Pleshey
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Pleshey books (20 available)
Brentwood Town Walk Guide
Paperback
So You Think You Know? Chelmsford
Hardback
Colchester Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Fond holiday memories
In the summer of 1963 my Dad took my sister (11), brother (4) and me (6) to stay with my Auntie Marie. She lived in the house adjoining the pub. I think it had a name like Penryn and appeared on the front cover of Country Life in the early 70's. I remember sleeping in the bedroom over the archway and waking up screaming in the middle of the night as I thought I had seen a gentleman dressed in black wearing a top hat walking across the room at the foot of my bed. Looking back I think I was probably woken by the noise of the pub turning out and a passing car probably caused a shadow across the ...read more here
A memory of High Easter contributed by Christine Mabbett
Village policeman
In the late 1950's I was the village policeman at Great Waltham. The police house was the last two-storied house at the Barrack Land end of Cherry Garden Road with my 'office'being in the kitchen and the tsble there was my desk. Next door to us was a lovely old lady - Mrs Woods and on the other side the Hornsby family, daughter's name Jenny. My duties in those days were not very onerous consisting mainly of attending motor accidents, moving on camping gypsies and paying occasional visits to the local pubs in Great and Little Walthams, Howe Street and Mashbury. My means of getting around was on a bicycle although ...read more here
A memory of Great Waltham contributed by First name Last name
My roots
Hi i've just found out that my family originate from Great Waltham...the name is 'Hornsby'...I found this out through the ancestry website and looking at old census records...i'm hoping to come along and visit Great Waltham with my father who is a 'Hornsby' and discover where they used to live on..'Broads Green'
A memory of Great Waltham contributed by lisa mcdonald
LITTLE WALTHAM
I lived three miles from Little Waltham from 1956 till I moved out about 1965. I lived in a cottage near Domsey Lane and we had no buses, only to the village, so when we went out to Chelmsford we had to catch the last bus to the village and then we had a three mile walk in the dark to get home and it was scary as there were no lights. When I moved out, my mother moved down to the village to live. My memories of the village are Amos the bakers, he used to deliver lovely bread and cakes to us. The surgery with Dr Bassett,and the little wooden shop run by the sisters. I think they were ...read more here
A memory of Little Waltham contributed by victoria manning
Extracts From Pleshey & Essex books
Pleshey’s name means ‘enclosure’. The village is, indeed, enclosed
by a circular, pre-Roman ditch. In the 12th century a castle-keep was
added, built on a central mount (hence the Mount Stores on the left).
Pleshey’s curving roads generally follow the concentric lines of the
castle’s ramparts.
An extract from from"Chelmsford Photographic Memories".
Pleshey’s church dates only from 1868, though an earlier one had stood in
the field behind the White Horse, on the left of the picture. The castle here
had fallen into decay by Shakespeare’s time: in ‘Richard II’, he mentions
its “empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, unpeopled offices, untrodden
stones”. Evidently, it was already a byword for faded grandeur. Today, the
mount - seen here on the right - has long been bare.
An extract from from"Chelmsford Photographic Memories".
This row of cottages
started life as one
15th-century house of
the hall-and-wings
type. It is now all one
house again. St
Michael`s Church is
mainly early 14th-
century. In 1759 a
Thaxted curate wrote
that `the church of
Sampford does not
look like a house of
prayer, nor its vicar
like a man of God`.
An extract from from"Dunmow, Thaxted and Finchingfield Photographic Memories".
This part of
Finchingfield is known
as Duck End. The mill
lurks behind the
attractive cottages in
the foreground. It has
been said that For Sale
signs appear on
Finchingfield`s most
desirable properties
whenever bonuses
come up in the City.
An extract from from"Dunmow, Thaxted and Finchingfield Photographic Memories".
Cricketers` Pond takes its
name from the pub whose
sign is visible in the
background (left). The
pond often becomes silted
up, and has to be dredged
by local volunteers.
Behind us is the entrance
to Dunmow`s secondary
school, Helena Romanes,
which was built in 1958-59
to replace the Council
School on the Downs.
An extract from from"Dunmow, Thaxted and Finchingfield Photographic Memories".