Chipping Ongar, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
O19003
Photo ref:
O19003
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A castle was built here after the Conquest. A 'chipping' (market) soon grew up outside the gates. This view shows the King's Head, which bears the date 1697. Ongar was an important staging-post for carriers, passenger-coaches and wagons. In 1717, the town's first postmaster was earning a yearly salary of £25.
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A Selection of Memories from Chipping Ongar
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Chipping Ongar
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I lived on the Shelley estate at 12 Crispsey Avenue and went to the primary school in Ongar town near the town hall. Later I went to the new primary school on the Shelley estate on Milton Crescent. On the Moreton Road was a bicycle race track which my older brother Michael raced. I can still remember the houses across form my home being built. We lived next door to the Fogg's on the right and the Neil's ...see more
Was this the lovely little building on the south east corner of the roundabout at the top of Ongar ("The Four Wantz"?) as you head out northwards? It was allowed to decay and eventually disappeared. It had unusual shaped windows and must have been very old, made out of wattle and daub. Now the area at the roundabout has buildings all round and is hardly recognisable. There were some really lovely old buildings around Ongar when I was young, it had a real country atmosphere.
I attended Ongar Secondary School from 1945 to 1949. Some of the students I remember were Keith Mills (we were longtime friends, he passed away 2005), Len Shuttleworth, Hugh Brace, Brian Buttle, Jim Parrish, Marion Jennings, Don Eustice, Gordon Knight, Annie Stanford, Bumper Richardson and many more. Those of us that attended Ongar Secondary School got along well together. The ...see more
I went to Ongar Secondary School in th 1950s. Does anyone have any photos of the school as I know it is no longer there?
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