Category Archives: Essex

As tensions mounted during the Cold War and a direct nuclear strike against the UK became increasingly more likely the Government invested heavily in updating the UK’s defences and in 1951 the construction of a chain of concrete bunkers across … Continue reading →

The Labworth is an Art Deco Cafe overlooking the Thames Estuary on Canvey Island’s Western Esplanade. Designed by Ove Arup – who during the 1950′s was design engineer for the Sydney Opera House – it is said to resemble the … Continue reading →

The port of Maldon was once part of an important water borne transport system comprising the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation and Heybridge Basin, that is, the navigable waterways to the north of the Thames estuary. Once busy with cargo the … Continue reading →

Looking out from Dovercourt across the Halliday Rock Flats towards Walton on the Naze.

Built under the supervision of Peter Schuyler Bruff, Engineer and Manager of the Eastern Union Railway, the then all wooden pier was first opened to the public on 18th July 1871.

Point Clear and Point Clear Bay are about half a mile across Brightlingsea Creek from the historic Cinque Ports town of Brightlingsea, Essex.

St. Osyth’s Abbey was founded by the Richard de Belmeis, Bishop of London, circa 1121, and became one of the largest monasteries in Essex.

A Norman motte and bailey castle built by the de Vere family in the late 11th to early 12th century. The stone keep was added in the 1130′s and 1140′s.

Erosion of the cliffs at Cudmore Grove, Mersea Island, has exposed sand and gravels which were laid down by the River Thames nearly 300,000 years ago.

These banks and ditches, at Lexden, are a series of late Iron Age defences that protected the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.