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Blue Plaque Unveiling
EARLS COLNE'S FIRST BLUE PLAQUE Wednesday 29th October 2025 Today, the Museum was pleased to unveil the first blue plaque to be erected in the Village, commemorating philanthropist Mary Gee. An invited guest list of over 70 people from around the county...
Marks Hall Memorial Walk
Museum Volunteer, Mark Claydon, has put together some pages of information for the walk. CLICK HERE to read. Marks Hall Memorial Walk (part of The Airfield Walk and Talk) Saturday 6th September We thank Marks Hall trustees for allowing us entry into the grounds of...
The Wreck Of The Maltings
Following on from John Stedman's OUT AND ABOUT tour of Upper Holt Street, Museum Volunteer, Mark Claydon, undertook some research on The Maltings In Upper Holt St and put together a document detailing some early history of the premises and the production process used...
July 2025 Newsletter
Museum Newsletter July 2025 The Museum is a registered charity established in 2024, and operates as a self funded organisation. Newsletter links: Out and About YouTube Channel
Visitors Book
We still have the same visitor book in the museum as when the museum started in March 2005. They made books to last in the ‘old days!’ Itself, now rightfully a heritage item but people are still signing in and they leave us some wonderful reviews. Here are a few...
Coggeshall Tambour Lace
If anyone has any examples of the lace or any equipment or documentation relating to it, I would be delighted to see them. 59 East Street, Coggeshall CO6 1SJ 01376 564443 sara.impey@gmail.comCoggeshall Tambour Lace Sara Impey I'm currently researching...
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VE DAY
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VE DAY In less than a month, the Nation will be celebrating VEDay80 - the 80th anniversary celebrating the end of WW2 - this is an informative link to understand what VE Day meant to our parents/grandparents after 5 years of War, and how...
Museum Newsletter June 2025
Museum Newsletter June 2025 The Museum is a registered charity established in 2024, and operates as a self funded organisation. Newsletter links: Out and About YouTube Channel
ECHM @ The Library
ECHM @ The Library As well as the museum being open on Wednesdays and weekends, Now, ECHM will be at Earls Colne Library in the High Street on Fridays, where we will have some of our reference books available for the public to peruse for research etc. John Stedman,...
The Rosemary Britten Story
Operation Varsity March 24th 1945 – the “last drop” – the largest single airborne operation that the world has ever seen – over 16000 men leaving from multiple airfields in Essex to cross the River Rhine with the air element...
ECHM is at RAF Rivenhall
The museum was very pleased to support the Varsity80 event on Sunday 23rd March 2025 event at RAF Rivenhall History with a retelling of the Rosemary Britten story - the only woman to fly on operation Varsity, it was so well appreciated that it had to be repeated in...
MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER MARCH 2025 By 1945, The USAAF had left the Earls Colne airfield & Marks Hall HQ - so the RAF moved in…. Operation Varsity - 24th March 1945 - the "last drop" - the largest single airborne operation that the world has ever seen - over 16000 men leaving...
HOW TO FIND US
Travelling from the West (Halstead):
About 100 yards past the Zebra Crossing,
take the first right into Massingham Drive
keep on this road and the museum is on your left.
Travelling from the east via Earls Colne High Street:
Take the second left after the Zebra Crossing into Massingham Drive,
keep on this road and the museum is on your left.
On a lamppost opposite the turn into Massingham Drive
is a small brown sign pointing to the museum.