Goldhanger related videos

a collection of over 70 videos produced by the local historian and by others. Most, but not all, are held on YouTube.

NOTE: due to USA COPPA legislation, videos showing children, even when recorded 40 years ago or photographed 100 years ago...

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created or includes the local historian - most recent first...

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The Bell towers of the Essex Coast

Ragstone Bell towers in Essex have an origin revealing they had several purposes when first built using a stone that had come a long way

https://youtu.be/407RlUqnLW8

Goldhanger Creek in the Past

using early postcards and photos

https://>https://youtu.be/N7LfNfjqqT4

a look around The Square at Goldhanger

using early postcards

https://youtu.be/z2V9c86nT6A

Millbeach and the Millbeach Hotel

a pictorial history

 using early postcards

from 1890 to 2020

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qtal6Y_Tzw

Ellacombe Chimes 2021 Bicentenary ring

chimed at Goldhanger on 26-June

as part of a worldwide celebration

of the 200th year of its invention

www.facebook.com/groups/....

‘We’ll Meet Again’

played on St Peters Ellacombe Chimes

and recorded for the VE-75 weekend.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg_YvjnJsJ4

The Last Post on the Ellacombe Chimes

played at 11am on 11th November 2020 during the 2nd  lockdown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmKEP8ILQbY

 

BBC Essex Quest visits Goldhanger

an audio recording made of a visit to The Square on Sunday 4th March 2018.

Some still photos are added to the video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wap0qQGIMfw

 

Goldhanger’s Town Crier

recorded in advance for

the VE-75 weekend

during ‘lockdown’.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUIbtlWwINA

Zeppelins Busters over the Blackwater

In 1915 a "Flight Station" was built at Goldhanger close to the

 Blackwater Estuary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M50R2ZZdCc

The Ellacombe hymn tune

played on St Peters Ellacombe Chimes

and recorded for the VE-75 weekend.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR7N3Tg9xNA

Osea Island - images from the past

a pictoral history of Osea  - using postcards and historical documents of the early farm, the Charrington and

the HMS Osea periods

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLU8GQqVkJ8

 

The Chequers Inn, Goldhanger

A tour and brief history of The Chequers

the building, the public rooms

famous visitors, past landlords

TV and film appearances, etc.

https://youtu.be/Q-SfqWAA6a8

Ernest Mansfield

A YouTube “playlist” of 7 videos relating to Ernest Mansfield and his mining activities on Svalbard/Spitsbergen

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10EQEprpI9Zq...

Now & Then

a comparison between early postcards

and today’s village scenes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8pqgltXTxA

 

A "Method" on the Goldhanger

 Ellacombe Chimes

Demonstration of a "Method" on an Ellacombe Chimes. Produced as part of the Ellacombe Chimes support website

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH6wFxg_JDk

a short history of St Peter’s Church

based on a tour around and in the building

https://youtu.be/y98RsENRwOI

Goldhanger residents from the past

Images of residents from photographs taken between 1890 and 1930

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFUBNEmhZU

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Beckingham Hall Gatehouse

a short history of this tudor structure

on the Goldhanger side of Tolleshunt Major

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7szuhTdAFqg

Goldhanger Boys sing for the

Queen's 90th birthday

"Goldhanger Boys" performing patriotic songs in Goldhanger Village Hall in 2016

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPm7iidKtSY

Osea Island Reminiscences in 1981

...by Goldhanger residents

a 20 minute film made by Osea resident Andrew Gosling and shown on BBC1

not available it seems in the BBC archive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrfAh36oskw

Goldhanger Boys in 2013

Singing 1960 pop songs at a concert in

 the Village Hall

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqbpbqmn-Yc

Ernest Mansfield

 Gold prospector extraordinaire

1862 – 1924. Gold prospector & author

 - a brief summary of his life

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCBGiwV2cI

Goldhanger history

A 2014 introduction to the

Goldhanger history website

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dKrrNyhDug

 

 

Setting up the Ellacombe Chimes

at Goldhanger

Produced as part of the

Ellacombe Chimes support website

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCxgokNeBvY

DWN on Antenna in 1990

David Newman on a BBC Antenna programme

 about Safety critical software

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpW8f8p70o

 

 

 

Goldhanger postcard scenes

A tour around the village of Goldhanger using scenes from early postcards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70FnWMXGNU

Flowers in St Peters Churchyard

A dedication to Kathryn Edwards

 née Kathryn Evans in 2014

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iXfO-_iSpY

 

 

Jubilee and Coronation Celebrations            ( first four and last two have been edited by the local historian ) 

Goldhanger 1977 Jubilee Celebrations

Video clips from this memorable

 village event

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA8rEHeLrCY

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Goldhanger 2002 Jubilee Celebrations

Video clips from this memorable

 village event

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2moWP-aBPqM

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Goldhanger 1977 Jubilee Celebrations

A video made by the late David Webb

https://youtu.be/CGPhe4JXLR0

Goldhanger 2012 Jubilee Celebrations

Video clips from this memorable

village event

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8VCSJiQ3Y

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Goldhanger 2022 Jubilee Celebrations

the welcoming to the Killy’s Garden Party

at Padmalayam

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wefe6Fzlx6w

(the first 9-mins of a 2-hour video)

Goldhanger 2022 Jubilee Celebrations

the presentations at the Killy’s Garden Party

at Padmalayam

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OzcJ_KXAE

(see 46-mins and 1h 11-mins of a 2-hour video)

Goldhanger 2022 Jubilee Celebrations

on the seawall with the Jubilee Choir

and the beacon

https://youtu.be/AQWdxLuBkfo

Goldhanger 2023 Coronation celebrations

a sing-along in The Square

on Saturday 6-May

https://youtu.be/VtI_FNURR5o

 

 

created by others - not in a particular order...

The Ellacombe Chimes, Goldhanger

Paul Butterworth records David Newman

demonstrating the device

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD6kjWM-6pY

St Peters Church Goldhanger

Paul Butterworth tours the village,

The Creek and then the Church

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKwfGGnjVMM

Goldhanger Village Hall

a promotional video developed by Jill Crooks

in 2018 for the Village Hall Improvement Project

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOkc6AZKITg

Oysters Farm Goldhanger

Scenes of the oyster beds

near Goldhanger in 2013

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZGoE_xpVg

Drone flight over Goldhanger

passes over the Creek and the village

at 120m height in 2018

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RxcsQyeic4

Queens Diamond Jubilee Firework Display

Firework display in the Creek to celebrate the Queens Diamond Jubilee at Goldhanger

 in 2012. The video was produced by

Fireworks Crazy

vimeo.com/43570285

Plans to include Essex in a

new Coast Path Scheme

A report by ITV News presenter Victoria Lampard on these plans, recorded on the seawall and broadcast in April 2017

www.itv.com/news/anglia/2017-04-03...

The village of Salcott-cum-Virley

Eustace King, former Goldhanger undertaker, and resident of Salcott-cum-Virley, talks in 1975 about smuggling in the past.

eafa.org.uk/work/?id=2029

Edith May “Bygones” with Jack Spitty

Landlord of The Chequers at Goldhanger and skipper of barge Edith May, he appeared in this Anglia TV programme in 1972

www.youtube.com/watch?v=97xZYArAYp0

Goldhanger

A drone’s view of the Creek in 2016, with clos-up passes over the wreck of the barge “Snowdrop”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosJhwMR09k

Goldhanger Creek, Heybridge, Essex

 by Skydronauts.uk

Drone views of the Creek in 2016

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_ggKp83YU

Essex Pub lunch - The Chequers Inn

A walk from the Chequers, into the Church, down to the Creek and back in 2014

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34DbC_Lbq0

Goldhanger, Essex, UK

Alan Heath took his motorhome to Goldhanger and toured the village in 2015. “Behind the church there are fine views of the Blackwater estuary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFpZDu0KSfc

Sea Wall Walk at Goldhanger

drone views around the Creek

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Huds3UXS-w

A Walk in Goldhanger

LA based travel & gardening  writer and blogger, Kaye Kittrell and her friend “Fiona” visit “the ancient village of Goldhanger in Essex”. They walk on the seawall trail and visit the church -  in 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKCPFt4YT0

Oyster Farm

More scenes of the oyster beds near Goldhanger in 2013

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpFFhSf8biM

Wilkin & Sons project with Metzer (IL)

at Goldhanger

EU project to encourage  new technologies and prevent excess water usage. (2019)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq9PzoFWVtA

 

Goldhanger village from a drone

with the Creek make in 2019

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spQRTeZPV4

Goldhanger Creek

showing the wreck of the barge “Snowdrop”

made in 2019

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX9ZoWPyGGY

Pumpkin Patch at Cobbs Farm

autumn 2019

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b3L7x21Gng

Trying the bells on Goldhanger Gala day

visitors could have a go at bell ringing in 2018

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHD6vMF0qyo

Teddy Bears parachuted

off St Peters Church tower

in an annual event

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCc5D0-vVY

The Bells of Goldhanger

in memory of Private Harry Lewis

part of a peal of Dunholme Surprise Major

rung at Peter's Church on 21st March 2018.

Harry Lewis died on 21 March 1918

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTC492gaJDE

A Lovely Walk in Goldhanger

by Marcus Taylor of Maldon

“Thought I’d get out for a little walk by the estuary at Goldhanger in Essex”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbqNpl43gk

 

“A Beautiful Essex Village” in 2023

made using a Drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeddBIKGuZw

Creek & village scenery

from the Blackwater

made using a Drone

https://youtu.be/YweIYjZTl58

Lauriston Farm promotion

with Bob and Marion Christy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O1ADogk7BU

 

The wreck of the barge Snowdrop

The Thames barge ‘Snowdrop’

was abandoned in 1950 and has

sat in Goldhanger creek ever since.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFuxT5P8eVs

 

 

Osea Island - historical collection...

Osea Island - images from the past

a pictoral history of Osea  - using postcards and historical documents of the early farm, the Charrington and

the HMS Osea periods

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLU8GQqVkJ8

Secret Naval Base at a Secret Island

“World War one on the BBC”

amazing panoramic views

of HMS Osea

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02glfrh 

Home of the Coastal Motor Boat

Imperial War Museum video

www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023109

WRNS at a coastal torpedo boat base

Imperial War Museum video

www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023171

Boom Jumping Trials with CMB 11

Imperial War Museum video

www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023110

 

Osea Island for sale in 1977

a BBC television clip from that time

www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/397825580590478

and at

drive.google.com/file/...

Osea Island Reminiscences in 1981

...by Goldhanger residents

a 20 minute film made by Osea resident Andrew Gosling and shown on BBC1

not available it seems in the BBC archive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrfAh36oskw

The Causeway Retreat in2009

the ‘addiction treatment centre’

located on the island

from 2005 to 2010

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjddkAIO2pQ

Osea Island – in recent times...

Aerial views of Osea Island in June 2020

using a Drone in high quality

https://youtu.be/N4AhzGmpKVU

Osea Island “Corporate Retreat”  in 2022

using a Drone in high quality

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QivhjyOerq0

 

 

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