Billericay - A Pictorial History (Essex) by Roger Green

406 in stock

285mm x 222mm x 12mm

Pages: 114

The bones of a windmill stand at the top of a hill in a place inhabited by windmills since the 1560s. Hounds sniff about a small group of decidedly unimpressed children on the Essex Hunt in 1911. Somehow, someone scaled the roof of a tower in 1949 and took an overhead shot of a war memorial. Enthusiast and local solicitor Green presents photographs and other records of his environs collected for decades, working along the High Street and over other fascinating sites over a very long stretch of time. He includes a number of photographs of events that ring in local memory, including soldiers marching on their way to fight in the First World War and the site of a famous zeppelin crash. Annotation -¬2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)