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Author:
Stan Jarvis
ISBN: 0 86025 469 0 |
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Stan Jarvis has put together anecdotes
from all parts of Essex from Norman times to the 1950s.
The range of topics is vast and includes:
Felsted in the Domesday Book; the
story of Thoby Priory; the curse on St Botolph's Priory in
Colchester; the bells of Great Baddow and of High Beach; the
Devil and Tolleshunt Knights; quoits in Springfield; copperas
in Brightlingsea; William Harrison of Radwinter; Danbury Palace;
New Hall, Boreham; Edwin's Hall, Woodham Ferrers; the ghosts
of Great Leighs; assaults in Black Notley; Will Kemp's dance
through Brentwood; the overseers of Faulkbourne; torture in
Braintree; blasphemy in Dunton Waylett; an apparition in Great
Waltham; the Tyrells and the East Horndon dragon; the witches
of Wormingford; wells at High Easter and East Hanningfield;
Kitty Canham of Beaumont-cum-Moze; John Morley of Halstead;
the Canvey floods of 1953; Thomas Wood, the miller of Billericay;
tea-drinking in Latchingdon; Doctor James's Analeptic pills
manufactured in Chigwell; John Harriott of Great Stambridge;
straw hats from Gosfield; the Purfleet to Dartford Tunnel
project of 1798; Jane Taylor of Chipping Ongar; highwaymen
in Epping Forest; the Barking fishing fleet; Samuel Courtauld
of Braintree; the boxing match between Bennywith and Joshua
Hudson at Rettendon; a riot at Brentwood; the Tolpuddle Martyrs
at Greensted Green; robbery at Little Baddow; the racecourses
at Writtle and Galleywood; a blacksmith's wedding at Bradfield;
tragedy at Great Totham; an abandoned baby in Widford; bare-knuckle
fighting on Canvey Island; lopping in Loughton; a love story
from Little Horkesley; Wombwell's menagerie at Colchester;
Barnardo's Village Homes at Barkingside; murder in Sandon;
Edward Bingham's pottery at Castle Hedingham; dog-breeding
at Kelvedon; Sir Claude de Crespigny of Maldon; fog at Battlesbridge;
shipwreck at Southend; Edmund Durrant's Odde Volumes of Chelmsford;
Doctor John Harrison of Braintree; drunkards in Stebbing;
education in Bocking; a miser in Maldon; Thomas Clarkson of
Chelmsford; elections in Woodham Ferrers; N F Charrington's
home for alcoholics on Osea Island; a domestic argument in
Highwood; town planning in South Woodham Ferrers; apples development
in Tolleshunt d'Arcy; the Food Reform Society in Little Easton;
Hilder's holiday camp at Ingatestone; the Broomway at Foulness
Island; Southend Beauty Show; Viscount Cowdray and Colchester
Castle; St Peter's Chapel, Bradwell; Isaac Mead of Beauchamp
Roding; Sunday School at Chignall St James; the ostrich at
Tilbury Docks; haunted Borley Rectory; an aviation accident
at Burnham on Crouch; Frank Crittall of Silver End, Witham;
radio development in Chelmsford; air tragedy at Upminster;
a lion hunt at Braintree; St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall;
air attack near Burnham on Crouch; and, apple farming in Langham.
96 pages, 34 photographs, 2 line illustrations
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