Essex Collection

Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex
The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children

Photograph of Rising Sun PH, Chelmsford, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Pirate Radio ship, Radio Caroline, Essex coast
The pirate radio ship, Radio Caroline, anchored off the Essex coast near Walton-on-the-Naze, with a boat alongside. circa 1966

Cockle Sheds, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Cockle Sheds, Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1900s

Caravans in Martello Camp, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Martello Caravan Camp at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This photograph was taken from the top of the Martello Tower, which gave the camp its name

Horse Plough
Pair-horse single furrow ploughing in the autumn, on a farm in Essex, England

Pirate Radio ship, Radio London, Essex coast

Brightlingsea / Essex
Brightlingsea, Essex, High Street West - the flags may be for Edward VIIs Coronation

Caravans in Martello Camp, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Martello Caravan Camp at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This photograph was taken from the top of the Martello Tower, which gave the camp its name

England / Southend-On-Sea
A glimpse of Pier Hill, seen from across the Boating Lake, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with the impressive Palace Hotel in the background

Southend-On-Sea
Deckchairs on the sea front at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1950s

Pier Train / Southend
The electric train carries passengers to the end of the one and a half mile long pier, the longest in the world

Saffron Walden / 1909
Saffron Walden, Essex: the town centre

Advert for Bentley, the Silent Sports Car, featuring a Bentley motor car in front of a house in the village of Stratford St Mary in Essex. Buy a car made in the United Kingdom. Date: 1939

Woodfield Road, Leigh on Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1909

The Kino Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Kino Cinema in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. This was the towns first cinema. Cycle racks for the use of patrons were a feature. circa 1935

Saffron Walden by Madge Howard
Saffron Walden in Essex, East Anglia, UK, showing a peaceful high street with half-timbered houses with pageting (decorated plaster work typical of the region) during the summer months

Whipps Cross Hospital, Essex
Part of Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, Essex. Several patients can be see in beds on the open balconies. The hospital was opened in 1903 by the West Ham Union for the sick poor in the area

The River Crouch, Hullbridge, Essex
The River Crouch, Hullbridge, Hockley, near Battlesbridge, Essex, England. Date: 1950s

The Beach, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
The Beach, Leigh-on-Sea, near Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. Date: 1940s

Bathing machine owner and swimming master, Essex
Pictured in front of his bathing machines on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, is Charlie Bates with some of his family and the horse which hauled the machines down to the waters edge and back

England / Finchingfield
Finchingfield, Essex, a textbook English village, with its village green, ancient church, stream, duck pond, manor house and almshouses and pretty colour-washed cottages

ENGLAND / WIVENHOE
The old yacht-building port of Wivenhoe, Essex, England, as seen from across the ferry. Date: 1950s

Leyton Cricket Ground
Essex host 1902 champions Yorkshire in a County Championship cricket match at the Leyton Ground, East London. Essex are in the field, with Denton and Wilkinson batting for Yorkshire

West Ham Infirmary, Whipps Cross, Essex
West Ham Infirmary, Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, Essex, viewed across a small lake. The infirmary, better known as Whipps Cross Hospital

England / Thaxted
High Street, Thaxted, Essex, with the fine spire of its Cathedral of Essex church, rising high above the ancient timbered Moot Hall

London arms and seals
The Arms and Common Seals of the Metropolitan Boroughs of London and of the City of London, with a block map showing their boundaries

Clapton Orient FC football team 1936. Back row: Oakley, Murray, Farrell, Searle (Captain), Herod. Third row: Proudfoot (Manager), Wells, Heinemann, Rossiter, Iceton, Watson, Hillam, Affleck, Brooks

Market Hill and former workhouse, Maldon
A view of Market Hill, Maldon, Essex. The large building at the left is the Maldon Unions former workhouse. Date: circa 1900

Stratford St Mary from the Coombs, by John Constable RA (1776-1837). Suffolk. Date: circa 1800

O E Simmonds aerial view of the Frinton-on-Sea Essex
O.E. Simmonds aerial view of the Frinton-on-Sea, Essex

Whipps Cross Hospital, Essex
Entrance to Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, Essex. Several patients can be see in beds on the open balconies. The hospital was opened in 1903 by the West Ham Union for the sick poor in the area

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Aerial view of Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, used for the care of children with tuberculosis. The site was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for

Crooked House, Southend
The Crooked House, one of the attractions of the funfair in the Peter Pan Gardens at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England

Street Scene 1950S
Scene outside Gants Hill underground station near Ilford, Essex

Wanstead Golf Course
Driving from the 16th hole on Wanstead Golf Course, Essex

Thomas Cromwell
THOMAS CROMWELL, earl of Essex statesman with his autograph

England / Manningtree
The foreshore at Manningtree, Essex. Date: 1930s

USS Essex aircraft carrier, CV9, built for the US Navy during the Second World War

British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1914 (c). Associated with the Essex Regiment. Recruits are wanted for this regiment, famous in war and sport. Date: 1914

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- a foam tender
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

Bar inside a martello tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
View of a stylish circular bar which was built inside a martello tower at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Martello towers were small defensive forts

Beach scene, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Scene of holidaymakers on the Albion Beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. A long line of bathing machines on wheels can be seen in the background, waiting to be hauled by a horse to the waters edge

Frinton-on-Sea, Essex - The Church of St Mary the Virgin, once recorded as the smallest parish church in England Date: circa 1910

Essex County Asylum, Brentwood, Essex
The Essex County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1853 at Warley Hill, Brentwood, Essex. It later became Brentwood Mental Hospital and then Warley Hospital

Walton on Naze / Essex
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex: bathing huts at South Cliff

P. D. S. A. AMBULANCE
The Small Animal Ambulance of the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals (P.D.S.A.) arrives outside the Sanitorium in Ilford, Essex, England

Larkswood Lido
Two glamorous girls in bathing costumes and high heels surveying the scene at Larkswood open air swimming pool, Chingford, Essex

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