31. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 5.
Date: 3 September 1939
Image ID PBC_008_106

32. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford.
Letter to Betty and Patrick Adkins accompanying the article, from Pam and Roy Hattersley
Date: 12 April 1999
Image ID PBC_008_107

33. Birch School Ray House Winter Sports Team.
Was this taken the same time as ...
Date: April 1946
Image ID PBC_009_001

34. Layer Marney Towers
Image ID PBC_009_003

35. Wychcombe in the Moor. It is not clear if this is relevant to Birch !
Date: 1956
Image ID PBC_009_005

36. Birch Parish Magazine and Layer de la Haye.
January 1949 Burials at Layer Robert Charles Cansdale aged 72 years.
Layer de la Haye 5 May 1950 Buried ...
Date: January 1949
Image ID PBC_010_001

37. A rural senior school garden. Photograph from an unknown educational publication.
View of Birch School garden in the 1940s, looking south. Gatehouse Farm ...
Date: 1940s
Image ID PBC_011_001

38. Heckford Bridge, at Birch - a photo taken a very long time ago, a tranquil scene at a spot hardly recognisable today.
Pages from the Past, Essex County ...
Date: 3 May 1991
Image ID PBC_012_001

39. It's a sunny day in January, so
A hunting we well go - children as well.
On Layer Breton Heath outside the Hare and Hounds.
Colchester Gazette.
Date: 8 January 1957
Image ID PBC_012_003

40. Winter in the Village.
This Christmas card scene of Birch is a reminder that snow still has a picturesque quality as well as a nuisance value.
Date: 22 February 1963
Image ID PBC_012_005

41. Birch was Best
Birch has been awarded the "Essex County Standard" plaque for the best kept small village in the Lexden and Winstree and Tendring districts ...
Date: 1968
Image ID PBC_012_007

42. Cabinet prize for Anita.
Lucky Anita Smith, from Tiptree, wond this solid oak corner cabinet after identifying what king of wood was used to make ...
Image ID PBC_013_001

43. Ringing the changes at disused church, by Claire Poreter. Lottery grant to be sought for new arts centre.
How St Peter's could be altered. Birch Church as ...
Date: 16 September 1998
Image ID PBC_014_001

44. Arts idea to save church, by Lisa Cockrell. St. Peter's Church, Birch.
Evening Gazette.
Date: 8 August 2001
Image ID PBC_014_003

45. The organ, Birch Church. Essex County Standard picture 8472, date not known.
Image ID PBC_014_005

46. Ivan Appleby. Head at Birch School 1983-1984
Date: c1984
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47. Letter from Ivan Appleby, Head at Birch 1983-1984

I was Acting Headteacher at Birch from 1 September 1983 to 13 April 1984. At the time I was a ...
Date: 4 November 1999
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48. Pat Adkins on the left.
Image ID PBC_016_001

49. The White Horse Inn, Layer Marney
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50. Layer Marney Home Guard 1944, taken at Dukes Farm, Layer Marney.
Front row L-R 1. Sunny Ratcliffe, 2. Charlie Cranmer, 3. Mr Vincent, 4. Nat Fennel, 5. ...
Date: 1944
Image ID PBC_016_005

51. Birch Station 149. Page 26 from unknown publication.
July 1944 aerial view of Birch Aerodrome.
Date: July 1944
Image ID PBC_017_001

52. Birch Aerodrome, Station 149. Page 27 from unknown publication.
Date: c1944
Image ID PBC_017_002

53. Birch Aerodrome, Station 149. Page 28 from unknown publication.
Murder of Colchester taxi driver Harry Hailstone in December 1943.
Date: December 1943
Image ID PBC_017_003

54. Birch Aerodrome, Station 149. Page 29 from unknown publication.
Murder of Colchester taxi driver Harry Hailstone in December 1943.
Date: December 1943
Image ID PBC_017_004

55. Birch pictures have moved.
There is now a major category under IMAGES on the menu.
We have also added over 400 images that came from the former ...
Date: 21 July 2017
Image ID PBC_101

56. Pat Adkins
1933 - 2003

Sadly, Patrick (Pat) Adkins passed away in hospital on Monday 29th December 2003 after a long illness, which he fought ...
Date: 2003
Image ID PBC_103

57. Birch School - presentation of school album by Pat Adkins to Head of School Geof Graham.
Date: 20 November 2000
Image ID PBC_107

58. The Angel, Heckford Bridge, Birch. The notices on the right say 'Vote Newton'.
This photo appeared on Facebook 11 November 2023 and Heather Johnson ...
Date: c1912
Image ID PBC_201

59. Layer Breton shewing the chapel.
Postcard published by A. Studley, The Stores, Birch, nr Colchester. The Vulcan series.
Image ID PBC_203