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Crime and Misdemeanours

  • An Incendiary Fire at Wivenhoe 1848

    An Incendiary Fire at Wivenhoe 1848

    The Ipswich Journal, Saturday May 30th, 1848
  • An interview with Mrs Winifred Ellis

    An interview with Mrs Winifred Ellis

    Notes of an interview with Mrs Winifred Ellis made by Nicholas Butler in the mid 1980s
  • An Interview with Police Sergeant L H Martin

    An Interview with Police Sergeant L H Martin

    Notes of an interview with Sergeant L H Martin made by Nicholas Butler in the mid 1980s
  • Caution to Carriers: John Polley of Wivenhoe 1862

    Caution to Carriers: John Polley of Wivenhoe 1862

    Essex Standard, Wednesday 20 August, 1862 [British Newspaper Archive]
  • Condemned Hog Fed on Sprats 1800

    Condemned Hog Fed on Sprats 1800

    Ipswich Journal, Saturday, 8 March 1800
  • Elizabethan Life

    Elizabethan Life

    A series of books compiled from a wide range of documentary evidence by F. G. Emmison, the former county archivist of Essex Record Office, which contain many references to life in Elizabethan Wivenhoe:
  • Jack Wyatt, Robbing a Baker's Cart 1841

    Jack Wyatt, Robbing a Baker's Cart 1841

    Essex Standard, Friday, 17 December 1841
  • John Rivett, Blacksmith: Pelted in the Pillory, 1786

    John Rivett, Blacksmith: Pelted in the Pillory, 1786

    The Ipswich Journal, Saturday, 6 May 1786
  • Seven Year's Transportation for Stealing Six Geese, Three Turkies and a Hempen Sack 1805

    Seven Year's Transportation for Stealing Six Geese, Three Turkies and a Hempen Sack 1805

    Northampton Mercury, Saturday, 26 January 1805
  • Smuggling and Wivenhoe

    Smuggling and Wivenhoe

    By Workers Educational Association, no date, 4pp (Essex County Libraries E.WIV)
  • The De Veres of Wivenhoe - A Public Talk given by Christopher Thompson

    The De Veres of Wivenhoe - A Public Talk given by Christopher Thompson

    The first public talk organised by the Wivenhoe History Group in October 2013
  • The Great Escape in 1870

    The Great Escape in 1870

    Berkley makes a run for it
  • The Renowned Yacht Pearl

    The Renowned Yacht Pearl

    She won many races for the Marquis of Anglesey
  • Theft from Abraham Nunn, Gardiner 1753

    Theft from Abraham Nunn, Gardiner 1753

    Ipswich Journal, Saturday, 22 September 1753
  • Thomas Cawton (1605-1659)

    Thomas Cawton (1605-1659)

    Rector of Wivenhoe 1637- 1644
  • Thomas Coker, the Highwayman 1739

    Thomas Coker, the Highwayman 1739

    Ipswich Journal, Saturday 23 September 1739
  • Transportation for Felony 1831

    Transportation for Felony 1831

    Essex Standard, Saturday, 19 November, 1831 and Saturday, 3 December 1831
  • Wonderful Wivenhoe. A Short History Written for the 1951 Festival

    Wonderful Wivenhoe. A Short History Written for the 1951 Festival

    Compiled by members of the Wivenhoe Branch of the Workers Educational Association, Essex Telegraph Press, 1951, 12 pp, (Essex County Libraries E.WIV)
Events
  • A Large Foreign Hog 1772
  • Cock Fight at the Falcon: 10 Guineas a Battle or 100 Guineas the Odd Battle 1727
  • Eleven Hundred Sick and Wounded Soldiers from the Continent to Arrive at Wivenhoe 1795
  • Queen Victoria's Jubilee 1887
  • Strange News from the Deep
  • Suspension of Business and Supply of Coal due to Frost 1799
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