Saturday 24 August 2013

ESAH160: Old Chigwell Wills: Transactions n.s. Volume 10 Pa...

ESAH160: Old Chigwell Wills: Transactions n.s. Volume 10 Pa...: In 1907 William Chapman Waller began a series of articles for the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society entitled Old Chigwell W...

Saturday 3 August 2013

Essex Churches: Writtle

Essex Churches: Writtle: So having got excited by the news that Great Waltham was now regularly kept open I set off last Friday only to find it locked - grrr, more l...

Essex Churches: Willingale

Essex Churches: Willingale: Willingale is another of those extraordinary villages that has two churches just yards from each other, one St Andrew and All Saints, under...

Essex Churches: Widford

Essex Churches: Widford: St Mary is locked but with a keyholder listed but as it is a Victorian barn of a church situated by a busy roundabout I decided against seek...

Essex Churches: Theydon Mount

Essex Churches: Theydon Mount: St Michael is locked with no keyholder listed. The church really does sit on a mount above the Roding valley and has commanding views. It is...

Essex Churches: Stapleford Tawney

Essex Churches: Stapleford Tawney: In all honesty I can bring myself to say anything complimentary about St Mary and when I look at the nave picture I actually think oh no, so...

ESAH160: Smallpox: Daniel Sutton and Ingatestone

ESAH160: Smallpox: Daniel Sutton and Ingatestone: Smallpox inoculation is one of the topics covered in 'The Local Historian' (May 2013, Volume 43 No. 2).  The author, Mary South, m...