Archive index

Lordship of Great Baddow

 

Essex Churches. IX St Mary-the-Virgin, Great Baddow

 

Vicar's farewell

 

Letter from Jim Spence to new parish

 

A lesser country house of the XVIIIth century: the Vineyards, Great Baddow, Essex, and its reparation by Mr Arnold Mitchell

 

Flood 5 Sept 1958

 

Floods

 

A history of Manor Lodge 1788-1999

 

Later Bronze Age sites at Great Baddow and settlement in the Chelmer valley, Essex, 1500 to 500 BC

 

Thomas Hooker 1586-1647

 

Richard de Badew & the University of Cambridge

 

John Eliot 1604-1690

 

Aerial views 1960 & 1990

 

Street map, prob late 1960's

 

Street map, 1940

 

Street map, 1939

 

Map showing Baddow Road and notes on parachute mine 15 Nov 1940

 

Street map (date?) showing Baddow bypass

 

Street map, 1897

 

Street maps, 1988-94

 

Street map, 1874

 

Street map, 1919

 

Street map, c.1800

 

Street map (date?) showing names of house dwellers

 

Essex map 1576

 

Polling districts c 1980s

 

Chapman & André, Chelmsford & District 1777

 

The smoking ghost

 

The Jasper Jeffery Legacy

 

The doctor's wife

 

The doctor

 

Original photographs of Seabrights Barn

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Doug Ambrose

 

Brief notes on anti-aircraft gun near Readers Corner

 

The Bentall car and its restoration; From ploughshares to cars and back again

 

Walter Cecil Brown, 25.9.1906-23.10.1995

 

Letter describing family memories of Gt Baddow

 

Advice on useful websites

 

1881 Census, Great Baddow

 

Carter family data, 1841 census

 

1891 census extracts incl Carter, Sparrow, Gibbs, Linn, Ruffell, Vineyards Lodge

 

1861 census extracts incl Carter, Sparrow

 

1891 & 1901 census extracts on Gibbs family

 

1901 census extracts incl Gibbs, Linn, Carter, Ruffell, Boreham, Sparrow

 

1861 census extracts on Linn family

 

1851 census extracts incl Pennack, Sparrow, Carter, Linn

 

1841 census extracts on Sparrow

 

1841 census extracts on Linn

 

1841 census extracts on Carter

 

1871 census extracts incl Sparrow, Carter, Pennack, Linn

 

1881 census extracts incl Sparrow, Pennack, Linn, Carter

 

from Essex - a Shell Guide

 

Excerpts from 'History of Essex' 1862

 

Excerpts from various published works

 

Manorial records and tithe data

 

References for Great Baddow

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Colin Craig

 

Letter from J Flack and copy of ECC listing description

 

Notes from Mary French

 

Notes from Bill Clark on history of several buildings

 

Google entries for 'Great Baddow'

 

Note from R Galley

 

Heraldic records from the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Baddow

 

Language (1)

 

Language (2)

 

A reflection involving language

 

The Linn family of Gt Baddow

 

Great Baddow's contribution to learning

 

Photos of Great Baddow in Essex Countryside 1952-73

 

Google entries for Aylmer Maude

 

Extract on Gt Baddow from Morant's History and Antiquities of Essex

 

Extract from draft of Great Baddow Oral History

 

List of historical photos, maps and written documents in possession of Parish Council

 

The First Parish Meeting December 4th 1894

 

The First Parish Council Meeting January 1st 1895

 

Brief notes on reminiscences from local resident

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Reg Spalding (1)

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Reg Spalding (2)

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Reg Spalding (3)

 

Request for help in tracing family data

 

Memories of Great Baddow and medical practice from Dr Percy & Mrs Spencer-Philips

 

History of Great Baddow Lawn Tennis Club

 

Memories of Great Baddow from Paul Turner

 

Emails and letters on Whitehouse Farm history

 

Map showing Whitehouse Farm

 

Notes from deeds & documents lent by Ian Tredgett

 

Notes from relatives of Ray Walls (1)

 

Notes from relatives of Ray Walls (2)

 

Extracts from Wright's History of Essex

 

Book review and newspaper articles about Peter Wright's 'Spycatcher'

 

Notes from Peter Ward

 

Boyhood photos supplied by Peter Young

 

Manor House & Place

High Street

 

Ruffells Yard

 

Manor House & Place (1)

 

White Horse (1)

 

Baddow House

 

Great Sir Hughes farm

 

Maldon Road

 

White Horse (2)

 

Ducking Stool Cottage

White Horse (3)

 

Manor House & Place (2)

 

Well House Farm

 

High Street showing side of Bell public house

 

The Vineyards (2)

 

Reading Room

 

Sandford Mill

 

King's Head

 

Alms houses in Vicarage Lane

 

Maldon Road garage

 

Pump Hill

 

Baddow Lodge

 

Baddow Hall

 

Noake's Place

 

Maldon Road (2)

 

Maldon Road (3)

 

Horse and trap

 

H Carter & Sons horse drawn delivery

 

Blue Lion corner

 

The Vineyards (1)

 

Enquiry about Moses Hickman and Louisa Villa

 

Reg Bush's recollections of life in Great Baddow & Sandon

 

419 Baddow Road

 

Notes on 'Coplies'

 

Notes from Abstract of Title to 15 Chelmer Lea

 

Village cricket

 

1994 - a year of celebration for a century of achievement

 

A century of achievement

 

Great Baddow Historical Society

 

Great Baddow Electors, 1912

 

Essex Record Office information leaflets (1)

 

Essex Record Office information leaflets (2)

 

Essentially Essex

 

Essex Sound Archive - Continuity and change in the Essex countryside

 

Contact names and addresses

 

Notes from Len Gregory

 

Gingerbread Hall

 

Gingerbread Hall, Great Baddow

 

Glimpses of Galleywood

 

Notes on Chapman and André 1776 map and a map of 1874

 

Great Baddow - more than meets the eye

 

Basic interview schedule

 

Re Thomas Josling

 

Stella Linn

 

Chelmer Cottage

 

Anna Lambert notes

 

Listed buildings in Great Baddow

 

Deed for Baddow Meads dated 16th January 1637

 

Street map (date?) - modern

 

Oral history

 

Extracts from Pevsner's Essex

 

The Peculiar People (1852-1956)

 

Re James Rowland

 

The Reading Room, Bell Street, Great Baddow (a brief history)

 

The Essex Radiator Company Ltd

 

Rothmans

 

Victoria History of the County of Essex / Essex Bibliography, second supplement

 

Notes on the Great Baddow Women's Institute's Banner

 

Chapman & André, 1777

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1862, Extract on Gt Baddow from Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales, by J M Wilson

 

The Place Names of Essex, P H Rheaney

 

Extract on Gt Baddow from The History of Essex by a Gentleman. Muliman

 

Extract on Great Baddow

 

Extract on Great Baddow from Pevsner's Buildings of England

 

Extract on Great Baddow from Essex: Town and Country

 

Extract on Gt Baddow from Morant's History and Antiquities of Essex

 

Extract on Gt Baddow from King's England, Essex. Arthur Mee

 

Gt Baddow Conservation Study

 

Great Baddow -"One of the Sweetest Villages in the Kingdom"

 

Great Baddow - more than meets the eye

 

Great Baddow Timeline

 

Later Bronze Age sites at Great Baddow and settlement in the Chelmer valley, Essex, 1500 to 500 BC

 

Extract on pack-horse bells found at Great Baddow

 

Pigot & Co's Directory, 1839

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1845

 

White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Essex, 1848

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1899

 

Stevens Directory of Chelmsford 1894

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1906

 

Jewell's Directory of Chelmsford 1921

 

The History and Topography of the County of Essex, Thomas Wright, 1836

 

Molrams Lane

 

Kelly's Essex Almanac 1912

 

Kelly's Chelmsford Directory 1929-30

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1929

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1937

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1914

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1940

 

Kelly's Directory of Chelmsford 1961 - Great Baddow Directory

 

Kelly's Directory of Essex 1886

 

Fallen heroes of the Great War

 

Underground posts of Essex

 

St Mary's, Great Baddow

 

Extract on St Mary's Church, from The Commission on Monuments of South-East Essex

 

Tait, Parish Churches of South East Essex

 

St Mary-The-Virgin, Great Baddow

 

Baddow, Great, St Mary

 

St Mary's Church

 

Isolation Hospital: Joint Hospital Board

 

Isolation Hospital

 

Houses plan on former hospital land

 

Little and Great Sir Hughes

 

Great Sir Hughes

 

Baddow Lodge

 

Great Baddow

 

Mothers' Union

 

Baddow Brewery

 

The Chase from St Mary's

 

High Street, Gt Baddow

 

Church Street at Vicarage Lane junction

 

Great Baddow

 

Beehive Lane area

 

Baddow Rodney

 

High Street with Brewery

 

Church Street opposite White Horse

 

Church Street/High Street at Vicarage Lane junction

 

A Heron Group development

 

Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights (Farries)

 

The Marriage family and the mills

 

Ancient inns at Chelmsford, Great Baddow, Braintree and Rayleigh

 

White Horse, Great Baddow

 

Star, Great Baddow

 

Blue Lion, Great Baddow

 

Bell, Great Baddow

 

Beehive, Great Baddow

 

King's Head, Great Baddow

 

Carpenters Arms, Great Baddow

 

George & Dragon, Great Baddow

 

Great Baddow School, Chelmsford

 

Crime in the village in Elizabethan times

 

United Association for the Prevention of Crime and for the Prosecution of Felons and Other Criminal Offenders comprising a district of twelve miles from Great Baddow

 

Great Baddow Parish Council 1904

 

The Old Vicarage Room

 

Church Street/High Street at Vicarage Lane junction

 

The Bell Inn

 

Church Office

 

Chelmerton Villa, Great Baddow

 

Baddow House, Great Baddow (2)

 

The Chase (1)

 

The Chase (2)

 

The Chase (3)

 

The Chase (4)

 

The Chase (5)

 

The Chase (6)

 

The Chase, back of

 

Maltings Rd, Gt Baddow

 

Vicarage Lane, Gt Baddow (1)

 

Hatleys and surroundings in the snow

 

Vicarage Lane

 

Maldon Road (4)

 

Estric playing field

 

Great Baddow fire engine

 

Great Baddow cricket team

 

Great Baddow cricket team and wives

 

Bakery flood

 

Cyril Richardson of Braintree driving horse and 2-wheeled trap

 

Lewis Hirst driving 4-wheeled carriage and pair

 

Jane Paschall brass rubbing

 

Coronation Celebration, Thursday 22nd June 1911

 

Coronation Celebration, Thursday 22nd June 1911, Committee meeting

 

Map of Chelmsford Hundred

 

Map of centre of Great Baddow

 

Map of Chelmsford

 

Map of south Chelmsford and Great Baddow

 

Map of Baddow Road

 

Map of lower Baddow Road

 

Map of Chelmsford, Great Baddow, Galleywood, Widford & Writtle

 

Map of Chelmsford, Great Baddow, Springfield & Broomfield

 

Map of south Chelmsford and Great Baddow

 

Proposals map covering area from Great Baddow to Billericay & South Woodham Ferrers

 

Map of Recreation Ground

 

The Parish of Great Baddow including Galleywood: official street plan

 

Village Contact

 

Great Baddow Library, disused, before renovation and use as Bell Centre

 

Wall between old library building and High Street below

 

Opening of the Bell Centre

 

Retirement party for Mary Bradford, Parish Clerk

 

Community Centre in 1996, prior to rebuilding

 

Community Centre Millennium Project

 

Bell Centre mural

 

Village conference exhibition, April 1997

 

Village conference exhibition, April 1997

 

Opening of new outdoor basketball goal in Recreation Ground, April 1998 (1)

 

Opening of new outdoor basketball goal in Recreation Ground, April 1998 (2)

 

Parish clerk Linda Larter with young people at a Youth Council event in the Parish Hall

 

Opening of 'Altogether Fresher' store in Meadgate

 

Retirement party for Wendy Horton, Deputy Parish Clerk

 

Opening of the rebuilt Community Centre, 10.4.99

 

Great Baddow Parish Council 1999

 

Taking over of management of Noakes Place by the Parish Council, June 2000

 

Taking over of management of Noakes Place by the Parish Council, June 2000

 

Great Baddow Getting Ready to Party

 

Programme

 

Line dancing display

 

Letter from Parish Clerk announcing grant from the Millennium Commission for the event

 

Letter from Parish Clerk thanking volunteers for assisting at the event

 

Millennium cross stitch wall hanging in the Parish Hall

 

Cllrs Chris Shaw and Maureen Miller looking at construction progress of new all weather sports courts

 

Leaving party for Parish Clerk Linda Larter, late 2000

 

Photos of external Parish Hall plaque and sign, office, corridor and staff

 

Photo of administrative assistant's desk

 

Interior of main hall, showing bar, centenary award plaque and Millennium wall hanging

 

Vineyards flats seen from the Parish Hall; Maldon Road looking up from Parish Hall

 

Street scenes - Vicarage Lane and Tudor Mews

 

Estric playing field

 

Marconi radar mast

 

Great Baddow & Galleywood Environmental Group on a tour of their sites with parish councillors, photo taken in Baddow Hall Park

 

Runners, including County Cllr Joan Beard, carrying the baton through Great Baddow before the Manchester Commonwealth Games

 

Baddow a top parish

 

Mayor of Chelmsford opening kicking wall and disabled access ramp in Noakes Place

 

Mayor of Chelmsford presenting 2003 Parish Council Centenary Award to Pauline Saddington

 

Rumpelstiltskin, performance by NTC Touring Theatre Company at the Parish Hall, sponsored by Essex on Tour

 

Time of our Lives Music Theatre, performance in the Parish Hall, sponsored by Essex on Tour

 

Parish Council Centenary Award plaque

 

Honorary Burgesses board, listing first three honorary burgesses

 

Joan Beard and Eric Withams becoming honorary burgesses, April 2004

 

The Baghdaddies, an Essex on Tour performance in the Parish Hall

 

Mayor of Chelmsford presenting 2004 Parish Council Centenary Award to Marion Horley

 

Opening of the refurbished old Reading Room as the Great Baddow Arts & Leisure Centre

 

Mayor of Chelmsford presenting 2005 Parish Council Centenary Award to Allen Buckroyd

 

More Tea, Vicar?, an Essex on Tour performance in the Parish Hall

 

Margaret Hutchon, Great Baddow borough councillor and Mayor of Chelmsford, presenting 2006 Parish Council Centenary Award to George Brown, and addressing guests at the 2007 Community Celebration

 

Councillors with the new ramp to the bowling green and the new sensory garden in Noakes Place

 

Spaghetti Opera, by Opera on the Run, an Essex on Tour performance in the Parish Hall

 

Great Baddow Parish Council 2007

 

Opening of the sensory garden in Noakes Place

 

The Elves & The Shoemaker, by the Theatre of Widdershins, an Essex on Tour performance in the Parish Hall

 

With a Little Bit o' Luck, an Essex on Tour performance in the Parish Hall

 

Great Baddow Parish Council Centenary Programme (A)

 

Great Baddow Parish Council Centenary Programme (B)

 

Great Baddow Parish Council Centenary Year logo

 

Old Tyme Music Hall programme

 

Old Tyme Music Hall ticket

 

Old Tyme fun

 

Dinner success - Report of Great Baddow Christian Fellowship's senior citizens' Christmas dinner

 

In praise of every season: programme for performance at senior citizens' dinner

 

Notice announcing conversion of Parish Hall to a 'Museum' for centenary event

 

'This is Great Baddow'. Brief history concentrating on involvement in Peasants' Revolt

 

'Establishment of the Parish Council. Account of setting up of the Council in 1894 and the previous role of the Vestry

 

Brief history of the village

 

Brief notes on the Baddow Brewery

 

GEC-Marconi Research Centre; brief notes on Great Baddow site with aerial photo

 

Great Baddow Football; brief history of Great Baddow Football Club

 

Where in Great Baddow?

 

Handicraft Festival; newspaper report of handicraft festival held by Guides, Brownies and Rainbows as part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Showing stitches: newspaper notice of mid Essex cross stitch exhibition

 

Baddow Bygones

 

A village trail: some of the history and places of interest in this ancient village

 

Handover of Village Trail to the Parish Council by Larkrise School

 

Tickets to Great Baddow W. I. Tea Dance to celebrate Parish Council centenary

 

1994 Village Conference and exhibition

 

Reminiscences

 

Great Baddow Open Gardens

 

May Fair programme 1994

 

Newspaper reports of 1994 May Fair

 

Newspaper promotion of Great Baddow Fun Run and ten mile road race

 

A centennial celebration of music, verse and movement

 

Programme for Summer Fete 1994, with 'Then and Now' theme to celebrate Parish Council centenary

 

Great Baddow Open Gardens

 

Centenary cricket match

 

Newspaper report of Neighbourhood Watch Day, part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Essex Police Band concert programme, organised by Great Baddow Neighbourhood Watch as part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Poster for Flower Festival, part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Programme for Flower Festival, part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Advertising flyer for Flower Festival, part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Newspaper advert for Flower Festival, part of Parish Council centenary celebrations

 

Order of service for Festival Songs of Praise, St Mary's Church, September 1994

 

Lunchtime entertainment in the Vineyards by local schools

 

Tickets and newspaper review for Hobson's Choice, production celebrating Parish Council centenary

 

Programme for Hobson's Choice, production celebrating Parish Council centenary

 

Tree planting at the Lawn Cemetery to commemorate Parish Council centenary

 

Centenary Civic Service, order of service; thanksgiving for 100 years of local government in Great Baddow

 

Service of thanksgiving for the centenary of local councils in Essex, held at Chelmsford Cathedral; order of service

 

1994 - a year of celebration for a century of achievement (2)

 

Card from Friday Club congratulating the Parish on 100th anniversary

 

Letter inviting Parish Council chairman to a centenary barn dance

 

Minutes of first Parish Meeting, December 1894, and first Parish Council meeting, January 1895 (photocopies)

 

Copy of last page of Vestry minute book, noting that there were no further minutes, powers having been transferred to the Parish Council

 

Annual Assembly of the Parish Meeting, 1983

 

Annual Assembly of the Parish Meeting, 1986

 

Village Conference of the Parish Meeting, 1990

 

Village Conference of the Parish Meeting, 1991

 

Map of Great Baddow and Galleywood with boundary markings and footpaths

 

Ordnance Survey map of Great Baddow and Galleywood, 1:10,560 (6 inches to 1 mile)

 

Great Baddow

 

Great Baddow

 

Great Baddow

 

Great Baddow

 

The Causeway, Great Baddow

 

Vicarage Lane, Gt Baddow (2)

 

Old Cottages, Great Baddow Churchyard

 

Bryant's shop, seen from Bell Street

 

Bryant's shop, seen from Bell Street

 

Baddow House, Great Baddow (3)

 

The Vicarage, Great Baddow (1)

 

The Vicarage, Great Baddow (2)

 

The Chase, seen from above

 

The Chase, seen from above

 

Parish clerk Linda Larter with her MBE, awarded 2000

 

Parish councillors, centenary photograph (1)

 

Parish councillors, centenary photograph (2)

 

Group of 4 parish councillors, centenary photograph

 

Vicarage Lane allotment holders' party (1)

 

Vicarage Lane allotment holders' party (2)

 

Village conference exhibition, April 1997

 

Basketball for Beginners

 

Parish Council play scheme, August 1997

 

Meadgate play area opening

 

Great Baddow Parish Council Allotment Competition, 1997

 

Award of Millennium Commission grant for rebuilding

 

Press release on award of Millennium Commission grant for rebuilding

 

Lottery cash

 

Three cheers for THE Essex millennium scheme

 

Millennium Commission grant

 

New implement store

 

Parish Council Community Celebration 1996

 

Parish Council Community Celebration 1997 (1)

 

Parish Council Community Celebration 1997 (2)

 

Presentation of 1997 Centenary award to Margaret Page

 

Parish actions

 

Notice of public meeting on Cundells Field planning application

 

Baddow honours Jane

 

Easter 1998

 

Millennium exhibition

 

Village Conference, 1998

 

Youngsters net a basket

 

First turf set for cutting

 

Charity race day congratulations

 

First cut for Millennium

 

First site meeting of Millennium Community Centre project

 

Youngsters wanted for youth council

 

Degree for clerk

 

Youth Café welcome

 

Clock tower at new centre

 

Another year of success for Baddow High

 

Jacob wins the council's award (for 1998)

 

New centre by the end of the year

 

Millennium centre ready

 

Deputy clerk's appointment at Buckingham Palace

 

Safety message

 

Spring bulbs for new millennium

 

Parish Council chairman Chris Shaw presenting 1999 Centenary award to Margaret Gill

 

Lottery cash to aid sport

 

Women's music hall treat

 

Lottery windfall for sport

 

Lottery lobs tennis courts a facelift

 

Millennium music day

 

Parish Council chairman, Chris Shaw, presenting 1999 Centenary award to Margaret Gill

 

New Year's Day lunch for senior citizens

 

Baddow blooms

 

Maltings estate 'street party'

 

Linda's palace date

 

Villagers go music crazy

 

Opening of new all weather sports courts by Mayor of Chelmsford

 

Parish councillors 1995-99

 

Noakes Place ponds

 

Noakes Place and Recreation Ground

 

Noakes Place and Community Association car park

 

A damaged door in the Bell Centre!

 

Coaching sessions on the all weather sports courts

 

Parish Council Community Celebration 1998

 

Parish Council Community Celebration entertainment 1998

 

Youth Council Easter egg hunt at the Parish Hall

 

Opening of new outdoor basketball goal in Recreation Ground, April 1998 (3)

 

Parish Council Centenary roundabout

 

Youth Council talent contest

 

Youth Council members at ECC Young People's Day

 

Youth Council members at ECC Young People's Day

 

Allotments prize giving

 

Parish councillors 1999-2003

 

Bulb planting at the village sign

 

Recreation Ground sports facilities

 

Lawn Cemetery

 

Parish Council Millennium Community Celebration

 

Cottages at junction of Church Street and West Hanningfield Road

 

Church Street/High Street at Vicarage Lane junction (2)

 

High Street

 

Vicarage Lane, Gt Baddow (3)

 

Maldon Road (5)

 

St Mary's Church spire with scaffolding

 

The Vineyards

 

Consecration of Lawn Cemetery

 

Community Association activities

 

Community Centre in 1996, prior to rebuilding (2)

 

Community Centre demolition, prior to rebuilding

 

Community Centre Millennium Project (2)

 

Community Centre Millennium Project (3)

 

Community Centre Millennium Project (4)

 

Community Centre Millennium Project (5)

 

Community Centre Millennium Project (6)

 

Parish Council staff

 

Meadgate play area opening (2)

 

Millennium music day

 

Parish Council Millennium Community Celebration (2)

 

Opening of new outdoor basketball goal in Recreation Ground, April 1998 (4)

 

Allotments prize giving 2000

 

Old Mac and the Three Pigs, Essex on Tour performance at Great Baddow Parish Hall

 

Village of the Week - Great Baddow

 

Conjuring up Comedy, Essex on Tour performance by Ian Keable, Great Baddow Parish Hall

 

Mayor of Chelmsford presenting award of Honorary Burgess of Great Baddow to Eileen Hance

 

First meeting of Youth Council

 

Sandon School students painting Hargrave House mural

 

Scout hut remains after fire

 

Clearing allotments

 

Opening the Youth Drop-in Centre in the Vineyards

 

Great Baddow - Aerial photos