A round up of all things history in our locality.
Barleylands Agricultural Museum: farm machinery for sale
Report of the big sell off of the former ‘Barleylands Farm Museum’
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local/display.var.2334811.0.years_of_farming_history_goes_under_the_hammer.php
Galleywood Heritage Centre
The Essex Chronicle reports that councillors have approved a plan to convert part of the former grandstand of the Galleywood Racecourse into a Heritage Centre which will be used to display exhibitions on the history of the parish.
Read more by local historian Keldon: http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/history/
Ingatestone Hall on the map
Quite literally! This is a plan of nearby Ingatestone Hall, seat of the Petre family since 1540 and featured recently on television.
http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/map-ingatestone.html
Ongar Union Workhouse
I came across a list of staff and inmates in the Ongar Union Workhouse at Stanford Rivers in 1881. Follow this link
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ESSEX-UK/2002-01/1011002149
The Times Archive
Keldon says that “For an unspecified period of time, The Times archive 1785-1985 is available for free. This will be welcome news for those unable to gain access to the archive through Gale International.
“The archive can be searched on http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/. Registration is required to view the extracts. It is not known how long it will remain free, so grab it while you can".
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