Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | yesterday
A selection of postcards showing the village of Blackmore (Essex) is now available to view on ‘Blackmore. Then and Now’ on the main ‘Blackmore Area Local History’ site. Visit http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/blackmore_then-and-now.html . Pictured above is Blackmore Post Office with Albert Cottage and the Prince Albert public house at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex. Christmas Greetings Blackmore Post Office, on a snowy day in February 2009. The Making of Modern Britain Andrew Marr’s prequel to the ‘History of Modern Britain’ is completing its six programme run on BBC television. ‘The Making of Modern Britain’ covers the period from...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A Silver Cup (illustrated) was recently sold on E Bay for £9.99 (plus postage). It was presented by Lady Rickitt who owned Jericho Priory during the Second World War. I am not sure she actually lived there because the property was commandeered for military use, certainly during the latter part of the conflict when the Americans were at their air base at Willingale. As the seller says, it is “an...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Received 3 February 2009 Hi I have just been googling for my family and have some conflicting information. Supposedly Thomas Reynolds married Lucy Chopping around 1822 in Mountnessing. According to the 1851 census he was born around 1801 in Stondon and in 1861 it says he came from Blackmore, his first child was born in Ingatestone and then they moved to Navestock and finally Lewisham. I am confused...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the local area including: - North Weald Talk - Life as an Essex Agricultural Labourer: 1840 – 1920. Part 3 (the whole work is available in booklet form from the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore, price £1.50) - The 1911 Census - Book Review. Harry...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A visit made on Friday 6 November 2009. Left: Essex Farm Cemetery ‘In Flanders Fields’ is one of the most famous poems penned during the First World War which speaks about poppies growing among the fields and trenches of the land around Ypres, and above the skylark singing but drowned out by the noise of battle. Its author John McCrae was a Doctor at the field station at Essex Farm, a hurriedly...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Blackmore’s War Memorial contains only the names of those who served in the First World War. The only commemoration to those who served in the Second World War (1939 – 1945) is a handwritten list, in two frames, attached to a pillar near the entrance door to the Priory Church of St Laurence. Each sheet is titled “ON ACTIVE SERVICE”, and at the foot, “FOR KING AND COUNTRY”....
Timewasting for dummies (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Hello all. I was thinking earlier about my blog and what I should put in next with all the wonderful political debate around when it occurred to me that I've never really introduced myself. So here's a brief description of me, my life and some people who star in it. My name is Katherine Anne Douglas. I was born on 5th April 1988 in Harold Wood Hospital, Essex, UK, Europe, World and that makes me 21...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex. November: a time to remember There is no special anniversary of the First World War this year other than the fact the ninety years ago the first Armistice commemoration was hurriedly decreed. Since then people have paused for two minutes to remember those who gave their lives. Just before the anniversary...
Calling England (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
If we were able to elect Judges this man would certainly be out of a job: A High Court judge has caused outrage by ruling that a group of travellers did not act in a 'cynical or ruthless' way when they built an illegal site over a bank holiday weekend. The six families chose the Easter break, when planning officers were off work, to put down 1,000 tons of hardcore on a green belt field. But yesterday...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex. A Farming and Family Centenary Celebration Descendents of Arthur Henry Smith had a party recently to celebrate one hundred years of farming at Jordans Farm in Mountnessing. It was to there, in 1909, that my grandfather became a tenant farmer on land owned by Lord Petre. My cousin still farms the same...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the local area including: - The Rectors and Patrons of Stapleford Tawney & Theydon Mount - The East End Maternity Hospital at Theydon Mount – Part 1 - The Suckling Papers – Greensted (previously published on this blog) - Life as an Essex Agricultural...
The truth will set you free (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
We went for a walk centred on 'The Bull' at Blackmore. Blackmore is in rural Essex and is one of the prettiest villages, with a duck pond in the village green. We walked past the church, which has its own claim to fame, and out into the fields around. I must first admit that our guide book is 15 years old. Things change. That's OK, but moving footpaths is not allowed. In one place the path was overrun...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex. Railway Heritage A celebration of Essex railways and rolling stock continues throughout this month on ‘Blackmore Area Local History’. This month’s picture is of a local L.N.E.R. steam engine at the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne in the early 1990s. To view the...
AAISP BT Incident Reports (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
This communication is to notify you that Planned Engineering Work is required to be carried out on BT Wholesale's Broadband Network. The work involved is necessary; please see statement of work for End User outage. BT PEW Reference No: PW108534 Planned duration details: Planned start: 23/09/2009 00:01:00 Planned finish: 23/09/2009 06:00:00 End User Impact Statement: The end user will experience downtime...
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