Essex Events

Essex has a long and interesting history, during which it has enjoyed more than its fair share of momentous events. This book deals with floods, fires, rail disasters, shipwrecks, air crashes, road accidents, wars, crimes and even earthquakes - all illustrated with a host of brilliant engravings and photographs. The Siege of Colchester (1648), the Ulting balloon accident (1888), the wreck of the Princess Alice (1878), the Great Essex Earthquake (1884), the 'Black Monday' floods (1897), the day the sea froze off Southend (1905), the Witham rail disaster (1905), the 'Great Tide' (1953), the great freeze (1962-3), the 'hurricane' (1987) and the First & Second World Wars are amongst the many occasions featured. All have a place in history as momentous Essex Events.

	Number of pages: 114
	Number of illustrations: 163
	ISBN: 1 86077 101 7
	Publisher: Phillimore & Co Ltd Madam Green Farm Chichester West Sussex England PO20 2DD
	Publication date: September 1999
	Price: £14.99 but temporarily out of print
	Order direct from the publisher (see above) or their distributor, Marston Book Services, on 01235 465577

What the critics had to say about "Essex Events"

"Author Ian Yearsley comes up with the historical goods again with this collection of momentous events that have happened in Essex... A good spread of stories from across the county that will entertain and inform..."
Essex Countryside

"A book packed with fascinating information... Ian Yearsley is fast becoming one of the county's best-selling and best-known authors... and his latest work, Essex Events, is his most interesting yet..."
Leigh Times

"From floods to fires to foul deeds, a new book on catastrophe and disaster in the county has [our] reviewer... shuddering in his shoes... Many stirring pictures..."
Southend Evening Echo

"Well researched narrative... A gem of a book..."
Go!

"164 fascinating photographs... Vivid text... A real collector's item..."
Southend Times

"A fascinating account of Essex disasters..."
The Essex Protector

"A collection of the most dramatic happenings in Essex's rich history..."
Brentwood, Billericay & Havering Recorder

"Likely to appeal to a wide variety of readers..."
Dunmow Gazette

Some of the incidents you'll encounter in
"Essex Events"

The 'Black Monday' floods of November 1897, seen here affecting Earls Colne where a boat can row across a road.	Road, rail, sea and air disasters, from the 1880s to the 1960s, including the Colchester railway disaster of 1913.	The effects of war, ranging from the Civil War to the Second World War, including the Maldon bombing of 1915.

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