Adullamite

I played truant from the Kirk on Sunday.  The service was going to be a long one and I conversed with myself as to missing it, I agreed with...

The origin of the names Braintree and Bocking is obscure and as such the matter of much debate. These were two separate towns until 1934 w...

The rising sun promised another day of sunshine and bitter cold winds.  This mattered to me as I rose earlier than usual to devour my ...

This is the world at shortly after five in the morning.  OK I tweaked the picture a wee bit by pressing one of the many buttons on this c...

Having slept well I disobeyed orders and changed my mind about trekking to Chelmsford and the Record Office as I wished to go back to b...

The 'Tudor House,' built about 1620 they say, was home to a Bocking Clothier.  Weaving was the strength of Bocking economy.  ...

I was tempted to write, 'I saw this and thought of you,' but several young ladies are looking in so I will avoid that.  This ...

Well I have been busy.  At last I have managed to get a site put up for the dead soldiers I have been pursuing all this time.  It...

At seven this morning I found myself down by the old mill at Bocking. Today this once busy mill, look at the size of it, has been conve...

This fine old building is the Woolpack Inn, Bocking.  Or at least it was in times past.  Today it is divided into three 'cottages,...

. The other morning I cycled, uphill all to often, down to the far off village. Among the interesting old buildings, now modernised and o...