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| New book that aims to show what’s in a name | | 1:43pm Thursday 1st May 2008 | | With a new book detailing the fascinating and unusual place names in Essex, EDMUND TOBIN looked into the origins of some of the towns and
villages on the Guardian's patch.
VISITORS to Essex and its surrounding areas are often amazed by the diversity and strangeness of many of its place names. |
 | Casualty's Culpin was a local hero | | 1:01pm Wed 9 Apr 08 | | New BBC series Casualty 1907's main character Dr Culpin and his wife Ethel
originally lived in the Meads, a large, smart detached house in Church Hill, Loughton. |
 | ‘Chocks away’ for our ace of the skies | | 12:24pm Tue 8 Apr 08 | | On the 90th anniversary of the RAF, the Guardian was invited to join the youngmembers of the Woodford and Wanstead Air Cadets Squadron as they took their first ever flying lessons over the English countryside. Sam Adams reports. |
 | A century of pulling points | | 3:11pm Fri 4 Apr 08 | | THE first residents of Highams Park had to go a long way to get a pint and had to wait more than a decade before they could drink one in a local public house. |
 | From a pond to Forest haven | | 3:08pm Fri 4 Apr 08 | | CARVED out of the gravel and clay of Hollow Ponds, Whipps Cross Lido was the biggest swimming pool in Britain when it opened, in a blaze of publicity, in 1932. |
 | Digging up the past | | 2:50pm Fri 4 Apr 08 | | THIS year marks the Golden Jubilee of the West Essex Archaeological Group (WEAG) with the amateur society keen to show it is still very much active. |
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