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Braintree Town and City Memories
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Chigwell Photographic Memories
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Chigwell Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Grange Farm Restaurant.
I worked in the restaurant at Grange Farm until 1957. The West Ham United football team used to come in for a meal after their training session.
A memory of Chigwell contributed by Mrs E Lewis
Home memories.
I moved into these cottages with my family in 1935 and my parents were there until 1959. Originally it was a barn hence the name 'Barn Row' and was converted into cottages in 1836 as marked in the brickwork on the other side of the cottages. All the time my parents lived there, there was no sewerage and only a stand tap in the middle yard to serve all four cottages. But times have changed and the village has been renovated and one or two new houses have been built.
A memory of Paglesham contributed by Mrs A Turner
My 3rd Great Grandfather
The 1841 Census says that my 3rd great grandfather, William Little, with wife Ann and family, lived at this Windmill. His occupation is stated as 'Miller' so I guess he worked on the premises. One of his sons, George, grew to marry Mary Ann and run the Barley Mow Beer House on Chapel Hill. His daughter Mary Ann was a barmaid there at age 19 and at George's death his wife took over the running of the premises. It passed into the hands of other family members later.
A memory of Stansted Mountfitchet contributed by Lynne McCarrick
Midnight ghost hunt
I was born in Little Baddow and was familiar with the story of Alice Mildmay and Jesse Berridge's book. One summer night three of us rode ponies down Riffhams Chase to Great Graces and down Grace's Walk, arriving at midnight. We crossed the bridge (the one in the photo) and all I can remember after that is that all three ponies turned and galloped back up towards the house. We returned home up Colam Lane, where there is supposed to be another haunting, in the pond at the bend in the road. I think the ponies picked up our midnight ghost hunt tension but it was exciting!
A memory of Little Baddow contributed by Gemma Hooper
Extracts From Peldon & Essex books
Prior to 1935, all that would have been seen from in front of
the church would have been the top of the church spire. In the
foreground would have been a collection of dilapidated shops, and
a large wooden maltings out of shot to the right. In 1935 the
buildings, including the maltings, were demolished as part of a
road improvement scheme.
An extract from from"Braintree Town and City Memories".
This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road,
which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney
Courtauld built Bocking Place in 1885. Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of
the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming
professional and business people.
An extract from from"Braintree Town and City Memories".
The large weather-boarded buildings on the
left are the silk mills of Warner & Sons, who
had taken over the business of Walters & Co
in 1894. Daniel Walters came to the town
in 1822, and these mills were built in 1856.
Behind these is another range of buildings
constructed in 1869. Both firms produced
silk products for the royal family, and Warners
have woven velvet for every coronation since
that of Edward VII.
An extract from from"Braintree Town and City Memories".
The Co-operative’s elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s
development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864. The first shop
was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the
island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End. The photograph shows
the rebuilt premises of 1907. The resplendent clock tower was a landmark feature of the townscape.
The Society merged with the Chelmsford Star Co-op, and now occupies a prestigious site in the
George Yard shopping centre.
An extract from from"Braintree Town and City Memories".
The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in
the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola
(centre, at the end of the street). Foster Brothers Ltd
occupied the ground floor; although the official name
of the property is London House, it became known as
‘Foster’s Corner’. The Pearl Assurance Co and Denis
Keen, the optician, used the majority of the first floor.
In 1959 Foster’s moved to new premises in Great
Square, and the building became the Braintree branch
of the Midland Bank.
An extract from from"Braintree Town and City Memories".