Did anyone else do an Essex church 'Ride & Stride' today? My contribution to Essex heritage weekend was sponsored visits today to photograph church interiors - I've already photographed the exteriors of these churches and am progressively photographing the graves. I'd aimed to photograph the interior of the church at Dengie too, but the church was annoyingly closed when it should have been open - nil for effort, Dengie! Two elderly CHAPLIN sisters who were recording the riders and striders visiting the Tiptree chapel proved to be connected to me. It was so hard to decide which churches to visit, as so many were open that I want to see were open. I finally settled on those below. If anyone is looking for photos of the following churches or graves/memorials to ancestors who worshipped there, let me know. Bradwell Juxta Mare, St Thomas Hatfield Peverel - Baptist Chapel - have some of St Andrew's too Heybridge - Baptist Chapel - also have St Andrew Langford, St Giles Sheering, St Mary The Virgin Tillingham, St Nicholas Tiptree - Congregational Chapel - also have St Lukes Ulting, All Saints Woodham Mortimer, St Margaret's Woodham Walter, St Michael's Woodham Ferrers (Ferris), St Mary the Virgin - exterior only Colleen

All & Colleen, I remember doing a similar ride, around the churches of Woodford, some thirty years back, as a teenager. The churches were all manned by volunteers, and what a great way to see a few of the locals. Talking locals, when building on Ian's Essex Pubs site, and after adding London, I purposely worked on church parishes, and listed Pubs by parish, rather than by modern postcodes. This actually worked quite well, as I can now add a picture of the church, for the relevant parish - there are quite a few added. A step back, Ian (Pubby Hunter) left a fantastic site, but lacking any church roots / pictures - just PUBS. Just one church picture would be great to add to any of the sites - http://londonpublichouse.com/ (this now covers most of London, Essex, Sussex); whilst the other areas have been hived off to new sites, e.g. Kent (http://kentvillages.com/ ); Suffolk (http://suffolkvillages.com/ ) and most notably, the most recent for Hertfordshire (http://hertspubs.com/ ), which is a few days young. I know Colleen will bombard me with pictures, as soon as she reads this, this is what good friends are for; but, does anyone else have an interest in getting their research onto the Web. I keep emails brief, as I am not able to write poetic prose; but feel free to add anything to the Essex sites/s. Best Kevan -----Original Message----- From: essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:essex-uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Colleen Sent: 13 September 2008 23:37 To: essex-uk@rootsweb.com Subject: [Ess] Grave photos - Essex Heritage weekend Did anyone else do an Essex church 'Ride & Stride' today? My contribution to Essex heritage weekend was sponsored visits today to photograph church interiors - I've already photographed the exteriors of these churches and am progressively photographing the graves. I'd aimed to photograph the interior of the church at Dengie too, but the church was annoyingly closed when it should have been open - nil for effort, Dengie! Two elderly CHAPLIN sisters who were recording the riders and striders visiting the Tiptree chapel proved to be connected to me. It was so hard to decide which churches to visit, as so many were open that I want to see were open. I finally settled on those below. If anyone is looking for photos of the following churches or graves/memorials to ancestors who worshipped there, let me know. Bradwell Juxta Mare, St Thomas Hatfield Peverel - Baptist Chapel - have some of St Andrew's too Heybridge - Baptist Chapel - also have St Andrew Langford, St Giles Sheering, St Mary The Virgin Tillingham, St Nicholas Tiptree - Congregational Chapel - also have St Lukes Ulting, All Saints Woodham Mortimer, St Margaret's Woodham Walter, St Michael's Woodham Ferrers (Ferris), St Mary the Virgin - exterior only Colleen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message