1. Birch Post Office. In the early 1950s, the Post Office was in the left hand house, with the telephone exchange at the back. By the late 1950s it had moved to ...
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2. Orchard Cottage, Birch Park, home of Leslie and Violet Bond.
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3. An almost forgotten race - Essex Millrights, by R.W. Malster.
Photograph of Birch Mill.
Essex Countryside November 1969, page 40.
Date: November 1969
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4. An old photograph of Birch Mill, a typical post mill with a brick roundhouse hiding the substructure. The roundhouse did not support the mill but merely ...
Date: November 1969
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5. Bailey Meadow House. Listed weatherboard house in Birch village.
From Essex County Standard Property pages in 2002. The house was formerly Heath Farm - it ...
Date: 15 November 2002
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6. Lexden & Winstree Official Guide. Pages 12 and 13.
General Local Information.
Population Estimated at 22,294 (1956). The strongest clue to the date of ...
Date: c1957
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7. Stablefields Cottage, Birch.
Date: 1930s
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8. Peeps of Birch. Multiview postcard of Birch - the Hall, Church, School, Post Office and Rectory.
Photo 55J B.S.
Date: c1916
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9. The Village Hall or Memorial Hall, Birch.
Photo 55L.
Date: November 1995
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10. Church Cottages, Birch, viewed from the steeple. The cottages were sometimes known as Workhouse Cottages or Alms Houses.
Photo 55Q, probably in 1950s when ...
Date: 1950s.
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11. Church Cottages or Workhouse Cottages, Birch. Spring 1997.
Photo 55HA by Pat Adkins.
Date: cApril 1997
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12. Fire at Oak Stores, Hardy's Green, Birch. 1954 - 1957 ? Dodge Fire engine 652HPU.
Photo 55B.
Date: 4 April 1959
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13. Thatched Cottages (now called "Stable Fields") at Hardy's Green, Birch. 1930s. Possibly Jean and Bernard Pepper standing in road.
Photo 90A, also perhaps ...
Date: 1930s
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14. Hardy's Green - cottages opposite Clarks Lane by entrance to "Helens".
Photo 90E P.A.
Date: c1995
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15. Beckingham Hall Farm, Hardy's Green, Birch.
Photo 91A P.A.
Date: 1940s
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16. Birch School looking down the front garden with the road on the right and The Dower House across the road. Heath Farm house visible in the distance.
Photo ...
Date: 1960s
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17. Cottage far end of Birch Green, inside Caper Lane.
Unnumbered photograph in Pat Adkins box.
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18. Church Cottages, Birch. Heath Farm beyond to the left.
Date: c1900
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19. Howard Bros. Wheelwrights, Blacksmith's Workshops, High Road.
Herbert (Tubby) Howard and Frank Howard (brothers), Frank's son John worked with them.
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20. A country home in every sense. Humphreys Cottage and its resident Mr Horne.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: c1904
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21. Church Cottages - virtually unchanged over the years. The two ladies are believed to be Mrs G. Smith and Mrs Seymour.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from ...
Date: c1905
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22. Birch Mill and children taken in July 1905. The mill has since been demolished.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: July 1905
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23. Another view of Church Cottages, Birch, taken in 1905.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. ...
Date: 1905
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24. Birch Rectory - at the top of School Hill next to the Village Hall. Susan Millatt with the push chair. The children are from the Blok family from the ...
Date: cAugust 1969
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25. It's a sunny day in January, so
A hunting we well go - children as well.
On Layer Breton Heath outside the Hare and Hounds.
Colchester Gazette.
Date: 8 January 1957
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26. Little Birch Hall about 1727, also ruined tower of Little Birch Church.
Date: c1727
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27. Ruined Church of St Mary, Little Birch. Plan by T.B. Millatt.
Date: c1960
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28. Birch Post Office Entrance to Hall Grounds.
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29. Mary Lizzie Hubble at the back of Mill Cottage, Mill Lane, Birch
Mary Lizzie Hubble was born c1869, St Lukes, London. Married Walter Taylor. Died Birch ...
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