The Blog
Just down the road from the Almshouses in Little Easton you’ll find a lake with many Ducks and Canadian Geese on it. Its a fishing lake and has many fishing seats dotted around it – here’s spot 16: Who wouldn’t want to do a spot of fishing from here?
I was lucky enough to be in Little Easton at sunset last Friday and was delighted with how this picture came out These were built around 1716 to house 4 poor widows, A yearly rent of £20 was to be charged equally amogst the four Almswomen.
The watermill is thought to date from the later part of the 18th century. The mill contains a large cast iron waterwheel and a complete set of gearing to three pairs of millstones. As recently as 2005 restoration was being considered, however the mill appears to have been abandoned now
Back to Tilty… If you walk past the Church, down across the field past the remains of the monastery you’ll come to a derelict water mill. Walk to the back of this and you’ll be able to see the old water course that used to feed this. What remains of
We’ve been a bit all over the place from the start of this blog – I promise we’ll start being a little more disciplined in the organisation of series of pictures so that you don’t have to leap from page to page to find all the posts from a series.
The second entry on this blog was about Tilty Church, and promised a series of images, this so far has not materialised! So, without further ado: The first thing you see as you enter Tilty Church is the Font. This was made from excavated material from the Abbey dating from
Broxted Church has two specially commissioned stained glass windows – The Captivity and Freedom Windows designed by John Clark and illustrated here. For more information on Broxted Church see our earlier post by clicking here
Hovering high in the sky is this rather impressive organ which was being tuned to within an inch of its life when this picture was taken – single, high pitched notes blasted at you for long periods of time is probably not the best way to hear the organ! More
Back to the old Dunmow Lock-Up and shoe lasts. You can see a stand alone shoe last in this post, here we have a small collection of shoe lasts
In this post one duck actually, a female mallard who allowed me to photograph her earlier this year. It wasn’t my intention to use this image today, but a friend of mine saw a print of the picture and loved it and I know he was trying to find a
Website designed by Make Digital Simple
