Owen worked at Paxman's but was a prolific writer and also attended courses on public speaking. His work, a mix of short stories, articles, poetry and anecdotes is largely fiction but Birch was clearly a big inspiration.
The list below contains links to the stories available here. The others have not been scanned but are stored in the Museum archives.
| A | | CREATIVE WRITING |
| 1. | | 23rd Psalm - Parody |
| 2. | | A Christmas Diesel - short story based on a Christmas Carol |
| 3. | | A Set of Old Golf Clubs - Short story |
| 4. | | A Surfeit of Trademen - Article |
| 5. | | An Old Rudge - short story |
| 6. | | And Turns No More Hishead - short story |
| 7. | | And What Will The Gentry Do then, Poor Things? - article |
| 8. | | Apple Tree Ambush - anecdote |
| 9. | | Awaiting Autumn - verse |
| 10. | | Autumn Yearning - poem |
| 11. | | Blackberry and Buckshot - humour |
| 12. | | Bluebells in Lexden Park - poem |
| 13. | | Boulevard of Memories - article: Human and Local Interest |
| 14. | | Bridle Way Lexden Park - Poem |
| 15. | | Christmas and the Past - Verse |
| 16. | | Culmination of a Season's Awareness - verse |
| 17. | | For my Old Friend Tim - verse |
| 18. | | Flo and Syd a Tribute - verse |
| 19. | ELS_019 | Forbidden Humbugs - a true story |
| 20. | | Frankenstein Recalled - Reminiscence |
| 21. | | Gardening Time - a script for contrasting voices |
| 22. | | Heads We Win - Tails You Lose - anecdote |
| 23. | | Hell Is Full Of Amatuer Musicians - anecdote |
| 24. | | In Norwich Cathedral - verse |
| 25. | ELS_025 | Joanna - a short story and a poem |
| 26. | | Julie - poem |
| 27. | | Last Love - poem |
| 28. | | Laughter In a Vale Of Tears - anecdote |
| 29. | | Memory's End - poem |
| 30. | | Mud Cure For Moroans - topical anecdote |
| 31. | | No Clara At Christmas - poem |
| 32. | | O Memory! Thou Fond Deceiver - article |
| 33. | | On Hearing Of Your Leaving - poem |
| 34. | ELS_034 | On The Death of My Father - poem |
| 35. | | On the Occaion Of Meeting Two Old Friends At a Football Match - verse |
| 36. | | Our Albert - prose |
| 37. | | Poetic Injustice - Writing Challenge |
| 38. | | Prologue to Parricide - a play in one act |
| 39. | | Realisation - free verse |
| 41. | | Rubberneck Donkey's Back - Dissertation |
| 42. | | Secret Love - poem |
| 43. | | Soccer Subterfuge - short story |
| 44. | | Social Schizophrenia - verse |
| 45. | ELS_045 | Spring Wedding at Birch - free verse (also called Bitter Sweet Wedding) |
| 46. | | Suburban Oasis - verse |
| 47. | | That Indefinable Something - a Paxman product - prose |
| 48. | ELS_048 | The Bailey Meadow - verse |
| 49. | | The Biggest Ass - humour |
| 50. | | The Chap Who calls Me Reg - anecdote |
| 51. | | The Cocky- Doodle One - anecdote plus newspaper cutting |
| 52. | | The Day the BRM Failed - anecdote |
| 53. | | The Sledge That Went Full Circle - short story |
| 54. | | The Unsavoury Incident Behind The Memorial Hall (Shrub End) |
| 55. | | The Workers' Revenge - satirical verse |
| 56. | | The Wrong Half - short story |
| 57. | | The Wrong Memory Lane - short story |
| 58. | ELS_058 | Tom Barnes's Threshing Tackle - reminiscence |
| 59. | ELS_059 | To Arms! The Philistines Are Among Thee - reminiscences of Home Guard |
| 60. | | Tuesday Evening - verse |
| 61. | | United We Fall - anecdote |
| 62. | | Walking to The Fair - earlier version of 19. above. |
| 63. | | We're All Middle Class Now - satirical verse plus newspaper clipping. |
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| 64. | | When the Devil Drives - short story |
| 65. | | Winter Nostalgia - rhyming verse |
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| 66. | ELS_066 | When Remembrance Was New. A Poem for Remembrance Day |
| 67. | ELS_067 | Reflections at my village War Memorial |
| 68. | ELS_068 | Reflections in the Churchyard of St Peter's Birch |
| 69. | ELS_069 | Tribute to a Sportsman - Henry James |
| 70. | ELS_070 | St Peter's Quartet |
| 71. | ELS_071 | Grandfather Tim Bond |
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| B | | File of Colchester Public Library Literary Society 'flyers' for their talks and functions - including talks by Ronald Blythe, Bensusan Butt and Stan Jarvis. 1969-1974 |
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| C | | Bits and pieces including a letter from Tom Wiseman about Birch Hall, a Parish News with covering letter by Eric Hall, a 1899 advert for the Britannia Works and various 'scribblings'. |
| 101. | ELS_101 | The Salcott (Virley) Devil Story (from a printed publication, author unknown) |
| 102. | ECS_2000... | Birch Millennium Village. ECS article |
| 103. | | Parish News Nov 2000 - includes Owens 'When Remembrance was new' |
| 104. | | Letter to Owen Ellis from Tom Wiseman 20 Jul 2006 |
