Greetings all Several of my ancestors were born, lived and died in Essex during the 1800s. I'd love to be able to include contemporary photos with the text I'm compiling. Can anyone suggest sites where I might find pictures of: Military Road, Colchester 1860s Mersea Road, " " The Woolpack Inn, Botolph Street, Colchester 1860s Chadwell Heath, near Ilford / Romford 1880s St Mary's Parish Church (Anglican) High Road, Great Ilford 1880s Best wishes from summery South Africa Frank Early

If you take a look at the East of London Family History Society's web site there is a postcard photo of St Mary's Church High Road Ilford (then Great Ilford) c.1905 which I conributed to the site together with another picture from Martin Williams. http://www.eolfhs.org.uk >From the side tool bar hit parishes and choose Ilford , it also gives a description of the parish. Shirley O'Donnell Coordinator Essex OPC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Lyn" <franklyn@tiscali.co.za> To: <ESSEX-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:21 AM Subject: [Ess] Old Essex photos > Greetings all > > Several of my ancestors were born, lived and died in Essex during the > 1800s. > I'd love to be able to include contemporary photos with the text I'm > compiling. Can anyone suggest sites where I might find pictures of: > > Military Road, Colchester 1860s > Mersea Road, " " > The Woolpack Inn, Botolph Street, Colchester 1860s > Chadwell Heath, near Ilford / Romford 1880s > St Mary's Parish Church (Anglican) High Road, Great Ilford 1880s > > Best wishes from summery South Africa > > Frank Early > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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

Hi Frank, You might find what you want here but you may have to pay to use the images or buy a book of them I am not sure. There would appear to be 9 pages of photos of Colchester here. http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/essex/colchester/photos/ Once you have viewed these for Colchester try searching the site for the other places that you mention in you message below. You could also try searching one of the online bookshops, such as amazon.co.uk or whsmith.co.uk for books of old photos of each place or of Essex as a whole if that would interest you too. Amazon will send books etc., out of the UK. I have 2 or 3 books of old photos that I bought from amazon.co.uk for places of interest to me for my research and find them very useful and inexpensive. A word of warning though if you intend putting old photos from another site or from a book on a website of your own, even within your family tree online, then make sure you get permission from the author or photo site owner before doing so or you may run into copyright problems. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<Can anyone suggest sites where I might find pictures of: > > Military Road, Colchester 1860s > Mersea Road, " " > The Woolpack Inn, Botolph Street, Colchester 1860s > Chadwell Heath, near Ilford / Romford 1880s > St Mary's Parish Church (Anglican) High Road, Great Ilford 1880s > Frank Early >>