The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The third and final series returns to find the titular characters living in Barry and Nessa deciding whether to marry Dave Coaches or not Gavin & Stacey is back tomorrow for a third series – and it has a lot to live up to. What started out as a little BBC3 comedy series about a south Wales girl, an Essex boy and their demented families has gained a huge following, prompting a coachload of...
Diary of a Demon (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
From the journal of Harold the Fearless The chap with the antique pistol was one of the rudest people I've ever encountered outside of Billericay in Essex. "Who are you?" he said. "State your business or say a prayer." "What sort of prayer?" I said. I was a bit annoyed at both his brusqueness and his imprecise request. "Would you like me to say Grace? Morning adulation,...
Julian’s musings (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here is a complete list of Parliamentary candidates for the Essex constituencies. These should be contesting the General election when it comes. Epping Forest is about to select its third candidate, whilst the replacement for Thurrock MP Andrew MacKinlay has yet to be decided. Constituency Candidate Website Basildon and Billericay Allan Davies http://davies4labour.co.uk/ Basildon South and East Thurrock...
Digital SLR Camera (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Someone (Edward Gardner) loved some of the less lovely parts of Essex: "Billericay is the most remarkable constituency in the country. There is nothing quite like it. Certainly, if the speed with which its election result was announced is to be a test, Billericay is the most advanced constituency in the country. It is a fascinating division, a microcosm of Britain, where the new is pressing hard...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The word "Roger" to acknowledge a message received ( Letters , 22 October) arose from the use in morse code times of the letters "RD" meaning "message received and decoded". When radio-telephony came along, the same letters were used, this time spelled out in words, and in British usage, A was "ack", B "beer", C "Charlie", D "Donald",...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Farmers across Essex will attend a Safety and Health Awareness Day (SHAD) this week to help them prevent agricultural accidents. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is holding the free event at Barleylands Farm, Barleylands Road, Billericay CM11 2UD on Thursday (October 22) in a bid to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by farmyard incidents.
Good King Hal (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Good King Hal playing "Spot the Next Queen" Competition. He won a years supply of prunes, two episodes of the Jeremy Kyle Show and a 1991 Vauxhall Senator with 156,782 miles on the clock. He complained to the judges and was sent to bed with slapped legs and no supper. A lovely weekend with Amanda and James in Essex. My son is rapidly getting up to Olympic Standard on Mario Cart on the Wii...
Nipper News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/oct/11/grammar-schools-tuition-private-tutor Private tutors are now dedicating themselves to ensuring that children win a grammar school place. The result is a widening class divide and some children studying for up to six hours a day. It is 5am. In Billericay, Essex, a 10-year-old girl opens the door of her mother’s car and walks up to the front door...
Good King Hal (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
So this was the beginning of a week that would test my powers of endurance, the suspension of my new car and the limits of my bank balance. It all began so innocently! I have a very dear old friend called Andy Blundell who I know from way back when we were pub buddies back in deepest darkest Essex and The Hoop Pub in Stock near Billericay. I had not seen Andy since 1997 but somehow we had just about...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Andrea Arnold has reimagined a corner of England - and its womenfolk - previously held by some in contempt What do you call an Essex girl with half a brain? Answer: Gifted! Witticisms of this kind are all that many know of England's eighth largest county . Some are aware it's the preferred retirement destination for East End gangsters. The refined classes shudder at accounts of its unlovely new towns,...
The Food & Drink Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
By Gary Mearns If you are looking for a place to have you're wedding in the UK, you simply need to check out the wedding venues in essex if you are looking for the best. Choosing a place to have your wedding, never is an easy task. This especially applies when you start looking at all of the choices that are available in essex. Regardless to the reason you need a wedding venue, the places in essex...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
Twenty years ago today (on 28th August 1989) saw the official centenary celebrations of the ‘New Essex Lines’, the railway from Shenfield to Southend Victoria and branch from Wickford to Southminster. Bank Holiday Monday crowds could buy a ‘Rover’ ticket and have freedom to travel the branches as well as view trains and rolling stock at Southend Victoria station. I was there....
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
The following is taken from Revd. Alfred Suckling’s book, ‘Memorials of the antiquities and architecture, family history and heraldry of the County of Essex’ (John Weale, London, 1845). The etymology of this name plainly refers to works of Roman construction, though it is now impossible to determine their precise appellation. Camden, however, has not scrupled to fix the Caesaromagus...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
For Margaret Drabble it's a writing hut on the Somerset coast, for Kate Humble it's a farm in Wales and for Miquita Oliver it's a city roof terrace ... We get a glimpse into nine very personal alfresco spaces Pixie Lott – pop star, Essex This is Billericay, suburban Essex. The world of the working class made good, of Pamela and Mick from Gavin and Stacey, of cul-de-sacs fringed with roomy modern...
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