1. Footbridge over the Roman River on the track from Birch Wood to Olivers Farm Date: c2005 Image ID CLN_011 |
2. Village sign. Birch. Formerly Great and Little Birch. Date: cJune 1989 Image ID LH56_022 |
3. The Village Hall or Memorial Hall, Birch.
Photo 55L. Date: November 1995 Image ID PBA_055_LLL |
4. Church Cottages or Workhouse Cottages, Birch. Spring 1997.
Photo 55HA by Pat Adkins. Date: cApril 1997 Image ID PBA_055_XHA |
5. Hardy's Green, Birch. "Stable Fields" Cottage on right, now having a cedar shingle roof in place of thatch. On left are the cottages where Mr Patten, Les Polley ... Date: July 1994 Image ID PBA_090_BBB |
6. Hardy's Green, Birch, showing numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10 Priory Cottages.
Photo 90C P.A. Date: 1995 Image ID PBA_090_CCC |
7. Hardy's Green, Birch, looking towards numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Priory Cottages, with "Garden Fields" white cottage beyond on right.
Chris Faircloth ... Image ID PBA_090_DDD |
8. Pudding Green, with Pudding Lane on left, Birch village sign on green, and view up hill to to Winstree Cottages. Date: c1995 Image ID PBA_090_FFF |
9. Birch - view south towards Pudding Green. Date: c1995 Image ID PBA_090_GGG |
10. Beckingham Hall Farm, Hardy's Green, Birch.
Photo 91B. Date: July 1994 Image ID PBA_091_BBB |
11. Church Cottages, Birch. Heath Farm beyond to the left. Date: c1900 Image ID PBB_033 |
12. Heckford Bridge, Birch, looking towards Colchester. Roman River is under the bridge. Date: 1970s Image ID PBB_035 |
13. Heckford Bridge, at Birch - a photo taken a very long time ago, a tranquil scene at a spot hardly recognisable today.
Pages from the Past, Essex County ... Date: 3 May 1991 Image ID PBC_012_001 |
14. Winter in the Village.
This Christmas card scene of Birch is a reminder that snow still has a picturesque quality as well as a nuisance value. Date: 22 February 1963 Image ID PBC_012_005 |
15. Beech tree falls at Birch beauty spot. Church Cottages.
From Essex County Standard 24 February 1967 Date: 24 February 1967 Image ID PBI_001_170 |
16. View from upstairs window of "Byways" on Mill Lane towards Birch Street. There are no more houses on the left. Eric Rootkin's red-brick farmhouse is prominent ... Image ID PLF_003_007 |
17. Mrs Poles's cat Sue and one of her friends, in the middle of a very quiet Mill Lane, Birch, Essex. Eric Rootkin's farmhouse in the distance is on the main road. ... Image ID PLF_003_021 |
18. "Byways", Mill Lane, Birch. The Poles' family home, with Doctor Poles' surgery at the back. Mill Lane on the left. Image ID PLF_003_025 |
19. Estate Cottages, Birch, Essex Image ID TBM_RSC_001 |
20. Birch Post Office Entrance to Hall Grounds. Image ID TBM_RSC_003 | |