Snippets
News from the Past

When researching for this website we often find a little snippet of information on a location or subject which may be of interest. Here's an index of those currently posted:

• True love and its tribulations in Langford (1808)
• 11 year old boy sentenced to death at Chelmsford (1800)
• Practical joke with snakes goes wrong in Brentwood (1865)
• Road rage at Loughton - it's not only a modern problem (1804)
• Somnambulism - the danger of sleep walking in Great Waltham (1871)
• Sleeping across the parish boundary in East Hanningfield (1830)
• Alleged witchcraft at High Easter (1880)
• Sensational literature corrupts a boy in Epping (1879)
• Man sells his wife at Chipping Ongar (1823)
• Stisted labourers ready to strike for beer (1917)
• Gentlemen riot over food bill at Rayleigh (1805)
• Highway robbery at Ardleigh (1840)
• In the stocks - perhaps an apocryphal tale from Aveley (1823)
• Juvenile crime - an early start in Bocking (1864)
• Barn on fire at Bowers Gifford (1832)
• Hit and run incident causes death at Braintree (1834)
• Policeman drowns at Burnham-on-Crouch (1851)
• The Elsingham Gang terrorise the county (1817)
• Supergrass reveals all at Fordham (1826)
• Doubtful identification in a highway robbery at Fyfield (1819)
• Preparing to stop invasion at Great Baddow (1804)
• Desperate poachers in Great Coggeshall (1790)
• Threshing machine scares horse in Great Coggeshall (1888)
• Murder at the Doctor's Pond in Great Dunmow (1862)
• Church spire collpases in Halstead (1844)
• Attack on a clergyman and his son in Harlow (1891)
• Post Office theft by a raven in Kelvedon (1861)
• Walking race causes a drugs scandal in Lexden (1817)
• Storm at sea brings death to Leigh-on-Sea sailors (1842)
• Forgers strike in Little Waltham (1817)
• Farm labourers riot for better wages in Myland (1830)
• Bare knuckle fight at Navestock (1829)
• Argument over a beer bottle leads to murder at Saffron Walden (1874)
• The over-weight man of Stebbing (1754)
• Train crash at Bradfield (1864)