
1. Birch Church from School House Garden. Date: 1960s Image ID PBC_001_001 |

2. Birch Church Date: 1960s Image ID PBC_001_003 |

3. Birch School Date: September 1966 Image ID PBC_001_005 |

4. Birch School Coronation Celebrations Date: 1953 Image ID PBC_002_001 |

5. Coronation Celebrations, Birch School. School House on the right. Date: 1953 Image ID PBC_002_003 |

6. Birch Church with the spire under repair. Date: 18 February 1961 Image ID PBC_002_005 |

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 Image ID PBC_002_007 |

8. School House and Birch School. James Arthur Millatt on front lawn, probably with Peter Millatt in his arms. Date: c1950 Image ID PBC_002_009 |

9. Edward Bell holding baby. (David Potter ? Father was Fred Potter.) Image ID PBC_003_001 |

10. Charles Bell standing in porch. baptised 1874. Date: c1944 Image ID PBC_003_003 |

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 Image ID PBC_004_001 |

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 Image ID PBC_005_001 |

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 Image ID PBC_005_003 |

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 Image ID PBC_006 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_001 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_003 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_005 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_007 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_009 |

20. Scything at Birch.
Picture by Mrs Ann Blomfield, from The pastoral past of Birch, Essex County Standard, 6 August 1982. See ... Date: 1904 Image ID PBC_006_011 |

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 Image ID PBC_006_013 |

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 Image ID PBC_007_001 |

23. Mr & Mrs Sam Smith with granddaughter. Late 1930s ? Date: c1938 Image ID PBC_008_001 |

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 Image ID PBC_008_003 |

25. Olive and Roy Hattersley 1939 / 1940 at Hardys Green, Birch. Image ID PBC_008_005 |

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 Image ID PBC_008_101 |

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 Image ID PBC_008_102 |

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 Image ID PBC_008_103 |

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 Image ID PBC_008_104 |

30. Yes we were Evacuees. Olive and Roy Hattersley from Chingford. Page 4. Date: 3 September 1939 Image ID PBC_008_105 |