Leigh on Sea News - historicaleigh

HistoricaLeigh: Fairies at the bottom of the garden?

April 15, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

Maybe you remember one of the great hoaxes of the early 20^th Century;  the so-called Cottingley Fairies?

HistoricaLeigh: A Leigh Union Trail Blazer Down Under

March 25, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

HistoricaLeigh - The Ham & Beef Shop

March 13, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

In 1835 Lady Olivia Sparrow, Lady of the Manor, erected  infant and junior schools in Leigh and engaged the Rev Ridley Herschell to run them

HistoricaLeigh: Coffe and Crackers —Elimentary Dr Watson

February 20, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

The construction of Broadway West and the tea, coffee and cracker's that followed...

HisotricaLeigh: Jumping the Shotgun!

February 13, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

Was it bigamy in Leigh in the 1700's? 

HistoricaLeigh - The Coliseum of Leigh (not Rome)

February 6, 2018 by Carole Mulroney

The Coliseum stood (and still to a certain degree stands) where today is Strangeways hairdressers and flats above in Elm Road. 

Historicaleigh: Just a Drum with Strings?

October 23, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

On 27 December 1930 Norton Greenop passed away suddenly at his home in Leigh Road, after years of heart problems. He was 61 and had been a businessman in Leigh for 14 years.

From Dogger Bank To Pier Head

October 2, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

In 1931 the Dogger Bank earthquake hit the country and was the strongest earthquake recorded since measurements began with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale

Historicaleigh - In The Interests of Science

September 11, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

Nowadays we take X Rays for granted and we are used to the radiographer staying out of range of the machinery in action. But at the outset the dangers were not known.

Historicaleigh - The Tragic Tiller Girl

August 17, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

Back in my youth no Sunday evening would be complete without Sunday Night at the London Palladium on TV and the most constant of all the performers were the Tiller Girls, a troupe of dancers whose high kicks and precision timing defied believe.

HistoricaLeigh: Sgt Larter of at Leigh

August 14, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

Sgt Larter was well known by shopkeepers in Leigh and Southend for he was the Officer who detected a shoplifting gang and recovered several loads of property by examining dustbins in back yards at night

Historicaleigh - Leigh's Tragic Link Between the Great War and Dunkirk

July 17, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

In May 1915 Bombardier George Maurice Dorkins of Leigh was a local hero...

Historicaleigh - Parlez Vous

July 6, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

George Godfrey Harrap was born on 18 January 1868 in Islington and at the age of 14 had developed a keen love of reading.

Historicaleigh - Leigh's Riotous Policeman

July 6, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

Sgt Larter of at Leigh, retired from the Police Force in 1913. He had had a colourful career...

Historicaleigh - Votes for Women

June 12, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

With voting being a topical subject right now the Census of 1911 showed the face of Women’s Suffrage defying authority.

Historicaleigh - Trains in Elm Road!

May 22, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

It wasn't a building you would of expected to see in Elm Road, but in 1908, an old railway carriage was right there inhabited by a family of 6.

Historicaleigh - A Grand Old Maid

May 8, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

There cannot be many of us who have passed the ‘Cutlass Stone’ in Leigh Churchyard and marvelled at the age of Mary Ellis, dying at 109.

HistoricaLeigh: A Dr Murie's Whale

May 2, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

HistoricaLeigh: A token gesture

March 29, 2017 by Carole Mulroney

HistoricaLeigh - The way we were in 1831

March 20, 2017 by Carole Mulroney