1. Birch Church from School House Garden.
Date: 1960s
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2. Birch Church
Date: 1960s
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3. Birch School
Date: September 1966
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4. Birch School Coronation Celebrations
Date: 1953
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5. Coronation Celebrations, Birch School. School House on the right.
Date: 1953
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6. Birch Church with the spire under repair.
Date: 18 February 1961
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7. School House and the garden in front of the School, Birch. You can see the door on the side of School House - it was rotting, and vanished in the redecoration ...
Date: c1960
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8. School House and Birch School. James Arthur Millatt on front lawn, probably with Peter Millatt in his arms.
Date: c1950
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9. Edward Bell holding baby. (David Potter ? Father was Fred Potter.)
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10. Charles Bell standing in porch. baptised 1874.
Date: c1944
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11. Birch School, 1960s?
L-R 1. Carol Ratcliffe, 2. Shirley Coe, 3. Linda Hilden, 4. Tim Hewett. The children had received a reply from Downing Street after ...
Date: 1960s
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12. Birch Church, now undergoing repairs, has an unusual yet picturesque look about it with its steeple in splints. Undated newspaper cutting.
Date: cFebruary 1961
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13. Birch Church. From a drawing made in February 1849.
Great and Little Birch had each a separate church, but Little Birch Church was disused long ago. Its ...
Date: February 1849
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14. The pastoral past of Birch.

These rare pictures of a bygone Birch evoke exactly the sort of world that Thomas Hardy captured in his ...
Date: 6 August 1982
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15. It's August 1904, harvesting at Hill Farm.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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16. A country home in every sense. Humphreys Cottage and its resident Mr Horne.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: c1904
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17. A job for all the family. Peapicking in 1904.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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18. Church Cottages - virtually unchanged over the years. The two ladies are believed to be Mrs G. Smith and Mrs Seymour.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from ...
Date: c1905
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19. Birch Mill and children taken in July 1905. The mill has since been demolished.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County ...
Date: July 1905
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20. Scything at Birch.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ...
Date: 1904
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21. Another view of Church Cottages, Birch, taken in 1905.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. ...
Date: 1905
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22. Birch Rectory - at the top of School Hill next to the Village Hall. Susan Millatt with the push chair. The children are from the Blok family from the ...
Date: cAugust 1969
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23. Mr & Mrs Sam Smith with granddaughter. Late 1930s ?
Date: c1938
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24. Co-op butchers delivery van at Hardys Green, Birch, 1939 or 1940.
L-R 1. Alice Wayman ?, 2. Roy Hattersley, 3. Mrs Birtha Smith, 4. Olive Hattesley. Roy ...
Date: c1940
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25. Olive and Roy Hattersley 1939 / 1940 at Hardys Green, Birch.
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26. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Cover page. From Yardley Lane School Chingford, evacuated to Birch 3 September 1939.
Date: 3 September 1939
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27. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olve and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 1 of letter dated 11 April 1999.

"A very kind gentleman named Mr Andrews very kindly ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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28. Yes We Were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 2.
...
We were eventually rebilletted with the Smith's, Bertha and Sam, of Hardy's ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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29. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 3.
The outside toilet was halfway down a very long garden...
next door neighbour ...
Date: 3 September 1939
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30. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 4.
Date: 3 September 1939
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