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Originally from Ipswich he had been a mariner on tall ships. In Coggeshall he joined the Fire Brigade where he was much liked and became Sub-Captain. His son George married a Kelvedon girl, Lily Hull, in 1910 and they opened their own Fish Shop in Kelvedon. Eventually in 1913 the call of the sea proved too much and Robert returned to Ipswich; his comrades in the Fire Brigade giving him a hearty farewell meal at the Chapel Hotel. Robert went back to working on the boats and also had a sailing boat that he raced. Courtesy his great-grandson Roger Southgate Around 1908 Ref; 104/98 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40569734.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18537957825de504c08fc9e.jpgThis was originally the roundhouse of a windmill. The mill was taken down because there was another, bigger, windmill next door and it was thought 'there was not enough wind to drive two'. The roundhouse was for some years the home of Harry Nunn (one of Dick Nunn's children) who, like his father, was also a blacksmith. Harry lived in the family home in Swan Yard with his mother (Dick's widow) and carried on his trade in his father's old smithy there. Harry moved into this tiny house on Tilkey Road when he retired. Harry died at the end of December 1933 aged 68. Later 7 Tilkey Road. Date; Not known - c1900? Ref; 22/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004860.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17883036305a71e1b047350.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34780580.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19074301465af624865ab46.jpgThe chimney shown here belongs to [b]King's Gravel End Brewery[/b] and emerges from the roof of the main brewery building. The brewery was run by [b]William[/b], J K King's son by his first marriage. It was William's son, Ernest who started his own seed business (E W King) when he was refused a job with his grandfather's firm. The last brewer was Stanley J King and he stopped brewing and sold off his public houses to Messrs Daniel and Sons, brewers of West Bergholt, in December 1907. Apparently this purchase and the need to refurbish most of King's tied houses which were in a very rundown condition left Daniels unable to pay its usual dividend and this led to the resignation of its chairman. In Coggeshall the old brewery buildings and the site were bought by John K King (the seedsmen). The chimney was taken down and the brewing equipment cleared. The building continued to be used as a warehouse and survived until the site was cleared in the late 1980's. There was a second much taller chimney on the site, not visible here, which belonged to the old silk factory. Ref: 47/20a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36599070.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3933160835bc1b93ed69e0.jpgStoneham Street showing the Locomotive Inn (Detail) August 1908 - DEATH in an INN YARD COGGESHALLL. Late Thursday night, John Musgrove, until lately in the employ Mr. G. C. Creek, mineral water manufacturer, of Coggeshall, was found dead in the yard of the Locomotive Inn. Miss Jepp, a neighbour, heard someone groaning, and found Musgrove lying on the ground, apparently dead. Dr. Corner was sent for, but could only pronounce life extinct. The deceased, since being out of employment, had been sleeping out at night. The Licensee at the time of this photo was Robert Oliver Barnard. On the original photo his name can just be made out on the sign above the doorway left of the gas lamp. [i]Date c1905 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/32a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37060935.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6173002195c031753bdf5e.jpgThe ford at Robinsbridge Road, Osha Smith's cottage in the distance. Date: c1900 Ref: 26/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711800.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16675921325aeecd5d7b31f.jpgWest Street showing J K King's premises. Enlargements from this plate follow. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: 1919-20 Ref: 100/61 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008827.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21455571465a75877a9f038.jpgA closeup of Garner's Brewery cart in the ford alongside Stephen's Bridge. Date: about 1898 Ref: 57/07 Detail https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40138016.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7341906305da1dc1df3c93.jpg[b]Coggeshall Hamlet[/b] The mill pool and houses on Pointwell Lane with part of Pointwell Mill on the right. Date; June 1939 Ref; 63/21 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133199.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5092522755e7b325c05718.jpgAn unidentified airman of the 456th Bomb Squadron, 323rd Bomb Group with his B-26 Marauder (WT-G, serial number 41-31944 "Kactus Kid") at Earls Colne Airfield, Essex County, England. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Earls Colne, WT-G, 131944. 58 missions, no-name. AFM.' Roger Freeman Collection 1943-44 Ref; 104/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35149736.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8870278095b1dbcc7b3353.jpgE W King's seed shop at the top of Bridge Street in 1893. Photo courtesy Kings Seeds. Ref 35/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40580953.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21023372765de6ea6ea63e5.jpgAn unusual, perhaps unique view of the Long Bridge taken from the East side showing some much restored brickwork dating to the 1220's when the bridge was built over the diverted course of the river. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; 1900? Ref; 102/45 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34011437.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20441356845a75dd461590e.jpgAt the scullery door, Bridge House. Gardner's Brewery yard. Date around 1900? Ref: 100/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34618053.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13925628995add0a2a8400b.jpgA posed photo of children waiting hopefully outside Guntons Confectioners and Grocers. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: c1920's? Ref: 100/28 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40639334.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14254393735df7487a5acc1.jpgA tennis party at Highfields. c 1910 Ref; 102/58 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33749977.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13507090935a28199942922.jpg[size=12]<font face="Garamond">[i]<center>Another view of the surviving Silk Mill. It was the upper floor of this part which contained the "Reel Room' which caught fire on Tuesday 28th January 1842. The steam pipe from the boiler to the cylinder set some of the woodwork alight and because it was at night and the factory empty, the fire was not seen until it was well developed. Hundreds of people turned out with buckets and eventually the fire was defeated. The demolished boiler house adjoined on the right.</center>[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133203.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4902666065e7b32701a9eb.jpgL- R. Lt. Lawrence J. Dorsey-P, lt. Walter E. "Walt" Foster-N/B, S/Sgt. Emanuel "Manny" Hauser-EG, Lt. Mike Herrera-TG, S/Sgt. Carl Hofer-RG and Lt. George Hill-Co-P WT-U "Klassie Lassie" Earls Colne Airfield John V Nichols; 'On June 29, 1944, the 323rd attacked the Diguelleville Gun Battery. Due to weather, the bomb run was forced down to 3,000 feet. "Klassie Lassie" was on her 100th mission. She took a flak hit dead on and exploded. No chutes were seen. The pilot, 1st Lt. Oscard J. Boothe was on his 81st combat mission - 16 beyond the supposed 65 mission tour of duty. Among the MIA were Staff Sergeant Adolf C. Hothausen. The other crew members have not been confirmed. There is a memorial at the crash site in France.' Collection of Walter E. Foster (USAF Ret.) Feb. 3 - May 15, 1944 Ref; 104/22 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696202.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1916381585ae9d4eb8aa94.jpgA couple of lads - newspaper delivery boys? outside Moss, the newsagents. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: probably late 1920's. Ref: 100/53c. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36940511.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4965731055bef555682871.jpgThe hunt on Market Hill, E W King in the centre. Photo courtesy Peter Miller/Kings Seeds Date; 1920 Ref 101/52 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/gt-coxall-map https://images.on-this.website/28302_10766762285b54b2b65d960.jpgOverview of the four maps which follow, which are; lower left, lower right, top left, top right, The maps show the field-names recorded on the Tithe award for Great Coggeshall dated 7th March 1854. ERO Reference; D/P 36/27/1A https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34780579.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15391872615af624802faf1.jpg[b]HARES BRIDGE[/b] is where the old main Colchester Road, Stane Street, crosses Robin's Brook. It was called [b]Hares Breg[/b] in 1525, [b]Heres Brydge[/b] in 1567 and [b]Hares Bridge[/b] from 1698 up to 1890 when Beaumont used it in his book, History of Coggeshall. However, when the Ordnance Survey mapped the town for the first edition map of 1875, they decided to drop the 's' and call it [b]Hare Bridge[/b] and so it has remained on the maps ever since. Ignore the maps - [b]it's Hares Bridge![/b] Date: c 1905 Ref: 47/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34416447.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3894127715ac3637037b3c.jpgThe church being rebuilt. Date: 1953-4. Ref: 45/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40661141.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17371416375e07df06371cb.jpgThe remains of Coggeshall Abbey seen across the River Blackwater. Date; ? Ref; 103/01 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34411992.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18719853775ac2b9287c143.jpgUpper Church Street with Sheepcotes on the left and farmland ahead. Date: about 1904 Ref: 44/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40632994.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18816421865df624d4b3267.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40871187.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12152997405e3d361020c47.jpgThe Chapel Hotel named after a chapel which once stood in the centre of Market Hill. Pictured when in the ownership of Ind Coope who had bought the Stoneham Street Brewery in 1925 because they wanted the associated public houses including the Chapel. The brewery was then closed down and the equipment sold but the vicar managed to buy the largest of the brewery buildings and convert it into a parish Hall - St Peter's Hall now called the Village Hall. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; Probably taken in the 1930s Ref; 103 54 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815382.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21262490695a39941d553fb.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34405306.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8332697705ac12346a25a3.jpgRef: 43/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37091246.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_341286725c092ca1932ef.jpgThis seems to be an earlier photo than the others, taken before the house was divided into two. The porch has a single front door and there are no central upstairs windows. The patterns in the brickwork (brick diapering) show up better here and the chimney is dated to the late 16th century. From 'An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3, North East.' Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922. With thanks to Victoria County History, London, for the reference. Date not known Ref 101/?? https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37135149.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_645652145c14e36f665b6.jpg[size=10][Code]<p style="line-height:1.9">[/code]By the early 20th century the narrow carriageway over the bridge was, with the arrival of fast moving motor traffic, becoming even more of a danger to both traffic and pedestrians. On the 8th August 1911, the minutes of the parish council record the following "Request to county council to widen the bridge at the bottom of Grange Hill which on account of the increased motor traffic had become a source of danger to the public." This is probably as close the bridge ever came to being demolished. Fortunately the County Council engineers came up with a scheme to widen the bridge by fitting steel 'I' beams and laying a concrete roadway on top, this created a wider carriageway and gave room for a footpath on the eastern side. The photo shows the bridge just after it was widened, the old cast-iron railings left by the side of the road, ready for disposal. A contemporary note on the back of the photo reads [i]'This is the new horse river bridge, as you see, it is made a lot wider.'[/i] And so it has remained to this day. [i]Photo Date:1912 Photo Ref: 09/08[/i] [b]Sources[/b] 'Coggeshall Abbey and Abbey Mill', Jane Greatorix (Manors Mills & Manuscripts Series) 1999 'Coggeshall Abbey and its Brickwork' by J S Gardner, 1955 (PDF of this available - look at the Home Page of this site) 'A History of Coggeshall' Geo Beaumont, Pub Edwin Potter, Coggeshall, 1890 British Listed Buildings: [url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101123159-long-bridge-coggeshal] Click Here[/url] [url=https://coghist.photium.com] Return to the Home Page [/url] Or continue for more photos of the bridge (right arrow or swipe) [/size]</font>[code]</p>[/code] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004858.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20619257235a71e1a8c1524.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004863.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5716222405a71e1bc0cdbc.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004864.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12112095655a71e1c06a98d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37091949.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12407178785c09ad298e780.jpgFire at Colton and Shearman's scrapyard, Colne Road. (Enlargement) Date: Mid 1960's? Ref: 50/09a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34738303.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4860881055af081b5ece8e.jpgWest Street and the Gravel. Enlargements of this very fine quality postcard follow showing amazing detail especially considering that the original is only about 6"/15cms across. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1920 Ref: 43/21 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40890594.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3314875565e42f8fbe6fa7.jpg[b]Tilkey[/b] was predominantly a working-class settlement for those employed in the brick-making industry. It was first established in the 1200s making bricks for Coggeshall Abbey. There were several kilns here in different locations over the years but production finished in the late nineteenth centur - the gate shown here was the entrance to the last brickworks. Tilkey was always proud of it's independence from Coggeshall and celebrated special occasions in its own way. (See next photo for an enlargement of this plate) Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; possibly around 1900 Ref; 103/56 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36997231.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17094348565bf5a3573e9d6.jpgDemolishing Prospect Place, the site now taken by the houses and bungalows of Windmill Fields. Also some of the 400 Christmas trees we planted, of which now (2018) there are just two left. The greenhouse was one of two which could be moved on rails and used for tomato growing. We also grew soft fruits and brassicas on the land. Date: 1960's Ref: 101/60 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654369.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_504167625ae25803dd076.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">This is the second of the c1925 photos with Market Hill at its centre.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50065803.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1922350599651b3d4426948.jpgOn the right is what was the Bull public house with a single story building against the road (since demolished) and the rest of the premises behind. Next to it is the office of the agent and auctioneer Mr Clark. Next comes Hope Lodge a children's home. Vividly shows the state of the winter roads in those days. Taken from near the 'New Cut' later renamed Albert Place. Date: Around 1913 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/fires-and-firemen https://images.on-this.website/28302_5001954165a1f23b1acb95.jpg<center>A luxurious hardbound book, weighing in at well over a kilo it has 300+ pages, is fully illustrated with over 200 photos, plus many lists, charts and graphs including lists of Coggeshall fires and firemen and of course, features luxurious red end-papers! The Price is £14.50 from 'Normans' Sweet Shop near the town clock. UK delivery is £3.00. Press 'Buy Now' for buying/delivery options</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34011343.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17037193855a75d434960fb.jpgWorkers at Gardner's Brewery during a flood. Date possibly 1914. Ref: 28/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654367.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_711856335ae257f83c41a.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">The tall building centre-right is the old post office. Top left is the three-storied J K Kings Seeds warehouse and behind it Orchard House and Orchard cottages. Behind them is the remaining part of the silk factory which was mostly destroyed in a fire in 1920.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655749.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3616188495ae34f421a6c2.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Lower Right. A bit of Robinsbridge Road at the bottom with Leaper's Row (above) and Mill Lane (below) leading off it. A lot of intensive cultivation evident everywhere in this view. The field under the track, top left, is where the doctor's surgery now stands. Above the track is the Crouches footpath and obscured by shrubs and trees, on the top left is the Quaker burial ground. Just visible top right is the Old Vicarage on West Street.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089161.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12179955125c085740b6cf6.jpgA float by the Coggeshall Brotherhood for 1927 on Market Hill. Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil look on in the background. The Design was based on prizewinning seeds (apparently). The Brotherhood was a friendly/charitable society and organised a horticultural show each year and had their own band. Date: 1927 Ref:41/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/ancient-bridge-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_15445006235a76f612a5bc8.jpgAn engraving of Stephen's Bridge dated 1862. The original bridge was very narrow - only wide enough for a cart. Larger traffic used the ford which ran along the west side of the bridge. In about 1850, in order to widen the roadway a little, the brick parapet was taken down and cast iron railings fitted as shown in the engraving above. This made only a marginal difference as this quote from 1892 makes clear; '[i]the present Horse River bridge is very narrow, and the public have often to wait when vehicles are passing over, the width being only sufficient for one at a time. Aged people and children especially are often exposed to great danger, and the wonder is that one has met with accident here.'[/i] [From the Chelmsford Chronicle 19th August 1892 [url=https://coghist.photium.com/horse-drinking#photo]Next page[/url] . The bridge is very narrow, and the public have often to wait when vehicles are passing over, the width being only sufficient for one at a time. Aged people and children especially are often exposed to great danger, and the wonder is that one has met with accident here. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133202.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5650108405e7b326b6e094.jpgWilliam Randolph Hearst, Jr. (son of the famous newspaper publisher) with a bomber crew of the 323rd Bomb Group, 454th Bomb Squadron, and their B-26 Marauder (RJ-Q Serial Number 41-34879) nicknamed "Little Lulu". Hearst flew with the crew on the mission from Earls Colne, England to Viaduc de Clecy on the afternoon of June 10, 1944. The photograph was taken at Earls Colne Aireld. Footage of the mission is available on British Pathe. Roger Freeman Collection 10 June 1944 Ref; 104/21 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40586257.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7816145765de8f187d2b6b.jpgDickensian Coggeshall. The shop was used from 1893 by E W King the Seedsman after his uncle J K King refused him a job in his seed company. As a result the young EW King started his own rival business. Behind the shop is EW's warehouse on three floors and you can just make out a swing arm with a large pulley wheel which must have been used to lift goods off waggons into the warehouse. EW moved out these premises when his new warehouses were built on Tenterfield alongside Grange Hill. The parish council wrote to Essex County Council in June 1920 bringing their attention 'to the condition of the property on the corner of Bridge Street and that a very bad accident had occurred here a few weeks back'. With fast-moving motor vehicles becoming more common the very narrow road, with front doors opening directly on to it, proved increasingly dangerous. As a result both shop and warehouse were demolished in the early 1920s. Further down the road is the Cricketers Inn and just behind that two cottages - one was a shop - both were later demolished after another letter from the parish council in September 1928 - and for the same reason - a narrow and dangerous road. The site was then used as a car-park for the pub. Date; 1880's? Ref; 102/50 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40655645.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4300181875dff3f7d1247a.jpg[b]The Hitcham School, and Schoolmaster's House[/b] Although from modest beginnings (his father and Grandfather were heather cutters), Hitchan became very prosperous and his estate included Framlingham Castle. The Hitcham schools dated from the seventeenth century and were located in Framlingham, Debenham and Coggeshall, with the purpose of educating 30-40 poor boys in these towns. Hitcham became of aware of the destitution of Coggeshall through his friendship with the Guyon family and it was under Hitcham's bequests that a school was founded and a Schoolmaster appointed in in 1666. Scholars assembled at various locations in the town for instruction before settling in the upper room next to the town clock on Stoneham Street, which was owned by Crane's Charity. Mr Henry Emery was master there for 49 years. The school moved to West Street in 1858/59. The photo shows the new school on West Street which was built in 1858 on a site bought from Coggeshall Church for £100. (This money was used to buy St Nicholas Chapel on Abbey Lane, which was then used as a barn.) Edward Edgar, 1838 to 1914, was the headmaster from January 1865 to April 1912, when the school closed down. He had previously taught for several years at the National School in Stoneham Street and was also in the church choir for 40 years and even the choirmaster for a short time. In Victorian Coggeshall, you could either be a paying pupil, at £4 a year, or you could win a scholarship from the National or British Schools. Most of the boys came from the town, but there were usually outside contingents from Blackwater (Bradwell) and Kelvedon, who stayed to "dinner" at midday. The boys were usually aged between 10 and 14 and stayed for two years, but there were many exceptions to this. They were divided into two divisions, depending on age and ability, and for most of his tenure Edgar was the only teacher, in a one-roomed school, although Francis Cade assisted him from 1879 to 1894. The Hitcham School was a "middle" school, and at 13 or 14 most boys found work as solicitors' clerks, or pupil teachers, or in some local trade, such as wheelwrights, blacksmiths, or gardeners, or worked in the isinglass factory in West Street. Occasionally someone passed a major examination into a college. The school diary (now in the ERO)contains much information about practical conditions like drains, the weather, the water closets, the ordering of materials, and educational issues like the boys' behaviour, the syllabus, examinations and so on. But it also includes matters like local festivals, outings to the sea-side, national and international events and what Coggeshall was like at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. We even had military manoeuvres in the town at one stage! Sir Robert Hitcham's Exhibition Foundation is still operating and awards annual grants to young people under 25 living in Coggeshall who have left school and are going on to higher education or training. Contact; nicjo@btinternet.com https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40654561.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18681647435dfeacd0c7208.jpgSome very fashionable ladies on Market Hill on the eve of WW1. There is no clue as to the identity of the ladies I'm afraid. What looks like a giant feather on one of the hats is I think damage to the emulsion of the photo. c1914 Ref; 102/77 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34813275.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1422302945af8b84b1b9c6.jpgClose-up from the previous plate. The line of pails have been left out for the water-man to fill with drinking water. Many people in Coggeshall had no access to clean water and their needs were supplied by the water cart. Water was drawn from St Peters Well near Vane Lane and delivered at so much per pail. At the far end of the street the gable end of a building can just be seen - this is the only photo that I am aware of showing the Gravel Factory which spanned Robins Brook on the South side of Hare Bridge. Date: about 1896 Ref: 48/08a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34769857.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18758207365af213f4dc5a5.jpgThe Tollhouse (with gas-lamp in position over the door guiding in the weary travellers) stood at the junction of Dead Lane (later called St Peter's Road) and the A120, Colchester Road. Raincroft barn, destroyed by fire in May 1904, can be seen in the distance on the right and opposite, the row of cottages were anciently known as 'Rotten Row'. The road here was a steep hill (for Essex) and the scene of many accidents, maimings and even deaths when wagons and other vehicles got out of control. The Tollhouse Inn stopped trading in about 1965 and was compulsorily purchased in order to build a roundabout to improve road junction with St Peters Road and the Feering Road. This was before the by-pass and the A120 had become increasingly busy. The Toll House was demolished and the site cleared but then nothing happened - perhaps by then the northern bypass was planned and the roundabout was unnecessary. New houses have now been built on the site but the junction is exactly the same as it always was. [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39643086.html#photo]Click here for more on the Toll House[/url][/i] Date; c 1890 Ref 25/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747849.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14152507285a2722aa37b99.jpg<font face="Garamond">A view of the old silk mill wall from the Orchard House end. Orchard House and the cross wing of the mill was saved by the brigades from Coggeshall and Kelvedon. There was no chance of saving the main building as the fire started at lunchtime when no-one was in the building. A strong wind fanned the blaze which ripped through, fed by the thousands of highly combustible dry seeds and extensive timber-work inside. It was one of a series of tragedies to hit the seed company one after the other. More in the book of course!</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39617580.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19816638535d66b5952acfd.jpgHaystacks opposite the Queens Head on the Colchester Road. During the time it was possible to stand in the road without being flattened. During WW2 a bomb fell almost exactly on this spot at 09.45 on 8th October 1940. ‘This is the report filed; ‘Roads blocked due to air raid damage A120 Braintree- Colchester road near the Queens Head public house. I beg to report that an enemy bomb was dropped on the verge of the Braintree- Marks Tey main road about 200 yards east of the Queens head Inn, on the morning of the 8th inst. The road was subsequently close by the police owing to the suspected presence of unexploded bombs in the adjoining meadows. The crater formed in the explosion is approximately fifteen feet in diameter and eight feet deep. Nine yards of granite kerb have been displaced and the six-foot concrete haunch fractured and raised for approximately six yards. The two-inch asphalt surface has been cracked across the entire width of the twenty foot carriageway. A one-inch water pipe has been broken. ‘ Special gangs were on permanent standby to keep communication routes open after bomb damage. A team were quickly set to work and the road was reopened by the next day. Date; c1935? Ref; 44/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764853.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18508406405a2d42e82a890.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40680842.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12316727805e0b61b76f504.jpgWest Street looking towards Market End (Detail). The last and most enlarged detail of the plate. An argument of Coggeshall people make their way down West Street. On the right is the cottage and shop (with a Lyons Cakes sign) now demolished, then the Cricketers, now closed and beyond it the warehouse on three floors which was demolished in the late 1920's to widen the road. The garage on the left is under a teasel loft with access beneath to the JK Kings site, at one time its only entrance. The Garage began as a cycle shop owned by Mr Rudkin who lived at Orchard Cottages (originally Factory Cottages) with his wife Nina and children, Victor and Vera. In WW2 Victor joined the Royal Engineers and in 1942 landed in Singapore but was later captured and put to work on the infamous Burma Railway. He died in captivity on 19th January 1944, aged 24 years. Incidentally, at the time that this photo was taken, the AA, founded in 1905, had 100,000 members, representing one in every three cars in the country. Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1920 Ref: 43/21d2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40638110.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_224485265df6ab755c036.jpgHighfields with some of the dairy herd looked after by James Dyer who occupied the house at that time. Barabara Hodges who was born in Coggeshall around 1935 writes [i]'Highfields was where I often played as a child - by the pond although my mother told me not to as it was bottomless and if I fell in, I would never get out. In the shallow area there were little springs bubbling up - we used to drink the water from them. At the time Highfields was owned by Mr. Anness. who sold milk from a pony and trap round the houses. For some reason we didn't buy our milk from him but our neighbour did and I was very proud one day to be allowed to go out and buy half a pint of milk which he poured straight into the little willow patterned jug that I held. We had our milk from a farm on the Colchester road called Brights. He called for his money on Saturday mornings, on my 6th birthday I remember him giving me sixpence when I told him that I was six that day.'[/i] Courtesy Doug Judd Date; 1940's Ref; 101/79 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133198.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10726689205e7b325755d21.jpgNorman M. "Rock" Rosner (top left wearing officer's cap) served as bombardier/navigator on B-26 Martin Marauder "Honest Injun" and B-26 "Lady Luck" with the 323rd Bomb Group/454th Bomb Squadron based at Earl's Colne in Essex, U.K. Crew members in the photo are: Captain Jack Nye (top right), Arthur Brand (lower left), flight engineer and top turret gunner Ceibert "C.B." Bragg (lower middle), and Enrique Zapeda (lower right). The crew flew a total of 63 Combat Missions over occupied Europe during the war. The Maltese Cross stenciled above the bomb runs was for the crew's downing of an ME-109. "Honest Injun" serial number 41-34695. 1943-44 Ref; 104/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36966236.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14318299075bf2f382b541b.jpg[b]The town lock-up[/b] at Crouches was built around 1846. In presenting the case in support of its construction in January 1846, it was reported that since 1840, 72 people had been sent from Coggeshall for trial at Chelmsford and a further 150 cases had been summarily dealt with. This was the time when Essex had its first professional police force and a lock-up in Coggeshall was though preferable to building an expensive police station. According to George Humphreys, his Grandfather, Samuel Bailey, spent every Christmas for 21 years in this lock-up for drunkenness. (See Annette Newlove's comments below) This building was thoughtlessly demolished in the 1970's, only the door was rescued and that is now in the museum. The building on the right is 'The Engine House' where the fire engine was kept - it was never called a fire station (as it is wrongly named at the moment). The site of the lock up is now part of the surgery car park, so the demolition was obviously well worth-while. Annette Newlove writes:[i] 'George Humphrey's maternal grandad was Samuel Bailey. He was born in Coggeshall in 1845. He married Sarah Wade who was a niece of William and Walter Wade, notorious for being members of The Coggeshall Gang. They were both transported to Van Diemans Land in the early 1850's so may well have been, along with other members of the gang, some of the first occupants of this lock up before being sent to Chelmsford Gaol. There are many newspaper reports of Samuel Bailey being arrested in Coggeshall for drunken behaviour and problems with his wife so he will have been in and out of this place a lot during his lifetime. He was a silk weaver when they married and they had 14 children! He ended up as a farm labourer. The last newspaper report about him entitled 'A Tragic Death' was in The Newsman in Aug 1915. He had been living in The Workhouse in Braintree since May. On Mon 23rd Aug at 9.45am he was found in St Michael's Churchyard by Mrs Ellen Buttle. He was sitting against the wall by the path, cutting at his throat with a large table knife. She went to the police station to report it and PC Rogers found him dying in the churchyard with a terrible wound in his throat extending from ear to ear and a pool of blood beneath his body. At the inquest it was said that Samuel and another inmate, John Gray, had left the workhouse, unauthorised, at 9am. Samuel had said to John 'I have had enough of this, I'm going to cut my throat'. John advised him not to and they parted company in South St. Ellen Buttle said that as he drew the blade across his throat he murmured 'Thank god at last'. A verdict of 'suicide during temporary insanity' was returned. His son, William Bailey, said that his father had been suffering with religious mania for several years.[/i]' Date: May 1941 Ref: 63/30 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40849586.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11370043115e38b7d429050.jpgA lost piece of Coggeshall [b] The Black Barn[/b] which once marked the start of Tilkey proper. The young lady is cycling away from Coggeshall and towards Tilkey which was then very much a separate place and proud of it. Westfield drive now joins Tilkey Road opposite where the barn stood. Just behind the cyclist on the left is the Chase - that and the gate near the edge of the photo are both still in the same place and might help to fix the location. The cyclist may be Florrie Wood. The site of the barn is now a lay-by and Honywood Stores was built there, now converted into a private house. An enquiry to the Coggeshall Facebook Group brought the following story; Who remembers the old black barn on Tilkey Road? I remember it well. I was terrified to walk past it at dusk because of the bats. Oh yes, where they built Honywood Stores, we always used to peep in there! I used to play football against it with Peter and Ian Miller. The wind used to whistle round that old barn found it a bit spooky as a kid. I think the owner was Mr Punt Yes didn’t they call him ‘Punty' ? Yes. He used his wife as a horse. What? She would pull a plough for him. They lived in Tilkey, I think they were short of money, they grew corn and mixed veg, they had a field behind the black barn. Did you ever see it yourself? Yes she was doubled over. He used to thresh the corn with a flail in the barn. [i]I was unsure about including these comments but in the end concluded that the story is not one of abuse but rather an important reminder of the poverty and hardships that many endured in Coggeshall - and also of a couple working together as best they knew. If you have a different view please use the comments section below and I will reassess. Arthur Punt died in 1981 aged 75, his wife Catherine died a year later aged 79.[/i] With thanks to Duncan Saunders and Veronica Cowlin Date; 1950s Ref; 43/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40227534.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11448632775dadcc77b2706.jpg[b]The legendary Edna's Café[/b] Used by locals and lorry drivers who were using the main A120 which ran past right outside in this days before the by-pass was built. Also one of the meeting places of the 'Coggeshall Bastards' - see below Brian Burton; 'I used to work at Coggeshall Motors used to be Lakes Garage and used to collect sausage rolls for tea break.' Patricia Woods; 'My first job was in the photo processing [next door] and for lunch would go to Edna's and get a cheese roll and hot blackcurrent drink.' Geraldine Spencer; 'I used to go into Edna's cafe quite a bit as I worked in Photokraft next door. I was the designated person to get for example bacon sandwiches or what ever was wanted by the workers. Photokraft was the old Kinema. This was in the 60s.' Trudi Gould . 'Used to love popping into Aunty Edna's for sweet when we went to see Dad. That's a LONG time ago.' Iris Bearman 'My brother was friends with Edna’s daughters so the cafe was a regular haunt . As long as I was small enough to walk under the counter top opening I got a free wagon wheel.' Pauline McGoldrick; 'This was the place that I nearly lost my life. My mum sent me with a note for a packet of 10 cigarettes for her, Edna served me using the note from my mum, I was so proud that I'd been allowed to buy cigarettes I came straight out of the cafe and straight across the road without giving a thought to cars and in them days lorries too. I was just so pleased I had 10 no 6 for my mum. The car knocked me to the ground some of the car was over my body I was only trapped no big harm done but the telling off they gave me was worse.' Rita Humphreys; 'I remember having fried egg sandwich the bread came from Firmins bakery I worked at Cozrelats next door we always had our lunch there. When Edna left, Cozrelats took it over for the staff canteen.' Carol Heckford Tearle; 'Edna’s cafe made the most wonderful sausage sandwiches with warm bread from the bakery . Used to have them for my lunch when l worked at surridge and son. Happy days in 1964/5.' David Wade; 'Happy days. Loved playing on the Pinball machine in Edna's cafe with an Embassy no10 hanging out my mouth, whilst listening to 'Spirit in the Sky' by Norman Greenbaum on the jukebox. Loved Edna.' Doug Wood; 'Spent many an hour in there on the pinball machine three pence a go.' Susan Turner; 'This is were my best friend met her husband married 50 years, he just passed away in August..' Neil Everett; 'I remember the old coke a cola fridge in the cafe. The drinks so cold in the summer they would freeze to slush when you opened them.' Roderic Miller; 'O lingering smell of hot fat and bacon sandwiches Julie Convery; 'Wish there was still an Edna’s Cafe, just like that!' Edna's may have been one of the gathering places of the equally legendary[b] 'Coggeshall Bastards'[/b] a motorbike club famous for having no motorbikes. (There was a cafe on Doubleday corner which was the main hangout I understand) According Grayson Perry the Essex artist who is a biker, one of his local gangs was the Coggeshall Bastards, who were so tough they decided not to wear leather jackets, so they wore pac-a-macs and Wellington boots. 'Coggeshall Bastards (CB's) MCC From Essex, a large infamous Club formed In The Late 60's And remained together through 'till the early/mid 90's. Associated clubs included the Billericay Bastards, Suffolk Bastards, Iron Cross Club from Clacton, the Filthy Few from Essex & East Coast & the Dirty Dozen from Harwich. The Coggeshall Bastards MCC formed in Coggeshall and would meet in a local cafe, the original members and founders got together partly to have battles with Braintree & Colchester bikers. They used to party in a local barn and among others the London Road Rats would party & ride along with them.' The club may still exist. [i]Collated by Trevor Disley updated Jan 2024[/i] Date; 1960's Ref; 102/22 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381855.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16188169635abe74aa382ca.jpgRef 03/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697224.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16676087775a219681b6eb9.jpg<center>A pipe-smoking fireman and local children watch at a stack fire in the Coggeshall area.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35658880.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1599141695b54b299e22e7.jpgLower left of four maps, which are; lower left, lower right, top left, top right, The maps show the field-names recorded on the Tithe award for Great Coggeshall dated 7th March 1854. ERO Reference; D/P 36/27/1A https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435696.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10274629355ac52277886ca.jpgRestoration started in 1842 as an act of will by the newly installed Rev William James Dampier. Restoration of the nave began in 1851and this included a new roof and substantial refroofing of the aisles. By 1863 the fabric of the Nave and aisles had been completed under the architect Ewan Christian. Work was substantially completed in 1875 at an estimated cost of £7,460. There had formerly been eight consecration or dedication crosses painted on the walls but these were covered over early on in the restoration process. In 1882 the first part of the polychromatic decoration on the chancel walls was begun and the whole scheme was completed in early 1889. It was designed and executed by Messrs Clayton & Bell. The colouring was 'chiefly chocolate with gold, green, red, blue and other tinctures harmoniously interspersed' [From Beaumont's History of Coggeshall 1890] During the restoration of the church after the WW2 bomb, so much plaster in the chancel had to be removed to repair the walls that it was 'out of the question' to attempt repainting to match the old. 'even if it had been desirable'. sections the walls were whitewashed 'the resulting lightness is a joy to behold'. Quotes from 'The Rebuilding of the Church of St Peter's ad Vincula' by Norman Brown (use the arrows to see more pictures of the church including the wartime bomb damage) Date: c 1890 Ref: 05/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133206.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18369063665e7b327c6e162.jpgGround personnel of the 323rd Bomb Group load bombs into a B-26 Marauder (RJ-F, serial number 41-34715) nicknamed "Funny Bunny". Almost certainly Earls Colne as the 323rd were stationed there at this date. Roger Freeman Collection October 1943 Ref; 104/25 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37101223.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15264838875c0c53e874fa3.jpgChildren leaving the Council School, Appleton's Corner in the 1930's. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Ref: 100/89 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/blacksmith-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_7584058985a7a387b1550e.jpg'Before turning left into The Gravel, one would have seen yet another blacksmiths, operated by one, a Mr Baker, a huge typical man of that trade. The leather apron that he wore did very little to hide his huge protruding stomach. I remember that hardly any of us lads would go to him for our hoops, he was not a very jovial man at any time, and by virtue of his stature alone, he emanated a kind of fear, that kept most of us well out of his establishment.' Taken from the reminiscences of Vic Lawrence. Although this is his smithy, shown here is Mr Baker's predecessor, name unknown. Shown on the left is the Short Bridge. In February 1869 this was described as a small brick bridge with the 'ledge much decayed' thought to be the reason that a woolcomber John Armond fell into the Back Ditch here and was drowned. Date about 1915? Ref: 25/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34388808.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6308176205abf742f3c14b.jpgUpper Church Street in about 1898. The cottages on the right were some of the last in Coggeshall to be used for weaving, some at least owned by Richard White,the last of the Coggeshall Bay-makers. They were progressively demolished from 1908 when the Hollington's factory was built. Note the muddy road and the foot scrapers which must have been very necessary! Date: c1898 Ref: 09/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36989736.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6120778995bf447ebd3335.jpgThe 'new' Lamb Inn which was built in 1927 by Ind Coope and closed in 1971. The first landlord, Walter Cowlin moved from the old Lamb next door - the weather-boarded building on the left. The three doors are for the public bar, off-licence and saloon. The lamb was Tilkey's own pub. Now a private house. Date: 1960's Ref: 29/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34391568.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9074971205abf9a7c1dd2c.jpgMr Smith's shop was mostly a drapers I suppose but he sold all sorts including carpets which he would fit himself. The painted curb stones and the white palings on the telephone pole are relics of the wartime blackout, making them easier to see in the dark. Date: about 1948 Ref: 62/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40137832.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6776373415da1c378727dc.jpg[b]Coggeshall Hamlet[/b] Pointwell Mill The mill was stripped down to its frame and rebuilt as a private house in 1965. (see photos here) Date; June 1939 Ref; 63/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40399423.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2996027225dc5f2d800ca8.jpgGeorge Thomas Birkin in front of his house at 6 West Street. Photo courtesy Roy Ladhams. Date; 1930's? Ref; 102/31 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34399864.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16509592565ac001e78697e.jpgThe scene on 17th September 1940. The bomb which fell in the night, exploded deep under the tower. The roof of the nave fell in and much of the north side of the church collapsed. The following is taken from the diaries of Eric J Rudsdale from Colchester; [i]'Papers still talk of invasion. This morning I took the bus to Coggeshall to see how true was the report about the church, and I was glad to find it very largely untrue by the sight of the building standing as it has always done, when it came into view from Stone Street. On looking more carefully I could barely distinguish with my weak eyes that one or two battlements were missing near the tower, but it was not until I reached the churchyard that I could see that serious damage had been done. To say that only the tower remains is absurd, but great damage has been done to the nave and the N. aisle. Two heavy bombs were dropped by a plane flying home, one of which fell only a few feet from the N. aisle and the tower, while the other dropped harmlessly on some waste land near some cottages, doing no damage. The explosion of the first blew in part of the wall of the N. aisle and destroyed part of the nave arcade. This brought down the roofs of both aisle and nave, completely destroying all pews etc. By some freak, the patriotic touch which these occasions never lack was supplied by the fact that the Union Jack hung over the War Memorial Tablet was untouched – a fact frequently commented on by sight-seers – “Good old flag still flying” etc. etc. The chancel and the two chapels, together with the S. aisle appear untouched, except for a few broken windows. The tower is cracked from top to bottom, and, most curious, both the westerly buttresses have been blown off. The opinion seemed to be (expressed by one of the churchwardens, a builder) that the whole tower will either fall or have to be demolished, but I think very strongly that it ought to be shored up at once, and said so.'[/i] Date: September 1940 Ref: 46/01 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35141855.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11229949365b1d8f7d8d625.jpgAlthough it might look like it, this is nor just another photo of the pre-war church. To the left of the lych gate is the site of the cottage illegally (sic) demolished by Dick Nunn the famous Coggeshall Blacksmith. The garden gateposts are still in position and a bit of the garden wall has been left because Dick had fixed a plaque to it - you can see the shape. This said 'IN THE QUEENS JUBILEE YEAR, a wretched cottage was standing here. Pulled down by 'H NUNN'. LONG MAY SHE REIGN'. Nunn was taken to court but the charges were dismissed. The wall was later rebuilt but the sign was kept by George Birkin whose son Sam presented it to the museum. As far as I know this is the only picture of the site. The cottage was demolished in 1887 and the photo dates from about 1894. See next photo for an enlargement. Photo by courtesy of Coggeshall Museum. Date: about 1894 Ref: 101/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40823722.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20790647995e359fa935540.jpgSoldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment outside the old Lamb Inn at Tilkey. The Lamb was bought by the brewers Beard and Bright of the Stoneham Street brewery (now the parish hall) in August 1867 for £410. The Warwick's were billeted in Coggeshall for several months and many firm friendships were made. They were to suffer very high casualties when they went to France in 1915. A few returned to Coggeshall after the war. Photo courtesy of Coggeshall Museum Date: 1915 Ref:101/38a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34416043.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3390622385ac359061fa9b.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i>Fabians Farm from the air. The houses and the Colne Road, bottom right, help locate the view. The farm and farmhouse were demolished in the late 1960's and the farm and farmland built on - it is now Gurton Road and Fabian's Close. The farm was called Hill Farm in the mid 19th century but Fabian's is the older name and may derive from John Fabyan who lived in Coggeshall around 1376. Ref 45/09</font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654368.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5081336915ae257fe18c64.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">A closer view of the Kings Seeds site top left. Behind and to the right of the 'L' shaped warehouse is a row of four terraced cottages called Orchard Cottages. These were built to serve the silk mill and originally called Factory Cottages. Running left to right at the top of the photo is a brick wall, the Crouches footpath runs behind it. To the left another wall runs up to join it and this was once the west wall of the old silk mill and kept as a garden wall between the Kings trial ground on the right and the garden of Orchard House on the left. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34519869.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18272219555ad0850442fe1.jpgGeorge and Rose Wood outside Weinrich's shop in about 1959. Under new ownership the old name was retained. It was a fruitiers and florists but also sold general stores and had a freezer. Many customers ran accounts and orders were made up in boxes and delivered in an old van. Wreaths were made, especially at Christmas where the whole family often helped with the lesser jobs, mossing the frames or wiring artificial holly berries, until the early hours. The floors throughout were then full of orders in boxes waiting to go out the next day. Over the road Mrs Chilcott's old hat shop was used for storing stock, it was then completely unrestored with no electricity or lighting. Halfway up the stairs there was a date inscribed in the wall, hard to see in the near dark but was very old, it was 1435 or something like as far as I remember. Frozen food stocks were kept in an insulated container there, kept cold I think, with dry ice. Photo courtesy of Doug Wood. Date: about 1959 Ref: 100/49 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36989795.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7538835955bf450fe5f0e6.jpgLooking over the valley of Robins Brook. Windmill Fields now runs just the other side of the hedge. You can just see the corner of Prospect Place and see why it was so named. The field over the hedge has posts and wire for growing sweet peas. Part of the hedge survives - a footpath still runs alongside it from Tilkey Road to Windmill Fields although what you can see here was grubbed out when the houses were built. The original footpath continued on past Prospect Place through the fields and rejoined Tilkey where it still does, a couple of hundred yards from the road's end. Date; early 1960's Ref: 101/59 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34628665.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20135495235ade5d5acafd0.jpgChurch Street decorated to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. On the right is the Red House which in November 1925 was opened as a Maternity Home (for unmarried mothers) by the Bishop of Chelmsford. The house had cost £888 to buy, furniture and equipment had cost £200 and repairs and alterations were £120. The Chelmsford Chronicle reported; 'On the ground floor is the baby ward and girls' workroom. The first floor contains the labour ward, the lying-in ward (double bedded), and five-bedded room adjoining, with an isolation ward. Done white and pink, the rooms have a pleasing effect. At present there is accommodation for seven cases. The outer premises have been converted into a laundry, and a beautifully appointed chapel, furnished tho generosity of Mrs.Wythes, who, with her husband, has very generously supported the Home, while gifts of china from Lady Rayleigh, and several cots from the Mothers' Union have been secured. The premises their entirety have received the approval of Ministry Health. The Home will be under the superintendence of Miss Bennet, who will bw pleased to show any visitors over the premises, which are to be, her own words, not an institution, but in every sense a real home." Running costs were estimated at £400 a year. Money-raising proved to be difficult as many people regarded unmarried mothers as morally suspect and not worthy of their support (This is reflected in the article above the young mothers were called 'cases'.) Within a few years the Red House proved to be too small and in 1933 the Maternity Home was moved to Sunnedon House on West Street. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date:1887 Ref: 100/30 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35393303.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20807803055b34ee64bd899.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Highfields was the sporting centre of Coggeshall in the early part of the 20th century with football matches held there and tennis courts laid out in the summer - the nets can be seen in this view lying on the grass. There was a windmill here in medieval times and the lane which leads up from West Street and past Highfields was called Wyndmellehach in 1376 and Windmill Gate Lane in 1604. The house was destroyed by fire in 1977 but rebuilt. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1930? Ref: 101/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133210.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14622611975e7b396797450.jpgEarls Colne Airfield Nissen Huts in what appears to be Site No. 13, Buildings 501 (foreground) and 500 on the right. In the chapter of his book "Brave Men"entitled "The Flying Wedge ", Ernie Pyle, the famous war correspondent that brought the war home to anxious families and friends, describes a Nissen hut with wooden signs outside of its door. Each of the signs, he wrote, represented one of the occupants of the Officers' Quarters. Pyle noted that because dogs were such a big part of the airmen of the 456th Bomb Squadron's lives, they included a sign for each of the dogs and pups that inhabited the huts with them. The photograph from the Collection of Lt. Col. Walt Foster, appears to be possibly of the Nissen hut and signs that Pyle described. Before including the story of his time with the 456th in his book, Pyle had written a newspaper column describing his two weeks with the 456th Bomb Squadron in Earls Colne, Essex in May 1944. Pyle spent one week living with the officers of one Nissen hut shared by Capt. William "Chief" Collins, Lt. Jack "Red Dog" Arnold, Lt. Frank Burgmeier and two or three other officers. Pyle describes two holes in the ceiling of the Nissen hut and how they got there. One of the officers, likely Chief Collins, was fired up and decided to discharge his service revolver through the ceiling. Then, he bet one of the other officer's he couldn't shoot a bull through the same hole, which turned out to be a good bet. Collection of Lt. Col. Walt Foster 1943-44 Ref; 104/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40756659.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20741639385e2237699b9e6.jpgPoor quality perhaps but a really early and important view of Church Street showing on the right the only known photo of The Bull Inn which closed in 1892 and is one of Coggeshall's oldest buildings. The yard, stables and cottages behind the Inn had an access from Back Lane (Queen Street) where there was also a hand pump which supplied many people with fresh water. The Church Street frontage was a single story and the pub sign can be see on its roof with it seems, decorative bulls horns on each side the pointed ends broken off. (or am I just imagining that?) The jettied building next to it was Hope Lodge so named because it was a children's home for the 'Royal Society for the Protection of Children' which it was thought gave hope for the rescued children housed within. In 1907 there were 24 children in the home together with a residential Minister, Mr Harri Oliver and Matron, Miss Cook. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1880 or older Ref; 103/31 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929737.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13060195395bec4c4275801.jpgThe ford at Robinsbridge Road. Blowing Bubbles From Doug Judd, (it's his photo) 'The little girl in the middle of the photo with the darker hat facing camera, is my grandmother Winifred Alice Cowlin (Win). She was born in 1899 at the Cradle House, she looks about 6 to 8 years old so I date this photo as between 1904 and 1908. Her mother Emma Cowlin (nee Wallis), widowed after her husband died in a tragic accident in 1906, remarried Steven Willsher later the same year and they lived in one of the pair of cottages on the corner of Robinsbridge Road and Mill Lane. Win was living there when this photo was taken just down the road on the little bridge over the ford at Robin's Brook. Eventually she had 4 step siblings, Margery, Phyllis, John and Stan. Win married my grandad, Bertie, and they had the house built on land now occupied by Homeweave House.' Date: 1904-06 Ref: 101/31 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50821970.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3976082916611d4fe201b4.jpgBrooklands Convalescent Home. The building, formerly The Lawn, was used in WW2 to house women from the Land Army. It was [b]opened as a Convalescent home[/b] in[b] March 1952 by Mr & Mrs Triggs[/b] the principal and matron respectively. It housed up to [b]30 patients[/b] mostly under the National Health Service direct from hospital whenever a doctor considered a period of convalescence desirable. The patients mostly came from the 200 hospitals in London and the Home Counties controlled by the London and North-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board but also from as far away as Manchester, Derby and Torquay. Local doctors could also recommend patients where they considered domestic circumstances justified it, and county councils could also can send patients for recuperative holidays but then the service were assessed by income and patients paid a small sum towards the cost. There were around [b]500 patients a year[/b], and by 1967 after 15 years about 7000 had stayed there with an average age between 50 - 60, the youngest was 16 and still studying for his ‘O’ levels, and the eldest, 89. A third of the patients had heart complaints and the rest were surgical cases. [i](With thanks to Richard Franklin for this information)[/i] [b]The home closed some time in the 1970s[/b] and became a private home more recently it was the residence of local MP Tony Newton later Lord Newton. Photo Date: Probably summer 1952, the year the home opened. Ref 51 19a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764850.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6115617985a2d42e5362e0.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750630.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18195174065a28527475305.jpg<font face="Garamond">The surviving part of the cross-wing of the silk factory showing the original metal windows. and the pilasters dividing the bays. Although utilitarian, it was clearly an attractive building, the large windows which were needed to provide good natural lighting for the manufacturing process no doubt made it light and airy inside. Another silk factory of very similar appearance in Chelmsford, and also built for John Hall, still survives.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654364.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4985909485ae257e091cc1.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Gas Lane runs along the bottom and just above it are the remains of the gasworks. Opened in 1836, this was a typical Victorian piece of private enterprise - a public meeting was held at which the scheme outlined and shares were offered which were enthusiastically taken up. It was a great success and lead to the Coggeshall streets being lit for the first time to the amazement of the locals. Three circular brick pits can be seen, one at least still containing water where the gas-holders used to float, held up by the gas inside and sealed by the water beneath. Nearby, the broken ground marks the building where the gas was made, the retort house, together with the ancillary buildings and the chimney., all demolished. When the great earthquake hit, the chimney rocked two feet to either side before returning, aparently undamaged. A main gas pipe was fractured but the works manager was on hand and it was quickly repaired. The works closed when production was transferred to Kelvedon Gasworks which was near the railway and so much easier to supply with coal. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37091920.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_605168345c09a4578d371.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i>View down the Colne Road (Enlargement) Showing the Alexandra and the houses, now demolished, on the East side of the road. Date: Mid 1960's? Ref: 50/15a </font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34812712.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9993893485af8b59266403.jpgEast Street outside the Bird in Hand which was a brewery as well as a public house and owned for many years by Daniel Leaper who was also the long-time Superintendent of Coggeshall Fire Brigade. The shop nearest the camera was also his and was where he worked as a cabinet maker and upholsterer. A busy and active man, he was also agent for the 'Essex And Suffolk Equitable Insurance Company' and people came to this shop to pay their fire insurance, so as a result it was known to all as The Fire Office. At the time of this photo the Bird in Hand was owned by S G Gooch who took over the licence in 1895 having recently returned from living in Peru. The house on the left with the carved wooden frieze was once another Coggeshall public house; called The Blue House and later The George Inn. Date: about 1896 Ref: 48/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34638374.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11032520705ae040bc9abc2.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12][b]The Colne Road Brickworks[/b] - although the yard is filled with pipes rather than bricks. A horse-powered pugmill, which was used to prepare the raw clay, is on the right and you can see part of the track made as the horse walks round and round turning the mill. It was usually a boy's job to drive the horse; a 14 year old lad, Charles Burke, was killed doing just this in Earls Colne in 1886 when he somehow got his head in the wrong place and it was crushed by the pole. It was bought in the early twentieth century by Harry Bryan Saunders and the story in his family was that the works had to close during WW1 as the fires powering the kilns would have been visible from the air and might make the town itself a target. Bricks from these brickworks were used for the four-and a-half mile wall around Braxted Park. Good brick-earth occurs throughout Coggeshall and there were brickworks at Tilkey, Robinsbridge Road and on both sides of the Colne Road. This one is between the old Alexandra pub and the fire station site. (Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum) Ref 100/35</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35132999.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15587675985b1c4ee0916fa.jpgAfter Beaumont saved the house from demolition in 1890 it was bought and occupied by the Coggeshall carrier Charles Pudney and Son - he had continued the business of his father, Daniel Pudney, who had been a Coggeshall to London carrier for sixty years, and members of his family had been London carriers for over century. [i]March 1876; One of Coggeshall's oldest institutions has become a thing of the past with the removal of Mr Daniel Pudney's wagon from the main London Road and the discontinuance of his bi-weekly journey to London , the last link has been broken connecting us with the old coaching days when George III was King. Through storms and sunshine of many a year, Ruffell's and for the last quarter of a century Pudney's wagon was a well known equipage to Essex folks, with its stalwart men , carefully kept horses and heavy freight, but between Kelvedon and Aldgate this will be met no more. We believe however that an arrangement has been made by Mr Pudney with the Great Eastern Railway Company under which he will deliver the goods from Kelvedon Station, so that the serpentine road from that station to our town will retain the wagon after all and we trust many a load of the various products of man's industry will be delivered by the muscular arms of 'ye brothers Pudney' or their assistants.[/i] From the Chelmsford Chronicle. In 1908 Daniel Pudney sold Paycockes to Noel Buxton. Date: Between 1890- 1908 Ref: 101/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40223515.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8654190655dac808007641.jpgAnother view of Evan's garage. Strange now to see both Shell and BP sold at the same garage. The 'X' on one of the pumps is the trademark for Redex this was a type of oil that was added to the petrol tank which was supposed to reduce engine wear. It had its own dispenser - a cone-shaped metal jug with a cross piece at the top, one end of which went in to the petrol tank and the other had a handle which was pushed in to dispense a 'shot'. Petrol was served to you then - no do-it-yourself, so you might ask for 'three gallons and a couple of shots'. An old fire engine had been converted to a tow-truck but it only had brakes on the rear wheels and no cab. After towing a broken down car one frosty night, Tony decided enough was enough, and never used it again. Date; 1950's. Ref: 61/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50884697.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17806433646621917b00552.jpgAbbey Mill The monks of Coggeshall Abbey had a watermill on this site from at least the 12th century but the present building, timber framed and weather-boarded, dates from 1760 and was probably built for fulling cloth. From 1820 it was re-purposed as a silk-throwing mill for John Hall and this accounts for its unusual length. Many of the windows date from the silk-mill period, but in 1839 the silk business was transferred to the Gravel Factory in West Street, Coggeshall. The mill was then bought by the Appleford family, converted to corn-grinding and adapted for steam in 1857 - hence the tall chimney. It remained in commercial use by the Applefords grinding cattle-feed until 1960. It has a breast-shot wheel 3.84 m in diameter with iron paddles and four pairs of French burr stones. Restored by its then owner Frank Bonner in 1954 and again by its subsequent owner Roy Ward, it remains in working order and produces flour four now and again. It is now the only working mill on the River Blackwater - formerly there were at least twenty. The mill is occasionally open to the public but it can be seen to advantage from the public footpath through the abbey. Date: about 1910 Ref: 04/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34018081.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1458855595a76f60c67e6b.jpg<p style="line-height:1.9">The bridge over the River Blackwater at Coggeshall is known by three names locally, 'Stephen's Bridge', 'The Long Bridge' and the 'Horse River Bridge'. Although much changed over the years, this engraving of 1819 probably shows something of the bridge's appearance when first built. Beaumont tells us that there used to be an inscription above the centre arch which showed 'the arms or badge of King Stephen and a sagittarius, a creature half man and half horse'. King Stephen reigned from 1097 - 1154 so it is has been claimed that the original bridge dates from this time. The dedication ought to have been to Stephen's wife, Matilda of Boulogne, as the estate was part of the land which she brought to their marriage. They jointly founded Coggeshall Abbey in 1142. The bridge was built under the direction of the monks of the Abbey at the time when they diverted the river to its present course to improve its flow into their watermill. There is evidence to suggest that the river was most likely diverted in the 1200's which would give the bridge a thirteenth century date (as favoured by the Royal Commission and John Gardner). The dedication to Stephen would then be a dedication to the founder rather than a date of construction. The monks at Coggeshall made extensive use of locally made bricks and the abbey itself, St Nicholas Chapel and later, Stephen's Bridge use some of the earliest bricks made in England since the Romans left. The original course of the river is the unromantically named 'Back Ditch' and is crossed by Bridge Street at the 'Short Bridge' - the 'Long Bridge' over the new channel is thus named in opposition. The back ditch once marked both the boundaries between Great and Little Coggeshall and the dioceses of St Albans and Canterbury. As for the name 'Horse River Bridge', this may derive from the sagittarius that used to adorn the brick parapet interpreted as a horse, or more likely it refers to the practise of bringing horses to the ford to drink. The name after all refers to the river - 'Horse River' rather than the bridge (which would presumably have given us 'Horse Bridge River'). The first recorded restoration of the bridge left an inscription which Beaumont transcribed (the original also now lost): 'This bridge was repaired in the year 1705, at the cost and charge of Nehemiah Lyde esq. Lord of the manors of Great and Little Coggeshall...'.[b][url=https://coghist.photium.com/ancient-bridge-coggeshall] Next page[/url][/b] </p> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40572823.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13277929515de55663ab2ed.jpgAfter the church was bombed the Chancel arch was bricked up and pews brought in so that services could be held in the Chancel, shown here. The bricked-up Chancel arch can be seen through the Rood Screen on the right. Services, weddings and funerals were held here from 1941 until September 1956 when the church repairs were complete and the church re-consecrated. Photo courtesy the Church of St Peter ad Vincula Date; c 1942 Ref; 102/38 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40632995.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11681388145df624d6525f4.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133209.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19407012265e7b32881ffbc.jpgA bomber crew of the 323rd Bomb Group sit on the flak damaged nose of their B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-34719) nicknamed "Miss Emily". on a recent mission to Merville. The navigator had just vacated his seat which was demolished by the shell and the pilot was saved from serious injury by his FLAK armour. The names of the crew are (left to right): Lt Tom Trainor of Haversill, Mass, (navigator), Lt Jim Davis of Ellijay, Georgia (Pilot), S/Sgt Richard King of Dallas,Texas, (Engineer), S/Sgt Joseph S. White of Eureka, Missouri, (Radio Gunner), and S/Sgt Lemberger of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, tail gunner.' Roger Freedman Collection July - August 1943 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36924986.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16973345875bea1b722fb59.jpgThe town clock and Stoneham Street. Enlargement from 04/08. The white wrapped telephone pole is an enigma. It was decided to do this during the black-out in WW1 to prevent people walking in to them in the dark. The council asked the gas company to mark their street lights in the same way- and they refused probably because the town had stopped paying for the gas (no lights were lit) and had asked for a refund! Thing is this photo can't be later than 1910, four years before the war started so perhaps this particular pole, put up in 1908, had already proved a hazard? Date: 1908 Ref: 04/18b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40657692.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20368463065e01e67ac5d2a.jpgDetail from - Pea Picking in 14 Acre Field opposite 'The Cantyre' Probably in Feering Date 1890? Ref; 70/18Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34813954.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20529620965af8bf187a8cf.jpgDoubleday's shop at Market End. Sarah Doubleday moved to Coggeshall and opened a business in 1789. The family were influential members of the Quaker community in Coggeshall and much involved in philanthropic and charitable works. When Sarah retired in 1805 her younger brother, Wiiliam ran the business with his wife Hannah and they had eight children. On William's death in 1854, his son also William took over - and he and his wife Maria had five children. When William died in 1886, two of his sons took over - Edward & Thomas Doubleday. They were in charge at the centenary of the business in 1889 when the photo above was used on a commemorative plate which was given to customers and is now something of a collector's item. On the right is the carriage entrance to the Red Lion, a public house which was destroyed by fire on 7th-8th April 1894. Thomas Doubleday bought the site and built a house for himself there.Thomas was the last to run the shop and when he died in 1961 he was buried with other members of the family at the Tilkey burial ground. After Thomas's death nearly all the buildings shown, full of character and age, and in a shameful act of destruction, were bulldozed in order for a concrete monstrosity to be thrown up which remains to this day. Date: 1889 Ref: 02/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40720687.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21409621485e190f37b7361.jpgThe remains of the Red Lion public house on Doubleday corner after a disastrous fire of the night of 7th April 1894. This is the scene on the next day as the debris was cleared and the remains demolished. Doubleday, whose shop on the left was saved, later bought the site and built a house for himself on it. The destroyed shop on the right belonged to Joyce the Butcher and the one next to it on the edge of the photo, was repaired and is still there. For the story of the fire and a dramatic escape, see my book 'Fires Firemen and Other Mishaps' available at the library or for sale at Normans Sweet-shop for £14.50 (all profits to the firefighters charity). Date 8th April 1894 Ref; 01/16 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35392709.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3076205855b34e94cb6b24.jpgView down West Street from Highfields looking towards Coggeshall. (Enlargement follows) Date: c1910 Ref: 06/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50876638.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2112829589661fa61d7117e.jpgDate: 1920s? Ref: 101 26 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34384141.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2497889445abecd8c5b320.jpgClose up - pshops on Church Street Date: probably c 1890. Ref: 03/12Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927985.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5817695845bebffd561179.jpgChurch Street with Ward's Family Grocer's shop (enlargement) with a marvellous variety of stuff for sale. The butchers next door is shrouded in canvas to keep off the heat of the sun. Ref: 100/29a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34668429.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8852472335ae5a8bea58a2.jpgMounted Sergeant, perhaps the RSM, leads the Territorials along Bridge Street. Date: 1912 Ref: 04/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/st-nicholas-chapel-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_466516215a759f721f2b1.jpg[size=12]St Nicholas Chapel, Little Coggeshall.[/size] ([i]A history of the chapel is available here; [url=https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/coggeshalls-st-nicholas-chapel] St Nicholas Chapel.[/url][/i]) This is is the most complete of the Coggeshall abbey buildings. It was built around 1220 and is a simple rectangular building (as were all Cistercian gatehouse chapels), but is unique in its use of locally made brick, perhaps the earliest post-Roman brick in England. This photo was taken before the restoration of the chapel in 1897. 'In 1860 the chapel of St Nicholas, together with the land on which it stood was purchased from the then owner, Jonathan Bullock. The doorway was restored and the place re-thatched. In the 1890s a more extensive restoration was undertaken and the chapel was given a tiled roof. Restoration of the window surrounds was undertaken and matching bricks were specially moulded for this, and finally the windows were glazed. The chapel was used as Coggeshall's parish church for a while during World War Two as St. Peter's had been bombed in 1940. The chapel is still in use today. Ref 25/21. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39732877.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10615749895d713d8d77663.jpg[b]The Porto-Bello[/b] on Bridge Street one of our lost pubs. William Gardner family bought the Red Lion (now Bridge House) in about 1827 and built a new pub, the Porto-Bello, next door in 1853 and converting the Red Lion into his family home. The name comes from the Battle of Portobello in 1739 between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobello in Panama, from Spain. Meetings of Little Coggeshall parish council were always held in the pub. The Brewery and its seven pubs were leased to Greene King in 1941. The brewery was mothballed ready to come back in use if wartime bomb damage put the main Greene King brewery out of action but it never brewed again and closed in 1943, the pubs continuing under Greene King. The Porto-Bello had a very strong Petanque team in its later years with a court laid out over the road alongside the pub car park. The pub closed in 1994-95. Date; 1950's Ref; 102/04Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34725298.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7360677025aef80adbde68.jpgA view of Market End and the Post Office in 1926. As well as postmaster, Mr Dodds had a printing works in the basement where many young men, Doug Judd's grandfather among them, served their apprenticeship for the printers trade. On the left, the sign over the Corner House door reads 'Headquarters H Company 8th Essex Cyclist Batt', a unit which was disbanded after WW1, so the shop seems to have remained unoccupied since. Just down the street, a motor car is parked outside the butchers and a Chauffeur can be seen waiting outside. Further on is a covered horse-drawn wagon. Two close-ups of this plate follow. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: Probably May 1926 Ref: 100/63 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36940513.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19494150175bef556312f35.jpgThe hunt on Market Hill, E W King facing the camera, left with the buttonhole he always wore. In the distance Joe Green has taken over the Locomotive and repainted the old sign. Next door just to the left of the lamp is Robert Southgate's shop, he was a fish merchant who later moved back to his home town of Ipswich. He was well liked in Coggeshall and a sub-captain in the Coggeshall Fire Brigade. His son remained in the area, opening his own fish shop in Kelvedon. Photo courtesy Peter Miller/Kings Seeds Date; 1920 Ref 101/52b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50884698.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6597415256621917b59e9b.jpgRaising and dressing a mill stone during the restoration of Abbey Mill. This shows part of the restoration of the watermill by its then owner, Frank Bonner, in 1954. On the left a millstone is being raised using a block and tackle. This was then laid on a movable frame or hearse to be dressed – to cut a pattern of grooves in the stone to facilitate milling the grain. The stones after long usage had become choked and blunt. The pattern cut was a traditional French burr always used for grinding the wheat and the cutting edges or lands run about twelve to the inch. The dressing is carried out with a tool called a bill (shown in use here right) and is both a tedious and a highly skilled job. The mill was restored again in the 1970s? by Mr Roy Ward and is still (2024) in working condition. Date: 1954 Ref: 109 59 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34725300.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18291029215aef80b4dc979.jpgAn enlargement, part of 100/63. John Dodds came to Coggeshall in 1894 and retired in February 1927 after 32 years as postmaster. His workers bought him with a clock inscribed, 'Presented to Mr John Adamson Dodds by the postmen and staff of the Post-office and Printing works as a token of their esteem on his retirement'. The Dodd's only son was killed in the Great War but they also had a daughter who married Mr S G Parish, and he took over as Postmaster. John Dodds retired to Albert Place where he died in 1929 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: Probably May 1926 Ref: 100/63a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39813644.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19936066555d796c66b2432.jpgQuite an early photo this one - perhaps 1895, as the clock paintwork still looks fresh after it's 1887 refurb. Taken just after 11.00am on a hot summers day, shops have the blinds lowered to protect goods from the sun. You can see where the water cart has gone up the street sprinkling water to keep down the dust - no tarmac in those days! The cart would fill up at the river and damp down all the main streets children often chasing after it getting as close to the water spray as possible without getting wet. Date: 1895-1900 Ref; 102/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34388805.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2012957595abf74297f354.jpgOn the left is 'The Cedars' and beyond it 'Woodlands' once home of the King family and the scene of a tragedy in 1904 (see 'Fires & Firemen' page 115). The top floor facade of the house is a fake, there are dormer windows behind, the facade added to give a Georgian appearance to an older and then less fashionable building. The the top floor facade was taken down some time ago. Date: about 1898 Ref: 09/13Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40559611.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20393842935de3937506296.jpgOld and young at the corner of Back Lane. Enlargement from 101/33. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1900 Ref: 101/33a2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40959346.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_831303745e543edbd0890.jpg[b]The Yorkshire Grey - Edgar and Sarah Pennick and family with Soldiers from the Royal Warwicks billeted at the Inn, 1915[/b] Back; Soldiers from 1/8th Royal Warwicks. Middle: Edgar's son, Edgar Frank Pennick, his sister-in-law Eliza Pennick, and daughter Mary. Front: Edgar and Sarah Pennick (nee Saunders), holding their son Alfred (Mick) Pennick between them with daughter Ada on the right. Photograph taken by Herbert Saunders, Market Hill . Photo and details courtesy Tony Pennick (Mick Pennick's son and Edgar’s grandson) 1915 Ref; 103/86 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39730916.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10208355365d70d15fbbace.jpg[b]The Pest House[/b] Built in 1758 as a smallpox isolation hospital and later divided into two dwellings. It was reached by a narrow footpath from Tilkey Road, there was no track to get a vehicle up there. It was the home of my mum's side of the family and where I first stayed in 1950. At that time the fields behind it were down to grass and home to the Bouchiers Grange herd (or 'Bells Farm' as we knew it). It then had no electricity - so the poles shown here show that this photo dates from the 1960's when a supply was first laid on. When my Great Grandfather first moved into the house he was shepherd for the Marks Hall estate and the house then belonged to Thomas Phillips Price. 'Popsie', my grandfather, disliked the name Pest House, so to all of us it was the 'Red House'. They had 10 children and they all lived in the right hand part of the house. My Great Grandmother and later My Great Aunt Flo lived in the left side. The by-pass now runs behind. Date; Mid 1960's Ref; 102/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37000837.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2392014405bf72b93aba78.jpgThe old oak in Tilkey meadow. The by-pass was to cross on the left and the end of Tilkey road is just out of shot to the right. I took the photo not far from Robins Brook, the footpath did and still does run along the hedge line at the top although there is no hedge there now. Cows used to graze here up to the early 1960's but Jimmy Bell the farmer sold off the herd and used the meadow for horses for a while and then decided to plough it, probably for the first time ever. The oak disappeared soon after that, it was in the way I guess. Then came the by-pass. Job done. Date: c1966 Ref: 101/58 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089163.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6992904055c0859b5b0cd4.jpgThe Cradle House, and in the foreground, a footbridge over Robins Brook. The house was the old Marks Hall Rectory before the nearby Georgian house was built. Rather a mysterious place, there was a priest hole in the chimney. Two families lived there including that of the late Owen Martin who was brought up in the house and worked at Gatehouse farm as a lad. The farm itself is just out of sight in distance top right. Date not known Ref: 41/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50821969.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11957200546611ca426d644.jpgThe Lawn from the ‘Building News’ A new half-timbered front has recently been added to this house, the residence of Mr G F Beaumont FSA, which is a 16th – century building. The brickwork has been executed in 2in red bricks, specially made, and the doors and windows have mouded Bath stone dressings. The principal entrance has carved stone spandrels and rich mouldings, and linen-fold panelled door. All the timber work has been executed in English oaf, the frieze and barge-boards being richly carved in foliated pattern, with the following nscription on scrolls entwined in the foliage of the frieze: ‘Haec Domus anno sexagesimo Victoria Reginae renovate est’. The work has been carried out from the designs of Mr P M Beaumont, AMICE architect of Maldon by Mr Sach, contractor, Coggeshall. The carving is by Mr W B Polley of Coggeshall. Percey Munro Beaumont, architect and surveyor, of Maldon, died at ‘The Lawn’ Coggeshall, the residence of his brother, Mr G F Beaumont, on Friday morning, August 16th 1918. He was the fourth son of the late Mr Joseph Beaumont of Coggeshall. He married Miss Agnes Hamilton-Hogg, daughter of Lt General George Forbes Hogg, CB. He was for some years borough surveyor of Maldon and architect for the diocese of St. Albans. He had been in failing health for some months past, and a short time ago had a slight stroke of paralysis. The cause of death was heart failure. He was 56 years of age, and leaves a widow but no family. The funeral took place at Coggeshall. April 3rd 1898 Ref: 106 74 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34760549.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3207012325af1da65da825.jpgMount's shop on the corner of Bridge Street; ''Toplar' Mount we called him, after the very fine cakes that appeared as if they were made in a tumbler, huge they were, and very tasty. I have never heard of then since.' Vic Lawrence. Later this shop was called 'Allans'. David Evans recalls; 'When I was growing up in Coggeshall it was either Allen’s or Firmin’s for bread and cakes. Living in West Street, Allen’s, on the corner of Bridge Street, was nearer and their bread was great, as were their cream horns.' Roderick Miller also remembers; 'Allans bakery baked on the premises in a brick lined oven up to the early 60's The bakers were two ex sailors The shop had a large macaw in its wee tea room I loved their shortbread sea shells. I used to watch these bakers make such delicate pastries with their big fat fingers!' Date: 1950's?? Ref: 100/66 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764887.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_334708695a2d432a3d985.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711748.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11962517945aeeb19874f31.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/paycockes https://images.on-this.website/28302_16600127495b1c4e9ccc0e6.jpgA wonderful photo of Paycockes house divided into three cottages before it was restored. Its survival was a miracle! [b]In 1890 the house was sold for demolition[/b] and the timber bought by Cuthbert Quilter of Hintlesham Hall. The antiquary Mr G F Beaumont (who wrote 'A History of Coggeshall') managed to cancel the sale and it was then bought by Charles Pudney, a carrier, who in September 1904, sold it to Noel Edward Buxton (later Lord Buxton). Buxton's forebears had owned Paycocke's from 1584 until 1746 and were related by marriage to the Paycocke family. Buxton immediately set to work on the restoration of the house, much of it by the Coggeshall woodcarver, E W Beckwith, to plans approved by the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. By 1906 it was complete and furnished. In 1924 Buxton, who only occasionally used the house, presented it to the National Trust. [b]The house was almost destroyed again[/b] on 23rd October 1928 when a serious fire broke out on the stairs, quickly spread to a bedroom and then set the roof on fire. Things looked so desperate that the crowd who gathered to watch were organised to salvage the furniture and paintings. By then the Coggeshall Fire Brigade had arrived and fought their way up the stairs to bring the fire under control and save the building. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: c1890 Ref: 101/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40394493.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14770167605dc43d9d765d5.jpgThis is Saunders Chemist shop before Stanley and Eileen Prentice took it on but it looks exactly the same as many of us will remember it. Marbled finish on the pilasters and an impressive display of soap? of the 'pile em high sell em cheap' sales technique. The carboys filled with different coloured liquid will be familiar to many and they remained until the shop closed down and they went off to auction. Date; about 1900 Ref; 102/29 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37078604.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2709403265c064268f1802.jpgThe National Westminster Bank on Market Hill, 'Open Tuesday and Friday from 10.00am to 3.00pm'. The cashier at one time was Mr Mount, nicknamed 'Rocky' Mount. He was joined in the bank by an 'eminence grise' a cadaverous and unsmiling presence with piercing eyes whose job was to provide security. He accompanied the money to and from Braintree at the start and end of business. (With thanks to Doug Wood for that information) The bank moved to Doubleday Corner in the late 1960's From Christine Endersby: 'Pretty sure the NatWest was at Doubleday Corner by 1970. We moved here in that year and I'm sure it was there then.' Rosemary True emailed this; "Mrs Cockshedge was the mother of Eileen Prentice and lived above the chemist shop until her death. Mrs Cockshedge would have found it impossible to get down the stairs at the chemist but loved to sit at the bay window above the bank (also owned by Eileen and Stanley Prentice) watching the village life. It was her money that helped Stanley who went to Stoneham Street School. Eileen was the only child of Mrs Cockshedge I seem to remember." Date: 1909-1918 Ref: 26/00 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40349632.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1997219655dbe0258ce3cf.jpg[b]The International Stores at Market End[/b] From Roy Ladhams; 'My great uncle Hubert Adams (one of the twins) is second right next to the delivery boy. Hubert was later in service with Gustav Holst the composer and was left money in his will.' From Annette Newlove; 'My grandad, George Humphreys, worked here as an errand boy when he left school in about 1920. He remembered delivering the groceries all over the town in a barrow. He also had to polish the plate at the shop that said 'The Greatest Grocers in the World'. He said that there was a manager, a lady behind the desk named Miss Eaves/Eves and two more ladies who worked behind the counter. A Nellie Keeble and a Miss Church who lived up The Hamlet and whose sister married Billy Bright. He worked all week including Saturdays for a few pennies a week.' Roderick Miller; 'Did not a Mr. Bonner run the Stores back in the day? It sold broken biscuits from a tin.' Veronica Cowlin; 'I remember the International. It had marble pillars inside. I remember the broken biscuits too. They always bought a chair for my nan to sit on and ran around getting her shopping for her. Geraldine Spencer; 'My dad worked there in the late 50s. 60s. He drove the delivery van.' [i]Photo courtesy Roy Ladhams[/i] Date; around 1912 Ref; 102/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40349633.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13168477965dbe09fc1b28f.jpgMarket Hill with the International Stores and Tommy Walford's Woodcart. Taken just after the end of WW2. From Susan Crow; 'It is Tom Walford driving the horse and cart. He lived at the top of bridge Street on right hand side.' From Roderic Miller; 'and the hosses name was Polly and she pulled the fastest woodcart in the Town! I heard that Tom had lost most of his arm in a farm Accident. Polly was stabled behind the White Hart. The lady riding the bike is Mrs Curtis who was the wife of Mr Curtis the primary school Headmaster and the admin officer.' From Barbara Hodges; 'I bumped into Tommy Walfords wood cart riding my bike, (trying to see how fast I could ride it downhill without applying the brakes) was very lucky as although my bike went under his cart and I caught my chin on the tailgate I only suffered bruising and humiliation when my father found out. I think I was about 10 years old.' Doug Wood; 'Not 100% sure if that is Tommy Walfords cart as it had a double seat on the front and Tommy used to sit "square on”. Roderic Miller; 'There is a chap to the left who looks like he may be driving.’ Doug Wood 'Didn't spot him Rod that's definitely the cart as it had the rubber tyres on He used to trot the horse around the town at a rate of knots !' Date; 1946 Ref; 102/28 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo44355291.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_959148967617e847b14dde.jpgCalled [b]The Coronation Lamp[/b] this magnificent gas lamp stood in the centre of Market Hill. It was bought by Mr E W King (the Sweet-Pea King) and given to the town to celebrate the coronation of George V in 1911. This wonderful 32-mantle gas lamp was the first automatic gas lamp to be installed in the town albeit erected in December 1911. The lamp was repainted in April 1924 but did not last much longer before it was replaced; it may have suffered an accident or perhaps the parish council found the 32 mantles too expensive to run but what a shame it is not still there. To mark the Coronation the parish council gifted every child with a coronation mug, a 'sumptuous' tea was held in the warehouse of J K King and a 'small drinking fountain' was to be erected on Market Hill. Its not clear if this latter proposal ever came to fruition. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date c1920. Ref 101/19b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36780768.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13378930035bd4f7c649f5e.jpgView of Market Hill, cars, bus and brewers dray, not a horse in sight. The coach is a Gifford 166OT built in 1932 and originally owned by Bluebird Bus service of Titptree. Date: 1948 Ref: 70/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36940515.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7839076795bef626d69eab.jpgView up Stoneham Street from Market Hill (detail). A huge enlargement of 101/25 - the whole original is only 140mm across. Important though because it shows milk being delivered. You can see the milk churn on the small cart; people had their own containers and the milkman would dip a metal jug into the churn to serve a measured amount. The 'dipping' jugs were cylindrical with a straight handle ending in a hook which was hung from a rail inside the churn. There were usually two; a one pint and a half pint. Vic Lawrence remembers the milkman used to sing out, yodel or whistle to get attention as he came to the door. Cows were milked at a dairy off Church Street so were regularly seen walking through the town on their way to and from the dairy. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/25a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411358.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1951187725ba7560c885de.jpgThe town clock and the west side of Stoneham Street. The clock is painted a stone colour as it was for many years - from at least 1924, and up to the 1960's. Phyllis Wood had it painted in dark blue as she maintained it had been in an earlier time - and so it has remained at every repainting since. Myself, I prefer the tower in stone, perhaps one day we will have a change? Date early 1950's. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36950197.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7754103245bf1a47bd0510.jpgA photo I took myself showing our shop (left) and Bryan Saunders workshop and house, right. Typically someone has called in for a word with Bryan and you can just see him inside standing at his bench in his usual outfit of a pullover over a shirt and tie. Our shop next door was fruitier, florist, grocer, tobacconist and sweetshop, the family had another shop at this time at 25 Church Street, the haunt of George and Rose and Phyllis Wood both were called Weinrich's after the original owner of the Church Street shop. The shop's mini-van is outside and the Morris Minor might well belong to Janet Saunders. Date 1960's Ref: 101/53 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36926985.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12946990645beb1f0090b84.jpgThis is the annual Sunday School treat - wagons and carts carried the children to Kelvedon Station where they took the train to Clacton returning late and exhausted leaving many with wonderful memories recalled in later life - see below. Date: 1905 Ref 15/04 [img]/files/28302/1504a.jpg[/img] 'How vividly the annual Sunday School excursion to Clacton stands out! Excitement, the flags, the gaily decorated farmers wagons, the jolting jarring journey to Kelvedon all come back again and we are children once more, singing choruses, shouting to all and sundry as we go. Then the silver sea, tea at Riggs Retreat, Clacton rock and all the fun of the seaside. What a day! How tiredly we wended our way to the station then Kelvedon again. With shouts we welcome the waiting waggons and with a blare of penny trumpets we arrive on Market Hill. The hymn- "Praise God from Whom all Blessings Grow" (generally started by Dad) and the Benediction closed those perfect days. And so to bed. A Clacton Sunday School excursion recalled in October 1936 by Walter Kirkham Judges, then living in Toronto, Canada. From Coggeshall Association Magazine 1936 If you look carefully at the photo you can see Walter's dad's shop 'Judges' behind the second wagon. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36599068.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11126193215bc1b935a55ce.jpgStoneham Street showing the Locomotive Inn, originally the Black Horse, re-named in about 1855 by an ex-railwayman who retired to run the pub. This may have been David Dalton who was landlord of the Locomotive Inn in 1863 when the rent was £16 a year and it was owned by the brewers Wells and Perry from whom he was tied to buy beer and spirits. The house contained five bedrooms a tap-room, bar, and parlour; and there was a garden, stables, sheds, and a chaise-house. [Essex Standard, May 1863] Jacob Dalton his son took over the pub in April 1892. 'November 1907: We very sincerely regret to announce the death of Mr. Jacob Dalton, of Coggeshall, a thoroughly upright and conscientious man, belonging to the working classes. Mr. Dalton was 70 years of age and a native of Coggeshall. He married at the early age of 17 at St. Botolph's Church, Colchester, and his wife (who died in January last) and he had 17 children, nine of whom survive; eight sons and one daughter. As a lad he used to drive the engine at the large silk weaving factory at Coggeshall which was then in full work. Thence he went to Earls Colne and worked at Mr. Hunt's foundry, then to Chelmsford, where he worked for many years as an engineer, including 15 years as foreman of an engineering works. He returned to Coggeshall about 15 years ago, and took over the Locomotive Inn, which had been carried on by his late father for many years. He retired about six years ago on account of ill health. At Coggeshall he was a member of the parish council, an overseer of the parish, a District Councillor, and a member the Town Band Committee. There were few in the town and districts of Chelmsford and Coggeshall who did not know Jacob Dalton who did his best in the sphere of life to which God had called him. [Essex Newsman 16/11/1907] Sold and un-licensed in 1910 the premises were advertised as: 'Timber-built and tiled, well situate in Stoneham-street, Coggeshall, and now known as the " LOCOMOTIVE" INN, with shop or cottage adjoining, large yard, with stables, chaise-house, and garden at rear'. It made £355 at auction and was bought by Joe Green a plumber. Date c1905 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/32 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36599203.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1646821085bc1d3a8c6fc6.jpg[img align=left]/files/28302/hmv2.jpg[/img][/align]View up Stoneham Street (Detail). In the distance you can just see the free-standing sign for the 'Royal Oak Inn'. In the 1950's and 60's this house was the home of the artist Cyril Barraud whose uncle, Francis Barraud, painted, 'His Masters Voice' the picture used by HMV as their trademark and which appeared on all their records. The executives and board members of the Gramophone Company all wanted a copy of the famous painting and he eventually painted twenty-four of them at £35 each. Cyril Barraud, who was a watercolourist and engraver, moved to Coggeshall in the 1950's and died here in April 1965. It is said that he helped his uncle paint the final version of the HMV picture featuring the dog 'Nipper'. Apparently the original is still in the offices of EMI. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1905 Ref: 101/32b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920081.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2631353995be9b21f80b7e.jpgMr Shepherd's shop at the top of Robinsbridge Road. We used to call in here on the way to or coming out of St Peters School. Always seemed a kindly man, looking back, smiling and patient. I remember sherbet dips bought from there - a yellow tube with a bit of liquorice sticking out to dip into the sherbet - marvellous! Duncan Saunders; I used to get three-pennyworth of Merry Maids when i went to St Peters primary school. Roderic John Miller; '... and a quarter of pineapple chunks for 3d.' Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: 1920's Ref: 101/42 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36930260.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16939409035bec7786cb250.jpgBeyond the weather-boarded cottage is the Foresters Inn owned then by Gardner's Brewery. The Foresters was home of the 'Miss Nightingale Court' number 5,383 of the 'Association of Foresters' and was founded here in 1856. Members paid a subscription to become eligible for support when ill. In 1885 the annual report shows that there were 128 members, its capital was £605 5s 7d and £52 1s had been given in sick pay over the past year. In 1872 the sixteenth anniversary was celebrated, 'A procession was formed at the lodgehouse, Forester Inn, Stoneham-street, at one o'clock, of about 80 members of the lodge in full regalia, headed by blue banner, with the name and number of the lodge, next came the brass band, then the drum and fife, followed by the members the lodge.' This annual fair was much anticipated and took place on a meadow near the river where all sorts of rides and games and sporting competitions were set up and the day finished with dancing until late. The other big Coggeshall friendly society was the 'Good Samaritan' Lodge of Oddfellows (No 3997) which was also founded in 1856. Its 28th annual report of 1885 showed that it had 173 members on the lodge books. The sick pay amounted to £156 9s. 8d, and the funeral allowances to £36 8s. Id. with a total capital of £1,701. There was also a United Patriots' Benefit Society. In 1895 the half-yearly report of the local branch shows that the receipts were £23 7s. 6d. and the expenditure £8 13s. 4d, leaving a balance of £14 14s. 2d. The branch numbers 80 members, 39 having joined since July last Date: c1905 Ref: 05/00b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008832.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5344654285a7598b99b078.jpgThe water cart being filled at the river. The cart was originally used to supply drinking water to those Coggeshall people who had no convenient well nearby. Pails were left out and the cart did the rounds filling them up at 1d a pail. This all stopped when mains water was laid on in 1911. After then the cart was used to water the streets in dry weather in an effort to keep the dust down. The parish council awarded the contract for this annually. Date: about 1898 Ref 25/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764878.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19371006435a2d430bd7fcc.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089132.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16370131535c0852cf0e304.jpgCoggeshall Co-op delivery van in East Street with the pantiled smithy behind. The driver is Eddie Sutton who was born in 1906 and lived in the first council house on West Street. Afterwards he went on to work at Moores Buses at Kelvedon. (Info from his son David (Sam) Sutton). In the distance is the cafe later known as 'Edna's' and behind it, the Kinema (as the Coggeshall cinema was known). Date: late 1930's? Ref: 52/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774462.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3176663785a2efb058d016.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40214784.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17841404975daa337583328.jpgUpper Church Street. The building on the right was the residence of George Beaumont the Coggeshall Historian, then called 'The Lawn'. Dating from the 16th century, its appearance dates from 1898, before that it was much like most other Coggeshall buildings - lath and plastered. The white cover on the telegaph pole was to aid their visibility in the blackout of the First World War. The parish council also asked the gas company to whiten their lamposts but their contract for Coggeshall's gas lighting had just been cancelled by the council because of the blackout so they refused. You can see a black gas-lamp in the distance - near where Nunn's Close is now Date; c1915 Ref;102/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34731571.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14424102225af052648a71c.jpgA great shot of the White Hart and Market End with East Street beyond. Pargetting on the house on the right. Those nearest the camera in shadow on the right were all demolished when Doublday Corner was cleared in the late 60's. Date: c1926 Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd Ref: 100/65 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750763.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3093477995a2863a185a47.jpg<font face="Garamond">This is a view taken the day after the fire, the brigade were still in attendance turning over and damping down. This is the same wall of the building shown in the previous photos which survived until the late 1980's when the site was cleared for the King's Acre development. The short fireman second right whose helmet looks somewhat too large, was one of the Green brothers. whose son/nephew William (Billy) Green had a builders business in the house that was once the 'Locomotive Inn' on Stoneham Street. Billy Green was in charge of our brigade during the war.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40586256.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8906256015de8ed5bc05c8.jpgAn early photo of the old buildings which stood at the top of Bridge Street and along West Street that were demolished to widen the road in the late 1920's. Amazing to think that this is the main road between Colchester and Braintree - the A120. The shop was used by E W King from 1893 until their new premises opened on Grange Hill. The writing on the White Hart, partly visible on the left reads 'Commercial Hotel - Posting House'. A close up view follows. Date; Perhaps c1880 Ref; 102/50 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41458785.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10476910265f2fd4d72c94b.jpgAn accident at Albert Place. Horse and milk-cart have flattened a lamp-post. No news of the horse. You can see that some milk splashed out of the churn and is dripping onto the road from the corner of the cart. The gas lamps had their glass sides and mantel removed for the summer which is why only the top of the lamp has broken glass. This is how milk was delivered for many years. You supplied your own jug and the milk was served from a can holding a measured amount (one pint or a half pint) dipped into the churn. Date: Not known Ref: 101/63(2) https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40664006.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8102007015e08e261c1538.jpgGeorge and Emily Smith took over the Fleece public house on West Street in 1885 and held it for 52 years. Although George was always described as the landlord in fact his mother, Emily, held the licence. It is almost certainly her standing in the doorway of the Fleece in this photo dating from about 1900. 1900 Ref; 17/11 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711813.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14813006875aeed0073b0fa.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34780581.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16004863605af6248dcde66.jpg[b]The Hare Bridge Spillway[/b] The spillway shown here might have been the last vestage of the brook which once flowed down church Street and met Robins Brook here. By the time this photo was taken, the water went the other way, when Robins brook flooded (as it often did) the spillway carried the floodwater across the Gravel and into a leet alongside (it's still there) this passed under Bridge Street and the iron foundry and emptied into the back ditch. The leet was probably originally built to supply the foundry, perhaps to drive a bellows or a hammer. In my time (1950's & 60's) a raised footpath ran along the spillway which allowed pedestrians to cross the brook without walking in the road. All this was cleared away in 1989 when the road was widened, pavements laid and the culvert enlarged as part of a flood protection scheme which made the spillway (allegedly) redundant. A garden in memory of Brian Tebbutt now occupies part of the site and the nearby houses called Culvert Place commemorate some of this history. Date: c1905 Ref: 47/20b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815386.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15314244515a39945b41b1b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381862.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8629921945abe74d2b0659.jpgThe man with the baker's truck is Mr A Saunders whose wife appears in another photo. In the distance on the left is the Doctors House, the plaster yet to be stripped and the wooden structure hidden. Further away are the cottages that were demolished when the Jaggards Road estate was built shortly after the end of WW2. The name Jaggards derives from a field name of 1731 where the houses were built. Although this area was a centre for weaving and it might seem obvious that this name derives in turn from 'Jacquard', a type of loom for weaving, it seems impossible as the loom was only invented in 1804. Date: c1920? Ref: 58/15ADet https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381870.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15225623785abe74fe09a1c.jpgCycles parked up outside the barber's shop - Barry's Salon You would step down into it, quite a big room I seem to remember with two proper barber's chairs. Vic Lawrence recalled that with blunt hair clippers quite a lot of hair was pulled out by the roots; 'More tears were shed per day in Barry's Salon than in any funeral parlour.' Date 1950's-60's. Ref 100/48 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381863.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13533309365abe74d74f357.jpgMr Saunders with his baker's truck near Albert Place. On the left is 'Hope Lodge', so called because it was a home for children rescued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Its aim was to 'train the children into good and useful men and women, giving them a remembrance of a really happy home when they have to go out into the world to earn their livelihood.' The older children may have been put to work in the 'Hope Laundry' which was probably run from here. A huge fire in 1907 threatened its destruction and 'The Rev Harri Oliver, the matron and Mr Edwards quickly removed the children (from 6 - 12 years old) wrapped in blankets and bedclothes and they were given sanctuary in the house of J W Clark who lived opposite'. For more on the fire see p117-121 in 'Fires Firemen and Other Mishaps'. Date: c1910 Ref 58/15a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435698.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4779896215ac52443193d5.jpgThe New Council School sometimes called the County School was built by the Essex Education Committee as an elementary school for 192 scholars. The plans were approved by the Board Of Education in September 1913 at an estimated cost of £2,681 and the school was opened in September 1915. Mr Charles Henry Shaw of Helions Bumpstead was it first headmaster appointed in June that year. The school was at the junction of Upper Church Street and Dead Lane/St Peter's Road and had extensive playing fields behind. In September 1955 the school became a secondary modern school in accordance with the Butler 1944 Education Act. Children from the age of eleven until they left school attended here - or if they had passed the 11+ exam they attended one of the grammar schools in Colchester, Earls Colne or Braintree. When the Honywood School was opened the building became redundant and it was demolished in the 1980's. A new housing estate and the new St Peter's Primary School were accommodated on the site. Date: about 1915 Ref 58/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35073485.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8336043455b11c826a2827.jpg Close-up of previous photo. Nearest the camera on the right are two of the cottages which were destroyed by fire in 1937. The closest was a general store run by George Smith. The ruins were demolished soon after and a house was built on the site but set back and of an inappropriate style, so the integrity of the street was much diminished. Date: c1908 Ref: 100/85a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40638109.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5008226335df6ab6fd409c.jpgHighfields with with James and Rosina Judd who lived there. Courtesy Douglas Judd Date; c1960 Ref; 101/78 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764889.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2133338895a2d433446d7b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40655822.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12552460825dff71b915d8a.jpgView from the Longbridge. Rood house and part of Gardners Brewery. Near the chimney is the cowl of the Oasthouse, where hops were gently dried. The cowl would turn in the wind so that air was constantly drawn up through the drying floors beneath. We can see the inside so the wind would have been blowing towards the camera. CM c1914 Ref; 102/83 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40226581.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14192690705dacd58db0ae8.jpgCoggeshall Cobbler Fred Tilbrook in the doorway of his shop and the shop itself on East Street. Fred was the last of his kind in Coggeshall and the place that everyone went for boot and shoe repairs. Fred was also a Retained fireman at Coggeshall Fire Station and served from 1948 - 1960. He died in 1983. Roderic Miller; 'Tilly was a grand chap and the smell of the place! Loved it. A bugger getting in the shop as the pavement was non existent! His sowing of leather was immaculate, stitching all straight and spaced I have a pair of leather shoes on a leather last Machine stitched repaired by him which I brought from him in @ 65 He used to say "Buy a shoe with a good last and they will last" He was always interested in what you were up to He used to like the odd pheasant.' Date; 1972 Ref; 102/21a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411362.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4722655725ba756a54ad4b.jpgMarket Hill at the start of the motor age (detail). The two cars, despite appearances, are not parked in the road! Story to follow sometime I hope. The roadworks are almost certainly on the mains water supply to the shop which may even then, have been in the hands of the wood-carver, Bryan Saunders - might it be him standing in the doorway, his jacket over his apron? Date; 1922-25 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/29a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/e-w-king-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_5836079035a7642e1310d3.jpgGrange Hill with E W King himself outside his office and warehouse. E W King, who became known as 'The Sweet Pea King', bought Tenterfield, 3 acres 1 rood and 19 poles, in 1900 for £262. He built a new timber warehouse and later a brick built office both shown here. The old warehouse, a very ancient building near the Cricketer's and his shop at the top of Bridge Street were both demolished to widen the road. Date: After 1907, before 1912 Ref: 100/12. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37060948.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13415608735c0317e6e7cad.jpgView up the Tollgate Hill on the Colchester Road. 'The Mount' on the left replaces an older mansion destroyed by fire in November 1844, a fire started by some of the 'Coggeshall Gang' in an attempt to cover the theft of wine from the cellars. The house was unoccupied at the time as the owner, later ruled to be insane, was trying to avoid paying tax. His trusted caretaker was found to be complicit in the thefts. Date: c1912 Ref: 26/01 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920982.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2082401335be9c96248e32.jpg[code]<p style="line-height:2.0">[/code][b]The Yorkshire Grey [/b] Robinsbridge Road. The lady on the right of the door is Sarah Ann, second wife of the landlord Edgar Pennick and on the left is Eva May, Edgar's daughter by his first wife Louisa who had died in 1900. In front of Eva is one of Edgar and Sarah's daughters, Ada, the other one, also with a white hat and to the left of the pump is Mary. Eva was engaged to a Bob MacMillan in Coggeshall, but she contracted rheumatic fever and died in early 1913 aged just 26. [b]The Yorkshire Grey[/b] and the nearby cottages including a bakehouse was built as a public house in 1839. It was offered for sale in that year as 'newly built' together the cottages and a silk mill for 50 looms in Church Street - so all may have been built to house silk workers. It was probably bought by the Stoneham Street Brewery, later William Bright & Sons. Its name derives from the Yorkshire Grey horse, a breed often used to pull brewery drays. The Pennicks took over the pub in 1905 and held the licence for 34 years. Before WW1 the trade was 208 barrels, 685 pints and 54 gallons of whisky and many of the bedrooms were occupied by lodgers. The pub also served teas, evident in this report of a bus tour of Essex in 1913; '.... and on to Coggeshall, where the party alighted at the Yorkshire Grey for tea. While at tea the children of the village invaded the bus inside and out, and before the journey could be resumed the genial driver had to give them a ride round the village, piloted by the hostess of the Yorkshire Grey, with a baby in her arms.' In 1914-15 seven soldiers from the Royal Warwicks were billeted at the pub - they must have thought they had died and gone to heaven! There was a stable and a blacksmiths shop at the pub - the landlord Edgar Pennick, worked in his spare time as a blacksmith - but there surely could not have been much of that, as in 1919 he had served an extraordinary total of 3,700 meals to visitors. These figures emerged In 1920 when the magistrates had a mind to close both The Yorkshire Grey and the Foresters (just down the road). They deferred the relicensing and asked for reports on the trade of both. The owners (Bright's and Gardner's breweries) mounted a stout defence and afterwards both licenses were renewed. When they retired in 1939 Edgar and Sarah Ann, Eliza and Mary all moved to Berkley Cottage, right at the top of Tilkey Road. The Yorkshire Grey finally closed its doors in November 1993. In the distance you can just see the chimneys of Squirrels Hall, now cut off on the other side of the by-pass.[/i][/size] [size=8][i]Thanks to Si Magee, Bob Norfolk, Julia Fletcher, Hazel Lowe, Suzy Biggs, Simon Morse and Lesa Osbourne for pinning down the date of closure.[/i][/size] Go to the next photo for an close-up of the pub and pump. Courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1910 Ref: 101/43 [img]/files/28302/10143abefore.jpg[/img] [i][size=8]The photo before restoration[/size][/i] [/size][code]</p>[/code] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34731548.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4958826425af05259c718b.jpgMarket End showing Doubleday's shop. This plate marks a very particular moment - just above the pram in the centre, the old buildings at the corner of Bridge Street and the start of West Street are in the process of being demolished. The three-storied warehouse behind the shop is down to the ground floor and the shop will be next. The road was very narrow at that point and there had been some serious accidents. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: Late 1920's Ref 100/64 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747364.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17597581195a27144a30dff.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290462.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9053698005aae71a6981a6.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41320543.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4234226325f194c5b6f0f9.jpgChurch Street with the Woolpack and cottages alongside. These were probably demolished in the 1950s to create a car park for the pub. About 1916 104/82 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41100001.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16475386925e6f33f5cb70d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34695367.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1845930885ae8fc09edf5e.jpgOutside 'The Padlock'. The padlock sign has survived and is in the Coggeshall Museum. The hanging fish advertises that fishing licences can be bought as they could right into the 1960's at least, I bought one there myself. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1913? Ref: 100/52. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774465.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19943633675a2efd0a879b2.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750744.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4299333295a286117828b9.jpg<font face="Garamond">A good view of the lower part of the silk mill wall looking from the crouches end towards Orchard House.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50062196.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2136980286651adc037c656.jpgOn the right is 1 West Street - also called West Alpha - which is still there, and it seems to have been a shop at this time. The photo was taken near the Cricketers pub looking towards Market End. Behind the big building in the centre of the picture is Bridge Street. This building and a shop were pulled down in the 1920s to widen the road at the request of the parish council. The arrival of motor vehicles with greater speeds and more traffic made this very narrow bit of road dangerous. A very old photo - perhaps around 1880. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803669.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4706955575a369e6aa1697.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004861.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5696584875a71e1b454b6c.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697928.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11390085305a21a513eb6dc.jpg<center>The poplar trees along West Street probably around 1910. Several were dead or dying and in 1914 some were set alight. They were later felled. A stack at Highfield's farm near here was accidentally set on fire by a young lad smoking a pipe and showing off to some young ladies. As he sauntered off their calls alerted him to the fire and he tried to put it out but then ran off and hid - until hunger forced him home and to a policeman who was waiting for him there.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo42216980.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1633000181601554e6f0655.jpgEW King's warehouses and part of the trial grounds just off Grange Hill. An undated view but perhaps from the 1920s. Ref; 65/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803684.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16186530345a369e863af46.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803686.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7122506875a369e892f71c.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711749.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_110173485aeeb1aadabc9.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747851.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4837576445a2724adcbd47.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond"><center>The enormous grain silo at J K King's. it was camouflaged in browns and greens in WW2 which seems to have worked. Pictured just before it was demolished to make way for housing.</center>[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50885502.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3913119496622395e184e2.jpgThis is probably William Henry Appleford of the Abbey Mill, its last professional miller. As a young man he fell in love with a lady who rejected him for someone else. Remaining a Batchelor for the rest of his life he sent the lady a bouquet of Violets every year. Date: Around 1910 Ref: 105/58 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40214785.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12742774325daa3ce031baf.jpgMarket End and the Post Office. Mr Barnes' Antique shop in the corner house. The Coggeshall antique trade was to grow to an extraordinary extent in the 1960's and 1970's with almost every other shop selling antiques and/or collectables and fortunes were made. By the early 1980's the boom was virtually over. The TV series 'Lovejoy' which featured several Coggeshall locations was based in this period. Date; 1950's Ref; 102/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750632.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10425892395a285319c8b46.jpg[size=12]<font face="Garamond">[i]<center>King's Acre - houses for some of J K King's workers, empty here and awaiting demolition. </centre> This is from Roderick Miller; 'In about 1956 King's built 3 new houses across the yard, Perkins at No 1, us in No2 and Eric King and his wife and son Derek in No 3. Eric was King's Sec but not related to J K Kings which was owned by The Nicholls who lived opp St Peters Church. Nos 1 & 2 were conjoined all faced West with views up to Highlands Farm. Mr Shepheard was the postman and on us moving to the new houses he was at a loss for an address so Mother suggested "Kings Acre" and so thusly it happened, Kings Acre it became to this day. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778759.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10643947305af44b4c416cb.jpgPhoto by Courtesy of Douglas Judd Ref: 01/00a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36940512.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14373585295bef555cb4776.jpgThe hunt on Market Hill with spectators - might that be a farrier centre left and a chauffeur on the right? Photo courtesy Peter Miller/Kings Seeds Date; 1920 Ref 101/52a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35619878.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19753463475b4e2f6a56448.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711734.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_973563715aeeaffb8174a.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34814795.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3323056695af8cb184ce15.jpgEnlargement of 100/64. Old and young outside the post office. Partly hidden by the butchers shop is the boot and shoe shop of Stead and Simpson. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Ref: 100/64a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764886.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10845420815a2d43239a60f.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764847.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7592875445a2d42e1868fb.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747363.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8371217085a271446805cc.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40657220.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1222567175dffeb9d604fc.jpgEdwardian Coggeshall (Enlargement) Date: 1912 Ref: 33/04 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654365.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1215445975ae257e882af6.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">East Street from Market End to Swan Lane and above is Market Hill with the town clock.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697825.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14021095065a21a3aa81a61.jpgThe Royal Warwicks arrived in Coggeshall in 1914 and were billeted here for some time. Here they are shown, three of the sergeants in the lead, passing the Porto Bello pub on Bridge Street. They were heading for Kelvedon railway station and then the trenches in France where the regiment suffered terrible loses. One of the survivors, had enjoyed his stay here so much that he returned for his annual holiday for years afterwards. </center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290466.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12536910085aae71b317314.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/e-w-king-warehouse-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_15400672615a74496745358.jpgE W King's first warehouse on Tenter Field, Grange Hill. The meaning of Tenter (originally Tainter from the Middle English word teyntour) After a piece of cloth was woven, a craftsman called a fuller cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully, to prevent the fabric from shrinking. The fuller would place the wet cloth on a large wooden frame, called a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter using tenterhooks (hooked nails whose long shank was driven into the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. The word 'tent' and the phrase 'on tenterhooks' derive from this process Date: About 1910 Ref 41/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34769853.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_172458495af213ecb2bc0.jpgLooking back into Coggeshall from the old Colchester Road. On the left just out of shot is Raincroft Barn and on the right is 'Bensons' off licence. In 1914 this was owned by H H Pratt who sold a variety of drink including ale at 10d a gallon and mineral water 'Made from the Celebrated Coggeshall Waters'. Mr Pratt also advertised a horse and trap for hire - perhaps the very one shown in the photo. In 1911 the premises were offered for sale; ' a dwelling-house to which is attached a beer house, off licence with garden'. It was bought by the Benskins Ltd the brewers from Bishops Stortford for £375. This off licence was useful in my time for buying cigarettes away from prying eyes but it must have finally closed in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Date; probably about 1900. Ref 22/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40639335.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11764436345df74c586a561.jpg[b]Highfields[/b] The view taken from Garden Field. Owned by the Guyon family until about 1789 when it was taken over by Richard Meredith White, perhaps the last of the Coggeshall Baymakers. c1900? Ref; 101/80 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40661145.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13889167515e07e5ada90a9.jpgPart of the Abbey House and the River Blackwater. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1924 Ref; 103/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36926983.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18492334965beb17984ff57.jpgUnder emergency planning rules at the start of WW2 the shop on the corner of Church Street and Market Hill was demolished to make way for a new fire station. There had been a mutiny in the Kelvedon Fire Brigade so a new brigade was recruited in Coggeshall and with no suitable fire station (the old engine house at Crouches being too small) a new one was designed and built in record time. Aesthetically it was a disaster but there was no time for dithering, air raids were expected at any time. The full story is in my book 'Fires Firemen and other Mishaps' available at Normans the sweetshop. Date: 1939 Ref: 25/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411360.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11585704845ba7565135e0c.jpgThe town clock and and the west side of Stoneham Street (Detail). In Bonford's, a hardware/electrical shop (behind the road-sign), is a display of Electrolux vacuum cleaners which were just starting to become a 'must have' home appliance. The notice-board on the side of the clock has a 'British Railways' timetable. The clock is painted a stone colour as it was for many years - from at least 1924, and up to the 1960's. Date early 1950's. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/27b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40680840.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12551681795e0b53f54e04e.jpgA close-up of the previous photo - West Street and Paycocke's House looking towards Hares Bridge. c 1910 Ref 06/20 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711802.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18443432835aeecd67dcede.jpgWest Street showing J K King's premises.Detail showing the Royal Coat of Arms, the Prince of Wales Feathers and the signwriting advertising J K King's other branches in Reading and Cape Town. Photo by courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date: 1919-20 Ref: 100/61c https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39642945.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2295530705d6a466a3658e.jpgThe Toll-booth at Coggeshall Gate. An amazing survival from Coggeshall's past, this little building tucked up against the Toll House is almost certainly the booth where the gate-keeper sat, the tolls were collected and recorded into the account book. The tall white post just to the left of the building is probably the last vestige of the gate itself and may have supported the small side gate which was wide enough for people and horses to pass through. The gates themselves had been taken down in 1863 and the posts in 1864. [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39612227.html#photo]Click here for more on the Toll House[/url][/i] Date: c1910? Ref: 25/08 Booth https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41567015.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9792208545f436c48a3a5a.jpgRobinsbridge ford. About 1900 Ref; 104/77 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40136407.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11258059485da1a81a8f257.jpg[b]Coggeshall Hamlet[/b] View in the Kelvedon Direction with the Hare and Hounds public house on the right, now a private house. Date; 1939 Ref; 63/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750771.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17717097895a2865ff22e1d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40838545.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12940829225e37378edd645.jpgBridge Street, row of cottages now demolished. Taken from outside Bridge House. Date; 1912 Ref; 04/27Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34777975.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13300263975af37fb114dcc.jpgBob Evan's with his garage. Bob was a member of Coggeshall's wartime fire brigade and became officer in charge afterwards. When he retired in 1958 Stan Saunders took over the garage (another wartime fireman) and later it was taken on by his son Tony. The site is now part of the Co-op. Date; 1950's. Ref 61/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36924910.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7380947515bea14c9a7f38.jpgAdvert for Cresswell's Baker's shop at the top of Robinsbridge Road. Date 1912 Ref: 27/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747250.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8986335075a27094fd2942.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764844.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7400266975a2d42dac8e28.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40870711.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10280573865e3c84e60f73f.jpgMarket Hill with the Coronation Lamp Date; Between 1922-1925 Ref; 103/52 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711820.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14665688575aeed19695b4b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654371.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18812413855ae258143014e.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">At the top is the Stoneham Street Brewery just as it closed down after what was at least 200 years of history. It had been owned in the end by the New London Brewery Company who put the disused brewery up for sale in 1926, a year after this photo was taken. This was just at the time the Vicar of Coggeshall was looking to procure a parish hall for the town. After some refurbishment the hall was opened on 15th June 1927. A cloakroom and lobby was then added and this opened in November 1927. The cost of purchase and rebuilding was £2,170. The works chimney can be seen as can the malting kiln with its conical roof and cap. The long roof covers what became St Peter's Hall with a jumble of outbuildings above it. At the top is the Friends Meeting House (now the library) and to its right, the tall building, which was then thatched and also survives, was the maltings. William Bright & Sons were the last Coggeshall Brewers to own the premises. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34738305.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_505650765af081c113779.jpgWest Street looking towards Market End (Deail). Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1920 Ref: 43/21b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/horse-drinking https://images.on-this.website/28302_19882335405aeb47eb84a82.jpgEntertainment at the Horse River Bridge. The railings gave the bridge a very pleasing appearance and an almost unobstructed view of the river below. In a scene which must have been repeated many times over the centuries, a horse stands drinking in the river as passers-by contemplate the scene. It is said that in periods of dry weather carts and wagons were taken through the ford to dampen the wheels and keep them tight. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: about 1909. Ref: 03/14 [img]/files/28302/0703bridgefordbest.jpg[/img] Photo of the Long Bridge showing the south exit from the ford. Date about 1910. Ref 07/03 [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo37135149.html#photo]Next page[/url] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34018433.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17209917535a76fc316351f.jpgA dull day at the river but a good view of Bridge Street and on the left, washing out to dry next to the row of houses adjoining the Short Bridge which were later demolished. The dog on the road is pretending it doesn't want to be in the boat! Date: possibly around 1907 Ref: 100/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750654.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20692058715a285b27d1aa3.jpg<font face="Garamond">A close up of one of the windows.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37122840.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17372763655c0ee9058e7dd.jpgEnlargement, Abbey View on East Street decorated for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. A decorated bath chair and a portrait of Queen Vic on the door. Ref: 08/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290464.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18382161765aae71aae6633.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40427693.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_25382585dc9a03e83aaa.jpgHerbert Saunders advert from 1929. (This is the Chemist shop subsequently taken over by Stanley Prentice) Ref; 40/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35073481.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15816259245b11c82033a0c.jpgWest Street showing Hitcham's School, The Fleece and Paycockes. Date: c1908 Ref: 100/85 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133193.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19536082585e7b3243f0af5.jpgUnidentified airman with B-26C-45 42-107582 "The Shark" (coded RJ-B) of the 454th Bomb Sq, 323rd BG at Earls Colne. 1943-44 Ref; 104/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34716449.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6278639265aef393d71e09.jpgAll change after the last plate. The postmaster is now S G Parish, John Dodd's son-in-law. Stan Saunders has taken over at the Corner House - a 'High Class Fruitier and Confectioner', Stan travelled to London every friday to buy his produce. The cycle shop once owned by Harry Saward is here occupied by Ernest Pamplin a tailor and outfitter who advertised 'Shirts in the latest shades'. Two enlargements of this plate follow. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1929. Ref: 100/62 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711736.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10916901095aeeb0143f7d2.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34388802.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_522276885abf74225a588.jpgCloseup of the wonderfully dilapidated medieval weaver's houses on upper Church Street. They were progressively demolished from 1908 as the Hollingtons clothing factory grew. The factory is now derelict and plans are being drawn up for its redevelopment. Might these buildings be reinstated now that the Hollington's factory is finially unoccupied? it would be wonderful to return the frontage and give this part of church street its lost characture. This idea worked well when the old fire station was demolished on Market Hill. Date: 1898 Ref: 09/13Det1 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39653133.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16140861355d6ba04ed5b78.jpgChurch interior as it looked after the Victorian restoration which was completed in 1888. Date c1900 Ref:102/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764885.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10732104225a2d431cb2e27.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927915.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12228872915bebfda556d6a.jpgThe town clock showing the painted swags and other embellishments added when the clock was refurbished in 1888. Date: c1900 Ref: 70/07d https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34881129.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12541419045afc088ee3b10.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">The Fleece with William Smith's outside for sale. Photo by courtesy of Dawn Ashworth his granddaughter. Date; 1930's Ref 100/79.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381856.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17697908725abe74af25f26.jpgClose-up No.1; Sach's workers outside the newly finished clothing factory 1908/1909. A list of names is written on the back of the original but its not clear who is who as there are fewer names than people. Except Mr Dyer, a carpenter (and Doug Judd's grandfather) who is 2nd in on the right with an hat, jacket and apron and white beard. Joe Crowe, Shot Wade, Danny Wade, Matthams[?], Burton, Sid Bailey, George Chilton, Gosling, Dyer, Bearman. (See next photo for the rest of the group) If anyone can confirm people and names, please post in comments below. Date; 19th February 1909 Ref; 09/15Det1 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774495.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16467027585a2efe1c0c286.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34770108.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3157382115af21d9de3b73.jpgEast Street from near Swan Lane. Brookdene on the left Photo courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date; c1920?? Ref; 100/70 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757295.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7058414145a2b223cbc2cc.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40632997.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19242947535df625140438d.jpgBridge Street - the works of C & H Warren Carriage Builders (with family). From 1816 to 1886 this was Kirkhams Iron Foundry. Ill-health forced Richard Meredith Kirkham to sell up in October 1885 but the auction was unsuccessful. [img]/files/28302/10318.jpg[/img] When Kirkham died a few months later in May 1886 at 85 years old, he was the oldest tradesman in Coggeshall; he had been a Guardian and Clerk of the Burial Board for many years. The premises were then bought by the Warrens but the foundry was never used again. As the carriage trade declined Warren's tried to move into building motor vehicles but soon they too were forced to close. Date; 1900? Ref; 62/24 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/horse-drawn-dray https://images.on-this.website/28302_1663105665ae5b83c4a22e.jpgGardner's Dray on Bridge Street almost opposite the Portobello public house. The house behind which was adjacent to the Short Bridge is long gone. The barrels are labelled for 'Mild', 'Ordinary' and 'Pale Ale'. Gardner's brewery was mothballed in WW2 ready for use in an emergency but never operated again. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: ? Ref: 100 42. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40136236.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5845475315da10319ab7e8.jpg[b]Coggeshall Hamlet[/b] The Hare and Hounds public house and a row of cottages, now demolished, on the left. In 1909 when Mrs Emma Parker died, aged 60 years. her family had been licensees of the Hare and Hounds Inn for nearly 100 years. The pub belonged to Gardners Brewery in Little Coggeshall. In 1940 on the death of Fred Gardner it was sold or rented to Greene King. The pub closed and the cottages on the other side of the road were demolished in the 1950's Date; 1930's Ref; 06/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34399865.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11923879455ac00e93c165d.jpgAppleton's Corner showing the deep ditch that used to run alongside Church Street here and the narrow footpath on its edge. Date: 1900? Ref: 25/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654370.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2298358455ae2580c6d9d8.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Easy to locate this one! [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34391003.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20198311975abf8fafef352.jpgEnlargement from 61/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50876639.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_692954478661fa70879957.jpgEnlargement of previous photo. 101 26a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381874.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12533403305abe7518a7101.jpgEnlargement of Mrs Saunders and her dog. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36926959.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1551138745beb10e716431.jpgEdwardian Coggeshall. Date: 1912 Ref: 33/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33799545.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20084523735a35b11a5156b.jpg<font face="Garamond">A view of the silk factory (then J K King's) chimney. You can just make out the ladders that had been attached to carry out repair work. Accepting a £1 bet made in the bar of the "Fleece', Mr Meredith climbed the chimney with a flag and a glass of beer and toasts his victory from the top. The problem of the chimney was too deep-seated so it was demolished not long afterwards. Date probably in the 1920's. </font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381858.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18422601695abe74b8dfa70.jpgMr Sach and his workers outside the newly completed clothing factory. This was later extended and more medieval buildings destroyed. This monster is now empty and redundant and there are plans to develop the site. Let's hope something more in keeping with the scale of the street will be put in its place. I would be happy to see the original frontages re-imagined, perhaps framed in green oak to allow a bit of variation to develop in time. Date; 19th February 1909 Ref; 09/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133200.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11128934035e7b3262229f0.jpgAn airman of the 323rd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-31643) nicknamed "Bat-Outa-Hell II". Image via John Moench. Written on slide casing: '323 BG, Earls Colne.' Roger Freeman Collection 1943-44? Ref; 104/16 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36989737.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11804774325bf447f017c85.jpgPea-picking in the field called Ten-Acres opposite the Lamb Inn at Tilkey. Taken from the Lamb. Date: 1960's Ref: 29/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778758.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1175301595af44b4466a0c.jpgHares Bridge and West Street on a long ago summer's day. Photo courtesy Doug Judd. c 1900 Ref: 01/00 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815381.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18060257265a39941753c00.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40703553.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20774561325e12f9ce5480a.jpgGrange Hill in the snow. Courtesy James Phillips and taken by his Grandfather Roy Philips then Director of E W King. 1957-58 Ref; 103/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696933.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12471722335aea3e3d1a262.jpgAppleton's Corner. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: about 1900? Ref: 100/56 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711821.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7172200505aeed19c827af.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41041896.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17747613595e62e6f230749.jpgH B Saunders shop, cart and waggon on Market Hill. H Saunders on the waggon. Courtesy Janet Saunders Possibly 1920s? Ref; 103/93 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41041897.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17654575675e62ed4b813c0.jpgA H Saunders Baker. Courtesy Janet Saunders Date c 1912 Ref;103/94 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37093270.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15726606355c0aaf6ec1098.jpgFire at Colton and Shearman's scrapyard, Colne Road. Coggeshall Fire Brigade in attendance. Date: Mid 1960's? Ref: 50/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381876.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18360477255abe752490bc3.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i> Ref 100/17a</font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381867.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14562639045abe74ed9152a.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i> Ref 10/21Det</font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34777888.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19884174815af36a52df13e.jpgLake's garage with Mr Lake in front Date; probably about 1900. Although the telephone came to Coggeshall in 1908 by 1926 no-one in the fire brigade had one so in that year the parish council came to an agreement with Mr Lake for his phone to be called (Coggeshall 23) If anyone wanted to call out the brigade, they rang him and he would then run up to Mr Birkin, the fire chief, to call out the engine. Lake got 2/6d for each call. The garage kept going and selling petrol at least until the 1960's as far as I remember. Date: late 1930's? Ref: 48/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411356.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13904500625ba755d52e412.jpgView up Stoneham Street from Market Hill. Date; c1918. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/27a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747362.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9817414805a271442be39c.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34769861.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6765595925af213ff9a51c.jpgClose by on the other side of the road was a piped spring (the pipe is still there) which produced lovely sweet water that we used to drink as kids. Last time I remember clearly I was on my way down to the Kinema for the Saturday morning show for the kids. What an experience that was, the noise of it - the booing the hissing, the clapping, the shouting out - stuff being thrown! Brilliant! Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref: 100/67 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34798322.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3251098425af82ac6842c2.jpgEast Street. Date; c1915? Ref 59/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34779395.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5441247405af4cdc504620.jpgEast Street from outside Brookdene Date; c1930?? Ref; 100/74 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33799535.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10743866115a35aabe82247.jpg<font face="Garamond">Demolition and clearance of the old J K King site. The massive grain store, a Coggeshall landmark for many years, is almost gone.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757225.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2815981595a2b0bf457fd2.jpg<font face="Garamond">Drawing showing the layout of the silk factory. </font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35624493.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18692138395b4efab1cd0b8.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35624494.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12478875345b4efab994942.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35627657.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13974675025b504ffa70299.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133191.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5416356275e7b323b133a8.jpgFront elevation of Markshall Mansion during the American occupation with the Stars and Stripes flying. IWM 1943-44 Ref; 104/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35393299.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3884507975b34ee5f3b2e8.jpgView of Paycockes and West Street with the Cresswell twins and a gas light. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1912 Ref: 100 55 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697313.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12365831295a219c6dbc2fe.jpg<center>Mr Sach and his workers about to demolish the old clothing factory on Church Street and build the 'Hollington's' factory on the site. The house behind them once belonged to Richard White, one of Coggeshall's last master weavers. A big fire here in 1777 nearly resulted in the whole town being burnt down as there was no fire brigade or fire engine. During the fire Richard White's baby son was thrown out of an upstairs window to safety. </center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133205.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11018435985e7b3277362f0.jpgTwo airmen of the 323rd Bomb Group inspect a map in front of their B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-34854) nicknamed "Rock Hill Special (Lucky Graki)". Written on slide casing: 'Rock Hill Special Earls Colne.' 1943-44 Ref; 104/24 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750631.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16773074655a28527900eb2.jpg<font face="Garamond">Another view of the north aspect of the surviving part of John Hall's Mill.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34701675.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7535564345aeb47f2bce79.jpgPhoto courtesy Douglas Judd. Ref 03/14b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/1854 https://images.on-this.website/28302_21064093355b4e2f8280ceb.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34663626.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5773187225ae4fc0d6d2ca.jpgBerry's Bus, detail. Ref 08/20d https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35627092.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13718000815b4fbfa1c75ba.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34014724.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7379735785a7642e4e8bc1.jpgAn unusual view of the Long Bridge from the meadow on the south of the river. Some marvellously rustic fencing to keep the Grange farm cows out of the river. Date about 1907 Ref: 100/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40662635.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9904173115e08b807a6503.jpgDetail - Paycockes gateway. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1920's? Ref; 103/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696305.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8941811705ae9ed042170e.jpgOutside C A Buckingham's shop which seems to sell sweets and tobacco. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1903-04 Ref: 100/54 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381861.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13129001105abe74cd8ca29.jpgArthur Hutley stands in front of his new blue-and-white painted bus outside his Church Street premises. The driver is the renowned Coggeshall strong-man, Francis Everitt. The bus company continued until 1928 when it was sold to Hicks Bros of Braintree. The other parts of his business, haulage and removals carried on after this. Date: 1914 Ref 58/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929130.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9685344035bec375ad8f98.jpgA cart just coming off the Long Bridge, Grange Barn in the distance Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: 1920's? Ref: 101/47 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41080260.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20398034485e6aa674875e2.jpgThe last landlord of the new Lamb Inn Tilkey road, Vernon Searle and his wife Celia. Photo courtesy Duncan Saunders Date; 3rd January 1969 Ref 104/91 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764874.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20951374585a2d430736918.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757297.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15161541355a2b224c0b7be.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34695450.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14863930325ae90223cb769.jpgChurch Street with Ward's shop on the right, then being run by William East. On the left is the former Black Boy public house the name was not uncommon but its derivation is not certain. Some claim that it refers to a nickname of Charles II which was adopted by Charles’ supporters fighting for the restoration of the Monarchy in the 1650s. Inns using the Black Boy name were possibly declaring their Royalist allegiance against Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians. Trouble with that is that Coggeshall was resoundingly parliamentarian. Another explanation is linked to smoking and the tobacco industry of Virginia in the USA and their trademark image of a black youth wearing a crown. The Black Boy was one of the pubs owned by the Brightwen brothers of the Stoneham Street Brewery when they became bankrupt in 1828. It was then sold to to a Mr Snow for £540 making it one of the lower-value pubs in the Brightwen portfolio. Beer was served for the last time in the summer of 1898 and October that year the Black Boy was sold for just £140 (its annual rent then estimated at £14). That is about a 75% drop in value in the 70 years since 1828 and demonstrates Coggeshall's post-industrial decline. It was bought by Mr Simmons who owned the draper's shop next door and was destined for a new lease of life. In May 1901 the old pub was repurposed as the 'Liberal Reading Rooms' with a room for reading, one for games, and another for refreshments. The Rev Hamson was elected president. In 1908 these rooms were replaced by purpose-built premises in Queen Street. Remarkably the old bracket for the pub's sign still remains today - albeit rather bent at some point no doubt by a passing lorry. i wonder what happened to the sign itself? Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1913 Ref: 100/29 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40138047.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19590127285da1e47384163.jpg[b]Coggeshall Hamlet[/b] Cottages along the River Blackwater with the back of Pointwell Mill on the left. Date; June 1939 Ref; 63/22 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40223425.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_735739575dac7d1460d43.jpgAfter the Kinema closed the building was used by a photo-processing firm called Photokraft which had previously operated from premises in Church Street. Trudi Gould tells me ; 'I think the main Photokraft office was in Ipswich but they also had a place in Salisbury, but don't know much more about the firm as was only about 8 when Dad moved from there. Would guess around 15 people working there. I remember the smell of the developing fluid and I used to love standing watching the photos going round.' Date; 1960's Ref; 102/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40219550.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1185423215dab9e950defb.jpgMarket End, The Post Office, Saunders, Stead and Simpson and Pamplin. Date; Late 1940's? Ref; 102/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40680699.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6847442745e0b30bdb2fb0.jpgAn early photo of The Cricketers public house when owned by John Kemp King whose brewery was the other side of the road. Kings' workers (brewers and seedsmen) were expected to drink at the Cricketers. Kings sold the Inn it with their other pubs to Messrs Daniel and Sons, brewers of West Bergholt, in December 1907. On the right, just visible, is a warehouse used by John K King as a store for pea and bean seeds and which may at one time have been old Gravel Factory, on two floors it ran across Robins Brook and was used for silk making. Now demolished. Date: c1890 Ref: 25/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008186.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9445720035a7449705709d.jpgRear of E W Kings warehouse and the trial grounds on Grange Hill. Date 1920? Ref 65/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435697.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2118480255ac52280aa8e3.jpgThe interior of the church before the bombing and restoration. Date not known. Ref: 05/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40664008.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4325410985e08e2dccca0e.jpgPaycockes before restoration with the Fleece Inn next door its wall decorated with Pargetting. About 1900 Ref: 17/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435695.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7664843415ac5226c8026a.jpgWoolpack, cottages and Church. Ref: 01/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750688.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2756266775a285d42a408a.jpg[size=12]<font face="Garamond">[i]<center>This track, opposite the old Cricketer's public house, passes under a Teasel loft and was the only vehicle access to the Orchard Mill. </center>[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803672.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15684626045a369e714a316.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747843.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3875263335a271ee6ef887.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089142.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4958184475c08559fceccd.jpgTilkey; 'the working mans suburb' Date: 1905? Ref 33/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290465.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6187268045aae71aea405d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41100000.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4559780135e6f33ee95fed.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750762.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7674304655a28639cf0d19.jpg<font face="Garamond">Orchard House almost hidden by trees. It has survived.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815379.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_831144895a39940b5118b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36960299.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9884207185bf286b6bea4e.jpgOn the left is the shop which Mr & Mrs Byham took over in 1920. The shop was unusual to say the least; on one side Mr Byham sold fresh fish and on the other Mrs Byham offered sweets and confectionary. A customer stepping across the threshold might be tempted from either side, the fishy Leonard extolling the virtues of his fresh-caught flounders and smiling and sultry Charlotte offered the darker delights of Fry's chocolate or mint humbugs. But Charlotte had much more to offer than that. The sweets were cover for her main operation: she was mastermind of an illegal gambling joint. Off-course betting was strictly illegal at that time but this only added a picquant edge of danger for Charlotte; [b]Mrs Byham was the Al Capone of the Coggeshall Grocers.[/b] Mrs Byham ran a slick operation that brought advantages to all but in time, inevitably, someone grassed. Two plain-clothes policeman dressed in 'Dungerees' turned up at the shop and after looking at the sherbert dips for a while, pretending that they wanted to place a bet - only then to throw off their disguise and arrest the punters inside. They were wisked off to Witham police station in a police van. This had been parked a little down the road outside the workshop of wood-carver Bryan Saunders and local gossip soon fingered him as the police snout, an accusation regarded as preposterous by all who knew him. The finger of suspicion remained, refreshed as ever by the street-corner whisperers. A young lad who worked as delivery boy for a local butcher and collected betting slips when delivering meat, was also caught up in the raid. He said that he could not come into the police van 'because he had his dog with him' only to receive the cruel response,- 'Never mind, bring the dog too'. Poor lad, poor dog. He might not have been the youngest victim. A six-year-old girl regularly took in betting slips for her mother and her mother's friends. She was just about to skip into the shop with the slips in her hand when she was intercepted and told that the constabulary were inside. So sensible girl, she turned about and quickly made her way home. Her father heard of the raid and only too aware of his wife's weakness for a bet, feared she had been caught in the net, rushed home and was furious to discover that his innocent little daughter had been the runner for his wife's betting syndicate. Another raid took place in November 1937 when the Cesarewich was run at Newmarket, a race for which Charlotte had accepted 311 bets - which gives an idea of the scale of the operation. Only thirteen punters were 'looking at the confectionary counter' when the police burst in but they were rounded up and taken to the Witham nick. Whilst there, word somehow got out that their favourite horse 'Punch' had won! Few could resist a shout of joy and glum faces were transformed into happy ones. The fines were paid! £2 for the punters and £5 for Charlotte who had convinced the magistrates that she was 'just a poor woman'! (With thanks to Dodo Rose for the story.) [i]The admirable Charlotte 'sticky-fingers' Byham died aged 77 in 1970.[/i] Date: Late 1940's? Ref: 101/56 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381868.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6161044415abe74f1dbcc6.jpgRef: 100/21 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803680.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20647738295a369e8200d19.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774596.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3853240415a2f0dd8618bd.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34701676.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8332009055aeb47f90024a.jpgPhoto courtesy Douglas Judd. Ref: 100/57a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381871.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20737289445abe75029b81c.jpgDate: about 1950 Ref: 51/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36966199.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19627372855bf2e54b3f814.jpgStoneham Street from opposite Queen Street. Moores bus on Market Hill. Date: 1963 Ref: 63/28 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40569735.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8665778205de504c7047ff.jpgHouse on Stoneham Street just after the eccentric chimneys had been taken down. Date; 1985 Ref; 28 09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36966622.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6740611225bf3040f2d0bb.jpgMr & Mrs Musk at work on their velvet looms in their house at Tilkey. Each has a window casting light on the working area. Date: July 1911 Ref: 68/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920076.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8367872455be9a3141dff7.jpgView up Stoneham Street from Back Lane. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1900 Ref 101/33 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35141862.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10509537015b1d8f8685e7b.jpgEnlargement of previous plate showing the site of Dick Nunns demolition and the inset in the brickwork which held the sign recording the fact and put up by the blacksmith himself. Photo by courtesy of Coggeshall Museum. Ref: 101 11a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35200969.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3978217845b204fc9b050d.jpgMr Gurton inside his shop on East Street Date unknown Photo courtesy of Coggeshall Museum Ref: 101/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39742828.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4087838225d74279de767f.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411359.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11414185315ba7562c9f605.jpgView up Stoneham Street from Market Hill (detail). Parking was a bit easier then! Date early 1950's. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/27a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004865.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13746972485a71e1c366498.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/markshall-1764 https://images.on-this.website/28302_17613592735b5050046658f.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40580864.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4733526705de6dd865910d.jpgEnlargement from - East Street with Arthur Hutley’s horse-drawn bus to Colchester. Date: 1913 Ref; 102/40Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39653144.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_784015565d6ba0bfd7c90.jpgCoggeshall Church interior showing polychromatic wall paintings. (Detail from previous photo.) Date c1900 Ref: 102/03Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40580890.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18358739965de6e172328e9.jpgSt Nicholas Chapel, Abbey Lane after restoration. Some blackberrying going on in the distance it seems! Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; 1930's? Ref; 102/44 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40661142.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1864919225e07df0d36c71.jpgEnlargement of part of the remains of Coggeshall Abbey seen across the River Blackwater. Date; ? Ref; 103/01a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381869.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11534598525abe74f7b0f20.jpgAnother view of GW Smith's shop. Date: 1950's. Ref: 59/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381872.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5387386275abe7509e727b.jpgEntrance to the yard of the haulage contractor F Matravers. According to the signage, he was also an agent for Charrington Nicholl & Co Brewers of Colchester. Ref: 44/13a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40580974.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8266211785de6ecf399721.jpgClose-up Date 1900? Ref; 102/45Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34391004.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12085071005abf8fb67cf17.jpgAnother part of 61/09Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697977.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6420111655a21a57bea64d.jpg<center>West Street looking towards Market End. On the left is the office and shop of J K King who held the Royal Warrant as Seedsmen, hence the Prince of Wales Feathers and the Royal Coat-of -Arms. Opposite and adjoining the Cricketer's is a cottage and Mr Brazier's shop where Mrs Gepp was enjoying a cup of tea before a smell of smoke alerted her to the fact that her house was on fire. An assortment of tradesman arrived to help.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37170041.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13225303355c260d0aca8be.jpgFine pargetting on the house then called Ivy Dene, now Stuart House. Date 1930's? Ref: 02/28b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36892275.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17542760905be4ac62a109d.jpg(Enlargement) View down East Street from Brookdene. A petrol pump from Lakes Garage is just visible on the right. Date: 1950's. Ref: 101/36a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34695369.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_504344805ae8fc1112251.jpgOutside 'The Padlock'. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1913? Ref: 100/52a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711803.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10954219155aeecd6dbc08d.jpgWest Street the last of the enlargements of the earlier plate and a good view of the Garage advertising and the bay window of the shop next to the Cricketers. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: 1919-20 Ref: 100/61d https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34024133.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2551257265a778f282ff03.jpgDetail of still waters at the Long Bridge. About 1900 Ref: 11/05 Detail https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34664855.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9269456105ae5090910276.jpgThe bridge and Grange Hill, close-up showing the exit from the ford. Date around 1910 Ref: 07/03 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40405704.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8672538945dc7e3486823d.jpgView down Grange Hill. Date; c1912 Ref' 102/32 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36780593.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12299050745bd4ec648939b.jpgMarket Hill, The Chapel, the town clock and Stoneham Street. Date; c1900 Ref: 70/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778322.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20743053235af40e73a383e.jpgThe Cricketers. Daniel & Sons Brewery of Colchester and West Berholt held the pub for many years. Date: 1930's? Ref: 57/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36926986.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3312227915beb1f067f4c8.jpgThis is the annual Sunday School treat - close-up of the wagons. Date: 1905 Ref 15/04a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34695371.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1526079865ae8fc1fd3be6.jpgOutside 'The Padlock'. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1913? Ref: 100/52c. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927209.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_804984155beb5905be358.jpgThe International Stores survived here into the 1950's. The shop nearest the camera was used for recruiting during WW1 and has an army poster in the window. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1915? Ref 101/44b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089159.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5601800645c08572a13c69.jpgThe Cradle House with the two families who lived there. Date: Not known Ref: 41/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34725302.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21443524285aef80ba0f3cc.jpgAn enlargement, another part of 100/63. Photo by courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date: Possibly May 1926 Ref: 100/63a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34420186.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20184737005ac39d2a9bcd8.jpgThe Woolpack. Date: about 1908. Ref: 53/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40569744.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9725248985de509fb6ed6b.jpgOld cottage on Stoneham Street with a wonderfully eccentric chimney, unfortunately demolished in 1985(?) when the house was modernised. See next photo. Date; 1930's Ref; 102/34 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34411990.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13739324495ac2b9226d809.jpgAppleton's corner, the junction between upper Church Street. the Colne Road and St Peter's Road. House now demolished. Date: possibly 1960's. Ref: 44/01 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36926984.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3064438015beb17b7bb0a2.jpgThe demolition and building of the new fire station was carried out by John E Sach who were based in Queen Street. Date: 1939 Ref: 25/14a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815383.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19804789905a399421b9275.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815380.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4088614965a39941174921.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40427692.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14717538175dc99f7c60d68.jpgArthur Hutley advert from 1916 Ref; 49/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34399862.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21439306265ac00118cbbe0.jpg In the whole church only three windows survived without damage; two in the south aisle, east of the porch and one in the south chancel near the arch. Strangely, these were the only windows which showed scenes from the life of St Peter. Date: September 1940 Ref: 100/23 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40591831.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16838717475dea81239aa27.jpgCourtesy Coggeshall Museum Ref; 102/47 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34419001.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12392343615ac391b687508.jpgThe Woolpack with a horse and cart driven by Albert Prentice with his son Lenny. Date: about 1939. Ref: 45/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747365.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5469666955a27144e1d6f3.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34416042.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8027483205ac358ffa6d8e.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i>A closer view of Fabians Farm. Ref 45/09Det</font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40661555.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8098787445e07ece5e712d.jpgDemolition of the old Swan Inn. The site and Swan Yard behind it is now the entrance to Swan Lane. A brick villa was built to the east of the site. Date; c1900 Ref: 41/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411364.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6292947905ba756e55c406.jpgCroyden Bros. shop on Market Hill, a 'Family Grocer' and , by the look of it, an off-licence. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: early 1920's. Ref: 101/30 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381866.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6329941755abe74e7374c7.jpgShop decorated for the coronation of George VI. May 1937. Ref: 100/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34716455.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1740822845aef3942878a2.jpgAn enlargement, part of 100/62 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1929 Ref: 100/62a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/lt-coxall-tithe https://images.on-this.website/28302_16241604755b4e2bb23ddfa.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34695370.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12537900645ae8fc18b9f71.jpg'The Padlock'. The basketwork motorcycle sidecar was made by Mr Smith who lived next to the 'Cricketers' Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1913? Ref: 100/52b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39742829.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18786930105d742a7da19a0.jpgThe Wesleyan Methodist Church, on the other side of the Street was opened on built in 1882 and opened on 25th January 1883 after £1,200 was collected for its construction. Renovated 1895. Wesleyans first worshipped in Coggeshall 1811 in what became 'The Foresters' a little further up Stoneham Street, and later in a chapel in East Street next to the Swan Inn. Date; 1950's Ref; 44/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36966198.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4957109535bf2e25a97b89.jpgHouses in Robinsbridge Road awaiting demolition (Nos 33-39). Date: 1963 Ref: 63/29 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803670.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17103386395a369e6e07d3a.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747349.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3935490105a271079a58cc.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764883.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19579784635a2d4312c61b4.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381875.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2360457825abe751ee23c4.jpgMrs A Saunders (and her dog) outside her baker's shop on Church Street. Her husband delivered the bread from a hand-truck. Ref 59/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34037992.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9510710225a79d2cf68c09.jpgA busy day at Stephen's Bridge. Date about 1898 Ref: 52/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/e-w-king-premises-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_4859671205a74496e8cb2a.jpgView down Grange Hill. Date: c1920? Ref: 59/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34402246.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18828855165ac0e339e8e26.jpgAnother view of Appleton's corner. Date possibly c1938. Ref 66/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655746.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14866870865ae34f27da0d0.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Upper Centre Market Hill with the town clock visible, Church Street and East Street. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41100002.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4769915375e6f33fd53425.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34691634.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14975040015ae784deb6e81.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">This is from the Coggeshall Museum collection and shows the mill as it was in its late prime. Probably the 1970's. Ref 100/43. </font>[/i][/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929827.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18297042995bec651041c00.jpgMarket Hill from the north. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1950 Ref 101/51 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/children-fishing-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_4941723235a74fafebdd3f.jpgMostly girls fishing at the bridge, Rood House behind. Date: about 1890 Ref: 08/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655745.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1410690275ae34f1fb8d74.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Lower Left Stoneham Street and the start of Tilkey Road. Note the allotments and at the bottom the field iappears to be staked out and wired for Sweet Peas.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133195.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10506957515e7b324b16706.jpgCharles H. Stirneman outside the Nissan Hut he shared with Leo Dale Rush, John Guldemond, Thomas Lemmon, Walt Foster and Burma in Earls Colne, England. The sign above the door says "Black Hole of Calcutta". The photograph was taken on the only day it snowed that winter, 31st March 1944. Stirneman was from San Bernadino, California. He was killed about 6 weeks later in a midair collision over the North Sea, in April 1944. It is believed that the Nissen hut, noted as "8" was located in Site No. 13 on the British Air Ministry's site plan for Earls Colne Airfield. Collection of Lt. Leo Dale Rush, Jr. 31st March 1944 Ref; 104/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37234854.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10286452985c393b9a97125.jpgTilkey meadow close to where the by-pass now crosses it. Date c1963 Ref: 101 89 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34394578.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19456862815abfc94fddb77.jpgThe Church from the South-west after its Victorian restoration. Date: about 1890? Ref 100/22 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40664005.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3627414515e08dbdf34b48.jpgHouse front on West Street. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1920's Ref; 103/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803674.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14273542935a369e75a8c81.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/floods-at-bridge-street-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_19681549425ae5ac7be7f50.jpgFloods at Bridge Street. Date: March 1914 Ref: 08/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927913.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13713156885bebfd9fdfaad.jpgClose-up from 70/07. Croyden Bros, Family Grocers. Ref: 70/07b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34716467.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6601527705aef394b9e61b.jpgAn enlargement, part of 100/62. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1929 Ref: 100/62b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39643416.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8134832655d6a600003c52.jpgNot a very good shot but a very poignant one, the sad end of the Toll House, demolished for a roundabout that was never built. Photo courtesy Robert and Len from their Coggeshall Pubs book (now out of print I'm afraid). Date: Late 1960"s? Ref: 102 01 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33698218.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_634759735a21a8040ceb2.jpg<center>The old Bull Inn on Church Street. A wide gate at the far side allowed access to the yard behind and it was here that some cottages caught fire in 1883, and threatened Mathias Gardner's extensive woodworking workshops on Back Lane.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34384139.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14194087275abec7e74ae72.jpgEnlagement from 09/02. Ref: 09/02 det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803664.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10634692775a369e61e352d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34769859.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8215436075af213fb241b4.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929541.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3953239145bec42bde279c.jpgTilkey Road as it was in about 1915. Taken from about where Jaggards Road would eventually be built. Poor quality but unique as far as I know. The most distant pair of houses were demolished in the 1980's(?) because of subsidence. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: Late 1920's, early 1930's Ref: 101/49 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008804.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1365255785a74d70b88698.jpgA new motor dray standing outside Gardner's Brewery on Bridge Street. Date about 1920? Ref: 39/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133204.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12809093795e7b3273e7a47.jpgA B-26 Marauder of the 323rd Bomb Group at Earls Colne. Roger Freeman Collection 24 July 1943 104/23 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39811994.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11788559165d77e77b69076.jpgA Charabanc outing about to leave Market Hill, Chapel Hotel behind. In the original you can read 12mph written on the chassis just behind the rear wheel - it's max speed. Solid ties too so that was probably quite fast enough! Date; Probably late 1920's - early 1930's Photo courtesy Doug Judd Ref: 102/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34701673.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12620807075aeb47e624a76.jpgPhoto courtesy Douglas Judd. Ref 03/14a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004859.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8431210595a71e1ac64c4a.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40662642.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21276037355e08b80faddf2.jpgDetail - Paycockes gateway after the restoration. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1920's? Ref 103/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290555.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14394978615aae7235e5f4e.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757296.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15021038165a2b2244567cf.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34779394.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10170772735af4cdc04f2f0.jpgEarly photo of the Cricketers Date: 1890?? Ref: 25/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35200970.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14299358115b2051b745bc1.jpgMr Edward Gurton in the doorway of his East Street shop. Date; Unknown but Edward Gurton died in 1959 aged 84. Photo courtesy of Coggeshall Museum Ref: 101/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40713588.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19127337465e17063073d92.jpgDetail from the previous photo. Date: 1912 Ref: 04/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34845028.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5930139595af9ff7c0b2dc.jpgView of East Street in the 1950's from Brookdene. Date: 1955 Ref 62/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40689758.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8503083935e0fce745c263.jpgDetail showing a group of labourers outside J K King's premises in the long ago morning sunshine. Date; 1890?? Ref; 102/59 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920079.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_288852705be9a6540539e.jpgThe Royal Oak Inn, an enlargement from 05/00. Date: c1905 Ref: 05/00b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920987.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4887523975be9c96758db7.jpg[code]<p style="line-height:2.0">[/code] [b]The Story of the Yorkshire Grey Pump[/b] Bought by public subscription the pump was erected in 1864, both to supply water and to help flush the odoriferous main sewer in Stoneham Street and Market Hill (this was a failure). The pump replaced a brick-lined open well with a windlass, chain and bucket which had been in use since at least 1830. On the cast iron casing was an commemorative inscription;<center>ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION AND PRESENTED TO THE PARISH OF GT COGGESHALL 1864</center> One hundred and ten households obtained their water from the Yorkshire Grey pump and many swore by the quality of its water but the authorities thought it unhygienic even dangerous describing it as a 'surface water' well that filled up after heavy rain and reasonably pointed out that there were several cesspools nearby. Coggeshall had a serious outbreak of typhoid fever in late 1876 and an analysis of the victims showed a concentration in the area served by the Yorkshire Grey Pump. It's water was tested and although no evidence of typhoid was found a doctor reported that 'the water contains what was inevitably found in water producing typhoid fever'. The authorities gave notice that they would lock the pump for six months 'to see what the result would be' claiming that the water was, 'so polluted as to be entirely unfit for any household use and dangerous for drinking purposes'. The local's strongly objected, the water was 'the finest in the parish', aged people were exhibited who 'enjoyed the best of health' and who had 'drunk from the well for 30 years'. None of this availed and the magistrates ordered the well closed forthwith. Paycocke House, then unoccupied and unregarded was cleaned up a little and brought into use as a fever hospital, thought necessary as the grossly overcrowded conditions in which many sufferers lived, promoted the spread of infection. Coggeshall saw 120 cases of typhoid and seven deaths but the source and means of spread were discovered; [i]On Sept 27 a girl who had visited Peckham Rye came home to Coggeshall unwell with what proved to be typhoid fever. Her father, mother, and brothers and sisters were inmates of the same cottage, in which, as usual, there were only two bedrooms. Three of these inmates were attacked by the disease. Early in November several other cases occurred, located for the most part in Tilkey and Robins Bridge-road, there having been but one case in West-street and two in Church-street. The means by which the typhoid was communicated was discovered; the common theme at all the houses whose inmates were attacked, was the supplier of milk. At the bottom of Robins Bridge-road is an open brook which receives the surface and other drainage from the houses in that locality, including the house in which the first case occurred. This brook is occasionally dammed up in the lower part its course, and on inquiry it was found that the supplier of milk washed his milk cans in it. The practice was stopped and the disease ceased its advance.[/i] Although the pump had been vindicated, there was another more intractable problem, its water supply was unreliable and the pump frequently ran dry. In 1895 the parish council decided to lock it from 7pm to 7am to allow the well to replenish. The council paid James Burton a £1 a year to see to this but he must have found the task onerous and resigned after a couple of months. Next came Obadiah Sparrow and then a cobbler from Stoneham Street call Ickey Bream. [align=center][img]/files/28302/1113waterfamine.jpg[/img][/align]<center>[i]Ickey Bream unlocking the Yorkshire Grey pump in 1903</center>[/i] [size=10]The parish council also paid an engineer an annual stipend of 30 shillings to keep the machinery of the pump in repair and for many years this was William Tansley whose engineering workshop was in West Street near Hares Bridge. In 1895 the locals formed a committee to look into the problem of the pump's water supply and they asked William Tansley for advice. He recommended that' a pipe be driven 25 feet to get a better supply' and this was endorsed by the parish council. However, such matters were the preserve of the Braintree Rural District Council and they had advanced ideas about water supply and sanitation and saw Coggeshall as a prime example of the old fashioned and the primitive. They were determined to drag the town into the 'modern' age and Coggeshall were equally determined to stay exactly as they were and how they liked it. Nothing happened about the pump. In 1897 the parish council was petitioned by the pump users again; once more the well was dry but £20 had been raised as a contribution toward the cost of deepening it by 45 to 60 feet and they wanted the council to pay the balance estimated at an additional £11. The proposal was accepted and again forwarded to Braintree RDC for approval where, predictably, it fell flat. By 1903 the pump was only unlocked at 7am and 4pm and locals were pictured in a local paper queuing as Ickey Bream fitted his key into the padlock. This further incensed the Braintree do-gooders. Against all opposition from Coggeshall people, in 1911 Braintree RDC imposed an expensive scheme for water supply on the town (we had to pay for it) and all the old pumps were permanently padlocked. Although defeated the locals remained fond of the old Yorkshire Grey pump and doubtless gave it an affectionate rub as they passed by. Seventeen years later in 1928, an exasperated Braintree RDC ordered the parish council to remove it and fill in the well. The parish council, contrary as ever, came up with a plan to put a lamp standard on top and turn the old pump into a memorial street light. Nothing seems to have come of this and regarded as a hazard to traffic, Braintree RDC had their way and it was removed soon afterwards. RIP the Yorkshire Grey Pump [i](For the story of the pub see the previous photo)[/i] Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1900? Ref: 101/43a [url=https://www.coggeshallhistory.com] Return to Menu Page[/url] [code]</p>[/code] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36686164.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10979817195bc67780ae71d.jpgUpper Stoneham Street with the Royal Oak Inn, a building dating from the early 1600's. Date c1905 Ref; 05/00 [img]/files/28302/0500cnewscan.jpg[/img] [i]The Royal Oak, close-up. The sign over the door reads 'Smith Garrett & Co' the rest is illegible.[/i] [img align=left]/files/28302/royaloakadvert.jpg[/img][/align]Until 1875 [b]The Royal Oak Inn[/b] had a brewery attached and made and sold its own beer. When the owner, Joseph Pilgrem, died both the pub and the brewery were offered for sale by auction at the Chapel Hotel; [i]'The Royal Oak Inn and brewery, situate in Stoneham-street, Great Coggeshall, with stables, chaisehouse, very productive garden, large orchard, &c.[/i] A 'chaise' is a light two-or four-wheeled carriage for one or two people with a folding hood. It and the stables probably date from the time when the Royal Oak was an inn and guests could hire horses and a chaise much as we might do a car today. The Inn was bought by [b]J K King of the Gravel End Brewery[/b] for £610 and became one of their tied public houses. Kings dismantled the brewery and disposed of the machinery and equipment. In 1878 Kings must have had trouble with their tenant, a chap by the name of Austin. On the 6th August that year a Mr Bailey attempted to take possession of the Royal Oak under the authority of a bill of sale, but as this was not produced 'Austin ejected him' giving him a [b]heavy blow to the head [/b]with the butt end of a whip, and [b]flinging another man downstairs[/b] at which [b]five or six others beat a hasty retreat[/b]. When the party returned with the constabulary Austin had[b] 'prudently decamped'[/b] The pub was probably not doing well and in January 1892, Kings put it on the market: [i]For sale by auction, '..by order of the Trustees of the late Mr. John Kemp King ; the valuable FREEHOLD FULLY-LICENSED PUBLIC-HOUSE, KNOWN as "THE ROYAL OAK,” well situate at Stoneham Street, Great Coggeshall, with Yards, Blacksmith's Shop, Stabling, Garden, and large Orchard.[/i] The auction was brought to a dramatic halt when the tenant stood up and threatened to [b]‘make things very unpleasant’[/b] for any purchaser. No bids were offered and the property was withdrawn from sale. Apparently undaunted by the threat, the pub was bought privately by a London firm of Brewers, [b]’Smith Garrett and Co' of Bow[/b]. From November 1892 - December 1895, there were no fewer than [b]eight different licencees[/b] some lasting just a week or two. Challenged about this at yet another application to transfer the licence, it was claimed this was because the brewers ‘could not get suitable tenants’. Mr Moss from the bench had his own opinion as to the cause, ‘[b]public houses were too thick in the parish[/b] making it impossible for landlords to get a livelihood’ *. The solicitor for the brewers admitted, 'It may be so.' On advice from the bench, Smith & Garrett withdrew their application (the magistrates must have known some 'previous' on Mr Obey the candidate) and later granted a temporary licence to William Goodey of Coggeshall; ‘who had for five years managed the Black Boy in the town'. The owners must have thought that if Goodey, an experienced Coggeshall landlord, could not make a go of the Royal Oak, no-one could. To Mr Goodey's credit, it was ten years later, in 1906, that Smith, Garrett & Co finally decided to close the pub down. At that time there was a scheme to offer compensation to landlords and tenants to de-licence pubs in places like Coggeshall, where there were thought to be too many (and open others where the population was expanding). In March 1906 the licensing authorities allowed a transfer - Frederick Foulger, of Colchester Road, Leyton (then in Essex, now London), was to be allowed a licence for a Beer Off-licence on the surrender of the licence for the Royal Oak in Coggeshall. The Chairman of the magistrates 'hoped the grant would not be made the stepping stone to an application for a full licence.' Social engineering was at work here, public houses being regarded by many in authority as a form of moral degeneracy, encouraging excessive drinking and its consequences, using money which should go to families. At the end of March 1906 Smith, Garrett & Co put the Royal Oak up for sale. In the meantime, as part of the process, the magistrates ordered a report on the Inn; ‘The premises had been inspected….Only about[b] three barrels of beer and three quarts of spirit a week[/b] were sold at the house. The bar was very small and customers were obliged to pass through it to enter the smokeroom, which appeared to be the only room used for drinking purposes. The taproom was not much used. The back premises were not in a very good state. There were four other fully licensed houses in the same street. The population was about 2,578, for which there were 20 licensed houses.’ The licence was referred to the County Committee and in October 1907 they approved an offer; William Goodey the tenant received £10 in compensation, the owners £100 and the [b]Royal Oak Inn closed its doors[/b] for the last time. And so another old Coggeshall pub became history. * Coggeshall had changed from an industrial town to a rural one, its economic decline made even worse in the 1890's by a slump in agriculture. As the Coggeshall solicitor Joseph Beaumont put it in 1892, 'Landlords could not find tenants, tenants could not find money and that labourers cannot find employment' [Letter to the editor Essex Standard 29/10/1892] [img align=left]/files/28302/logo1790.jpg[/img][/align] Trevor Disley 2018 From Jane Jefferies; "My grand parents lived there, circa 1912? My grandmother sold sweets -or perhaps that should be, gave away sweets? when she ran an unprofitable shop from there. Allegedly, my grandfather made gallons of homemade wine, which being teetotal, I'm assured he never touched, which he gave to the first world war soldiers who were billeted there. My mother's bedroom was the one immediately above the front door." Sources Chelmsford Chronicle 23/04/1875 Chelmsford Chronicle 09/08/1878 Essex Standard 09/01/1892 Chelmsford Chronicle 12/02/1892 Chelmsford Chronicle 11/11/1892 Essex Herald 23/11/1892 Essex Herald 25/07/1893 Essex Herald23/01/1894 Essex Newsman 07/12/1895 Chelmsford Chronicle 02/03/1906 Chelmsford Chronicle 30/03/1906 Essex Newsman 16/03/1907 Chelmsford Chronicle 18/10/1907 East Anglian Daily Times 21/11/1907 [img]/files/28302/0500broyaloak.jpg[/img] [b]Listed Building description of this old Inn[/b] TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL STONEHAM STREET 9/198 No. 38 (Royal Oak) 31.10.66 (formerly listed as no. 38 Royal Oak Cottage) GV II* House. Early 17th century, altered in 19th century. Timber framed, plastered and weather-boarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. four bays facing south west, with stack in rear part of second bay from left end, emerging at the ridge. 18th & 19th century internal stack at right end, truncated below roof. Two-storey porch in front of lobby-entrance in front of main stack. 19th century single-storey wing to rear right, of red brick and weatherboarding, roofed with red clay pantiles, and 20th century stack to right of it. Two storeys, cellar and attics. Ground floor, two early 19th century sashes of sixteen lights with crown glass; one to right of the porch has 'Royal Oak' inscribed twice on the inside of the glass; and one 20th century similar sash. First floor, three early 19th century sashes of 16 lights and one 19th century horizontal sash of twelve+ twelve lights, all with crown glass; one small fixed light with diamond leading. Simple moulded eaves cornice. Above the porch a gable over the stair has one 19th century cast iron casement of six lights. 19th century door with two lights in original porch, jettied to front and both sides, with 19th century scrolled brackets. The front and rear elevations are plastered, both gable ends weather-boarded. Square chimney with corner pilasters. Unjowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in both wallplates. Moulded binding beams to each side of the chimney bay, plain on the sides facing it, and moulded axial bridging beams in three bays; plain joists of vertical section. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left with moulded mantel beam, jambs and rear surface rebuilt with 20th century bricks. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right with roll-moulded jambs and depressed arch and rounded rear splays. Original stair in the lobby-entrance from ground to attic, with small open well, moulded handrails, inserted stick balusters and ball finials, and two carved pendants on the first floor; three newels in attic cut off. On the first floor two wide wood-burning hearths with chamfered jambs and depressed arches. Moulded bridging beams in the bays each side of the chimney bay, chamfered bridging beam with lamb's tongue stops in right bay; plain joists of vertical section. 17th century moulded and panelled internal doors. Clasped purlin roof with arched collars and straight intermediate collars. This house has retained an exceptional number of original features, and structurally is unaltered. (Described and illustrated in C.A. Hewett, Some East Anglian Prototypes for Early Timber Houses in America, Post-Medieval Archaeology 3, 1969, 104-5, 107, 111, but wrongly identified as no. 43, Stoneham Street, with wrong grid reference). RCHM 37 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40790533.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17919066855e2c0243af5ed.jpg[b]Now called 'Little Galleon'[/b] 'This is my Great Grandmother, Eliza Lewis, outside her house on Church Green.&nbsp My Grandmother, Ethel May, was born here in 1895' Courtesy Annette Warnes Date: 1920s? Ref; 103/35 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927824.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19278642645bebfad681970.jpgClose up showing a coach belonging to the Kelvedon-based Moores bus company, a business which had starred out as carriers and hauliers in the age of the horse. Date: 1948 Ref: 70/05a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764888.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9620220775a2d432ecd877.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35392710.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3347111825b34e953b9ecb.jpgEnlargement of previous plate - view down West Street from Highfields. Date: c1910 Ref: 06/09a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39732878.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4390631895d713d91f3b9e.jpgBridge Street and the Porto Bello public house. For a close-up see the next photo. Date; 1950's Ref 102/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39612227.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7764366705d646cefead93.jpgPhoto courtesy of Paul Sutterby, whose great Grandfather & Grandmother were Licensees from 1915 to 1922. 'The short gentleman with the flat cap and walrus moustache was my great grandfather John Sutterby and his wife Margaret Daisy is next to him.' The photo probably shows men of the Warwickshire Regiment who were billeted in Coggeshall 1914-15, its possible that they were all billeted at the Inn! When John died in April 1920 Margaret posted the following in the Essex Newsman; 'It's lonely here without you And sad the weary way; Nor is the world the same to me Since you were called away.' Margaret ran the Inn herself for a couple of years but in 1922 she gave it up and probably went to live with one of her children as her household furniture and effects were offered for sale at a public auction in the Toll House on 5th October 1922. The next tenants were something else. In 1924 Henry and Ellen Shawyer were brought to court charged with drunkeness. Inspector Girt had visited the Toll House Inn in May 1924 and in the tap room he saw Ellen leaning against table with her left hand, her face was bruised and swollen and her hair dishevelled. When asked where her husband was, she hesitated and then walked through the serving bar, aiding herself with her hand, and steadying herself against the cellar door. Her husband came from the cellar, carrying two quart mugs beer. As he passed his wife he said her, " Get out of the ******* way", and spilled some of the beer. The landlord's gait was unsteady, his face bore signs of being recently scratched, there being marks on the lip and nose. Witness said, 'I am ashamed to find you in this condition; both you and your wife are drunk and in no fit condition to conduct the public-house." The pair had had the licence about two years, during which time there were bouts of heavy drinking, which 'caused the police considerable trouble', after one session the pub had been closed for nine days. The Shawyers were each fined ten shillings and ten shillings costs. Greene King and Sons, the owners eventually managed to evict the pair. From Karen Hicks 1961-1965; 'Myself and my grandparents George and Ivy Stops were the last tenants of this pub before it closed down. I have such happy memory's of my time spent there and remember it all so well.' From Steve Lappage; 'My grandad William Percy Lawrence used to drink in there...as he lived at 24 Hill Road it was within walking distance there and stumbling distance back.' [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39643416.html#photo]Click here for more on the Toll House[/url][/i] Photo Date; 1915 Ref; 101 97 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37061065.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11223492145c0324503577f.jpgOsha Smith's cottage alongside Robins Brook (enlargement). Perhaps that is Mrs Smith and a grandson? in the doorway. The cottage has long since been pulled down. Ref: 26/05a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133197.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17750806465e7b325293595.jpgPersonnel of the 323rd Bomb Group, including Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy, talk with RAF personnel under the tail of a B-26 Marauder (serial number 41-17750) in August 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'America's New Super Medium Bomber In Britain. 18.8.43. The U.S. Super Medium bomber, the "Marauder" is now operating from Britain after doing fine work in N. Africa and Sicily. It has a range of 2,000 miles, with a speed of 350 m.p.h. and a wing span of 65 ft., and carries one ton of bombs. Driven by two 2,000h.p. Pratt and Witney "Wasp" engines, armed with 8 of the famous "Calibre 50" machine guns, and carries a crew of 6, all of who wear "Flak" armour and steel hats. The picture shows:-' Printed caption also attached: '37./38. Pilots and crews of the R.A.F. pay informal visits to U.S. Air fields in Britain and valuable working information is exchanged in this way. The picture shows a R.A.F. Bomber crew with U.S. pilots at a "Marauder" Station. The names (left to right) are:- Lt. John Helton (Clifton, Texas)., Sgt. Ronald Batson (Ferry Hill, Durham)., Flt. Sgt. Leonard Eaton (Manchester)., Pilot Officer Don MacLean (Toronto, Ontario)., Sgt. Len Johnson (Newark, Notts)., Lt. John Bull Sterling (Annapolis, Maryland)., Flt. Lt. Joe Macarthy (Long Island, New York)., Lt. Lawrence McNally (Bridgport, Conn)., Capt. Grover Willcox (Anahuac, Texas)., and Sgt. Bill Radcliffe (New Westminster, British Columbia). Flt. Lt. Joe McCarthy, a Yank in the R.A.F. won the D.S.O. for his part in the famous Dam Busting raid and he and Lt. John Bull Stirling trained at the same flying school in Canada.' Joe McCarthy was one of the 8,800 Americans who joined the RCAF before America entered the war. He became one of the most outstanding pilots in RAF Bomber Command, completing 67 operations before being taken off in July 1944. By then he had earned a DSO plus DFC and bar. His biographer says Joe and his 617 Squadron crew flew down to Earls Colne for the occasion recorded in this picture. Joe and his fellow American John Stirling had trained together at No 12 EFTS at Goderich, Ontario. Joe McCarthy remained in the RCAF until 1968. He then retired to Virginia Beach, VA where he died on 6 September 1998 Courtesy Roger Freeman Collection August 1943 104/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39742827.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6095141965d7423943e9ad.jpgBridge House, originally the 'Red Lion Inn' was the home of the Gardner family for many years. Their Brewery was behind the house, its entrance just visible. In the middle distance is the Portobello pub, one of the Gardner's pubs. Date; 1912 Ref 03/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655744.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20813929445ae34f16c4ccf.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Upper Left. Church street crosses left to right, East Street/Colchester Road above it.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39705818.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_215636755d6e34411d698.jpg[b]High Victorian at Coggeshall Church[/b] [i]Recollections of Church life in the 1870's by the Reverend Eyre;[/i] 'The town of Coggeshall has ever been noted for its peculiar ways. Like many other places, it clings closely to old ways, and abhors innovations. The church was cleaned (!) by two church sweepers as they were called, who received an honorarium of sixpence a week. An imaginary line was drawn across the middle of the church from north to south and each was responsible for her own portion. It was the ancient custom for them to sit during Divine service on two stools in the middle aisle but this was physically impossible for one, who was short and excessively stout. The other was an exceptionally large-framed woman, but she seemed to manage all right. The bells were chimed from an upper chamber which possessed a window commanding a view of the interior of the church. As the time for tolling-in drew on, one of the sidesmen (there were two paid ones, anciently called dograppers) stood on the chancel steps and dangled his watch for the ringers to cease from their labour, as none of them possessed a watch and this was the only method communicating with them. The aged clerk and sexton had managed to attend the morning service almost to the end, but eventually the only duty that his strength permitted him to fulfill was to hand the banns book to the clergyman after the second lesson. When a new clerk and sexton had been chosen, by an oversight he had not been told, so it was thought sensible to send a curate to warn him that his name was going to be called out during the Service "Lest when he heard his name he should be flurried, for he already had three wives and might think that he was going to be let in for another." The introduction the weekly offertory, which had come into being at this time, was keenly resented by many, as it was in most places. Because of this, at the conclusion the morning service, quite three-parts of the congregation made a bolt for the door; "it was their conscientious protest against an unwarranted innovation". With the coming of a new Vicar, a surpliced choir was brought in but the prejudice against the move was so strong against it ('No Popery!' was chalked on the churchyard walls) that the churchwardens did not dare to charge their accounts with cost of washing them and it had to be done at the expense of the ladies of the congregation.' Recollections of the Reverend Eyre, curate Coggeshall 1873-1877 [Chelmsford Chronicle 30/05/1924] [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39644755.html]Click here for a closer look at the wall paintings[/url][/i] Photo Date: c1890? Ref:101/99 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39643218.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19908968565d6a55fb1f522.jpgIn 1867 Arthur Evans 'keeper of a beer-house at Coggeshall called the Toll House' was granted a licence to also sell spirits and from this date the Toll House is referred to as a public house. Offered for Let in September 1892 the Toll House was described as 'a full-licensed roadside Inn with Stables, Sheds, and Piggeries.' [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39642945.html#photo]Click here for more on the Toll House[/url][/i] Ref:25/08Det3 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778760.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2710846895af44b534e850.jpgPhoto courtesy Doug Judd. Ref: 01/00b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655748.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19674788025ae34f399df1c.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Upper Right. The post office and Market End on the left and the extensive warehouses and silos of J K King bottom centre. Bridge Street off to the right and the bridge just visible right at the edge. Crossing the top is Abbey Lane with St Nicholas Chapel on the top left.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697592.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4458030675a219f8a9a0ba.jpg<center>This is Coggeshall's famous water cart being filled at the ford next to Stephen's Bridge. Originally bought to supply drinking water by the bucket to the many Coggeshall people without access to a well, it was later used to spray the streets to keep down the dust. </center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33815385.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16688734585a399457b6815.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654374.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18960554015ae2582cae5d9.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Church Street runs across the centre with East Street below. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008661.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16502101685a74880e2560f.jpgOld cottages on Grange Hill shortly before demolition. August 1939 Ref 63/34 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927826.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15781625715bebfadb9dff4.jpgOld cars on Market Hill, and Clapham & Norman jewellers shop. Date: 1948 Ref: 70/05f https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927614.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20018658575bebf5d87e158.jpgA terrible photo I know but it does show Bryan Saunders outside his workshop. Date c1960 Ref: 101 45 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/grange-hill-coggeshall-evening-sun https://images.on-this.website/28302_10513229635a74495eafd5c.jpgThe view up Grange Hill from the bridge on a summer evening. The water barrel may have been filled at the river and used on E W Kings land. Date: about 1920. Ref: 58/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34760559.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_867110945af1da7be6d43.jpg Close-up of previous photo. On the left in the distance is Evan's garage and behind it the large building is the Kinema. Date; probably 1930's Ref 100/68a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37170040.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12811073685c260d058e21d.jpg(Detail) Perambulators on East Street, in the distance, a delivery of Coal from Goodman's of Robinsbridge Road. 10 mph Speed limit sign Date 1930's? Ref: 02/28a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41100004.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8794549455e6f340acdd02.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34701775.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13515312895aeb7d019d268.jpgLooking up Church Street from the Conservative Club. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: 1905. Ref 100/58 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34776663.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10932148745af30fac0694a.jpgView down The Gravel during one of the regular floods. A taxi service is in use to ferry people to and from the shops. Date: Possibly 1928 Ref: 08/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40572824.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7892959815de5566a923c5.jpgRebuilding the church - working on the tower. Houses on the Colne Road behind, on the left distance houses on the Tey Road and on the horizon is probably Monkdowns Farm. Photo courtesy the Church of St Peter ad Vincula Date: c1954 Ref: 102/35 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381860.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12347181545abe74c366875.jpg[b]The Church Street Factory[/b] was the last link to generations of Coggeshall weavers, inside there was an inscription; 'Richard White 1736' - White was Coggeshall's last baymaker and a very wealthy man even as the trade declined. The date 1736 probably marks the date of a refurbishment as the buildings were much older than this. There was a disastrous fire here in 1777 which damaged huge amounts of stock in store for weaving and which spread so quickly that one of White's children had to be thrown from an upper window to be caught by onlookers below. It was this fire which prompted Coggeshall to buy their own fire engine. A sale notice of 1901 reads,'FREEHOLD MERCANTILE PROPERTY situate in Church-street, and known as the CLOTHING FACTORY, consisting of two large workrooms. a cottage used as pressing-rooms, and gabled Residence, capable of seating 45 employees.' The last occupiers before this photo was taken were Messrs Hart and Levy who used it as an outstation. The factory then comprised five cottages as shown here with some work done off site by home-workers. An old poster on the wall above the men reads, 'Wanted: Machinists' which may give a clue as to the type of work undertaken at the factory then. In 1905 Mrs T P Price invited the indoor hands from the 'Church-street tailoring factory' to her residence. Marks Hall. The girls, numbering about 30 together with Miss Kate Tansley, the manageress, and Mrs. Stoney and Miss Gardner, (from the church) were conveyed to the Hall in brakes. Traditional weaving could only have ceased a few years before, as in 1908 when this photo was taken, some of the old weavers were still alive, among them an ancient character called 'Bogy Sach' who lived in Back Lane. [These details are from a manuscript in the Gardner collection, Coggeshall Museum 2/38(45)]. Hollington Bros took over the site in 1908 and demolished some of the cottages to build a modern factory. The business proved very successful and in subsequent years the factory was extended twice until all the old cottages were gone. In the photo Mr Sach, the demolition and building contractor, with his workers, pose outside the old buildings just before starting to demolish them. (To see what was built in its place click here: [url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo34381858.html#photo]Nasty Factory[/url]) [b]Another view of this row of weavers cottages here; [url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo34388802.html#photo]Weavers Cottages[/url][/b] Date: 1908. Ref: 11/04 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654361.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21316646285ae257c88a523.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">This is the first of two photos taken in 1925 shown in its entirety. Stoneham Street cuts a diagonal and the town clock can be seen, East street is bottom right.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750734.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18510846665a285fcac9c97.jpg[size=12]<font face="Garamond">[i]<center>Another view from the lane into the old Orchard Mill/J K King's site. There were once some workers cottages down here called 'Factory Yard'.</center>[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34011348.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12339543415a75d58d0c235.jpgWorkers at Gardner's Brewery during a flood. Date possibly 1914. Ref: 08/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40870712.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9466137445e3c84eb49f9f.jpgMarket Hill with the Coronation Lamp (detail) Date; Between 1922-1925 Ref; 103/52Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37091948.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9884794335c09ad247b845.jpgFire at Colton and Shearman's scrapyard, Colne Road. The scrapyard occupied the old clay pit. Date: Mid 1960's? Ref: 50/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764872.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8537946415a2d43042358c.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41100003.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1781204595e6f34046e882.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34416044.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3405851275ac3590c929f1.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i>Fabians farmhouse remained standing whilst the new estate was built around it. Probably of medieval origin, eventually it was demolished and replaced by a bungalow. Another planning mistake and another piece of the old town's character removed. Ref 45/11 </font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34844038.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_814018685af9f6c4d4e13.jpgWest Street from Hare Bridge where Robins Brook crosses Stane Street. The name probably derives from Walter Hares who lived in Coggeshall in 1399. Date: about 1909 Ref: 03/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35659537.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10517821805b54bef74562e.jpgTop left of four maps, which are; lower left, lower right, top left, top right, The maps show the field-names recorded on the Tithe award for Great Coggeshall dated 7th March 1854. ERO Reference; D/P 36/27/1A https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411354.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8217620055ba755829fd81.jpgView up Church Street from Market Hill. Date c1920. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34290512.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13094505765aae7204e398e.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40657691.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13056681235e01e4059d2f0.jpgPea Picking in 14 Acre Field opposite 'The Cantyre' Probably in Feering Date 1890? Ref; 70/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40214786.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13106221215daa4d69bb600.jpgView down Church Street from outside Brownings the butchers. Date: Late 1940's - early 1950's Ref; 102/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381857.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12174983685abe74b406e24.jpgSach's workers No.2, new clothing factory completed 1908/9. (continued) List continues; From Mr Dyer 1st on left; Dyer, Bearman, Sach, Clarke, Shelley, Martin, F[?] Wade, Butcher. Date; 19th February 1909 Ref 09/15Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34668426.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16628771045ae5a8921077a.jpgThe view up Grange Hill from the bridge on a summer evening. Date: 1921 Ref: 58/17Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36960273.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9440613355bf2844fd19a1.jpgThe start of Tilkey Road. Just behind the cyclist is the five-bar gate leading to Millhouse where one of the largest windmills in Essex once stood. The telegraph pole on the extreme left was put up in 1931 (to point erected near the Round House the application said) extending the telephone system from the original pole on Market Hill. Date; 1950's Ref: 101 57 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34394041.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20327861865abfc0cb5854f.jpgAfter the church was bombed (See 'Fires, Firemen and other Mishaps' p 203-4 - a copy is in the library if you haven't got one) The chancel arch was bricked up, as shown here, and services were held in the chancel. It was 1956 before the church was rebuilt and reconsecrated. Date: 1950 Ref: 62/26 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34384140.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18519421145abec7ecdbe04.jpgChurch Street outside Moss's newsagent. Date: 1895 Ref: 09/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34669356.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12406080155ae5b83637a95.jpgMarshall's woodcarving shop decorated for the Coronation of George I in 1910. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Ref: 100/41 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34405305.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9539463465ac1233e73c7d.jpgHollingtons before it was extended, more medieval house await demolition. 'The Cedars' on the right. Date: c1909-10 Ref: 43/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757226.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4431833205a2b0bf711005.jpg<font face="Garamond">A 19th century engraving showing Orchard House and the old mill behind during the time it was used by J K King.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33749293.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8769389065a28033d09538.jpg<font face="Garamond">The surviving wing of the silk factory, the main building was at the far end.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/water-cart-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_17315833565a7598b59be97.jpgA close-up of the water cart. Date about 1898 Ref: 25/20 Detail https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34011438.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16524589555a75debac7aa6.jpgThe Bridge with the Grange barn behind and showing Mr Webb at the Rood House gate. Date about 1910. Ref: 07/00 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697229.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12122519885a2199e77619a.jpg<center>Taken on 22nd February 1915, the morning after the bomb fell on what was then a meadow but which later became Coggeshall Recreation Ground. Bertie Clarke and police constable Tyrell saw the plane and took cover as they heard the bomb falling towards them. To read about events of that night and what happened afterwards - well, its in the book!</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40649546.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8717641865dfa67de777e9.jpgNearest the camera is the shop long known as "The Fire Office' and occupied for many years by Daniel Leaper who was agent for the Essex and Suffolk Insurance Society and superintendent of the fire engine that the company maintained in Coggeshall. Leaper also owned The Bird in Hand which was run by his son William. Date; c1890? Ref 102/65 Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/faggot-of-wood https://images.on-this.website/28302_12145642345aeb47fe09e08.jpgA heavily laden wagon approaches the bridge on what looks like a very dull day. Might they be sacks of potatoes? The next photo gives a closer look. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1909 Ref: 100/57 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33799546.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18723427605a35b11e35661.jpg<font face="Garamond">Two workmen demolishing the engine house and chimney of the old silk mill, then owned by J K King. Looks a bit precarious! date 1925-6.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34391005.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21340576355abf8fbb52bd4.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i> Ref 61/09</font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34777887.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18300453095af36a4f286e9.jpgThe junction of The Gravel with West Street, showing on the right the footbridge over the spillway. This was at one time a leet from Robinsbrook taking water to the foundry on Bridge Street. Date: Unknown Ref: 48/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381859.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16222010005abe74beb75fd.jpgDetail of the Church Street Factory before its demolition. The torn notices say 'Wanted Machinists...' Mr Sach, whose works were in Back Lane/Queen Street is probably on the left. Date: 1908 Ref: 11/04Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36892330.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7599710995be4d50843552.jpgThe Woolpack and a view down Church Street on a sunny afternoon in the 1950's. Date:1950's Ref: 101/37 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37092875.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7547649935c0a8ffcc3c0c.jpgThe Coggeshall Co-op Baker's van on Tilkey Road. The bakery was behind the shop on Church Street. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date: Not known Ref: 101/72 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35132997.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18626489055b1c4e9630858.jpgDetailed close-up of the doorway, Paycockes house before restoration Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: c1890? Ref: 101/09a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34701776.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18031554565aeb7d05f2966.jpgAn early photo of the Council School which stood at the junction of the Colne Road and St Peter's Road, then in the countryside. The car belonged to Mr Hearn the Headmaster. It is now Myneer Park. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: 1930's? Ref 100/59 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920080.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1773832715be9aa25ef744.jpgThe top of Robinsbridge with Mr Shepherd's 'Confectioner and Tobacconist'. A church procession (Mothers Union) about to join the parade, perhaps celebrations for the Coronation of George VI? Courtesy Douglas Judd Date: Not known Ref: 101 41 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34668427.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7445869845ae5a898aefef.jpgThe view up Grange Hill from the bridge on a summer evening with a fashionable couple walking into town. From the wheel tracks it looks like the cart has gone through the ford. Date: 1921. Ref 58/17Det2. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34738304.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18711860455af081bb1150f.jpgEnlargement showing the cottage and shop adjoining the 'Cricketers' long since demolished. The footbridge spans the leet/spillway alongside the Gravel used when Robin's Brook flooded. Photo by courtesy of Douglas Judd Date: c1920 Ref: 43/21a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36997261.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17857266535bf5a5a3d4cb7.jpgQuite startling after all the black and white! The road that was to become Windmill Fields under construction. The view is across the valley of Robins Brook; in the distance on the left is Squirrels Hall on the Robinsbridge Road and on the right, Gatehouse Farm. No by-pass either! Date: 1964-65 (Thanks Sue!) Ref: 101/61 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40572843.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12341587285de55d1de3c7b.jpgView into the church through the south porch showing the devastation caused by the bomb- the trees are in the churchyard beyond. Courtesy Church of St Peter ad Vincula 1941 Ref; 102/39 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40632998.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16151503115df6255ab7da7.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40714325.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19663018285e1731cd7b93b.jpgEnlargement from previous photo. Date about 1907 Ref: 100/13 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411363.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15757613325ba756cf252b4.jpgMarket Hill at the start of the motor age (detail). The Chapel Hotel then owned by the New London Brewery. It is a 'AA' sign suspended above the door. Date; 1922-25 Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/27b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/coggeshall-bridge-street https://images.on-this.website/28302_17870431195ae4fc05601c3.jpgBerry's Bus, detail. Ref: 08/20b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803678.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17448097845a369e7b6bf7b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36924984.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17004314335bea1b636b180.jpgThe town clock and Stoneham Street. Date: 1908 Ref: 04/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33803666.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9231088705a369e65d7288.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34467485.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18712403925aca9b721aa01.jpgGuntons shop on the right sold sweets and chocolates and according to the notice, 'Teas'. Date: perhaps around 1900. Ref: 43/15imp2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36919433.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4256807515be968f340dcd.jpgOff-licence at 17/19 Robinsbridge Road. The last licencee was F G Remnant, his daughter, Vera outside. The sign reads; 'F.G.REMNANT LICENSED TO SELL BEER & STOUT NOT TO BE CONSUMED ON THE PREMISES' Photo courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date: 1920's? Ref:101/38 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34835204.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3670301615af9bd886261c.jpgFlooding near Hare Bridge. The building with the shop and the one next to it was later demolished to give access to the J K Kings site. Vic Lawrence (born in Coggeshall in 1917) who wrote list of Coggeshall's shops in his time, calls this, 'Granny Goodwin’s shop'. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: 1928 Ref: 100/75 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697227.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10203515135a2199dd1c936.jpg<center>The newly formed parish fire brigade and engine in 1903. The manual fire engine (which was vermilion) was bought new for the town in 1837 by the Essex and Suffolk Fire Office (a Colchester based fire insurance company). It was made by Merryweather's of Long Acre London, in a factory which was itself later destroyed by fire.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40881743.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12195577395e3ff7305baec.jpgDetail from 103/53 On the right is Wilsher the 'Clothier and Outfitter' and beyond it Fred Pluck the 'Outfitter, Drapier and Boot Factor'. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date; about 1915 Ref 103/53 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40833896.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13413707595e36fe8f36107.jpg103/51 July 10th 1948 and part of the Coggeshall Carnival procession on Church Street showing the wartime fire engine. Courtesy Geoff Blackwell July 10th 1948 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089162.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13228534525c08574d8c6aa.jpgThe Cradle House Date: c1976? Ref: 101/71 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008182.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15400672615a744967eb166.jpgGrange Hill with the newly built brick office of E W King. Date: 1912-20. Ref: 43/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo50878849.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18288445546620db6e374c5.jpgPointwell Mill during conversion to a 'modern' dwelling in 1965. The mill was stripped down to the frames, rebuilt with little reference to its original form by Messrs FJ Capon of Maldon. It is doubtful that such an unsympathetic restoration would be acceptable now. Date Summer 1965 Ref: 109 54 10 Photo taken by Bill Payne. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655747.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10243316625ae34f309aa3e.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Lower Centre. The junction between Stoneham Street and Robinsbridge Road. The old houses on Robinsbridge, some already standing empty soon to be demolished. Wonderfully well-kept allotments, lower left. The playground of St Peter's school stands out clearly.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757298.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20022932905a2b225425fb1.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39731529.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_486891375d70f9c029740.jpgThe Pest House also called the Red House. Standing high and isolated the family were expecting the house to be struck every time there was a storm; mirrors were covered and cutlery was hidden away. After one strike and monstrous clap of thunder, the back doorstep was found to be cracked through. Date; Late 1960's Ref; 102/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40341638.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17107307985dbcba4cd830b.jpgGeorge Birkin's premises, Market End/ opposite Bridge Street. From Roy Ladhams: ‘This is my grandfather George Thomas Birkin in the doorway of his shop at 8 Market End with two of his employees , painters I think with their hand cart.' Photo courtesy Roy Ladhams Date; 1920's? Ref; 102/25 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34519644.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13534109285acfdbe46105f.jpgA close-up showing Weinrich's fruit and vegetable shop at 25 Church Street. Owned by the Weinrich family until the late 1950's. Henry Weinrich was in the Coggeshall Fire Brigade in the early 1900's and his son Frank continued the tradition and served in the Coggeshall National Fire Service during the war. Frank was due to get married in the church when it was bombed and the ceremony was moved to St Nicholas Chapel in Little Coggeshall, the brigade were in attendance of course. Ref: 100/17b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39731052.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1167885645d70dae45eba3.jpgThe Pest House also called the Red House. The small stone to the left of the upstairs window has the date 1758 inscribed - the date the house was built. Date; Late 1960's Ref; 102/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747845.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1440709045a272299452ca.jpg[size=12]<font face="Garamond">[i]<center>Part of the Orchard Silk Mill which survived the 1920 fire. All but one of the original windows have been ripped out and either filled in or replaced with staggering ineptitude destroying the integrity of what was originally an honest and refined utilitarian building.[/i]</center></font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40680841.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6677929205e0b53fac2aee.jpgWest Street and Paycocke's House looking towards Hares Bridge. (An enlargement of part of this photo follows.) c 1910 Ref 06/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929828.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20543500805bec651533542.jpgThe town clock in a stone colour with decorations in the quadrants. National Westminster Bank is visible next to the chemist and Clapham and Norman the jewellers. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1950 Ref: 101/51a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34796990.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14742935385af77107195cd.jpgNot a very good photo and a wet, grey day - but it does record the scene in the 1950's. No pavement and the A120, the main road through the town, still quiet and relatively free of traffic. Daniels took over from Kings Brewery when it was sold in 1908. Date: 1950's Ref: 44/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34770110.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6328462195af21da3f1031.jpgEast Street from near Swan Lane, close-up showing a delivery boy. On the right, immediately after the gap created when the Swan Inn was demolished, was yet another public house called The Sugar Loaf and then the Kings Arms. The bracket that can be seen was for a gas lamp not the pub sign which had long gone. Photo by courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date; c1920?? Ref; 06/00 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34738306.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6773543755af081c68876f.jpgWest Street looking towards Market End (Deail). Mr King of kings Seeds lived in the house on the left called Gravel House after the original house of that name which was on the Gravel burnt down. Date: c1920 Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd Ref: 43/21c https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654363.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16641344225ae257d98c9ad.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Swan Lane is prominent on the right leading from East Street up to Church Street. It was Swan Yard until the Swan Inn on East Street was demolished.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008180.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6145859635a74496338794.jpgGrange Hill showing the old cottages demolished about 1939. The tall chimney was built in 1837-39 for a steam powered silk factory. At the time of the photo the building was being used by J K King and the chimney was redundant, the engine and machinery broken up and sold for scrap years earlier. Date: Card is Postmarked 1906 Ref: 09/16. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697231.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19994352865a2199efd4829.jpg<center>The fire at J K King's seed warehouse 6th May 1920. This view shows the Crouches footpath where it crosses Robin's Brook. Dense smoke from the fire meant that the children were let off lessons at St Peter's School for the afternoon session and many of the boys enjoyed the spectacle from the Crouches path.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40220980.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14419471235dac46c30c23b.jpgAnother photo of the 'Kinema' on East Street. Closed in 1959-1960. Coggeshall Museum Date; 1950's? Ref 102/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750775.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15827036795a286cb7796a6.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34655742.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17969535665ae34f0b85492.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">This view, looking south across the town was probably taken in 1961. Stoneham Street and the start of Tilkey Road cross the centre with Robinsbridge Road forking off to the right. East Street is top left, the start of West Street on the right. This key maps shows the view in its entirety, the following 6 photos zoom in the order Upper Left, Lower left, Upper Centre, Lower Centre, Upper Right, Lower Right.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750637.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8591614655a2858efc5ec9.jpg<font face="Garamond">Old silk mill door taken form 'inside' the mill - who knows who left this door open for the last time? When I took the photo, what was the interior was a dense thicket of spindly trees. All gone now, demolished to make way for the Kings Acre development.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40639337.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16760476555df74d4f940e8.jpgHighfields in May 1977 during the fire which destroyed the roof and top floor and severely damaged the rest of the building. It was later rebuilt but the height of the main range was reduced by one storey, and the windows re-arranged and replicated. Re-used C18 pine panelling in the large entrance-hall, was reported to be from Tate and Lyle, Marks Lane, City of London. May 1977 Ref; 102/57 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747350.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2597143975a27107dbff42.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/ford-atcoggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_7828389315ae5090f3a962.jpgAn unusual view of the bridge and Grange Hill which shows the exit from the ford. E W King's premises have grown with a bigger warehouse behind the original wooden building. Date around 1910. Ref: 07/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33764868.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5286167775a2d42feac61e.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40136237.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4213552275da107a523023.jpg[b]Grange Hill[/b] A Martin B26 Marauder ( 42-96175 6B-Y) which crash-landed after running out of fuel behind the houses on Grange Hill on Saturday 17th June 1944. It slid along the ground for a considerable distance and travelled through the gardens of Not 47, 45 and 43 before ending up in the garden of No 41. One of the propellors was reported to have landed behind No. 28 Grange Hill. The crew escaped serious injury. A witness who lived in a house on Grange Hill heard a noise outside and when he looked out of his back window was confused at what looked like two bright lights getting closer together - it took a moment for him to realise that they were the landing lights of an aircraft careering along the ground and heading directly towards him! [b]An account by an eyewitness[/b] I.L Phillips. [i]‘It had been a lovely warm late spring day and I had attended the dance at the American Red Cross Club (St. Peters Hall). My mother was one of the voluntary helpers, and through her I was enrolled as one of the dance hostesses. On Saturdays the dance always finished at 11pm because Miss Dorothy Mears the club director wished everyone to be home and the transport away to the bases, to ensure the village was quiet before midnight. Gerry Estie, trombonist in the Havocs band and his friend Jimmy had escorted me home, about 15 minutes walk from the village. The night was still and warm and dusk just beginning to fall, it was double summertime, 2 hours forward of G.M.T. and nearing the longest day. Just beyond the ten acre field opposite our house were the runways of the Rivenhall airbase, and as we stood talking at the garden gate we watched the Maurauders circling and going into land, one by one, apparently just returning from another mission. Indoors, my mother was waiting up for me and I went through to the kitchen where she was preparing our bedtime drink. When suddenly there was a loud rending noise coming closer and closer. We ran through to the front of the house, throwing ourselves on the floor, expecting an explosion, as we both thought it to be a Vi flying bomb. However, all became quiet, so I returned to the kitchen and on opening the door was met by a hail of earth and branches from our fruit trees. I was amazed to see this aircraft a few yards away, as I walked towards it a voice called "quickly get an axe, get an axe" I immediately got one from the shed nearby. One of the crew had appeared, and taking the axe from me smashed the front of the cockpit to reach the pilot, who was bleeding profusely from the head and appeared to be unconscious. He was moaning and trembling, so I fetched a blanket to put round him, the airman applied some white powder to the head wounds. My mother had meanwhile alerted the civil defence, and it was not long before the local fire service arrived, fortunately they were not needed. I remained by the pilot's side holding the blanket round him for what seemed like ages before ambulances eventually arrived from the base to take the crew away. Our neighbours were all asleep and were amazed at the sight the next day. The Marauder had ploughed through the laurel hedge of No 47 and the fences of No 45 and No 43, coming to a stop in our garden, No 41, right by our shed, three yards from the kitchen door. Two airmen were left to guard the plane night and day, until the following Wednesday when a transporter arrived to take it away.’[/i] Juliet Snowling writes: ' Our neighbour told us that the plane landed across the gardens of 43 and 45 and he reckons that he couldn't grow potatoes because of the fuel and oil that had leaked out into the ground.' Thanks also to Paul Shearman, Dawn Cranham and Jeremy Doughton. Date; May 1944 Ref; 17/16 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34398622.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10601455625abfe1c6c0d81.jpgKate Chilcot's hat shop. All seem to be variants of the same design. This may was between the Greyhound and Browning's butchers shop. Dating is helped by the distinctive shadow which was thrown by one of the first speed limit signs put up in Coggeshall; 'Max Speed 10mph for Motors'. These were first put up in 1914 and the photo probably dates from the early 1920's. Ref: 62/0a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36920078.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18657971415be9a33e4ddcb.jpgEnlargement from 101/33 showing the view up Stoneham Street. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: c1900 Ref: 101/33b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36966263.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20853403535bf2fe08e3f59.jpgMr & Mrs Musk, Coggeshall's last velvet weavers outside their house at Tilkey. Their two looms were on the third floor. They supplied crimson and blue velvet for the Coronations of both Edward VII and George V. For Edward VII they had each woven over 80 yards of velvet 22 inches wide. Each weaving about 3.5 yards a week and were paid 4 shillings (20p) per yard. Date: July 1911 Ref: 68/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40890593.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20468004775e42f8f6e118b.jpgEnlargement from previous photo Date; possibly around 1900 Ref; 103/56 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34018017.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18722021235a76f20a4e02f.jpgLower Grange Hill and the Bridge. The brickwork and coping stones on the bridge look new, so the photo must have been taken just after the rebuild in 1912 when the lovely old railings were removed and the bridge widened to give its present appearance. The chap on the bike is said to be Mr.Appleford the Miller of Pointwell Mill. Date: about 1914 Ref: 05/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34731578.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6938550345af0526a41af3.jpgAnother enlargement from a previous plate. Gas light outside the White Hart, Stead and Simpson's shoe shop, Joyce the butcher then the post office. Date: 1920's? Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref: 100/65a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750635.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3390649745a285706306ae.jpg<font face="Garamond">Amazingly one of the original doors to the silk mill survived in the west wall.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/gt-coxall https://images.on-this.website/28302_11876981955b54b2af641f5.jpgTop right of four maps, which are; lower left, lower right, top left, top right, The maps show the field-names recorded on the Tithe award for Great Coggeshall dated 7th March 1854. ERO Reference; D/P 36/27/1A https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697225.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7460924655a219684ee8ab.jpg<center>The Market Hill Fire Station. Built in 1939 after a mutiny at Kelvedon. This event was successfully hushed-up at a time when everyone was supposed to be working together in the war effort. The call-out siren, previously the war-time air-raid siren, can be seen between the two poles on the left.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37089160.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13097625235c08573be2e5c.jpgThe Cradle House, once Markshall Rectory, the wash-house can be seen behind. By Glen Moore: 'My grandparents lived there around late 1920s/early 30s. My aunt often used to talk about it, she loved it there. My grandfather was then sacked from the farm because he tried to make a little extra money for the family one Christmas by selling holly and mistletoe on Market Hill, so they had to move out.' By Rita Humphreys: 'I used to live there in the 1970s lovely in the summer but also very creepy I am sure it was haunted as I always heard footsteps on the stairs and walking into the bedrooms.' See also the next few photos (press the right arrow or swipe) Date: Not known Ref: 41/11 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747847.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1751336985a2722a0ca286.jpgAnother view of the site and the 'new' entrance on to West Street (originally the only way in was under the teasel loft opposite the old Cricketer's pub). Dominating the scene is the impressive 18th century(?) brewery building of J K King on four floors which was once adorned with a substantial chimney (it emerged from the roof on the opposite side of the building). Kings gave up brewing in 1908 and the brewery was then converted into a seed warehouse. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34297761.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3854471495ab04c700af35.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">A fire was reported in the old mill at 01.40 in the morning of 1st June 1995 and two fire engines, one from Coggeshall and one from Braintree attended but the fire was already well developed. The smoke still rising and the roof fallen in, I took this photo as day broke the morning after the fire.</font>[/i][/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757294.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17673746335a2b223539e28.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697932.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20599261365a21a517ace21.jpg<center>On the left is 'The Cedars' and beyond it 'Woodlands' once the home of the King family and the scene of a terrible tragedy in November 1904. The house looks very different now - can you spot the big change? (It's not about the rendering)</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34384142.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8890743575abecd92ecb63.jpgPart of the Greyhound Inn sign on the left and the canopy of the butchers shops where game would hang nearby and another in the distance. Date: probably about 1890. Ref: 03/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381865.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11434274015abe74e15ddc5.jpgShops and houses decorated for the coronation of George VI. Arthur Hutley's 'Removals and Cartage Contractor' premises are next door. Date: May 1937 Ref: 100/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34038610.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6911281675a79eb7cd900b.jpgThe Territorials on Grange Hill and about to leave Coggeshall, probably on an exercise. The cottages on the right were pulled down in 1936 and council houses were built on West Street to rehouse the displaced families. Date: possibly summer 1912. Ref 100/16 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41099999.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18502210575e6f33e715d4e.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34731593.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14835699995af0527242dbe.jpgEnlargement of previous plate Date: 1920's? Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd Ref: 100/65b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008802.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5729481915a74d6ffe6031.jpgFlooding at Bridge Street. Carts ferrying people across the water. The nearest is from William Bright & Sons Brewers of Stoneham Street part of which is now the village Hall. On the right note the planks dropped into slots in the gateposts and being sealed with clay, a flood defence as the river overflowed regularly. Date: March 1914? Ref: 09/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34776666.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1106883925af3107ba33dc.jpgEast Street from near Swan Lane, enlargement Date; c1920?? Ref; 06/00a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/coggeshall-grange-barn https://images.on-this.website/28302_6681699975aeb7cd02f532.jpgA wonderful view of the Long Bridge and the Grange Barn with a meadow running down to the river. The entry to the ford is now pretty well grown over through disuse. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date mid 1950's. Ref: 100/60 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711735.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9963774875aeeb00aac3dd.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34770107.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15400529035af21d99d14a3.jpgFlooding outside 'Abbey View', the Red House in the distance. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date; Unknown. Ref: 100/69 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34711801.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6122213695aeecd640fc29.jpgWest Street showing J K King's premises (Enlargement). Photo by courtesy of Douglas Judd. Date: 1919-20 Ref: 100/61a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33799536.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6120722565a35aac38ec70.jpg<font face="Garamond">This is a view taken from the Crouches footpath and shows a corner and end wall which had survived from the silk factory. The detailing of the brickwork is shown in the engraving also in this collection (although the footpath was left off for artistic reasons). The walls were pulled down when the site was developed in the late 1980's. </font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34776665.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2528650685af3107761a0e.jpgEast Street from near Swan Lane Date; c1920?? Ref; 06/00 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34814626.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_720348785af8c853e814d.jpgEnlargement of 100/64 showing the old warehouse and shop between the Cricketers and Bridge Street in the process of demolition. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date: Late 1920's Ref: 100/64b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34399863.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2106457285ac001204e350.jpgThe church after the bomb fell on 16th September 1940. At first the tower seemed to have survived but on the 17th the turret fell and over the following week the south west corner of the tower started to collapse. In the following winter scaffolding was put up and this allowed the bells to be lowered undamaged to the ground and then the rest of the top of the tower, split and fractured by the bomb blast, was demolished. Date: September 1940 Ref: 100/50 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40632999.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1376136065df62588c01a4.jpgFamily and workers at C & H Warren, Carriage Builders with Foundry House on the right. For more info see next photo and [url=https://coghist.photium.com/the-bridge-street-ironworks] Iron Works[/url] [img]/files/28302/warrenhead.jpg[/img] [img]/files/28302/warrenplate.jpg[/img] <center>[i]With thanks to Andy Brown for this photo of the Makers Plate[/i]</center> Date c 1905 Ref; 65/24 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33757242.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15878744095a2b1a80d0ef0.jpg<font face="Garamond">This was J K King's shop and offices on West Street. King lived in the three-storied house next door. The scene is little changed today.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36892274.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13889458495be4ac5d56841.jpgView down East Street from Brookdene. A petrol pump from Lakes Garage is just visible on the right. Date: 1950's. Ref: 101/36 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778152.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7735169255af386fb85b5d.jpgView from an upstairs window of 'Brookdene' on East Street Date: 1937 Ref: 100/72 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774576.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13486267545a2f02a230365.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/byham https://images.on-this.website/28302_5706923835bf1fbb80479b.jpgLower Stoneham Street and Market Hill. Bryan Saunders house and workshop can be seen centre left and left again the shop next door, a greengrocery and general store, which was run for some years by Bryan's wife, Maud, and daughter, Janet. Date: Mid 1950's Ref: 101/55 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36725938.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8404550695bce4b3a94132.jpg [img]/files/28302/3402aoldlamb.jpg[/img] [b]Quoits team outside the old Lamb, Tilkey's own pub.[/b] Standing (Left to Right) Walter Cowlin the landlord and Samuel Haines. Seated in front, Siddy Wilsher, Charlie Soder, Jack Griggs (a horseman from Bouchiers Grange) and 'Shovel' Wade (a bricklayer). There was a clay quoits court at the Lamb. In the 1930's a new Lamb was built next door. Both old and new survive as private houses. By request, for Alannah 1925-30 Ref: 34/02 (Close-up is 34/02a) https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40904453.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16978550585e498e216c716.jpgEW King's premises just before the move to Monk's Farm, Kelvedon. The site was redeveloped although the main warehouse was adapted for housing. Courtesy James Phillips June 1984 Ref; 103/84 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40866424.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16098628455e3b427e65d42.jpgA wonderful and unique view from the Horse River Bridge looking up Bridge Street. Afternoon sunshine casts shadows across the roadway - one of those photos, that that to me at least, captures a long past moment of time. Date; perhaps around 1900 Ref; 103/59 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008826.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7538542205a758774c1301.jpgA lovely afternoon view of Garner's Brewery cart in the ford alongside Stephen's Bridge. Date about 1898 Ref: 57/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34024042.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18587753075a778c56c1bee.jpgA quiet day at the Longbridge. The tall chimney is at Gardner's Brewery on Bridge Street. On the original it says 'Biscuits' on the box the man is holding! Date: about 1900 Ref: 11/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34024040.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9338793935a778c526b227.jpgStill waters at the Long Bridge. Date: about 1900 Ref: 11/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40787991.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1912369205e2a25da943f1.jpgMarket Hill c1920 Ref; 103/42 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696203.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20163230775ae9d4f16bf14.jpgMoss, the newsagent and Cocksedge the tobacconist. On the extreme right is the shop that was Coggeshall's first post office and telephone exchange. There is a 'Telephone' sign outside, just visible here right at the edge of the photo. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 100/53. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/horse-ploughing-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_3160436885a764941bea12.jpgHorse ploughing by the river in Little Coggeshall, St Nicholas Chapel in the distance. These are Jolly and Captain, owned by EW King and must be coming to the end of their working life on the seed farm. Their stable was at the start of Abbey Lane on the left, just off grange Hill. Date: about 1950 Ref: 04/28. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004866.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1553462485a71e1c70f55d.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40399424.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13665223785dc5f46720b05.jpgGeorge Birkin's House decorated for Jubilee Day 6th May 1935. Date; 1935 Ref 11/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35073487.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_818324945b11c82cb9538.jpgWest Street - detail of 100 85. Date: c1908 Ref: 100/85b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40580863.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13213845205de6dd80ddf50.jpgEast Street with Arthur Hutley’s horse-drawn bus to Colchester. It was to be replaced by a brand-new double-decker omnibus which began service on 5th June 1914 leaving Coggeshall at 11.30am and arriving at Colchester at 12.50 returning in the late afternoon. The service was later extended to Braintree. Courtesy Coggeshall museum Date; 1913 Ref; 102/40 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40756614.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17173022855e2186bd3395f.jpgPost Office when Mr Dodds was postmaster with East Street beyond. A waggon being unloaded on the left near the corner shop which at this time sold shoes - there is a giant boot hanging over the door for those who couldn't read! See next photo. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date: At a guess about 1900 could be earlier. Ref 103/30 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133201.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13148724005e7b3266354fd.jpgPersonnel of the 323rd Bomb Group with a B-26 Marauder. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'WT-? 323BG.' The location appears to be Earls Colne Airfield, Roger Freeman Collection 1943-44 Ref; 104/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40959338.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1818479145e53ecb36432c.jpgLandlord Edgar Pennick outside the Yorkshire Grey, the photo probably taken just before his retirement in 1939. Edgar had gone to sea as a young man but also worked at Paxman’s in Chelmsford before taking The Six Bells, at Boreham where he had his own blacksmith’s shop and forge and classed himself as an agricultural engineer as well as an Inn Keeper. This joint occupations continued when they took the Yorkshire Grey in Coggeshall which they kept for 33 years. Courtesy Tony Pennick (Edgar’s grandson) Probably late 1938 -39 Ref; 103/85 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40904298.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19666138785e4961df03ab1.jpgStoneham Street from near Back Lane. Late 1950s Ref; 103/83 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435700.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15419806225ac52bd1c7229.jpgView from the air showing the church. Beard's Terrace at the top left and the Alexandra public house top centre-right. Date: probably 1920's. Ref:15/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36892331.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17860393645be4d50de61ad.jpgEnlargement of 101/37b https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/outing-by-bus https://images.on-this.website/28302_7191789985ae4fc1383cc7.jpgBerry's Bus outside the Portobello loaded up for a trip to Southen-on-Sea. An all male outing, perhaps the Coggeshall Brotherhood? All seem to be wearing the same flower as a buttonhole. The Oddfellows would have worn a sprig of thyme I think, so perhaps not them. Date c1912 Ref: 58/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34037993.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15864191325a79d2d50601a.jpgDetail from a busy day at Stephen's Bridge. Note the gas light and Gardner's chimney and the Short Bridge in the distance which crosses the original course of the river and marks the boundary between Great and Little Coggeshall. Little Coggeshall parish council would meet in the Portobello also visible next to the boy fishing. Date about 1898. Ref: 52/13 Detail https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40845714.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12142853465e3849aa2989f.jpgIn the 1920s and 1930s, George Smith’s Skylark coach did journeys to Colchester and Clacton. George also had a Taxi service and here are two of his taxis/wedding cars outside the church for a wedding in 1928 Courtesy Coggeshall Museum ref; 42/03 Date; 1928 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381873.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15697036855abe750f06a66.jpgThe Coggeshall Baptists first met in around 1750 in a building on Back Lane and later in the house adjoining Hares bridge on West Street. The Meeting House shown above was erected in 1855 on a piece of land bought for £180 on 28th April 1825. The opening sermon was preached by the celebrated Kelvedon orator the Rev C H Spurgeon. Date: c1905 Ref: 44/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40661143.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17388579675e07e306d6e5c.jpgSt Peter's Church before the Victorian Restoration was complete - note the absence of Rood Screen, no wall painting, organ pipes just visible in the side Chapel (right), Reredos filled with texts. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; ?1880? Ref; 103/06 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750543.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16407736255a283e8e60bc6.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Part of J K Kings huge storage and grain handling facilities. Builders materials for site preparation works.</font>[/i][/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40569713.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17711595375de4e346eb760.jpgMoores bus on Market Hill with soldiers/airman waiting outside the Chapel Hotel. The bus is a Guy Arab 1 and was built in 1943. Date; 1944 Ref; 102/33 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927207.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5290516605beb58fac9ca9.jpgView from Market End to Market Hill and Stoneham Street. International Stores and Fred Pluck, 'Draper Outfitter and Boot Factor'. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1915? Ref 101/44 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927911.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11507993585bebfd99e779d.jpgClose-up from 70/07. The poster above the door with the Union Jack as a background says 'Vote for Strutt. Learn to Think Imperially'. Strutt was duly elected MP for the constituency and remained so for some years. The posters standing on the pavement are for upcoming auctions, the Chapel was the venue for many such auctions over the years. Ref: 70/07a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40881745.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3581147715e3ff734a69e6.jpgMarket Hill showing the Westminster Bank, the Post Office when Mr Dodds was Postmaster, Joyce the Butcher and Stead & Simpsons shoe shop. Nearest the camera on the right is Wilsher the 'Clothier and Outfitter' and beyond it Fred Pluck the 'Outfitter, Drapier and Boot Factor'. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date; about 1915 Ref 103/53 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774497.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14972198765a2efe20005d4.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435474.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1740079165ac5031a36259.jpgThe church looking very odd after it had been tidied up after the bombing. Date, c1950. Ref 09/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/across-the-flood-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_20368887535a75f5a173454.jpgCrossing the flood, Bridge Street. Date possibly 1914 Ref: 08/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo42250141.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_130542632360684066326d9.jpgAn unusual view of the church taken from the footpath that runs from Church Street next to Sheepcotes and down to the Rec. Date not known Ref: 106/20 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34391569.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13292299435abf9a82c3b2d.jpgIts old name is Cockerells but this was always called 'The Doctor's House' at least I suppose until the new doctor's house was built (and the vicarage next door) opposite the church around 1950. Date: 1930's Ref: 62/15 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696306.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10370589005ae9ed0cefef7.jpgRoad repairs - you can just see one man in the hole and four people watching - that's unusual! A pile of cobble stones will be reused to create the gutter. The horse must moved his back legs during the photo so they seem to have disappeared. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Date c1903-04 Ref: 100/54a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36924985.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8318020145bea1b687a917.jpgEast side of Stoneham Street an enlargement from 04/08. Lovely old shop fronts and a chicken in the road. The Locomotive Inn closed its doors for the last time in 1910. There is more pub news here - in the distance, the sign of the Royal Oak has been taken down, leaving its pole (closed 1907) but behind it you can see the sign for the Foresters over the entrance door. Date: 1908 Ref: 04/18a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35144059.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18046127205b1d9a1d91521.jpgOld houses demolished in 1952 to make way for the widening of Vane Lane, to give access to the new Jaggards Road estate. On the left is the tin hut that was once (c1947 - 1950'ish) a cycle shop and later, in the 1960's, a betting shop. Photo by courtesy of Coggeshall Museum. Date: 1951/2 Ref 59/13 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381877.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6573106695abe752a56495.jpgThe pub sign of 'The Greyhound' on the left and opposite at 25 Church Street is 'Weinriches' which sold fruit, vegetables and flowers. Our family took this over in the 1950's and retained the name. Aunt Rose & Uncle George (Wood) and son Doug lived there. My mother, Joan, worked there and not having a bathroom at home, I and my sister would visit weekly (necessary or not) to have a bath. I slept there a few times as a child, the floors upstairs were very sloping and you could fall over just getting out of bed if you weren't careful! Ref: 100/17 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654373.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9795217625ae2582485b04.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Market Hill and the start of Church Street and East Street. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33698245.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10975126645a21a8a262b44.jpg<center>East Street showing on the left the cycle shop of Harry Saward who became the Coggeshall Fire Brigade's engineer. Harry was also a crack shot, a violin player, secretary of the Coggeshall String Band and, now and then, a children's entertainer. It may be him standing outside his shop. He died tragically young - more in the book.</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40717657.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12886234815e17a61a6475c.jpgJ K King's premises on West Street. The buildings seem to have been pebble-dashed to impose some conformity but the result especially with some later repairs looks rather forlorn and run-down. Date; Late 1960s to early 1970s - based on the TV aerials! Ref; 102/46 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133208.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11380716045e7b328420cca.jpgGround personnel of the 323rd Bomb Group prepare a B-26 Marauder (WT-O, serial number 41-34786) nicknamed "Buffalo Girl" for a mission. I Handwritten caption on reverse: '456 definitely. Looking East.' [Earls Colne by the date] Roger Freedman Collection July 1943 Ref; 104/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654362.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16181031435ae257d0683c8.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond"> Close-up showing the town clock on Market Hill and the houses at the start of East Street at the bottom. Not quite readable, the writing on the Chapel is 'Chapel Commercial Hotel'.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35658881.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19255524775b54b2a22fec5.jpgLower right of four maps, which are; lower left, lower right, top left, top right, The maps show the field-names recorded on the Tithe award for Great Coggeshall dated 7th March 1854. ERO Reference; D/P 36/27/1A https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34664513.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7163463915ae504b53b0c1.jpgThe bottom of Grange Hill and the bridge. The cord of faggots on the cart is for the Lake family house on the left. (according to a note written on the back of the original). The muddy road shows why people needed boot scrapers outside their front doors! Date: about 1907 Ref: 58/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37239757.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13693528745c3a77a3bb039.jpgA very poignant photo of 10-year-old Maria Cullen on her way home from St Peter's School on Stoneham Street. She is waiting near the Portobello for her Dad, Tom Cullen, (who farmed at Grange Farm) to pick her up in his car and carry her across the flood. Photo courtesy Roddy Miller Date: 1960 Ref: 101/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/load-of-wood https://images.on-this.website/28302_20527397095ae5049ae82f6.jpgIf you look carefully at the tall chimney of the old silk factory a second shorter chimney can just be made out in front of it. This belonged to Kings brewery on West Street. (There is a closer photo of it in the East Street - West Street gallery) Ref 58/14 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654366.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14322767895ae257efaf55c.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Stoneham Street is clear but it is hard to make out the course of Church Street in the complex of buildings and roofs. Houses on the north side of East Street at the bottom.[/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34008183.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16942780905a74496a28d85.jpgLower Grange Hill showing the widened bridge and the entrance/exit to the ford. Date: about 1914. Ref: 58/10 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927617.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16604769605bebf5dec8c74.jpgBryan Saunders Coggeshall last woodcarver at work in his workshop at No 2 Stoneham Street. The bench you can see here ran along inside the shop window so that as you walked past you could see him working inside. He moved here and opened his workshop in 1915, also home to his wife, Maud, and later two daughters Gwen and Janet both born in the house. He was a kind and gentle man. Date: 1950's Ref: 101/46 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34618049.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14628954935add0a23623e7.jpgCoggeshall Co-op in the 1930's. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: 1930's Ref: 100/27 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34664585.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8955952665ae50634a2d15.jpgMonkwell near the river and Abbeydale on the right. Ref: 58/14Det2 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36924988.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18568528905bea1b881663f.jpgStoneham Street, an enlargement from 04/08. The shop behind the telegraph pole seems to be 'Braziers' and next to it might be 'Goodeys'. Date: 1908 Ref: 04/18c https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/sergeant-major-on-horse https://images.on-this.website/28302_17308059635ae5ac76dde04.jpgAn enlargement of Floods at Bridge Street, showing the blacksmith's workshop with its adverts. The stone just visible was there to keep cart wheels away from the corner of the building and is still nearby although the site now has a house on it (as of 2018). Date: March 1914 Ref: 08/05 Detail https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/asparagus-preparation-coggeshall https://images.on-this.website/28302_13029459725a7a3538701b3.jpgOne of my favourites. Preparing asparagus in the scullery, Bridge House. Date, 1920's? Ref: 52/07 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33750633.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15793170275a2855afbc1b9.jpg<font face="Garamond">After the 1920 fire the main part of the mill was demolished except for the north end where the lower part formed part of the wall along the crouches footpath. The whole length of the west wall was also retained up to about nine feet as a garden wall behind orchard house. This is shown in the next few photos. Here behind the tangle of branches is part of the old silk mill wall.</font> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40649663.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9743225585dfaa6db89d78.jpgAfter the bomb, shoring and a cover over the tower The tower suffered a partial collapse a week after the bomb fell. The bells were lowered and the top part of the tower demolished. The remaining part is deeply and fatally cracked as can be seen. It was shored up and a temporary cover put over the tower. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; c1941 Ref; 102/66 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34654372.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9654107835ae2581c62640.jpg[size=12][i]<font face="Garamond">Bottom right is Doubleday's shop at Market End and bottom left is George Birkins house with his yard to the side and behind. Stoneham Street and the town clock are top right. [/i]</font>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40231380.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11588624815dadf13e03b6a.jpgAerial View showing part of East Street with Edna's Café, The Cinema building and Saunder's Garage. On the left is a corner of the Recreation Ground always know to locals as the Rec but now apparently called The Park. Date: Probably 1960's Ref; 102/23 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39613475.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_231288575d64f48eae71c.jpgColchester Road with part of Lees Farm on the right behind the car. The thatched house is still there (and still thatched!). The photo is taken from the point where the eastern slip road to the bypass now curves off to the left. Photo courtesy Paul Sutterby. Date: 1930's? Ref; 101 98 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37122839.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6210333235c0ee8fed2868.jpgAbbey View on East Street decorated for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. Amazingly little changed today (almost opposite the new Co-op). Date: Summer 1887 Ref: 08/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40904304.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1529886325e49733c53c45.jpgThe best photo by far of [b]Coggeshall's famous Kinema[/b] 'Top Hat' and 'The Big Broadcast of 1936' came out in August and September 1935, so the photo probably dates from 1936 - films took a while to reach remote places like Coggeshall. At the bottom you can just see the wall and gate of the 'Rec' which are still there. Not clear exactly when the Kinema opened but it closed in 1959-1960. The last time I remember going there I was with with cousin, Doug Wood, for the Saturday morning show for the kids. What an experience that was, the noise of it - the booing the hissing, the clapping, the shouted comments (often very funny), the stamping feet - stuff being thrown! It was brilliant and so different from refined luxury and restrained manners of the Penn cinema in Wolverhampton that I was used to. Angela Moore; 'Can well remember going to the Saturday mornings pictures as we called it and getting bombarded with sweet papers thrown from the back rows! Didn't we pay about sixpence to get in?' Doug Wood; 'Remember us pouring out of the cinema and Mr Potter the manager trying to stop us all stampeding across the road to the Rec.' Susan Turner; ' I just remember the picture house my dad and I used to go to. My dad used to go 3 times a week and he would take me on a Friday night, life in a village is so different than a big city every one knew you.' Steve Lappage; 'My dad was a projectionist and my mum (Joy Lawrence) was an usher at the cinema...that’s where they met.' Sharon Chalk; 'My dad Edward Potter used to run the cinema and met my mum there. Annette Newlove; 'Yes, she was an usherette wasn't she?' Barbara Hodges; ' I saw my first film there aged 4 with our neighbour, she was asked to take me out because I stood up and shouted "oh look, that is a pussy cat". Don't remember the name of the film but "Snow White" comes to mind. Didn't go again until I was 14.' Anne L'esperance 'My husband used to work the projector there 6o years ago' Charlene Danby; 'My Nanna was usherette in the cinema ... she just told me the back rows were double seats.' Alan Digby; 'My mum was in there the night the church was bombed.' Patricia Woods; 'I worked at photo kraft first job and had our lunch at Edna's - cheese roll and hot black current drink - wonderful days went to the movies every Saturday morning used to live on East Street so was just down the road.' Roderic Miller ; 'The place closed in 59/60 to the best of my recal. Kids had a bonanza as Mr Potter sold off the last of his stock of sweets at half price. My Bro Steve, Pat Perkins and I then went to Braintree flicks on Saturday mornings.' Photo Courtesy Jenny Abram (and her friend Angela Moore). [i]Jenny got the photo when she worked at Photokraft the firm which took over the building when the Kinema closed down.[/i] Probably 1936 Ref; 103/72 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39815152.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16810519475d7b62efa4093.jpg[b]The Red House[/b]. Once the home of Desborough Bright, Captain of the Coggeshall Fire Brigade and secretary at the family business, Brights Brewery on Stoneham Street. Date: c1905 Ref: 102/09 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35200775.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17851043085b2041ed57e59.jpgNorth side of East Street. Date unknown Photo courtesy of Coggeshall Museum Ref: 101/14 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40649545.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6081206085dfa67d716109.jpgEast Street looking up towards Market End. Early morning sunshine on the Bird in Hand Inn - a pub which had its own Brewery behind. In the distance a scene of much activity. See next photo for close-up. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date; c1890? Ref 102/65 Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33774464.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10589008555a2efd06d6550.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927988.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14455485635bebffdc60e37.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i> Another close-up. Simmons Drapers shop on the left and the 'Padlock' ironmongers shop in the distance. Ref 100/29b Date: c1913 </font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40708487.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10809292635e139b0adcc96.jpg'Miss Grey’s Cottage, Church Green'. (Also known as Little Galleon) This photo courtesy Rich Shepherd was taken by his late father Peter Shepherd. c 1963 Ref 103/10 From Nancy Powell Davies; ‘ At one time the left hand side was a separate house. John and Helen Lewis lived at Little Galleon, then the dentist, Mr Ballantyne. We lived there from 1982 to 2003. All the owners have loved it.’ https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34435701.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18484935195ac52c94cdc19.jpgAir view, enlarged. Ref:15/08Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39705798.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8360994765d6e3438a9bfb.jpgDetail of the painted East wall of the church to each side of the great east window. [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo34435696.html#photo]Click here for details of the Victorian restoration.[/url][/i] Date c1890? Ref: 101/99Comp https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34381864.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2618128265abe74dd60a1c.jpg This area where Church Green, The Colne Road and Dead Lane/St Peter's Road meet was called 'Appleton's Corner' probably from Walter Appleton, who was for many years a wood and coal dealer at Church Green who was born around 1854. On a map of 1731 it was recorded as Monk Green and at this time the field where the cottages stand was called 'The Pitts'. Date c1930? Ref 59/18 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133207.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16626697215e7b32807ee87.jpgGround personnel of the 323rd Bomb Group prepare a B-26 Marauder (WT-O, serial number 41-34786) nicknamed "Buffalo Girl" (sic) for a mission. Note: Actually "Buffalo Gal." Roger Freedman Collection 1943 Ref: 104/26 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34663284.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_107212065ae4f7b19143f.jpgClose-up of previous photo. Note the 'Road Narrows sign so familiar to many of us and the complex telephone poles. The peaceful aspect and the quiet road seem to epitomise everything we have lost in our modern world. Date: Late 1950's Ref: 100/39 Det. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411361.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2046151665ba756826d85d.jpgMarket Hill at the start of the motor age. A sign above the door of the clock still advertises 'Stabling' but no horses are visible in this view. The two motor-cars near the camera are not actually parked in the road - but that is another story which is in the pipeline with others that I haven't yet found time to set down. Date; 1922-25. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/29 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34004862.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_14967028225a71e1b8638d3.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34696201.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10039167135ae9d4e3bb594.jpgHorse and motor vehicle almost side by side the one replacing the other. Behind the ladder is a tall post with a circle on the top, this is one of the first speed limits signs put up in Coggeshall in April 1914 it reads 'Max Speed 10 mph for Motor Vehicles'. Above it is the sign of the Greyhound Inn. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: probably late 1920's Ref: 100/53a. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33698049.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5667508215a21a641ee3f0.jpg<center>Coggeshall Hamlet and the Hare and Hounds public house. The scene of an infamous event when passers-by thoughtlessly put out a fire before the brigade arrived. A fire a bit further along the road near Pointwell Lane destroyed a substantial house in 1901 and allowed a short-cut to be made which avoided a very winding bit of the road called The Serpentine. A horse so liked the new road that it lay down on it and refused to move. More in the book!</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37101401.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6296782925c0c5507b87a9.jpg(Enlargement) Children leaving the Council School, Appleton's Corner in the 1930's. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Ref: 100/89a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40756613.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7212859055e2186b781949.jpgThe Post Office (enlargement of previous photo) It looks like two of the postmen outside smartly dressed in uniform and caps. It's Mr Joyce himself outside his shop although he seems to have moved during the exposure and blurred the image. Note the two big gas-lamps hanging above the pavement. Date; possibly c 1900 Ref; 130/30 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34618045.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8035050405add0a1daf954.jpgThe Church Street Factory as this row of medieval buildings were called, with Wain Lane (also called Vane Lane) just in front. The houses partly seen on the left were demolished to widen the lane when the Jaggards Road estate was built after WW2. (Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum) Date: about 1900? Ref: 100/26 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34771115.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10230198995af2c88513c12.jpgEnlargement of 22/12 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34836175.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_7659787975af9c3d9a8b34.jpgOld cottages on the Tollgate hill formerly called Rotton Row. (Close-up in next photo) Date; Unknown Ref 39/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34836179.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4033900535af9c3e394af3.jpgEnlargement of part of 39/19 Date; Not known Ref; 39/19a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40689760.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_19587864975e0fce798cee2.jpgWest Street from the Gravel looking back to Market End, with the rail of Hares Bridge in the foreground. The premises on the left are J K King's place of business. Date; 1890?? Ref; 102/59 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40220909.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6334937105dac3e58e4c8f.jpgThe Kinema building when it was used by 'Photokraft' who were photo-developing firm who moved from their previous home in Church Street. The wooden hut is Edna's Cafe. Saunders Garage is just visible behind. Date; 1960's Ref: 102/19 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34760557.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12936459015af1da771599f.jpgEast Street and the Recreation Ground - 'The Rec' as everyone called it. Now everyone seems to call it 'The Park' even my own children despite my protestations. Who decided it needed a new name? The house on the left was once a pub, called the Swan and Star in 1731. Date; probably 1930's. Ref 100/68 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34771116.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16544945935af2c88acdd9a.jpgThe decorations are for the coronation of George VI. Date: May 1937. Ref: 100/71 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778153.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_6330170145af386ffddf90.jpg East Street decorated for the coronation of George VI in 1937 Ref: 100/73 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40833897.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_21083326705e36ff4e30cb1.jpgCoggeshall Clock with wooden scaffolding. Tenders were invited by the parish council on 18th January 1924 for ‘repairs to and repainting of the town clock. The tower to be painted a good medium stone colour relieved with Stencil work as before. This marks a change as the tower was originally painted grey (as seen here before the repaint). Courtesy Coggeshall Museum 1924 Ref; 103/50 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33747361.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_533190615a27143ee65e7.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37091919.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_17114547625c09a452e4224.jpg<font face="Garamond">[size=12]<i>View down the Colne Road. The van and cars are for sale at Colton and Shearman's scrapyard, Colne Road. The Alexandra in the distance - see enlargement next. Date: Mid 1960's? Ref: 50/15 </font></i>[/size] https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34618042.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_11994281465add0a189011c.jpgHollington's workers outside the new factory. Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: possibly late 1930's Ref: 100/25 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34691635.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_8316714445ae78518e08b4.jpgThe church under reconstruction which shows the scale of the devastation caused by the bomb. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: c1953 Ref: 100/45 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34663611.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_4860581935ae4fbfcdb5d4.jpgBerry's Bus, detail. Ref: 08/20a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37061064.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_12210203575c0324491900b.jpgOsha Smith's cottage alongside Robins Brook near the ford at Robinsbridge - and near the osier beds that gave him his nickname. (See next photo for a close-up) There was another basket weaver called Smith in Coggeshall but they seem not to have been related - at any event, the other basket maker, William Smith, was taught the craft as part of his rehabilitation in hospital at Roehampton after losing his right foot in WW1. For his story and photos of him and his work; [url=https://coghist.photium.com/wbasket-maker-coggeshall] William Smith[/url] Date: c 1900? Ref: 26/05 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34037088.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15396839425a797fc02f338.jpgAn enlargement showing a rather dapper E W King. Rather a singular personality he was notoriously stingy with money in matters of business yet he left almost everything to charity when he died. Apart from business his only other passion was for horses and in 1918 paid a far from stingy £660 for a four year old stallion with a racing pedigree. Date: 1907-1912 Ref 100/12 Detail. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo41133194.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_13609791755e7b3247eae77.jpgAn airman of the 323rd Bomb Group prepares to load bombs into a B-26 Marauder at Earls Colne Airfield Courtesy Roger Freeman Collection 1943? Ref; 104/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36927208.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18771909685beb59005374d.jpgClose-up of the view from Market End to Market Hill and Stoneham Street. Fred Pluck, 'Draper Outfitter and Boot Factor'. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd. Date: c1915? Ref 101/44a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/coggeshall-grange-hill https://images.on-this.website/28302_15736901675ae4f7b7e1085.jpgA lovely evocative view down Grange Hill on a summer afternoon. In the distance the enormous grain silo at J K Kings appears to dominate the town. Date possibly late 1950's. Ref 100/39. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36919518.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_18956740515be97268c8409.jpgWilliam Maddocks at the old pump at the top of Robinsbridge Road with Stoneham Street behind. William lived in one of the cottages at the top of Robinsbridge and people would go to him if they wanted a letter written. Photo courtesy Bunty Moss Date c1930? Ref 101/40 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36929670.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_9633559925bec473b6962c.jpgA bell frame was made and a temporary shelter so that the church bells could continue to be rung after the bomb had destroyed the church tower. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: late 1940's, early 1950's Ref: 101/50 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo36411357.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_2529845635ba755f650aeb.jpgView up Stoneham Street from Market Hill (detail). The Locomotive Inn is no more, the sign repainted and the premises occupied by Joe Green a plumber and glazier. Date; c1918. Photo courtesy Douglas Judd Ref 101/25a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo40823015.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20334795865e34ae1a4b1a6.jpg'Ambition' 7 Kelvedon Rd, Coggeshall. My grandparents, George & Doris Humphreys, had this house built in 1938 the year they married. Photo courtesy Annette Newlove c1939 Ref; 103/49 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34778761.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5920622125af44b59e0be2.jpgPhoto courtesy Doug Judd. Ref; 01/00c https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37170039.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16226149495c260d004044b.jpgPerambulators on East Street, in the distance, a delivery of Coal from Goodman's of Robinsbridge Road. Two more images follow, enlarged from this photo. (swipe or right arrow) Date 1930's? Ref: 02/28 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo35147401.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20508617625b1dab39d2910.jpgTaken from the top of Bridge Street the photo shows how narrow West Street was at this point. When his grandfather J K King turned down his application for a job in 1888 a furious Ernest W King decided to set up his own seed business. Although EW had only just left school he managed to open his first shop just down the road where he sold seeds and hired boats on the river. His shop is the one behind the two boys, one with a basket. In 1892 EW moved across the street to the shop shown on the left. Picture by courtesy of Kings Seeds. Courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: not known. Ref: 35/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34668428.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20489767795ae5a8b954967.jpgMounted Sergeant, perhaps the RSM, leads the Territorials along Bridge Street. Date: 1912 Ref: 04/27Det https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/markshall-tithe https://images.on-this.website/28302_10861713245b4efabe8081b.jpg https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34018016.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_20219126715a76f2068008d.jpgLower Grange Hill and the Bridge. The old bridge was very narrow and became something of an issue in the town. As a result in March 1912 a petition was sent to the Essex County Council asking for a new bridge. Thankfully this wasn't done, instead the bridge was widened and the old railings replaced with brick parapets. By the end of the year it was finished - the system was rather more simple then! Although much of the original structure remains the older bridge was definitely more picturesque. Date: 1914 Ref 05/13 Detail. https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33697228.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_5760932715a2199e2d0276.jpg<center>One of Coggeshall's two ARP groups (Air Raid Precautions). They all carry gas masks and whistles and their equipment includes rattle, stirrup pump, metal bucket, bell, and a paraffin lamp. </center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo33690623.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_15902754155a2054ef80993.jpg<center>A luxurious hardbound book, weighing in at well over a kilo it has 300+ pages, is fully illustrated with over 200 photos, plus many lists, charts and graphs including lists of Coggeshall fires and firemen and of course, features luxurious red end-papers! The Price is £14.50 from 'Normans' Sweet Shop near the town clock. UK delivery is £3.00. Press 'Buy Now' for buying/delivery options</center> https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo37093528.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_10850646795c0b13069ff2b.jpgOutside Sheepcotes, Church Green, with the Cricket Club carnival display ‘England keep the ashes’ and 'Adelaide England Won' (so this must have been 1954-55 season). Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum Date: Summer 1955 Ref: 101/02 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo39643086.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_16594904335d6a539575fca.jpgThis is the site of the Coggeshall toll-gate where tolls were collected from users of the road. There would have been a main and a side gate and a Toll Board showing the scale of charges. Tolls were sent to the Essex Turnpike Trust who administered the system and allocated funds to repair and maintain the roads for which they were responsible. Waggons with wide wheels were charged at a lower rate because they would compact the road surface rather than cut it up as narrow wheels did. Coggeshall had 11 miles of turnpike, on both sides of the town along the main road between Colchester and Braintree. The Toll-keeper may have been stationed in the white weather-boarded hut shown here to the side of the house and this would have been where the record book was kept. In quiet times application would have been made to the house itself and any of the family might then collect the toll and open the gate Coggeshall as usual, seems to have had its own way of doing things. At a meeting of the Essex Turnpike Trust in February 1850 the accounts for the Coggeshall district were not presented as they had been found in 'the most extraordinary condition'. An expert was sent down to look at the books but even he could make no sense of them. The trustees were told that they had 'heard of extraordinary things from Coggeshall before' and this provoked much merriment. The gate keepers of the Coggeshall District were ordered in future to pay their accounts weekly to the treasurer. The Tollgate itself had been removed in 1863 and the posts and other structures shortly afterwards at a cost £71. At this time the Turnpike was still in operation and the removal of the Coggeshall gate increased the receipts at the next gate at Stanway by £2 a week. The 'tenement used as a toll-house' was up for sale in 1865 and valued at between £70 and £80. [i][url=https://coghist.photium.com/photo39643218.html#photo]Click here for more on the Toll House[/url][/i] [i][ES 22/02/1850, Eastern Counties Advertiser 01/02/1865, ES 06/09/1867][/i] Date; probably about 1900. Ref 25/08 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/bridge-street-floods https://images.on-this.website/28302_2899384405aecef8e97eee.jpgE W King's works outing with 'EW' on the horse, left. Behind them is the 'Portobello' public house used by E W King's workers - The 'Cricketers' was the pub that J K King's workers were expected to patronise. The ladies are in the wagon at the back. The convoy may have been bound for Kelvedon station. With the trees bare and flooding it may be February, an odd time for an outing. Perhaps someone can explain? Photo courtesy Coggeshall Museum. Date about 1905? Ref: 09/03 https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34776664.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_3472049915af30fb18f17e.jpgView down The Gravel during one of the regular floods (enlargement) Date: Possibly 1928 Ref: 08/06a https://www.coggeshallhistory.com/photo34797163.html https://images.on-this.website/28302_1746272515af77513262f5.jpgA 1950's photo showing the next development of J K Kings Shop. The building has been pebble-dashed and a large shop window installed; "Seed Growers and Merchants Since 1793'. The Royal Warrant is still over the door just beyond. Across the road, the shop with a bow window that stood next to the Cricketers (shown in several photos here) has been demolished and the site used as a car park. The telephone box, which until recent times stood at the corner of Bridge Street, can be seen. Date: Probably 1950's Ref: 44/04