Blackmore Area Local History

William Byrd @ Stondon: This Evening. Our Special Talk to commemorate Byrd :   Fri. 30 June: 7.30-9.30pm The Life and Times of William Byrd:...

 Three years ago today the postponement of the dedication of a Memorial in St Laurence Church, Blackmore, was announced. The event finally h...

William Byrd @ Stondon: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd: A Local Histo... : Tickets are now on sale for our talk about Stondon Masse...

William Byrd @ Stondon: William Byrd Festival 2023 at Stondon Massey Church :  

Four American airmen who were killed when their aeroplane crashed in a field in Blackmore on 24 September 1944 are to be commemorated on ...

An extract from The Essex Review, Volume 11, 1902 Blackmore . —The renovation of the church of St. Lawrence, which has occupied four year...

An extract from 'The Essex Review', Volume 1, 1892. Blackmore . —A new organ in the Baptist Chapel was opened on April 27th, 1892...

The Essex Record Office has announced that Parish Registers in their keeping have now been indexed making it even easier to search entries ...

To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, in Blackmore a di...

Hello  I am trying to find out some details of the Tucker family and Copyhold Farm, Blackmore.  The 1901 Census shows them as living in C...

The results are in. My wife bought me an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas, perhaps to settle a query as to how much local heritage I have. ...

The public house formerly known as The Wheatsheaf, for some while derelict, is currently being demolished. This photograph taken just after...

High Country History Group: High Country History Group Programme 2019 : The High County History Group meets on the fourth Thursday evening i...

Blackmore Village Hall is fifty years old.  It was officially opened on 22 January 1969.  These documents, from the archive of the then Vi...

Fifty years ago, on Sunday 22 December 1968, Revd. Monty Knott led a traditional Carol Service at Blackmore.  This is the Order of Service...

Arthur John Nash War Memorial: Place and inscription Blackmore War Memorial: Pte. A. Nash Essex Church ...

Ernest Charles Martin War Memorial: Place and inscription Blackmore War Memorial: Pte. E. Martin Essex Church Wind...

Herbert Charles Game War Memorial: Place and inscription Blackmore War Memorial: Pte. H. Game E. Surrey Church...

William Edward Rudling War Memorial: Place and inscription Blackmore War Memorial: Pte. W. Rudling. Church w...