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Historic maps of Rawreth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Rawreth maps
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Rawreth area books
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Beke Hall Rawreth
Please see my Rayleigh message. I am looking for any and all history on the above building situated at the bottom of the London Road Rayleigh but it came under Rawreth until fairly recent history. It once had 180 acres and was 1 of 5 manors including Rawreth Hall, Chichester Hall, Tryndehayes, Beeches etc. It owned much of lower Rayleigh and I am desperate to know its history as it has been there since at least 1523. \%00 years - there must be some stories out there from the sixties or wartime. Please please help, many thx Andrea
Essex memories
Bats/Snow
I lived in a caravan park in Hullbridge 60-64. My memories are of bats that swooped after dark and the year it snowed so bad that the gas froze in the bottles. It started Boxing Day and went on until Easter and we had to leave the van and live with family.
Aylwin A Finch
My parents knew a local artist of this name who lived at a place called Windmill in Hullbridge. I was only 4 but got the impression that he lived in the tree in the garden of his mother's house and she kept goats. He always wore an long old tweed coat and painted a couple of pictures of me - one in pastels and one in oils which I still have. I would be very interested to hear if anyone else remembers him?
Hullbridge Floods
My memory is a bit hazy as to which year the big flood was but I know it was between 1963-69 as this was when my family and I lived in Hullbridge. I do remember that Watery Lane lived up to its name and was completely cut off, my mum worked at the mouse farm down there and was unable to get to work, and friends who lived half way down Ferry Road were flooded, as was my brothers' friend who lived opposite the junction of Lower Road and Ferry Road. We lived in Burnham Road and i can remember my younger sister and I went out in our wellingtons as the water ran down the road like a river..well probably a deep stream! ....it came nearly over the top of our boots.. and almost over our step into our bungalow! The next day an aerial photo of the village appeared in the centre pages of The Daily Mirror (I think) along with pictures of the caravan site where the... Read more
Alvin Finch
Yes, I remember Alvin Finch. He was an excellent artist. My father supplied the carnival float for the 1953 carnival (I think it was that year I was only 8 at the time). My brother Alan Downes who was 19 years old at the time (unfortunatly now deceased) had a girlfreind whose name I think was Jennifer and she was the carnival queen in that year. My father made a butterfly out of paper mache at the cab end of a large flat bed coal lorry which stood about 10 feet high which was painted in beautiful colours by Alvin Finch who was a friend of my father's. The head of the butterfly was where the queen sat, she was about 6 feet in the air. Alvin Finch done all the paintings on boards all around the edge of the lorry. Beautiful scenes of clowns, trees and fields in really bold colours. I think Alvin lived in Windermere Avenue and was a bit of a recluse. I vividly remember... Read more
Ferry at Hullbridge.
Terry Groom and I were the last persons to run the ferry at Hullbridge. Dick Hyams, the ferryman, who lived in Pooles Lane had retired. When Terry, who lived at "Tara" in the Drive, and I, returned from National Service we obtained Waterman's licences from the Rochford Rural District council, rented the hut from Mr. Moss at the Anchor pub and started to run the ferry at weekends. Eventually we bought a motor launch and three dinghies. We ran trips, hired the dinghies out and did maintenance work on peoples craft. After I married in 1959, to a grand daughter of Mr & Mrs Makin of Shell cottage, I gave up the river at Hullbridge. Terry carried on for a while until he migrated to Rhodesia. Terry was well known as he also worked in the Smugglers Den on Saturday evenings.
This Church Was Completed About 1964
Saint Andrew's was built and completed in 1964.
