Dr Burghart's History Notes

I was honoured to take part in the very well attended Holocaust Remembrance Service at Hutton and Shenfield Union Church at the weekend.

If ever there was a season for the ringing of bells, this is it. The bellringers of this constituency are a keen and busy bunch.

As anyone who has looked at my website (www.alexburghart.org.uk) or social media feeds know, I take great delight in the history surrounding us in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency, and will always take time to visit village churches and graveyards

Essex Day

The feast of St Cedd, who preached to the apostate East Saxons and who died of plague on this day in 664.
Raised on Lindisfarne by Aidan, he is the patron saint of Essex.

As a historian, I take every opportunity I can to visit and find out more about local places of historic interest, and I am now compiling them on my website in ‘Dr Burghart’s History Notes’  (https://www.alexburghart.o

I am delighted the glorious architecture of Brentwood Cathedral has been listed at Grade II* by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice of Historic England.

Essex Day, which is celebrated on the Feast of St Cedd, has been marked by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Rt. Hon. Michael Gove, in London today with the Essex county flag flying outside his Department's headquarters on Marsham Street.

As children break up for the summer holidays, and the weather, occasionally, brightens up to toast us and our gardens, thoughts turn to travel and time away from home.

It’s difficult to get a good picture of the historic vista of the Palace of Westminster from any angle at the moment, with the building covered in swathes of plastic sheeting on scaffold frames.

Villagers from West Horndon will gather tomorrow (Saturday 21st September) for its commemoration and thanksgiving service paying tribute to the American aircrewmen who died when two B17 bombers crashed over the village in 1943.