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750 |
K BC |
The Ice Age created glacial ponds in the village |
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Natural History |
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500 |
K BC |
Neolithic flints found in Goldhanger Creek |
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Archaeology |
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400 |
BC |
The Romans were in the Creek and close by |
Posts in the Creek |
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400 |
BC |
The seawall was started by the Romans |
Seawall construction |
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600 |
BC |
Salt extracted from the Red Hills during the Iron Age |
Salt extraction |
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990 |
s AD |
Viking attacks left burial mounds on the marshes |
Archaeology |
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991 |
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Byrhtnoth,
Earldorman of Essex killed in Battle of Maldon |
Maura
Benham wrote booklet |
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1000 |
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Saxon religious settlements in the area |
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Historic
Settlement Assessment |
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1085 |
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The Domesday Book records the Manor of Goldhangre |
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Ancient Documents |
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1200 |
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Fish
traps from this period found in Collins Creek |
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Archaeology |
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1200 |
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The local highways would have been very different to today |
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Local highways & byways |
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1216 |
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The Magna Carta refers to fishing Weirs in Estuary and Creek |
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Fishing at Goldhanger |
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1271 |
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A watermill was recorded at Goldhanger |
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Hearsay & Folklore |
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1285 |
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First recorded Rector of Goldhanger |
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Maura Benham's book - p21 |
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1292 |
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Taxation of ?10 13s 4d taken from Goldhanger & Lt Totham |
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1300 |
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A tidemill was built in the locality |
The Barrow Marshes |
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1346 |
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John
Ffalons is recorded as owner of Falcons Hall |
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1348 |
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The Black Death reduces the population by a half |
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1375 |
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Village was known as "Goldhanger cum Totham Parva" |
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1381 |
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Goldhanger men take part in Peasants Revolt in Brentwood |
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1400 |
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First reference to Highams Farm at this date |
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Highams Farm |
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1400 |
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South Chapel added to the Church |
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St Peters Church- 1400s |
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1400 |
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Tower added to the Church |
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Study of St Peters Tower |
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1439 |
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First evidence of seawall contruction |
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Estuary |
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1534 |
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Henry VIII gave Follyfaunts Manor to Stephen Beckingham |
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Follyfaunts Manor |
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1549 |
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An inventry of "Church Goods" was made (now in ERO) |
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Ancient Documents |
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1558 |
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Eariest known legacy left to the village poor |
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Charities for the sick and
poor |
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1564 |
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Date of the earliest court case referring to the village |
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Newspaper and Court Reports |
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1570 |
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Reclamation of
land at Joyces marshes |
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1598 |
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Goldhanger man fined for playing football on the Sabbath Day |
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1599 |
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A Goldhanger witch was excommunicated |
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1602 |
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First reference to school rooms in the village |
The Pit Cottages |
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1623 |
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Eariest
known Trust created for the poor |
Charities for the sick and poor |
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1650 |
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The Revd Edward Howes wrote a book on mathematics |
The Revd Edward Howes |
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1657 |
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The
Church belfry contains a peel of 4 bells |
Bells of St Peters |
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1671 |
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Hearth tax records show 49 households, most with one hearth |
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1671 |
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One third of villagers were too poor to pay the hearth tax |
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Public Health |
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1696 |
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Labourer prosecuted for "stealing" the vicars
daughter |
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1716 |
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Income from Beckingham
Hall bequeathed to New England Co. |
Revd. Williams |
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1700 |
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Sometime in this century the original Beckinham Hall was destroyed |
Beckingham Hall |
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1722 |
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Daniel Defoe wrote about the Ague around the Blackwater |
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Public Health |
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1736 |
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Earliest recorded newspaper article about the village |
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Newspaper and Court Reports |
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1736 |
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Great tide burst the
seawall and drowned 5 people in the decoys |
Hearsay & Folklore |
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1760 |
s |
The heyday of smuggling in the area |
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Smuggling |
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1760 |
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Earliest records of Goldhanger Fair |
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1767 |
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Clockmaker & silversmith lived and worked in The Square |
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Jacob Mickelfield |
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1768 |
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Hignams Manor decribed by Philip Morant |
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Ancient Documents |
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1776 |
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The Blackwater Estuary
froze over, causing unemployment in the area |
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1778 |
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Village has 50 households with a population of 205 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1780 |
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Sketch of the Church from this time showing three gables |
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Art from the past |
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1787 |
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Rector takes Longwick
farmer to court for non-payment of tithes |
Ancient documents |
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1790 |
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Thomas Lee reclaims
saltmashes near Bounds Farm with a
seawall |
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1795 |
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William Bentall invents the Goldhanger plough at Cobbs Farm |
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William Bentall |
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1795 |
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A plan for a Redoubt at Goldhanger - that never happened |
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Plans that never happened |
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1800 |
s |
At this time The Barrow Marshes had many Goldhanger connections |
The Barrow Marshes |
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1801 |
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Village
has 48 households with a population of 331 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1805 |
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St Peters Church donated 2 shillings towards Nelson's victory |
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Maura Benham Book |
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1810 |
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The end of salt making in the village |
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Estuary |
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1811 |
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Earliest date recorded for the Friendly Brothers Society |
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Friendly Brothers society |
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1805 |
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William Bentall moves business to Heybridge near the canal |
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Characters from the past |
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1813 |
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A Parish Poorhouse has 11 residents |
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1814 |
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John Christopher
Atkinson, famous historian, born in Goldhanger |
Local authors |
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1820 |
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The Goldhanger salt works at Bounds Farm closed down |
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Salt extraction |
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1822 |
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First reference to Coastguards at Goldhanger |
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Smuggling |
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1832 |
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A
sales poster exists for the Rectory and Parsonage |
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Ancient Documents |
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1838 |
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Earliest reference to red brick walls in churchyard. See 1850s |
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1839 |
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42 children attending school in the Church vestry |
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1839 |
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Weslyan Chapel built in Head Street |
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Goldhanger Lost |
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1841 |
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Village has 108 households with a population of 520 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1841 |
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Parish Poorhouse has
3 residents |
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1842 |
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Parish Poorhouse was sold off |
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Charities for the sick and
poor |
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1845 |
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Henry Co Coape wrote his first book |
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Henry Coe Coape |
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1846 |
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The Revd. Charles Brian Leigh was appointed Rector |
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Revd. C B Leigh |
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1851 |
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Rev. C B Leigh built a
new Rectory, now called Goldhanger House |
Revd. C B Leigh |
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1849 |
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Revd Jay went to India and taught Maharajah Duleep Singh |
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Revd. William James Jay |
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1850 |
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370 gallons of Geneva found in an outhouse in the village |
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Smuggling at Goldhanger |
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1851 |
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Village has a population of 535 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1851 |
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Mr Ponder's beehive design shown at the Great Exhibition |
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Virtual Museum |
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1850 |
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Architect Ewan Christian
describes the architecture the Rectory |
a history of the Rectory |
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1850 |
-80 |
Red brick walls built along the village streets |
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Red Brick Walls |
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1850 |
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Henry
Coe Coape was a prolific author at this time |
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Local authors |
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1850 |
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The Church was refurbished and new fittings added |
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Local sculptures |
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1860 |
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Pitt
Cottages on the Lt.Totham Rd junction used as the school |
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1870 |
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First reference to the Cricketers Inn in Church St. |
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The Cricketers Inn |
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1870 |
s |
Local population drops due to migration |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1871 |
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Dr Salter: "busy
vaccinating against smallpox" |
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Public Health |
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1873 |
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Henry Co Coape wrote "Ringwoods of Ringwood" |
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Henry Coe Coape |
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1873 |
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First Coastguard Cottages built in Church St. |
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Coastguards |
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1875 |
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The Goldhanger Windmill ceases operation |
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1875 |
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Church of England school built in Church Street |
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Village School |
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1880 |
ish |
the last Goldhanger Lord of the Manor owned Osea Island |
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Osea Island history |
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1881 |
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Village has a population of 498 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1882 |
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Plans for a railway through Goldhanger |
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Plans that never happened |
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1884 |
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The Essex Earthquake was almost certainly felt in the village |
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1890 |
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"Birds of Essex" published with much local information, including... |
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Miller Christy |
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1890 |
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The Goldhanger Decoy Ponds are described |
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Miller Christy |
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1890 |
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Four Coastguards monitor sea wall and live in Church St. |
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Smuggling |
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1891 |
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The Revd. C B Leigh was declared bankrupt |
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Revd. C B Leigh |
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1893 |
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The Revd. C B Leigh retired after 47 years as Rector |
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Revd. C B Leigh |
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1895 |
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Revd. Gardner started a
joint Goldhanger/Lt Totham Parish Magazine |
Revd Gardner |
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1897 |
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First car in Goldhanger was photographed |
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Groups |
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1898 |
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Church bells upgraded to a peel of 6 |
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Bells |
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1899 |
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The churchyard was extended |
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1900 |
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Isolation tents put up in Goldhanger for diphtheritic patents |
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Public Health |
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1900 |
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First
car registered in Goldhanger to Rex Page |
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1900 |
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Prince Nicholas, later to be Tsar, stayed at the Chequers |
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The Chequers Inn |
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1901 |
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Village has a population of only 400 |
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The population of Goldhanger |
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1902 |
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F. Charrington
buys Osea Island as a "Temperance Resort" |
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History of Osea Island |
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1903 |
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Goldhanger Friendly
Brothers is re-formed after funds were stolen |
Friendly Brothers society |
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1904 |
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First trip to Spitzbergen by the Rector |
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Spitzbergen |
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1905 |
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Village streets first surfaced with Tarmacadam |
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1907 |
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Second Expedition to Spitzbergen organised from the village |
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Spitzbergen |
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1908 |
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Ellacombe Chimes mechanism installed on the church bells |
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Bells |
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1908 |
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Third expedition to
Spitzbergen organised by the
Revd.Gardner |
Portraits |
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1908 |
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First telephone installed
in the village at the Rectory (?5 per year) |
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1909 |
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Redhills around Goldhanger Creek excavated |
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Archaeology |
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1909 |
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Essex author published an article about the Stone in The Square |
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Miller Chisty |
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1909 |
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Canon Francis Dobson was born at Hall Farm |
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Francis Dodson |
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1910 |
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Ernest Mansfield published "Astria - the Ice Maiden" |
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the
book in full |
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1910 |
ish |
Petrol pumps are installed in The Square |
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1912 |
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The Parish Room was built on the Revd. Gardners land |
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Parish Rooms |
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1914 |
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Last known "Juggy Rose" Toy Fair held on Whit Monday |
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1914 |
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House-to-house collections for the "War Fund" |
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The Great War |
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1914 |
-18 |
Seventeen parishioners lost their lives in The Great War |
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1914 |
-18 |
Crawshay Frost's WW-1
photos are in the Imperial War Museum |
Crawshay Frost |
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1914 |
-18 |
Revd. Gardner wrote
articles in the parish magazine about the war effort |
Revd. Gardner |
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1915 |
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45 Goldhanger men have "joined the colours" |
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Great-War |
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1915 |
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World War I - "Flight Station" constructed at
Gardeners Farm |
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Great War - Flight Station |
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1916 |
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Boys of 13 are permitted to work on the farms |
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1917 |
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BE12 aircraft from
Goldhanger shot down Zeppelin over Theberton |
The Great War |
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1918 |
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20 aircraft leave the aerodrome for sortie on Ypes |
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1918 |
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Two Flying Officers killed locally and buried in the
Churchyard |
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The Great War |
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1918 |
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Meeting held to plan the War memorial |
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Great War - building |
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1919 |
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The Rector planned to have field guns in the Churchyard |
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Plans that never happened |
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1919 |
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Commodore Augustus Agar
awarded the VC while based at Osea Island |
Great
War - HMS Osea |
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1919 |
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End of WW-1 celebrations held in the school |
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The Great War |
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1919 |
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Mr Bentall donated "Sergents Mess" as chapel in
Heybridge |
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Characters |
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1919 |
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Fire at The Parsonage was put out by villagers |
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1919 |
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A Cricket Club was formed |
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Cricket in The Park |
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1920 |
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The dedication service for the new War memorial held |
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The Great War |
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1920 |
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New football club formed at a meeting in The Parish Rooms |
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1921 |
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New village well dug in The Square |
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Village pump |
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1922 |
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Aerodrome facilities removed |
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Flight Station |
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1923 |
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The coastguards left the village |
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1923 |
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Stanley Wilkin purchased Bounds Farm |
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Stanley S Wilkin |
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1924 |
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St Peters organ blower's salary increased from 5 to 6
shillings |
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1924 |
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Stanley Wilkin becomes preacher at the Weslyan Chapel |
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Stanley S Wilkin |
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1925 |
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Crawshay Frost rents a Costguard cottage for a schoolroom |
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Crawshay Frost |
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1925 |
-26 |
Charles
Mann was landlord of the Chequers Inn for two years |
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Charles Mann |
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1926 |
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Jack Spitty became landlord of the Chequers |
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Jack Spitty |
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1927 |
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First phase of Maldon Road houses built with new well
& pump |
Selection of
Postcards |
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1929 |
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Poppy Gardner lost an arm
in a accident with a generator at the Rectory |
Revd. Gardner |
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1930 |
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Barn at Rockleys
converted for village drama and operatic society |
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1930 |
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Grass airstrip on the "Rough" used by the Rector's
family |
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Revd. Gardner |
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1930 |
s |
Lindsay Fitzgerald Hay wrote several novel at Follyfaunts |
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Local authors |
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1933 |
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Dr Salter's diaries were
published with many entries about Goldhanger |
Virtual Library |
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1934 |
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H C Frost wrote article
in The London Illustrated News on owls |
Local authors |
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1935 |
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Court case held over illegal winkle picking in Creek |
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1936 |
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Stanley Wilkin advertising his famous Whippets for sale |
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Stanley S Wilkin |
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1936 |
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An "Appreciation" of
Revd. Gardner on his death printed in the Parish Magazine |
Revd. Gardner |
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1937 |
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New bus shelter commemorates King George VI's coronation |
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1937 |
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New village
hall built in Head Street |
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1937 |
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Mains
electricity and water supply installed in the village |
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1937 |
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Mains electricity installed in church at a cost of ?36 |
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1937 |
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Coronation celibrations in The Square |
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1938 |
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Proposal to demolish 23 cottages is recorded in local paper |
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Ancient Documents |
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1939 |
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Article about Crawshay Frost in local paper |
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Crawshay Frost |
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1940 |
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World War II - search light positioned on cricket pitch |
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World War II memories |
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1940 |
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ME-140 fighter aircraft cashed near Charity Farm |
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1940 |
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First of a series of ancient barns in th evillage were lost |
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Goldhanger Lost - barns |
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1940 |
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Village Brass Band practice in the Weslyan Chapel |
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1941 |
s |
Hall Farm barn struck by
incendiary, and put out by AFS team |
World War II memories |
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1941 |
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An air-raid shelter was built on the school playground |
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The School |
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1942 |
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Major Bill "Hoppy" Hopwood participated in the St.Nazaire raid |
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Bill Hopwood |
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1942 |
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Boston bomber crashed in the estuary near Lauristons |
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Archaeology |
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1942 |
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Iron railings were removed from churchyard for the war effort |
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1942 |
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Spitfire crashed in the estuary off the east end of Osea
Island |
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Archaeology |
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1942 |
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The Rector was appointed as an RAF chaplin |
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1942 |
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Contents of the Church insured for ?1000 war damages |
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1944 |
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Jack Cohen (TESCO founder) started Goldhanger Fruit Farms |
Characters |
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1945 |
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VE day celebrations were held in The Square |
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1946 |
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Major Hay's Ming china was sold at Sotheby's |
Major L F Hay |
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1948 |
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A new rectory built in Church St and the 1850s building sold |
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1950 |
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Village cricket pitch in "The Park" returned to
arable land |
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Goldhanger Lost -
cricket |
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1950 |
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British
Legion Hall built for veterans with local donations |
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1950 |
s |
The barge called "Snowdrop" hulked in the Creek |
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Map |
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1950 |
s |
Permanent Secretary to
the Ministry of Transport lived in Goldhanger House |
Sir Gilmour Jenkins |
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1950 |
s |
Crawshay Frost claimed to find ancient ship in the Creek |
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Archaeology |
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1950 |
s |
The council demolished many cottages |
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Goldhanger Lost -
cottages |
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1951 |
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Church bells upgraded to a peel of 8 |
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Bells |
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1951 |
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The old bellframe was made into domestic items |
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Local sculptures |
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1952 |
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Cricket in The Park
was discontinued |
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1953 |
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Village celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II Coronation... |
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...events described here |
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1953 |
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The East Coast floods caused breaches of the seawall |
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Seawall |
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1959 |
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Goldhanger Sailing Club formed |
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1962 |
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Services ended in the Wesleyan chapel |
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Wesleyan Chapel |
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1964 |
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The nearest railway line closed down |
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Local railways in the past |
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1967 |
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British
Legion Hut moved to become Purleigh cricket club hut |
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More Goldhanger Lost |
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1968 |
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Robotic
elephants was developed at Folly Faunts, called... |
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Eletrophants |
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1960 |
s |
Peter Padfield wrote two books while living in Fish St |
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Local authors |
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1970 |
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The Wesleyan chapel was sold for ?100 |
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More
Goldhanger Lost |
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1970 |
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Plan for the Wesleyan chapel to be used as a butchers |
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Plans that never happened |
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1970 |
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Dutch Elm disease changes the local scenery |
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Nature - lost Elms |
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1970 |
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A young
farm worker from village was electrocuted and killed on farm |
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1970 |
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Goldhanger postman made daily deliveries to Osea Island |
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Kenny on the Causeway |
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1974 |
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Alfredo
Zomparelli was murdered in Soho while living in Fish St. |
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1977 |
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The Queen's Jubilee celebrations held in The Square with a Maypole |
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in Panoramic scenes
&
Group-photos |
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1977 |
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Jubilee celebrations captured on video... |
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Jubilee videos |
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1977 |
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The Village school closed |
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The School |
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1977 |
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School bell was moved into the church "for safe keeping" |
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Hearsay & Folklore |
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1977 |
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Planning application to build on the school field |
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Plans that never happened |
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1977 |
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Maura Benham published Goldhanger - An Estuary Village |
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Maura Benham Book |
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1980 |
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The
Parish Rooms were leaning and were demolished |
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Head St Postcards |
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1981 |
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Village party held at
Folly Faunts for Charles and Diana's wedding |
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1981 |
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Celebrations in The Square for Charles and Diana's wedding |
Jubilees & wedding videos |
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1981 |
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BBC TV programme about Osea Is, partly made in the The Chequers |
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Osea Island videos |
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1984 |
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The Ernie Johnson bell trophy was presented |
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Bells |
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1985 |
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Jeremy Bamber was
arrested in Head St for the murder of his family |
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1986 |
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BBC get schoolchildren to record "every day life" of
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External Links |
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1987 |
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The October storms cause significant damage in the village |
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1990 |
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Hall Farm used for the last time as a farmhouse |
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Church St Postcards |
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1990 |
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Goldhanger History paper archives were formed |
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Virtual Library |
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1990 |
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An analysis of the Chequers building was undertaken |
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A history of the building |
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1993 |
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Maura Benham wrote the history of the Wesleyan Chapel |
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Maura Benham |
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1998 |
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School re-opens as Wheatlands Nursery |
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2000 |
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Two year calendar/booklet records the Millennium |
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Millennium Calendar |
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2000 |
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A new village sign commemorates the Millennium |
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Local sculptures |
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2000 |
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Osea Island purchased by a London music producer |
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Osea Island history |
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2002 |
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The Queen's Golden Jubilee was celebrated in the village |
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Jubilee photos |
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2002 |
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Jubilee celebrations captured on video... |
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Jubilee videos |
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2002 |
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Cyril Southgate wrote his early memories of Goldhanger |
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Local authors |
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2003 |
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Petrol & service station in Church St closed down |
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2003 |
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The Post Office on Maldon Rd closed down |
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2003 |
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Friendly Brother 100 year anniversary since reforming |
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Friendly Brothers society |
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2004 |
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Goldhanger Digital Archives created |
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Virtual Library |
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2005 |
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"Funeral of a Bellringer" broadcast on BBC Radio-4 |
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3-min. extracts |
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2005 |
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"Osea Island became a drugs rehabilitation centre called “the Retreat” |
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Osea Island history |
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2006 |
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New Maldon Salt works built at Longwick Farm |
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Salt extraction |
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2006 |
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Joe Canning wrote a
semi-biographical novel around Goldhanger |
Local authors |
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2006 |
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Ernest Mansfield’s past uncovered |
Mansfield uncovered |
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2007 |
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Conservation area review undertaken by MDC |
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Conservation Area |
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2007 |
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The last Village shop closed down |
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2008 |
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Ernie Johnson bellringers trophy was returned to Goldhanger |
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Virtual Museum |
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2009 |
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Goldhanger in the Past went on-line |
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more about this website |
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2009 |
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Sailing Club celebrated its 50th year anniversary |
External Links |
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2010 |
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Community room built onto St Peter's church |
History of St Peters |
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2010 |
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Fish St.
Bakery restored as a shop for the Gala Weekend |
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2010 |
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Site of Goldhanger Flight Station becomes a farm shop |
External Links |
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2010 |
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Osea Island let as music studio, for holidays, parties, film sets, etc. |
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Osea Island history |
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2011 |
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"Swedish cottages" on the Maldon Rd replaced |
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Maldon Rd postcards |
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2012 |
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Biography
of Goldhanger resident Ernest Mansfield published |
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Spitzbergen - prospecting
for gold |
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2012 |
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Diamond Jubilee celebrations in the Village |
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Jubilee panoramic views |
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2012 |
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Jubilee celebrations captured on video... |
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Jubilee videos |
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2012 |
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The village pump in The Square was restored |
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Village pump restoration |
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2013 |
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Virtual Museum and Library added to the website |
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the virtual museum |
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2013 |
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Maldon Salt works at Longwick Farm is expanded |
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Salt extraction |
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2013 |
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The Cricketers Inn re-opens with local landlords |
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The Cricketers Inn |
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2013 |
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Salty Dogs Tearoom & Gallery opens in
The Square |
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a Salty Dogs scene |
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2014 |
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A new plaque was unveiled on the War Memorial |
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New Plaque |
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2015 |
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Plaque was placed at Gardners Farm to record 100 years since the Flight Station opened |
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the plaque |
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2015 |
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New style Parish Magazine has local history articles and images provided by DN |
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all the articles |
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2016 |
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Salty Dogs Tearoom & Gallery closed down |
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a Salty Dogs scene |
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2018 |
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Great War 100th anniversary of the Armistice celebrated in the village |
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Armistice celebration |
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2019 |
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The Village Hall extension was opened with a special ceremony |
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Scenes from the ceremony |
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2020 |
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A special booklet was produced in the village for VE-75 |
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in the virtual library |
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2020 |
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During Covid-19 lock-down the new village Facebook group became a real asset |
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Goldhanger Support Group |
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2020 |
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VE-75 celebrations in the village during the Covid-19 lock-down |
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Town Crier video & street scene photos |
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2020 |
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Carol singing outdoors in December was one of few options available |
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Carol singing in The Square |
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2021 |
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Goldhanger participated in the worldwide 200th anniversary of the Ellacombe Chimes |
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Over 120 videos were submitted |
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2021 |
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November - Remembrance Day singing outside The Chequers |
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Remembrance Day singing |
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2021 |
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December - Carol singing outside The Chequers |
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Carol singing |
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2021 |
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December - Goldhanger lost one of its most well known and loved characters... |
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Gwenda Wolstenholme |
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2022 |
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June 2-5th - Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th Jubilee celebrations at Goldhanger... |
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Goldhanger Celebrations |
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2022 |
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Sept 8th - Muffled bells rang out on the death of Queen Elizabeth II... |
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Muffled bells for the Queen |
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2022 |
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Sept 11th - King Charles III proclamation in The Square... |
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Proclamation in The Square |
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2022 |
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October - the Church organ was refurbished, rotated and re-decorated... |
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St-Peters Organ |
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2023 |
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May - the Church weather vane was restored & regilded for the Coronation... |
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Weather Vane Renovation |
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2023 |
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May 6th - Local celebrations for King Charles III Coronation... |
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Coronation Celebrations |
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2023 |
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December - Twenty four Advent Calendar windows displayed around the village... |
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Recent memorable scenes |
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2024 |
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January - The Cricketers Inn closed and the building was put up for auction... |
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History of the Cricketers Inn |
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2024 |
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April - a re-broadcast on BBC East Sounds of DWN recalling the “Gold Rush”... |
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Ernest Mansfield’s past |
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2024 |
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May - “London Ride 2024” passed through the village... |
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Recent memorable scenes |
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2024 |
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June 7th - D-Day 80 years on was celebrated in the Village Hall... |
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the D-Day 80 VH event |
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last update July 2024 |
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