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revised
in Feb 2025 |
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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Local videos – two YouTube links added,
landing at Annie’s Airfield & a camping “hidden gem” |
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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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Alphabetic index- added to the home
page along with the Google search link |
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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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Eletrophants – new
local information, images and worldwide links added |
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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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revision
in May 2024 |
Recent memorable scenes – video link added of “London Ride 2024”
passing through the village |
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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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revision
in May 2024 |
The Chequers Inn:- the
Building – a link to Janet Whites machine readable version added here |
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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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Oil Paintings in St Peters – additional research and
more images added |
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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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revision
in Mar 2024 |
Goldhanger Lost:
the Mill – recently acquired photo of the Millhouse in 1926 + others from archive |
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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 Feb 2024 |
The two Revd Atkinsons –
more biographical details and images
from the books added |
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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
presented on this website is a small proportion of that held locally in the Goldhanger Digital
Archive and the images 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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The scale of the material held on
the site is at.. |
Site
Map (212 webpages) |
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Webpages show on the site-map
are held at.... |
www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past (Search for: Goldhanger
past latest ) |
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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
is at..... |
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a recent zipped copy can be
accessed at... |
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and a “all local version” without
using Google Drive at... |
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The 24+ historians who have
contributed are at... |
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Links to external local sites are
in.... |
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Local history talks available.... |
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The Goldhanger Digital Archive – February 2025 |
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