Publications

Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum booklets

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

Life as an Adopted Child in Kelvedon cover    

My Life as an Adopted Child in Kelvedon

By William Pentney edited by Anne Townley (2026)

Feering & Kelvedon Local History Museum publication £4.50

   
     
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