Dear Nicky, ... Welcome to the group! The following information is summarised from Volume VII of the Victoria History of the County of Essex, pp.66-67, by...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:45 am
Yesterday lunchtime I sent a reply to Nicky's request for some information about the history of Dagnams. It appeared on the eGroups website, but I never...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
wells@...
Aug 3, 2000 7:59 am
Phil wrote ... I received the message normally (in digest mode) and was extremely pleased to do so. I found it one of the most interesting contributions to the...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 3, 2000 5:52 pm
In my unending quest to bring Romford and it's history to life, "Romford Now & Then" now brings you...360 degree panoramas! (well, one anyway!). This first is...
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Dennis Cave
gladden@...
Aug 3, 2000 7:15 pm
... Phil, It's absolutely brilliant! It took me a little while to sort out where I was because of the length of time I've been away. My only clue was a couple...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 3, 2000 7:46 pm
Dennis, ... Many thanks for the encouragement! ... I'll probably add a few word describing the scene at some point - I was so pleased with the panorama, I...
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Peter Staniforth
peter@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:48 pm
Subject: [RomfordHistory] Re: Romford panorama! I hope to add further panoramas in the not too distant future. Does anyone have any particular view that...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 3, 2000 11:04 pm
Peter, ... Thanks for the feedback - it's good to know. ... Certainly! Photographed using my FujiFilm DX-10 digital camera (one of the cheapest around when I...
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Guild, Connie
connieg@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:56 am
Lovely Phil, I really enjoyed seeing that photo......... Connie...
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Sheila West
rainbird@...
Aug 4, 2000 1:48 am
Hi Phil! Many, many thanks for the panorama, it is a wonderful way to have a look at the present-day Romford. I could hardly believe that I was looking up...
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Sheila West
rainbird@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:02 am
Hi All! Just for interest, I right clicked on the Romford panorama picture while I was viewing it with MS Explorer and saved the picture. When I closed down ...
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Peter Cowling
ec573@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:12 am
Shiela wrote> ... I had the same problem, but by putting the pointer on the photograph, left clicking the mouse and dragging the pointer left or right, moves...
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Sheila West
rainbird@...
Aug 4, 2000 5:03 am
Hi Peter! Thanks for that info. I just went back to the site and tried out your advice and it worked brilliantly (except for a slight feeling of giddyness as...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 4, 2000 9:19 am
... Thanks for that, Peter. As I said, I was in such a rush to make the panorama available, I neglected to add any explanation about what what it showed, or...
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Peter Staniforth
peter@...
Aug 4, 2000 8:55 pm
I think the results are excellent - quite 'seamless' and natural-looking; I am amazed that you managed it using just a monopod; I suppose that the software...
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Tony Hodge
teevee@...
Aug 4, 2000 9:39 pm
Thanks for bringing up the subject of Havering Green.Pete.Can anybody tell me if the old "stocks" are still there?--- In ... view ... other ... too ... ...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 4, 2000 10:27 pm
Hello Tony, ... I beleive that the answer is "yes, and no"! Yes, the stocks are still there, but I'm fairly sure that they're replicas. I don't know whether...
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J A Smith
j_alan_smith@...
Aug 5, 2000 7:46 pm
I have some recollection that the original stocks were acquired by Edward Luther of Ardleigh Green Road. Regards, Alan ... From: Phil Steer...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 7, 2000 8:25 am
Alan, ... Thanks for that. I've remembered that I read about the stocks a few weeks ago in the "40 Years Ago" section of the "Romford Recorder" ...
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D Pascoe
dpascoe@...
Aug 7, 2000 4:56 pm
I'm sure many listers have the wonderful book "Romford In Old Photographs" by Brian Evans. On page 22 is an undated wet-plate photograph of "Collier's Mill...
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Nicky Gibbons
flossy@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:31 pm
Thankyou for such an interesting reply . I found the moat site from the map and went to see it . It is still there but I found that the moat was much smaller...
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Guild, Connie
connieg@...
Aug 8, 2000 12:30 am
Hello again, Does anyone remember playing on an abandoned army tank, I think it was in Weald Park - in a big ditch. This would have been in about...
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Peter G. Underwood
pgu@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:13 am
Yes, though I cannot remember its precise location. North Weald was a favourite fishing ground of mine; purchase of the necessary licence gave one access to...
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Guild, Connie
connieg@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:19 am
Peter what a great story! I'm glad you remember the tank too...... I suppose abandoned after the army used the house there. Cheers Connie...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
wells@...
Aug 8, 2000 1:45 pm
Peter Underwood wrote from South Africs ... North and South appear to have been inverted by life in the Southern hemisphere ! Surely Weald Park and the lakes...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 8, 2000 4:53 pm
Just to let you know that I've added another panorama to the "Romford Now & Then" website (http://www.romford.org). I have to admit that its not as ...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Aug 9, 2000 4:32 pm
I have already forwarded the following to Den and, having now received appropriate permission to reproduce the extract, I thought it might be of interest to...
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Barry Hilliard
bah@...
Aug 9, 2000 8:36 pm
But I did live there as a boy and really enjoy the memories this group brings back. I am thinking of advertising in the Romford recorder for my company which...
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D Pascoe
dpascoe@...
Aug 9, 2000 9:16 pm
Further to the mill article kindly supplied by Phil, there is a Stephen COLLIER will listed in the Canturbury/Chelmsford records, proven in 1709, and listing a...
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Peter G. Underwood
pgu@...
Aug 10, 2000 7:25 am
Yes, Bob Wells is correct and, although I am normally aware of the distinction between North and South, on this occasion time had blurred my memory. So the...
