Peldon

Peldon History Project
Mission, topics covered, contacts, background

Articles about Peldon

The Peldon Vulture

1953 Flood

Peldon and the Great Colchester Earthquake of 1884

Captain Swing Peldon Wages Riot

Comyn's Charity

The Mills and Millers of Peldon

Peldon Stores - Dansies

Peldon Post Offices

Peldon's Carriers and early bus services

Peldon in WW1 from School Log Books

Peldon Neigbourhood News

Peldon Church Histories

Essex during The French Wars. The fear of invasion

The Foresters of Mersea and Peldon

Peldon Art Group  

Peldon Service Station  

Peldon Archaeology  

Early Peldon wills and documents transcribed

Mosquitos     *** NEW ***

Magic Lantern Shows in Peldon     *** NEW ***

Peldon Houses and Buildings

Peldon Rose

World War 2

Peldon People

Alfred George Baldwin died 24 March 1918

John Linnett Clarke

The Coans

Private Dines died 4 November 1918

The Fenns of Lower Road

Ernest Frederick Gladwell 1890-1915

Herbert Harrison - killed in the First Boer War

The Hyams - Shopkeepers of Peldon

Mark Hyam - 1889 - 1990

The Mallett Family; Sailors and Shopkeeper

Mason Family of Hill House

Percy William Mortlock died 14 March 1915

Harry Ponder

George Scales - farmer

John Milgate   *** New ***

The Miller Family

Daniel Rich - a Peldon smuggler

The Wooldridge Family of Kemps Farm

    Dora Banfield The Land Girl's Story

    Geoffrey Wooldridge

Spring Wyncoll

Arthur George Whiting died 17 August 1917

Ivor Walklett - Ginetta Cars

And straying over the border...

Bernard Ratcliffe of Little Wigborough

A farmworker in Fingringhoe in 1944 by Daphne Allen