The subject chosen by Margaret Mils this week was THE DARBY DIGGER which was an item of agricultural machinery which read more

  This afternoon Margaret Mills turned the clock back to the days when smugglers used to operate widely in the read more

This week Margaret turned her attention onto the so-called PECULIAR PEOPLE, a religious group, who preached on the benefits derived read more

  Being a Tuesday, Margaret Mills took us back to the Essex village of GREAT BARDFIELD for a second week. read more

  For today’s feature, Margaret Mills took us on a trip to the Essex village of Great Bardfield to learn read more

The subject chosen by Margaret Mills today concerned a Methodist Minister from Rayleigh – and a suffragette. And no it’s read more

I was joined once more this afternoon by MARGARET MILLS, who related the story of First World War battalion, known read more

Being a Tuesday Margaret Mills was back with me and this week was looking at someone in trouble with the read more

Today’s feature concerned an unnamed old miser from High Ongar who died in 1854. Apparently he was a miller who read more

The topic chosen by Margaret Mills for her feature this week concerned an Essex postman, Samuel Wyatt, who in 1833 read more

For our Bygones feature today, Margaret Mills regaled the story of a near riot which ensued at one of the read more

The subject chosen today by Margaret Mills was Conrad Noel, the “red” vicar of Thaxted. He held the post there read more

This was the subject of this week’s feature chosen by Margaret Mills. So just what is THE DUNMOW FLITCH? Well read more

The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this week concerned the events resulting from Queen Victoria’s visit to Epping Forest. All she read more

The subject of today’s feature by Margaret Mills, concerned the Essex connection to the poet, John Clare. If you missed read more

The subject chosen by MARGARET MILLS this week concerned a reformatory school which was established at a farm house in read more

The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this week, was that of an 18th century medical pioneer from Chelmsford, Dr Benjamin read more

  The subject chosen by Margaret Mills this afternoon concerned a lady called Clarissa Bramston, who was married to a read more

  As usual on a Tuesday afternoon I was joined by Margaret Mills who today related the story of a read more

  For today’s look back at yesteryear, Margaret Mills related the story of LADY OLIVIA SPARROW, a lady who was a read more