The Autumn 2019 edition (number 45) of the Journal of the Stebbing Local History Society has been published. It comes in at sixteen pages and includes fifteen images. If you are a paid-up member of the society and we have your email address it will have been emailed to you.
The contents this time around are as follows:
- Loss of Important Stebbing Document. A manorial rental dating to c.1795 that included maps. The SLHS in a consortium with The Friends of Historic Essex and the Essex Record Office were outbid at an auction in their attempt to secure it for public access.
- The publication of a new occasional paper about the Life Of Richard Linsell who died in 1858 aged 98.
- Stebbing: Overcrowding and disease 1912 – 1921. Resulting from the “discovery” of sanitary inspection reports that resulted in property repairs and eventually the building of new housing.
- Where is / are The Downs? Trying to locate the extent and history of an intriguing part of Stebbing.
- Newell’s Garage and Shop, Warehouse Road. A short history of a lost business.
- Gaza and the 5th Essex. The history of the battles in Gaza during WW1 and the involvement of Stebbing men in it.
- Stebbing News including feedback on previously published articles.
We hope that you will enjoy it! Do of course continue to let any of the committee know of articles that you would like to see researched and published the future. All feedback is very welcome.
Below is a photograph of “Homes for Heroes” on The Downs taken in the 1930’s. This photograph relates to both the Overcrowding and Disease article as well as the article about The Downs.
Graham Jolliffe (Journal Editor)