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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

new in Mar 2024

Vasant – well know artist who spent the summer months at Jacobs Farm, Goldhanger Rd, Heybridge

revision in Mar 2024

Goldhanger Lost: the Mill – recently acquired photo of the Millhouse in 1926 + others from archive

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Virtual Library – new items added, marked with * in index

addition in Feb 2024

Church weather vane renovation - the weather vane was restored for the May 2023 Coronation

revision in Feb 2024

The two Revd Atkinsons – more biographical details and images from the books added

revision in Jan 2024

The Highams Family – extracts from Maura Benhams book and a reference to the bell tower added

addition in Dec 2023

Recent memorable scenes  – 24 Advent Calendar windows displayed around the village added

new in Nov 2023

A History of the Village Hall – includes many images of the hall which opened in May 1937.

new in Oct 2023

William Hume and the sinking of HMS Hawke – new images of this tragic WW-1 event

new in Sept 2023

Ragstone Bell Towers of the Essex Coast – over 40 towers similar to St Peters have been identified

new in Aug 2023

Local videos – the Ragstone Bell towers on the Essex Coast   created by DN

addition in Aug 2023

Portraits and Characters – Phil Bendall has sadly passed away

new in July 2023

Local videos – two recent videos: an Ellacombe Chimes demo. and a Tour of the village & St Peters

addition in June 2023

Portraits, Characters, Art from the past – Dione Page, artist, and former resident related to the farmers

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Climate at Goldhanger –  two local benefits associated with climate change identified

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Churchyard map – interactive map with links to the special local characters and authors on the site

addition in May 2023

Coronation Celebrations – over 50 photos from the 5 events that took place in the village

addition in  Apr 2023

Did you know about...  – Bus Shelter in The Square  feature added + drawings of original appearance

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Chequers Inn – a drawing of The Chequers as it may have looked centuries ago with exposed timbers

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Local farms - a drawing of “The Hall” as it may have looked centuries ago with exposed timbers

revision in  Mar 2023

Portraits and Characters – the Revd. Donald Allan, former Goldhanger Rector,has sadly passed away

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Memories of World War Two – WW-2 Fellowship Card discovered

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Memories of World War Two – artists impressions of the Camp in the Park (+audio) added

additions in Feb 2023

St. Peters Church – several revisions:  Pulpit, Lectern & Font, and Listed Buildings entry

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Selection of Postcards – new video added with  a look around The Square  using early postcards

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Goldhanger Lost – more information added about the former Parish Rooms in Head St.

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Virtual Library – a booklet added about the crash of Zeppelin L33 at Wigborough

additions in Jan 2023

Portraits and Characters – sadly Brian Wentworth & Trish Bunting have recently passed away

new  in Dec 2022

Arthur Appleton – (1886-1971) a new webpage added, with links from Portraits & Characters

addition in Dec 2022

Virtual Museum  & Library – the Brazier family have contributed a trophy and a book

addition in Nov 2022

St-Peters Organ – the Church organ has been completely refurbished

addition in Sep 2022

Resulting from donations of previously unseen photos from a former resident (scroll down each page)...

        ...Pit Cottages     The New Rectory     Revd & Mrs Randall in Family Photos     School in1950s

new in June 2022

Jubilee Celebrations at Goldhanger - Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Jubilee with 4 days of events

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Goldhanger Dog review – of this new novel, which is set mainly in Goldhanger village

new in May 2022

Ancient streams – that once flowed through the village are identified on an interactive map

addition in Apr 2022

Commercial Fishing at Goldhanger – use of the Fish Pits:  filling and retrieving

about these records

The material presented on this website is a small proportion of that held locally in the Goldhanger Digital Archive and the images included here have a lower definition than those held in the archives. 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. Enquiries, comments, and offers of information associated with the village history will be most gratefully received at this re-typed email address:

david<at>churchside1<dot>plus<dot>com

The scale of the material held on the site is in the.........

Site Map      (205 webpages)

All the  webpages show on the site-map are held at......

www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past   ( Search for: Goldhanger past latest )

There is an older version of the website at....................

past.goldhanger.org.uk         (dated January 2020)

There is a “local version” with no Google Drive use at....

drive.google.com/file/d/1x2Yl959dL85scocYfys4jGJhCyKMls9q

The background to the site and the archive is in...........

more about this website

The 24 historians who contributed to the site are here...

The Goldhanger Historians

Links to external local sites are in..............................

Useful external links

A list of local history talks given in recent years...........

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