The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this week was something which is often referred to as “ESSEX GOLD”. It read more

For her first delve into the past for a new decade, Margaret Mills took a peak at how the 14th read more

For this week’s feature, Margaret Mills looked at why a new town development planned for Mistley in 1760 never happened. read more

On today’s feature, Margaret Mills looked back at a number of “firsts” recorded by the Essex town of Great Dunmow. read more

  Being a Tuesday, I was joined as usual by Margaret Mills who’s subject today was a pair of Essex read more

    For her chosen subject this week, Margaret Mills took us back to a very cold and snowy Billericay read more

  The subject chosen today by Margaret Mills NEWPORT SCHOOL that was founded by a remarkable woman, Dame Joyce Frankland read more

This week Margaret Mills looked back at the life and times of a renowned clergyman from Ongar. A pupil of read more

For today’s historical feature MARGARET MILLS turned her attention to CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON, a 19th century preacher from Kelvedon who read more

For a second week, Margaret Mills returned to Thaxted to tell us more about the Cutler industry for which the read more

  Margaret Mills took us back today to the days when Thaxted was renowned for the cutlery industry. If you read more

    On today’s programme, Margaret Mills took us up the road to Blackmore to learn about a woman named read more

  Margaret Mills introduced us today to a landscape gardener named Humphry Repton who used to live in Romford. One read more

I was joined again today by Margaret Mills who took as her subject this week, LOUGHTON HALL Listen again here read more

This week Margaret Mills conducted us on over to CLARENCE HOUSE – no not the one where CHARLES and CAMILLA currently read more

  Margaret Mills joined me again today and took as her subject this week, North Weald Bassett Airfield, that came read more

  The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this week was Abigail Mashon, a confidant of Queen Anne who lived for read more

The subject chosen today by Margaret Mills concerned a remarkable judge, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, who was born in Moulsham read more

For this week’s BYGONES feature, Margaret Mills looked back to the days when QUEEN ELIZABETH I spent time in  our read more

In this week’s feature Margaret Mills turned her attention to an outbreak of arson attacks which seemingly occurred on various read more