Some Essex Closing Rings
This is the title of an
unpublished portfolio of photographs taken by Fred Brand and S E Lloyd, sent to
Revd. G Montagu Benton in 1935. In
February 2016 it was given to the Society by the family of the late Kenneth
Mabbitt and added to our archives pro tem (as S/LIB/9/51). Thirty-one items have been digitised, 29 of which are photographs of closing rings on Essex
church doors with a sketch showing measurements alongside. Frederick Joseph
Brand (1857-1939) had been a member of EAS since 1899. His obituary appeared in
TEAS n.s. 23, p192-195, in which Benton mentions his enthusiastic interest in
the topic. “He was engaged on this survey, which was nearing completion,
practically up to the outbreak of war”. He took many photographs on the Society’s
excursions and was “usually the last to regain his seat on the
motor-coach”. Stanley E Lloyd, of
Goodmayes, has been a member of EAS since 1923.
Examples here from Great Yeldham, Hempstead and Heybridge.
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