Thursday 1 September 2011

BLACKMORE HISTORY NEWS - September 2011


Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex.

Wedding at Shenfield
Congratulations to Richard and Nicola who are getting married at St Mary's Church, Shenfield this month.  They looked for an image to use on the front of their order of service and stumbled upon a postcard image of the church on this blog (http://blackmorehistory.blogspot.com/2008/07/shenfield-edwardian-postcards-3.html). I was delighted to send a copy of the original.

Gift Day at Stondon Massey
A display of books, letters and manuscripts of the Reeve family will be available to view for the first time in Stondon Massey on Saturday 15th October.   The congregation of St Peter and St Paul Church, Stondon Massey have their Gift Day with the building open to visitors between 10.00am and 3.00pm.  Refreshments will be available.  Revd. Edward Henry Lisle Reeve died 75 years ago this year and was Rector of Stondon Massey from 1893 to 1935, succeeding his father, Edward James, who was Rector for 44 years from 1849.  The material was a generous gift of a distant descendent.  Among them are two commonplace books, one by Edward Reeve (1785 – 1867) written towards the end of his life at Ongar, and the other ‘Jottings’ (dating from 1881) by his grandson Edward Henry Lisle Reeve.  A trilogy of booklets will be available to coincide with the exhibition, entitled ‘After Dinner Anecdotes’, ‘Relatively Speaking’ and ‘Captain’s Reflections’, each priced £2.00 each and sold in aid of church funds.

Links
For an extensive list of links to other sites go to: http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/externallinks.html

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