Numbered P1/–1A  to P233/18. Taken by Janet Gyford. The first number is the film number. The second number, after the /, 
is the frame number. Some of the images may be on my web site (www.janetgyford.com) Some of my earlier Witham photos, from 1968 to 1974, were in the form of slides, and there is a similar table of these. The numbers all start with W and they are from W1 to W985. Film Frame A By Date if known Year Description Type Col/bw P1 -1 A JG 31 August 1986 1986 Benton Hall, in distance. 35 mm bw P1 0 A JG 31 August 1986 1986 Benton Hall, middle distance. 35 mm bw P1 1 ..read more

_____________________________________ Directories 1929 Rowleys Garages, motor, electrical & general engineers; motor car agents; Daimler hire service; garage; official repairers to A.A. & R.A.C. High street & (works) Maldon road. T N 32 1929 Rowleys Garages, motor, electrical & general engineers; motor car agents; Daimler hire service; garage; official repairers to A.A. & R.A.C. High street & (works) Maldon road. T N 32 1933 Grove Hall Cafe & Service Station (late Rowleys) (F. W. East A.I.Mech.E. proprietor), motor engineers & garage; official repairers t ..read more

Braintree and Witham Times 1930.page 2. Witham and District Homing Pigeon Society. Meet every Tue at 8 pm. Cups and medals. Secretary is Mr G Speight. page 4. Advert for Pigeon Society. President W L Maclaren. Vice Presidents Lieut Col E A Ruggles Brice, MP, C R Baldwin esq., C Warren esq. Chairman H M Barham esquire. Sec Mr G Speight. Invitation to all fanciers. Interview with Ken Miller, born 1935. Lived at Moat Farm. Extract about an episode in about 1950. https://www.janetgyford.com/interviews/tape-187- ken-miller-sides-1-and-2/ Q: That was when you were …? Mr M: Still young, yes, like, f ..read more

Selective notes on the Witham entries. Especially about unemployment, the Urban District Council, and meeting places. Made by Janet Gyford, February 2003 et al. The paper was founded in this year, 1929. There were very few photos in the paper and none relating to Witham; I have noted one re Dan Crittall of Silver End on page 2. Items in square brackets are comments added by JG. Items in quotation marks are exact quotations from the minutes. The rest of the text is in note form, i.e. notes written by JG to summarise the reports. For Braintree and Witham Times from other years up to 1939, searc ..read more

  Witham Urban District Council, Council minutes. The volume for 1896-1903. Reference E.R.O D/UWi 1/1/1 Notes by Janet Gyford Not comprehensive notes. Mostly looking for entries connected with building plans especially (a) for builder Joseph Smith in Chipping Hill and (b) around 1900 and 1903 for specific buildings. For a list of Witham building plans, see https://www.janetgyford.com/places/building-plans/ Page numbers given below are pages of the actual item, not the beginning of the meeting. Items in square brackets are comments added by JG. Items in quotation marks are exact quotati ..read more

Witham Urban District Council, Council minutes. The volume for 1933-1945 Reference  E.R.O D/UWi 1/1/5 Not comprehensive notes. Mostly looking for various specific items, i.e. some AGMs, war preparations eg. Air Raid Precautions, some by looking in index. Then started more fully in WW2, September 1939. Didn’t do much on housing this time. Page numbers given below are pages of the actual item, not the beginning of the meeting. Items in square brackets are comments added by JG. Items in quotation marks are exact quotoations from the minutes. The rest of the text is in note form, i.e. notes ..read more

Witham Urban District Council minutesERO D/UWi 1/1/1Extracts about the Park and Recreation Ground, 1899 to 1900 Page 175, 29 May 1899Read letter from the Vicar as to the proposal for acquiring four acres of the Park as a recreation ground for lads, and a pleasure ground for the inhabitants and enclosing a resolution of a public meeting of the ratepayers asking the Council to consent to undertake the future care and management of the ground, when after a long discussion Mr Stevens proposed and Mr Scott seconded the following resolution, viz ‘That this Council whilst desirous of carrying out th ..read more

  Witham Urban District Council, Council minutes. The volume for 1918 -1933. Reference  E.R.O D/UWi 1/1/4 Not complete notes. Some subjects stressed, e.g: house numbering; first proposed Council houses in 1921, Electricity; War. Page numbers given below are pages of the actual item, not the beginning of the meeting. Items in square brackets are comments added by JG. Items in quotation marks are exact quotations from the minutes. The rest of the text is in note form, i.e. notes written by JG to summarise the  minutes. 27 May 1918 page 2 Letter from Food Production Department enc ..read more

Witham Urban District Council minutesERO D/UWi 1/1/1Extracts about the Park and Recreation Ground, 1899 to 1900 Page 175, 29 May 1899Read letter from the Vicar as to the proposal for acquiring four acres of the Park as a recreation ground for lads, and a pleasure ground for the inhabitants and enclosing a resolution of a public meeting of the ratepayers asking the Council to consent to undertake the future care and management of the ground, when after a long discussion Mr Stevens proposed and Mr Scott seconded the following resolution, viz ‘That this Council whilst desirous of carrying out th ..read more

Witham Urban District Council, Council minutes. The volume for 1896-1903. Reference  E.R.O D/UWi 111 Notes mostly about building plans especially (a) for builder Joseph Smith in Chipping Hill and (b) around 1900 and 1903 for specific buildings. For a list of Witham buillding plans, see https://www.janetgyford.com/places/building-plans/ 28 Aug 1897 page 74. Deputation under Canon Ingles attended, ‘requested permission to plant some fifty trees each side of Collingwood Road as a permanent memorial of Her Majesty’s long reign.’ Resolved consent given subject to situation and protection being ..read more