
Children from the London Borough of Hackney were... [more]
Shared on 14 June 2008
Charles Arthur Samphier born12/5/1937 wyatts green
My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts Stores . We lived there fore 3 years before my fathers work took him to St Albans where we moved in 1940. We often visited Doddinghurst... [more]
Shared on 13 November 2006
I remember this old cafe very well - not too well lit inside, but friendly atmosphere - my Mum, her friend Joan Slaney and son Michael (who was the same age as me) used to have tea and cakes etc. in the cafe on some occasions after our Mum's had picked us up from school. The last time I went to... [more]
Shared on 08 February 2009
Catholic Church, Laindon Road, Billericay
This old church was modernised, including an extension at the front, sometime in the 1980s (I believe). My cousin Marion got married here, early 1980s, and the modernisation work took place sometime later - need to find dates. Personally, I did not think the modernisation work was in keeping with the original architecture.
Shared on 08 February 2009
1929-1939
I didnt live there mydad's family lived there .they came down from tottenham.
they were in the building trade. an address for my uncle is st helens slicers gate mill
road. I wonder if any one remembers the family.
My uncle left to build his own house over the river fenn creek woodham ferrers.
My dad Gordon... [more]
Shared on 12 January 2008
Extracts From Mountnessing & Essex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Mountnessing, inspired by Frith photos.
Basildon - A History & Celebration
In the medieval manorial rolls there are references to ancient roads and lanes that carry the same names today. A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High Road and St Nicholas Way was used by many pilgrims on their way... [more]
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Basildon - A History & Celebration
In the medieval manorial rolls there are references to ancient roads and lanes that carry the same names today. A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High Road and St Nicholas Way was used by many pilgrims on their way... [more]
This is an extract from Basildon - A History & Celebration.
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Basildon - A History & Celebration
Laindon and Langdon Hills had always been separate villages with long histories, and even appeared as separate entries in the 1086 Domesday Book. Laindon took its name from the River Lyge, a lost tributary of the River Crouch, which rose from the hill on which St Nicholas's Church stands and is responsible for the extreme dampness of the graves dug in the churchyard. The Lynge, a road in Laindon, was... [more]
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