Publications

Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum booklets

These booklets are available for sale at the Museum. Sorry, no postal sales.

     
Personal memories   St Mary Immaculate

Personal memories: Feering and Kelvedon 1900-1914
ed. B.L. Kentish (1978/2014) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

St. Mary Immaculate & The Holy Archangels: parish history
Francis Dobson, ed. Gordon Read (1991)

     
Hay-Bamford   seeds of sunshine

The Hay-Bamford collection: images of old Kelvedon. A first catalogue
G.H. Wheldon (2001) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

Seeds of sunshine: a short history of Kelvedon United Reformed Church
John Allard and James Hyde (2006)

     
Objit Houses   Blackwater

The Objit Houses in Kelvedon, Essex: a celebratory synthesis
G.H. Wheldon (2008) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

Following the Blackwater: a route between Kelvedon and Coggeshall
David Larner (2009) Kelvedon Parish Council

     
Lighting   War memorial

Lighting the way: a brief history of street lighting in Kelvedon
Nick Ezra (2010) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

The making of Kelvedon War Memorial and the mystery of the missing names
James Colquhoun (2011)

     
    Great War
John Papworth MBE: Kelvedon and Witham town crier
John Papworth (2011)
  Kelvedon and Feering in the Great War 1914-1918
Nick Ezra (2014) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum
     
Boys war   Felix Hall 
This boy's war: a personal (and opinionated) memoir of a schoolboy growing up during World War II
Barry Bonner (2015) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum
  A history of Felix Hall

Nick Ezra (2016) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum 

     
Fire Brigade   Transport

Kelvedon Fire Brigade: a brief history
Nick Ezra (2018) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

Transport through Kelvedon and Feering
Nick Ezra (2019) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

     
Boys memories   Postcards

A Kelvedon boy's memories
Phillip Wenlock (2019) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

 

A walk through Kelvedon and Feering in old coloured postcards
Nick Ezra (2019) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

     
Parish Council   Celebrations
Kelvedon Parish Council: a brief history
Nick Ezra (2020) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum
  Celebrations: on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, June 2021
Arthur Frost, Ruth Kent and Kevin Cooke (2021) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum
     

Other publications about Feering and Kelvedon

Notes on the Parish Church St. Mary the Virgin, Kelvedon: inscriptions and other records – Rev. E.F. Hay (1903) Wiles & Son

Kelvedon through two centuries 1700-1900 – Arthur Harry Frost (1954) Workers' Educational Association

The story of Kelvedon – H.C. Corke and Helen Corke (1954)

The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway – N.J. Stapleton (1962) Bledlow Press

Kelvedon and its antiquities – B.L. Kentish (1974) Phillimore and Co Ltd

Life at Felix Hall 1880 to 1913 – ed. B.L. Kentish and A.H. Frost (1976) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Society

Kelvedon: the origins and development of a small Roman town – Catriona Turner and M.R. Eddy (1982) Essex County Council

The Tollesbury branch – Peter Paye (1985) Oxford Publishing Co.

Kelvedon and Feering 1881 and 1986: a contrast – Malcolm Shearer, Lawrence Chopping and Basil Kentish (1986) The Worker's Educational Association

Late Iron Age enclosures at Kelvedon: excavations at the Doucecroft site 1985-86 – C. Clarke (1988) Essex Archaeology & History

The prehistoric and Roman settlement at Kelvedon, Essex – Kirsty Rodwell (1988) Council for British Archaeology

Seedtime: the history of Essex Seeds – Elinor M.C. Rope (1989) Hi-Story Press Ltd

Kelvedon footpaths and bridleways (1994) Kelvedon Parish Council

Church Street chronicles – Graham Wheldon (1999) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

Kelvedon speaks – ed. Ruth Kent, Mary Mays and Rae Jinks (1999)

Kelvedon wartime memories: World War II – Ruth Kent and Rae Jinks (1999)

Looking back over four hundred millennia: articles from the Feering and Kelvedon Preservation Society Bulletins, 1968-1999 – ed. Bridget Winstanley (1999) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

Moores: the story of Moore Brothers, Kelvedon, Essex – Bryan Everitt (2000)

A guide to Kelvedon and Feering: two villages in the third millennium – Stephanie Warwick (2000)

Harvest of memories: an Essex farmer recalls a life in peace and war – Tony Bonner (2000) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

Victorian Kelvedon: photography of Nichols Brothers – Graham H. Wheldon and Roger V. Carter (2005) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

A late Iron Age warrior burial from Kelvedon, Essex – Paul R. Sealey (2007) Colchester Museums

Branch lines around Witham and Kelvedon: Bishops Stortford, Maldon, Tollesbury – Vic Mitchell (2010) Middleton Press

The Kelvedon to Tollesbury Railway: a pictorial history – Mark House (2013) East Anglian Railway Museum

Kelvedon – Caroline Stanley (2016)

Kelvedon and Feering: the beginnings of our villages - Nick Ezra (2017) Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum

A descriptive sketch of the collection of works of ancient Greek and Roman art at Felix Hall – John Howard Marsden (2018) HardPress