ESAH160: Essex Society for Archaeology and History - 160th ...

ESAH160: Essex Society for Archaeology and History - 160th ...: The Essex Archaeological Society (since 1985 called the Essex Society for Archaeology and History), was formed in Colchester on 14 Decem...

Blackmore Area Local History: Ingatestone: Revd. A. Suckling. Memorials (1845)

Blackmore Area Local History: Ingatestone: Revd. A. Suckling. Memorials (1845): The following is taken from Revd. Alfred Suckling’s book, ‘Memorials of the antiquities and architecture, family history and heraldry of the...

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Crickitt and Disney family link

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Crickitt and Disney family link: Received 22 August 2012 Hello I left a comment re Crickitt family just now on you blog? I hope it was yours anyway. When I ch...

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Disney family

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Disney family: The Disney memorial inside St Edmund & St Mary Church, Ingatestone. In the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore, on the north wall is ...

Blackmore Area Local History: Book: Revd. Edward Henry Lisle Reeve. The Last Gen...

Blackmore Area Local History: Book: Revd. Edward Henry Lisle Reeve. The Last Gen...: A new booklet goes on sale on Sunday (1 May) at Stondon Church in aid of church funds and as a launch to the 'William Byrd Festival' which i...

Blackmore Area Local History: Stondon Massey: Reeve. Extraordinary Connection (2...

Blackmore Area Local History: Stondon Massey: Reeve. Extraordinary Connection (2...: The story continues … Received 2 March 2011 Dear Andrew, I don't know much about the legal system in England, but Master and then Chie...

Blackmore Area Local History: Stondon Massey: Reeve. Extraordinary Connection (1...

Blackmore Area Local History: Stondon Massey: Reeve. Extraordinary Connection (1...: When Jane Fitzgibbon recently left a comment regarding ‘Revd Reeve’s Nephew (see http://blackmorehistory.blogspot.com/2011/01/stondon-massey...

Blackmore Area Local History: Zeppelins Over Essex (1)

Blackmore Area Local History: Zeppelins Over Essex (1): Much is written elsewhere on the Internet about the Zeppelin raids during the First World War. As mentioned in ‘Bombs Over Blackmore’ (22.8...

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Bombs Over Blackmore

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Bombs Over Blackmore: Memorials are a common feature in church stained glass windows. At the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore, many of the windows date fr...

ESAH160: ESAH Forum: 'Tallis, Byrd & The Tudors' on TV agai...

ESAH160: ESAH Forum: 'Tallis, Byrd & The Tudors' on TV agai...: 'Tallis, Byrd and The Tudors' in the BBC TV series 'Sacred Music' is a programme I would never tire of seeing.  It is on BBC FOUR at 7.3...

William Byrd @ Stondon: AV: William Byrd, Stondon Massey and the Authorise...

William Byrd @ Stondon: AV: William Byrd, Stondon Massey and the Authorise...: When Kerry McCarthy gave a lecture last week to guests at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge she said, according to an Internet source ( ht...

William Byrd @ Stondon: New Recording of 'Great Service' by The Cardinall'...

William Byrd @ Stondon: New Recording of 'Great Service' by The Cardinall'...: In July 1923, as part of the London celebrations commemorating the Tercentenary of the death of William Byrd, an audience heard the firs...

Blackmore Area Local History: Vaughan Williams and Essex

Blackmore Area Local History: Vaughan Williams and Essex: Fifty years ago, on 26th August 1958, the famous British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams died. Whilst he never lived in Essex we can claim t...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: The Essex Storm of 1897 (2)

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: The Essex Storm of 1897 (2): Recently the High Country History Group heard about two catastrophic weather events of the late nineteenth century. In a double-bill of spea...

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: The Essex Storm of 1897

Blackmore Area Local History: Area: The Essex Storm of 1897: The following is an extract from the book ‘Black Thursday: The Essex Storm of 1897’, available from the church bookstall or Megarrys Antique...

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Mothers' Union

Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore: Mothers' Union: The closing of the local branch of the Mothers’ Union at the end of 2006 marked the end of an era of meetings which took place, perhaps cont...

ESAH160: Ancient Wills No 2 (John Smyth, Blackmore): Transa...

ESAH160: Ancient Wills No 2 (John Smyth, Blackmore): Transa...: Thomas Smyth (d. 1592) A plan of the tomb which is situated in the south east corner of the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore ...

BLACKMORE HISTORY NEWS - November / December 2012

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

Blackmore Area Local History – 5 years’ old

On 1 December 2007 the first post was entered on http://www.blackmorehistory.blogspot.com .  The blog was supplemented by http://blackmorehistory.co.uk in 2008.  Since then this blog has brought you the latest history news as well as new insights into family and social history, thanks to the readers who have contributed.  But it’s thanks to Google that this has become possible.  Blogging is a simple and straightforward way of connecting non-technically minded people to the worldwide web.  Blogs too have come a long way over the last five years. 

I would encourage everyone who is interested in history to get blogging as well as researching, because amazing things happen.  Without a web presence it would not have been possible to pay tribute in such a tangible way to those men who died in the First World War.  For example, it was good to link with a family in Texas who are related to Frederick Garnham.  The increased recognition of William Byrd and his links with Stondon Massey would not have been possible and the William Byrd Festival would not have happened.  The Maryon collection of photographs and a family remembrance of the night a Zeppelin came down on land at Snails Hall Farm, Billericay, would not have been published.  The connections with the Disney and Crickett familes would not have been made.  Contact from descendants of Rev E H L Reeve, of whom I wrote a biography, would not have happened.

Over the next month I will be looking back and repeating some of the more important posts of the last five years, either from this site or other blogs on my blog roll.

I'm inspired by Sir Tim Berners-Lee who gave the internet to us all.  What a fitting tribute to him at the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games!  "This is for everyone".

ESAH160 launched

The Essex Society for Archaeology and History has launched an interim blog under my editorship.  http://www.esah160.blogspot.com contains information relating to this countywide historical group and items of heritage interest relating to the historic county of Essex.  Some posts of relevance to the local area will be referenced on this site.

Blackmore History News

This will be the last post in this form.  In order to be more responsive, news items will be posted as soon as convenient rather than saved up and published en masse.

Links

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

ESAH160: Stondon Massey Church: Transactions n.s. Volume 10...

ESAH160: Stondon Massey Church: Transactions n.s. Volume 10...: Pages from 'Transactions'.  Stondon Massey Church by Revd. E H L Reeve, published by the Essex Archaeological Society in 1907. If you hav...

ESAH160: Transactions n.s. Volume 10 Part 2: Greensted Chur...

ESAH160: Transactions n.s. Volume 10 Part 2: Greensted Chur...: Pages from 'Transactions', published in 1907. Greensted Church by Henry Laver. Have you acces...