Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex.
William Byrd
Hyperion records have released the thirteenth and final disc in ‘The Byrd Edition’, which surveys the Elizabethan composers Latin texts. For a review go to http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-byrd13-0210.shtml
Family History
“Annie Hartgrove (my Gt Grandmother) was born in Stamford Rivers [Stanford Rivers] Essex in 1861.“ See this family plus a sequence on photographs on: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=mlaj2l54srhe22dbhum1v80980&topic=239890.15
Walks
Two walks in the local area have been published by a tourist to these shores who is walking around the countryside surrounding London. Go to
http://randoslondres.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/walk-23-chipping-ongar-ingatestone/
and http://randoslondres.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/walk-24-ingatestone-laindon/
New Photos
St Edmund and St Mary Church, Ingatestone, taken for the Geograph project: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2019817
A Folk Song A Day
Don’t forget the marvellous site http://www.afolksongaday.com
Links
For an extensive list of links to other sites go to: http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/externallinks.html
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