The Foxearth and District Local History Society
The Foxearth website (F&LDHS) has been around since 2003 and over the years has become pretty much the place to go for local historical information. Due to its generally low-key approach to promoting itself it is only those that go looking for information that will find it. I applaud this approach and try and take a similar stance myself. Like the F&DLHS website my websites have been around for a similar amount of time, the main difference here is that they are an incredible source of knowledge while I was only posting about things that interested me and was largely derivative. In addition my research into the history of the local area started in the 2020's.
For more information on the village of Foxearth, including the Historical account by Thomas Wright, please see my page on the village.
With my current website I hope to add some unique new information and have no intention in competting with the excellent efforts of sites such as F&DLHS. Combined with the resource that the Internet provides generally, largly through sites such as Google and Wikipedia I hope to add somethng myself. My photographs are mainly my own however I am reproducing some that I have found on the Internet along with some maps. It is not my intention to infringe on anyone's copyright and will remove anythng that the owner deems to be violating their rights.
January 28th 1852. - 1852-1853 Bury and Norwich Post newspaper archive
There are, at least, 2 more articles about the fatal accident involving Samuel William Raymond in the F&DLHS archive.
The statement that Samuel William Raymond was not interred in the family vault is inconsistant with the fact that his name features on the plaque in the church indicating who is interred in the family vault under the altar.
On a technical note
The F&DLHS website is not strictly Responsive. However, due to the layout of their pages (mostly text and few photographs) this does not present too much of a problem. The pages can be read on a Smartphome in landscape at a pinch.
Andrew Clark of MML Systems, the author and administrator of the Foxearth website. (Pentlow Mill, Pentlow, Essex) has done an amazing job with the F&DLHS website.