Hi everyone,
Historically, this page has been used to record any updates to the web site. I don't see any reason for changing that. The only difference will be that the updates will be in descending chronological order, i.e. the most recent will be listed first.
I have to say that I was quite taken back when David, Dawn & Peter asked me to become the new web site administrator. Mainly because the web site is very large. However, thanks to Geoff's highly efficient organisation and hard work (no doubt!), I am finding my way around the site quite nicely.
For those of you who might want to check on previous updates done by Geoff, you can get to them by clicking here.
Added on Monday, November 30th, 2009
Added 3 pictures contributed by Valerie (Mott). The first to Barling - The Past 8 (picture no. 11) showing the Barling Mission Hall in the early 1950s. The second a photo of a George Mott & Bert Deeks at work on Wick Farm. The last one of Ray & Valerie Mott in fancy dress at the local fete was added to History 3 pages.
Two more photos from the 1940s submitted from Peter Griffiths added to Little Wakering - History 3 showing Little Wakering Sunday School outing and a summer fete.
Added on Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Added 3 pictures to Barling - The Past 3, the one of the Schoolboy's Gardening Class was submitted by Enid & Rosemary (nee Eve), while the other 2 of the old (make that very old) Barling Forge were submitted by Yvonne Hartley who now resides beside the forge.
Added on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Added 3 pictures to Little Wakering series, submitted by Enid & Rosemary (nee Eve). Added 'Wedding of David Eve & Sylvia' to History 3. Created new page - Wick Farm - containing 2 new photos of Clara Childs & a group of ladies pea picking on the farm.
Also standardised the look of all pages in the Little Wakering album.
Added on Monday, Aprill 6th, 2009
Well done to Leslie Marshall who has now supplied us with some names for Great Wakering Dance Group at Rochford Hospital 1953
Thanks to Val Smith who has identified her father-in-law, Jack Smith, as being at the scene of the German Plane at Ropers Farm.
Published Edition 15 of 'Small Beginnings'. Thanks to Lynne for her continued support.
Added a link to The Friends of St. Nicholas website to the main Great Wakering Page.
Added on Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Added more names to Great Wakering Past 2 Picture No 14 - Great Wakering Methodist Supper Left photo Front Row Seated to 7 Len Rogers 8 Mrs Ethel Rogers and 9 Keith Mead. Picture No 15 - Great Wakering Methodist Supper Right photo Front Row Seated 1 Mrs Ethel Rogers 2 Keith Mead 3 Michael Mead 7 Arthur Parsons and 8 Mrs Clara Parsons. Picture No 13 ‘Happy Ones’ 1965 Front Row on cart 7 Pearl Little.
Added on Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Added two photos supplied by Kenny Waller. The first being Youth Club Drama Group: "Happiest Days of Your Life" The other being Youth Club: Girls There are some question marks about some of the people and others are still to be named (X).
Added on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Added two photos to Great Wakering The Past Two both submitted with thanks from Andy MacIntyre. We think the picture of Great Wakering high street is a carnival. The only people we can put names to is Andy and his mother. He is in the pushchair with his mother pushing on the left of the photo. We guess it must be about 1953-4. The other photo is of Great Wakering Scouts 1964 at the World Jamboree held at Belchamps, Hockley.
Added on Friday, October 24th, 2008
Added three more Galleries (5 through 7) containing 21 photos to Reunion 2008 Thanks go out to our cameramen for their efforts!!!
Added on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Four Galleries containing 31 photos have been added to Reunion 2008 It looks like everybody had fun. Shame I couldn't make it :-(
Added on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Thanks to Mick Prior for some revisions and additions of new names to Barling, The Past 3 and The Past 6
Added photos 5 - 9 to Barling, Teachers - Sadie Morgan These were submitted by Sadie herself at a recent Barling School get together at The Cherry Tree and depict picnic scenes at the local Sea Wall. Also added a 10th photo of Sadie's Class of 1942 (no names yet).
Added a photograph and names of Great Wakering Secondary School Teachers circa 1959 supplied by Lesley (Bailey) Marshall. Also two photographs and names of Great Wakering Primary School Class 1953 Year 8 and Year 10 which were supplied by brothers Eric and Ernie Cobb and John Threadgold. (We now only need Years 9 and 11 and we will have the whole school for 1953.)
Many thanks to Lynne for the latest edition of Small Beginnings. I think you'll agree that the articles tie in very nicely with the website.
Added on Friday, April 18th, 2008
Added new page, under Barling, entitled Barling Sewage Farm Protest depicting interviews with local residents, soil samples being taken and protesters on the march, which was held back in 1972. If anyone has some names to the faces please get in touch.
Added new page The Brickfields, under Great Wakering, showing 3 new photos supplied by Gwen Rawlingson, Peter Huxter & Gordon Wiseman. Also moved 2 existing photos from The Past 1 to the new page. Alongside the photos is a brilliant article on The Brickfields written by Bernard Cooper.
Added on Friday, April 11th, 2008
Added the latest Edition (13) of the Small Beginnings Newsletter, produced by Lynne Askham (nee Marshall). Good stuff!
Added a new link toThe Bell Pub under Great Wakering pages. This is an article written by Mick Prior following a reference to the pub in the latest edition of Small Beginnings (see above). Mick is also asking for information about the Holmes & French families in the village in the late 1800s, so if anyone can help you will find his email address at the foot of the article.
Added on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Added four new photos, supplied by Jean Hayden (nee Wright), to new page Barling Youth Centre Drama Group, showing scenes from various plays performed by the group in the 1950s. Break a leg!!!
Re-organised Great Wakering Pages so that all photos of the High Street are now under High Street Vistas; remaining photos previously under 'Village Pictures' & 'More Up To Date' have been redistributed under The Past 1 & The Past 2. Some of the photos of the High Street have not been dated - any help would be appreciated.
Added on Sunday, January 27th, 2008
6 Great Wakering Dance Group photographs, 4 supplied by Elaine (Rayner) Cripps via Mike Burles and 2 supplied by Lesley (Bailey) Marshall.
The 4 taken in Great Wakering are difficult to describe so we put the number of dancers in brackets to help identify them.
We have most of the names except for the Rochford Hospital 1953 one and will update later when Lesley consults with some more of her friends.
Added on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Added a series of photos, submitted by Phyllis Alp & Bernard Cooper, featuring various scenes of Great Wakering High Street. These have been added to a new page - High Street Vistas - within the Great Wakering portfolio. The 3 photos supplied by Phyllis, which were added on my last visit, have been moved to these new pages along with the existing High Street 1984 page.
Added on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Added a series of photos, submitted by Phyllis Alp, entitled Alfred Groves Family.
There are seven Barling photos including Phyllis’ Mother Evelyn Groves, Aunt Nellie, Uncle Sid, Uncle Bob and Grandfather Alfred Groves (called Jummy). We don't have names for the pigs :-)
I have added 3 (three) photos supplied by Phyllis Alp and Karen Ward to Great Wakering - The Past 2 showing Alp Cottage in 1941 & 1960, along with a 'Womens Own' excursion in 1913.
Added on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Added content to Great Wakering - The Past Two. An excellent photo of the Great Wakering wartime forces canteen helpers taken about 1945 - thanks to Phyllis Alp for that one. Also, 3 photos supplied by Pearl Perryman (nee Mumford) showing two Great Wakering Methodist events. The 'Happy Ones' was taken in 1965 while the (left & right) photos of the Methodist Supper was sometime in the 1960s.
Phyllis Alp has some amendments to the names of the Great Wakering Women's Training Corp 1944. Back Row 6 is Pat Brown and 7 is Freda Morecombe, the others not known were from Rochford.
Added on Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Added link to Teachers page for Sadie Morgan where 4 (four) photos
that she passed on to us are displayed.
Re-organised Teachers page to include links to Mr. Learmond and Miss Riley and removed button links from other Barling pages.
Added on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
5 (five) photos of the New School between 1975 - 81, submitted by Tony Groves. His son Richard is in two photos of Barling School Football Team 1975-6 and 1976-7. His daughter Alison is in three photos of Barling School The Green Team June 1978, Barling School Mrs Tookey’s Class June 1978 and Barling School Netball Team 1980-1. Richard and Alison started at the Old Barling School and then transferred to the new Barling School, where these photos were taken. A fine collection. The first of many for the New School perhaps!
Added on Tuesday, June 6th, 2007
8 (eight) photos of ex-pupil & war hero Peter Robinson, formerly of Coronation Close, submitted by his daughter Irene (Robinson) Wright. I have also inluded details of the citation that was published in connection with his being awarded the DCM. Good stuff!!!
Added on Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Barling The Past 2 has been amended such that the 1st 3 photos have been moved to a new page Prize Giving , which shows those 3 plus an additional 7 photos, taken in 1954, sent by Pam Stone (nee Flintoff). As you can see we have the names for the original photos but not the new ones. There still remains 4 photos on the Past 2 page.
Added on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Barling The Past 2 (3rd picture) The mystery prizwewinner has finally been identified thanks to Pam Stone (nee Flintoff) . Pam's comments about her family have also been posted here. (11th picture - foot of page) The lady on the far right is Pam's grandmother, her father's mother, Edith Flintoff.
Added on Monday, February 12th, 2007
Barling The Past 3 (4th picture) Mrs Horner’s Class of 1948/9 - Middle Row changed No 2 Eric to Ernest Cobb and No 9 Ernest to Eric Cobb.
The Past 4 (last picture) Class of 52 - renamed to Mrs Horner’s Class 1952 and added the names.
The Past 5 (7th picture) Barling School 1943 - Back Row No 1 is Maurice Rust and No 2 is Les Jones.
The Past 6 (1st picture) Barling Drama Group - Back Row No 1 is Bernard Duffy, Front Row No 2 is Nobby Emberson and No 6 is John Duffy. (4th picture) A Day Out, added a new set of names.
The Past 8 (5th Picture) Barling Brigands - No 6 is Neville Franklyn. (6th picture) Barling Brigands - No 8 is Neville Franklyn. (7th picture) Added Barling Brigands with names, submitted by Claire Smith. (9th picture) Renamed the Barling Church Hall to the Barling Mission Hall. Also added another picture (10th) submitted by Eric Cobb taken between 1945 and 1955. Finally, added a new football photo (12th picture) and names submitted by John Bailey of Barling 'The day we won 1945', with names.
Added on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
A set of 7 photos submitted by Eric and Ernie Cobb showing their family, some of when they lived at Dam Farm, Little Wakering and a photo of Dam Farm when they lived there. Added to Little Wakering - The Cobb Family.
Pictures from the Reunion on 30th September have been added to Reunion 2006 . Many thanks to all those who have contributed, especially our intrepid snappers Vic Tharp & David Bailey. (No not that one, stupid!) I'm sure you'll agree with me that the photos are truly representative of the night - great fun!!!
Added on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Lynne Askham (Marshall) has issued the latest Small Beginnings newsletter, which has been added to Newsletter - Edition 12 . Please refer to instructions at the top of the page to find your way around the document.
Added on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Amended several names under Great Wakering - The School, viz 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th photos on the page. Thanks to Ernie & Eric Cobb.
Added two new photos under Great Wakering - The School. The first is a photo sent in by Keith Price of Fred Scott's Model Plane Class of 1955. And a very proud bunch of lads they are too! The other photo is of the School Senior Sports Day 1949, with thanks from Joyce Threadgold.
Added on Monday, September 4th, 2006
Added 4 new photos to Foulness - Foulness School - Years 1907, 1908-10, 1949 & 1954. Also renamed Year 1900 to 1909, as that appears to be the date it was taken. Many thanks to Lesley (Rippingale) Abbott for submitting this fine selection.
Added new page Great Wakering - The School 1953 They were taken as a Queen Elizabeth 2nd Coronation Year souvenir. We have all the infants and junior classes (Years 1 to 7) and they include Foulness Island pupils temporarily there due to the floods in February 1953 and are marked (FI). Mike Burles has been helping to collect and name the photos and we are trying to locate the senior ones.
Years 1 to 7 have been supplied by Patricia Robbins, Peter Huxter, Shirley Gates, Carlo Cripps, Ruth Rippingale, Maureen & Eric Dyer.
Added on Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
Peter Bowyer has submitted his group wedding photo and a smashing photo of Pauline Corby, his bride. Great Wakering - The Past 2
Also on the same page, a great photo of Lois Watts & Penny Driscoll having fun at Oxenham Farm sea wall. Submitted by Ray Beadell. (Ah, those were the days!)
Moved "Foulness St Mary's Church School Group 1" from Foulness - The Past 1 to Foulness - Foulness School
Added on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Peter Bowyer (one of the class) pointed out that the Class of 1948, which was listed under Barling School was, in fact, Great Wakering School. The photo has therefore been moved to Great Wakering - The School
Added on Monday, August 7th, 2006
Joyce Threadgold has now supplied us with the names of the photograph "Foulness St Mary's Church School Group 1" - photograph 1 on Foulness - The Past 1. It was originally thought to have been taken around 1900 but is confirmed as 1909 by Bob Crump.
Joyce has also supplied us with another Fowlness School (spelling at the time) photograph of 1897 and the names - Foulness - Foulness School
Added on Friday, May 26th, 2006
Added notes about next get-together - item number 12 on Diary of Events.
Published new 'blog' for Reunion 2006. Ref: http://blog.barlingwakeringvillages.co.uk/ You are welcome to sign up and contribute any ideas or comments that you feel are relevant to the proceedings.
Added on Monday, May 22nd, 2006
New Section - Foulness - Foulness School.
The 1925 and 1926 photos were from Mrs Joyce Threadgold (her mother Maria Cripps is in both of them. The 1950 photo is from Mike Burles. Amazing that we have all the names for the three photos.
An amendment to the 6th photo within Great Wakering - The Past Two sent in by Maureen Clark. According to Mrs Grace Brandon (nee Galley), one of the leaders, the photo description is incorrect. It should read “Great Wakering Guards and Sunbeams in the front garden of the leader Mrs Chaplin, next door to Tickett & Mott garage in 1946”. We have also added some of the names to the faces.
Added “Great Wakering Women’s Training Corps 1944” to Great Wakering - The Past Two ; with thanks from Grace Brandon. Again, some of the names have been added.
Added on Monday, April 4th, 2006
One new photo added to Great Wakering - The Past Two; yet another contributed by David Manton. This one shows David & his family, along with Mrs Todd & Steven and the Salmons family.
A couple of oldies added to Foulness - Past 1, submitted by Geoff Hume - Great Newlands Farm in 1904 & Home Guard 1944. Fantastic stuff!
And lastly, a couple of not-so-oldies added to Barling Magna - The Past 5, submitted by Dawn & David Bailey, with a promise of more to come!
Added on Saturday, February 11th, 2006
Two new photos added to Great Wakering - The Past Two; contributed by David Manton, who lived in Coronation Close. One of the photos was taken at a fancy dress party in Southend and will be of interest to our eagle-eyed visitors as, apart from David, we don't have any names! Please take a coupe of minutes to see if there is anyone you know in the group.