A Century of Romford offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of …
Neil R. Storey’s macabre calendar chronicles the darker side of life in Essex. Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre funerals, disaster and peculiar …
Witches, martyrs, bodysnatchers, Zulus and rioting peasants! The Black Death in Chelmsford! The horrible true stories of the Moat Farm Murder and the death of Jael Denny! The …
This fascinating compilation of reminiscences records life in Brentwood, a town once described as a tiny hamlet on the Great Essex Road but now an expanding borough with a growing …
Containing several stories about the people of Essex, this book offers an insight into different people's lives at Christmastime. It includes several sketches and photographs of …
Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be …
Once regarded as the capital of Roman Britain, the town of Colchester has witnessed many events and seen many changes during its long history. This book describes the town's …
This evocative compilation of reminiscences records life as it used to be in Colchester from the late nineteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth. Contributors’ …
For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-line against foreign invasion, from …
The town of Epping is at least a thousand years old. There has been a market here for much of that time and the town achieved further status as a focus for the stagecoaches to …
