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Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.Basildon &ndash; Birthplace of Essex Man | Basildon Welcome to Bas Vegas | 10 Depeche Who? | Basildon &lsquo;Leave in Silence&rsquo; | 12 Weirdness at Wat Tyler | Basildon Pleasant, and not too revolting | 14 Essex&rsquo;s Noisiest Church | Bowers Gifford Stop the service, there&rsquo;s a train! | 16 Gant Around Braintree | Braintree A mess of pottage | 18 Silver End Model Village | Braintree When I&rsquo;m making windows | 20 Kelvedon Hatch Bunker | Brentwood Your air is beautiful tonight &ndash; atomic | 22 TOWIE&rsquo;s Sugar Hut | Brentwood Surely there must be another way for Essex? | 24 Tiles of the Shipwrecked | Brightlingsea Tributes to the sank of cinque | 26 The Hostage Windows | Broxted Stained glass celebrates freedom from captivity | 28 Le Corbusier-Styled Yacht Club | Burnham-on-Crouch Towards a new architecture | 30 Art Deco Island Icon | Canvey Island Mighty modernist masterpiece | 32 The Chassidim of Canvey | Canvey Island Be fruitful and multiply | 34 Dr Feelgood&rsquo;s Surgery | Canvey Island They did it right | 36 Dutch Cottages of 1618 | Canvey Island Nether nether land | 38 Last Degaussing Station | Canvey Island Still in the loop | 40 Lobster Smack | Canvey Island Smuggle yourself inside | 42 Graham Gooch to Bat | Chelmsford Still not out | 44 Oldest Wireless Factory | Chelmsford Radio, Live Transmission | 46 Dickens&rsquo; Maypole Pub | Chigwell Sheesh, it&rsquo;s now a kebab joint! | 48 House on Legs | Clacton On our block, all of the guys call her flamingo | 50 Jaywick Shanty Town | Clacton Forlorn and forgotten | 52 Martello Tower Art Centre | Clacton Art attack is the best form of defence | 54 Balkerne Gate | Colchester Entrance to England&rsquo;s longest Roman town wall | 56 Uni of the Hard Left | Colchester Say you want a revolution | 58 The Witchfinder&rsquo;s Castle | Colchester Heads, you lose. Tales, he wins | 60 Constable Country Most arresting views | 62 Crashed Plane Memorial | Dengie Peninsula It&rsquo;s got its nose to the ground | 64 Lonely Church by the Sea | Dengie Peninsula On this wall I will build my church | 66 Petrified Forest at Furze | Dengie Peninsula It&rsquo;s coming, it&rsquo;s in the trees! | 68 Crass&rsquo; Country Commune | Epping Forest How does it feel&hellip;? | 70 Cricket on Top of the M25 | Epping Forest Just don&rsquo;t hit a six | 72 The Gilwell Oak | Epping Forest Be prepared for this scouts&rsquo; honour of a tree | 74 Pole Hill Meridian Marker | Epping Forest It divides the country, not just the forest | 76 Woody Den for the Famous | Epping Forest And it&rsquo;s good old country comfort | 78 Billy Bragg&rsquo;s A 13 | Essex Route 666 | 80 Peasants&rsquo; Revolt Memorial | Fobbing Wat a time to march on London | 82 The Broomway | Foulness Island Britain&rsquo;s deadliest path | 84 Fancy Frinton Beach Huts | Frinton-on-Sea So posh even the dog poo smells sweet | 86 Sunshine Homes by the Sea | Frinton-on-Sea Utopia nearly realised | 88 The Council House Palace | Great Dunmow In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome&hellip; | 90 Royalty&rsquo;s Abandoned Fort | Hadleigh Castle near the sand | 92 The Salvation Army Farm | Hadleigh &lsquo;Salvation &agrave; la mode and a cup of tea&rsquo; | 94 Harlow &ndash; Sculpture Town | Harlow Where the whole town is a museum of stone | 96 The Lawn | Harlow Britain&rsquo;s first residential tower block | 98 Anti-Invasion Fort | Harwich They fought long to save the fortress and the port | 100 Mayflower Captain&rsquo;s House | Harwich Pilgrims, strangers sailing from a wearisome land | 102 The Curiosity Cabinet | Leigh-on-Sea Readers of a squeamish disposition look away now | 104 Lee Brilleaux Bench | Leigh-on-Sea You got me on milk and alcohol | 106 Old Leigh Fish Stalls | Leigh-on-Sea What&rsquo;s your poisson? | 108 Two Tree Island | Leigh-on-Sea First there is a tree then another, yes there is | 110 The Bible Murals Church | Little Braxted &lsquo;Overlay the walls with gold and graved cherubims&rsquo; | 112 The PitStop | Little Hallingbury Oi! Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss? | 114 Zeppelin Village | Little Wigborough What was and should never have been | 116 Simon Beck&rsquo;s Slag Heap | London Essex, Beckton Apr&egrave;s ski, le d&eacute;luge | 118 Biggest UK Council Estate | London Essex, Becontree Ennui east of the East End | 120 Ford&rsquo;s | London Essex, Dagenham &lsquo;Any color so long as it is black&rsquo; | 122 Itchycoo Park | London Essex, Gants Hill It&rsquo;s all too beautiful | 124 Tube Tunnel Plane Factory | London Essex, Gants Hill Airtight manufactory | 126 The IRA Man&rsquo;s Church | London Essex, Leytonstone &lsquo;We Ourselves&rsquo; | 128 No Motorway Protest Road | London Essex, Leytonstone Just a slip of a road | 130 The Station to Nowhere | London Essex, North Woolwich A bit of Essex in Kent, or the other way round? | 132 The Thames Barrier | London Essex, Silvertown Before the Flood | 134 Boleyn Tavern | London Essex, Upton Park Not Anne Boleyn&rsquo;s local | 136 The Doctor Who Shop | London Essex, Upton Park It&rsquo;s like the Tardis in there | 138 World Champions | London Essex, Upton Park Fake Jules Rimet still gleaming | 140 The Ruined Village Green | London Essex, Wanstead Going back to its roots | 142 Anti-Air War Memorial | London Essex, Woodford Air war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing | 144 Churchill Usually Defaced | London Essex, Woodford We will wipe the graffiti. We will never surrender | 146 The Gypsy Stone | London Essex, Woodford Gypsies, champs and leaves | 148 Magnificent Maldon | Maldon Worth its salt | 150 Oldest UK Battlefield | Maldon Byrhtnoth the Vanquished | 152 A House for Essex | Manningtree Fairy eccentric | 154 The Manningtree Tree | Manningtree Old Knobbley | 156 Twin Towers of Mistley | Manningtree Didn&rsquo;t there used to be a church here? | 158 Shakespeare Tempest Isle | Mersea Island Such stuff as dreams are not made on | 160 Greensted-juxta-Ongar | Ongar UK&rsquo;s oldest wooden church | 162 Most Obscure Tube Station | Ongar &lsquo;Theydon Bois on guitar&rsquo; | 164 Bull&rsquo;s Folly | Pentlow Mum and dad: is this right? | 166 Keith Flint&rsquo;s Pub | Pleshey Mine&rsquo;s a firestarter! | 168 The Pink Toothbrush | Rayleigh &lsquo;I&rsquo;m a pink toothbrush, you&rsquo;re a blue toothbrush&rsquo; | 170 Osea Island | River Blackwater Exclusively yours | 172 Georgia Founder&rsquo;s Grave | Romford, Cranham An old stone vault that keeps Georgia on our minds | 174 Air Control Tower Des Res | Saffron Walden Not such a plane property | 176 Temple of Concord | Saffron Walden Arrive before you leave | 178 Town of Mazes | Saffron Walden No need for a labyrinth when the universe is one | 180 Ministry of Defence Beach | Shoeburyness Danger of death &ndash; really! | 182 Port of London Marker | Southend-on-Sea That&rsquo;s your limit! | 184 Surviving Mulberry Harbour | Southend-on-Sea Beware &ndash; World War II hardware in the sea | 186 Three Clocks o&rsquo;Clock | Southend-on-Sea Maybe better to ask a policeman | 188 Town to City &ndash; at last! | Southend-on-Sea It took a tragedy | 190 World&rsquo;s Longest Pier | Southend-on-Sea Peerless | 192 Ancient Aerodrome | Stow Maries We have clearance, Clarence | 194 The Cathedral of Essex | Thaxted For St John the Baptist, St Mary and St Laurence | 196 Thaxted Guildhall | Thaxted Medieval masterpiece and Morris Men | 198 Grave of Jack the Ripper? | Thorpe-le-Soken The sceptre shan&rsquo;t depart from Judah until Shiloh | 200 Amazon&rsquo;s Depot | Tilbury Deliver yourself to their door | 202 Bata-Ville Shoe City | Tilbury The sole of Tilbury | 204 Empire Windrush Landing Point | Tilbury This is my country | 206 Tilbury Docks | Tilbury &lsquo;By Thames to All People of the World&rsquo; | 208 Tilbury Fort | Tilbury Redoubtable repellent | 210 Wells Coates Sunspan Home | Tilbury Pick it up and take it away with you | 212 Layer Marney Tower | Tiptree Tallest Tudor turrets | 214 Tiptree Jam Museum | Tiptree Jam today &ndash; and tomorrow | 216 Remains of the Old Abbey | Waltham Abbey Bring in the body | 218 Ring Out Wild Bells | Waltham Abbey In Memoriam | 220 Royal Gunpowder Mills | Waltham Abbey A most explosive entity | 222 Naze Tower | Walton-on-the-Naze On the naze | 224 Secret Water | Walton-on-the-Naze Arthur Ransome&rsquo;s children&rsquo;s classic | 226 The Chapel in the Mall | West Thurrock Shop &rsquo;til you drop on your knees | 228 Church of Gareth&rsquo;s Burial | West Thurrock No weddings but a funeral | 230"}