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revised
in April 2025 |
Virtual Museum – History
table lamp and Platinum Jubilee Dish added |
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Top Newspaper Articles from the 20th Century – 8 more
added and marked with a
“<” |
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Jack Spitty – former Chequers
Landlord & barge skipper, more
articles & images added |
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new in Mar 2025 |
Roman Occupation –references to the
significant Roman presence around the village |
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revised
in Mar 2025 |
Climate at
Goldhanger – more about the influences of being
close to the Estuary |
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Maps from the Past – four additional maps: 1544, 1579,
1898, 1980 [total now 20] |
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Goldhanger Conservation
Area – new
map added with the listed and non-listed historic buildings |
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Estuary activities, Osea
Island - Films and TV programmes made on the Island added |
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revised
in Feb 2025 |
William Bentall – more
existing ploughs identified and six new images added |
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Goldhanger Coastguards – more early
Excise Cutter and Watch Vessel images added |
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Estuary Activities - a new section about the Goldhanger Regattas held in the late 1800s |
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revised
in Jan 2025 |
The Barrow Marshes – a new section on the history of the Caravan & Holiday Parks |
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revision
in Jan 2025 |
Historic & non-listed
buildings - non-residential listed features added |
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revised
in Dec 2024 |
Recent memorable scenes – Advent Calendar window
& Gardens during December |
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new
in Nov 2024 |
Trade
Directories – nine directories from 1848 to 1914 added |
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Past Lords of the Manor – a list of
the early major landowners with this entitlement |
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revised
in Oct 2024 |
The Revd. Edward Howes – significant additions made resulting from
more information on the web |
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Portraits & Characters – sadly the unexpected and sudden
death of Duncan Kennedy |
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Crawshay Frost – a recent
painting of Mr Frost has been added at the start of his biography |
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revised
in Sept 2024 |
St Peter’s Tower – a study of the tower
orifices has been added |
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Recent memorable scenes - September 2024 Gala
Weekend images added |
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new
in Sept 2024 |
Maura Benham’s Byrthnoth’s Last Journey – an on-line searchable PDF
version is now available |
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revised
in Aug 2024 |
Beekeeping at Goldhanger – new info on past and
present beekeeping added |
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Recent memorable scenes – Wedding of the
year scenes added |
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The Village School – several more recent additions and
images between 1969 & 1989 |
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new
in Aug 2024 |
wooden posts in the Creek – added
new credence to Crawshay
Frost’s assement of his finds |
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revision
in July 2024 |
Parish magazine history articles – 100
articles and images produced over 10 years |
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Name of the Village - other villages identified
having ...hanger as part of their names |
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Decoy Ponds – Blackwater
Wildfowlers Association ‘Joyces Marsh’ large display
sign added |
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Local flooding in the past – four additional images
added for the 1953 floods |
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revision
in June 2024 |
WW2 - D-Day 80 – a special
event was held in the Village Hall |
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Jubilee & Royal wedding
celebrations - 1981 celebration of Charles & Diana's
wedding (35mm film) |
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WW2 - Reminiscences & Estuary activities - more about the decoy
submarines on Osea Island |
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new
in May 2024 |
Chequers Architectural Study – Janet Whites
manuscript converted to machine readable text |
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Virtual Museum – additions: Warren plough model,
Doctor’s buoy, the stile & a Cigarette case |
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new
in April 2024 |
Beekeeping at Goldhanger – indications of past
beekeeping at Goldhanger |
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BBC East Sounds – a re-broadcast of
DWN describing in The Square Goldhanger’s “Gold
Rush” |
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revision
in Mar 2024 |
History of The Cricketers – many more images have
been added since it has sadly closed |
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new
in Mar 2024 |
Vasant – well know artist who
spent the summer months at Jacobs Farm, Goldhanger
Rd, Heybridge |
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addition
in Feb 2024 |
Church weather vane renovation - the weather
vane was restored for the May 2023 Coronation |
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revision
in Jan 2024 |
The Highams Family – extracts
from Maura Benhams book
and a reference to the bell tower added |
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about these records |
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The material
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included here may have a lower definition than those held in the archives.
The page formats have been developed using Microsoft tools on a PC and laptop
and may not be optimum, or even work properly, on Apple or other devices not
available to the author. The copyright to the website design and majority of the material on
the site is held by the Goldhanger Digital Archive. Acknowledgements for
short extracts and snippets taken from other documents and to individual
contributors are given in many places within the texts. Further
acknowledgements will be readily added, or material removed, if request by a
copyright holder not so far been identified. any enquiries, comments, and
offers of information associated with village history will be most gratefully received at a
re-type of this email address: david<at>churchside1<dot>plus<dot>com |
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Site
Map (212 webpages) |
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Webpages show on the site-map
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www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past (Search for: Goldhanger past
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There is an older version of this
website at.... |
past.goldhanger.org.uk (dated January 2020) |
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History of this site and archive
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a recent zipped copy can be accessed
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using Google Drive at... |
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