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I OFTEN think about my late friend Ken Stubbings and his passion for Maldon’s history – particularly the heritage of our local pubs, past and present. His groundbreaking book Here’s Good Luck to the Pint Pot (Kelvin Brown Publications 1988) continues to be the best source on the subject. I remember him telling me that he found researching the principal inns – places like the Blue Boar, the White Horse, the King’s Head and the Swan – relatively easy. It was the smaller beer houses which created more of a challenge for him. That’s not surprising really, because some of the...

I OFTEN think about my late friend Ken Stubbings and his passion for Maldon’s history – particularly the heritage of our local pubs, past and present. His groundbreaking book Here’s Good Luck to the Pint Pot (Kelvin Brown Publications 1988) continues to be the best source on the subject. I remember him telling me that he found researching the principal inns – places like the Blue Boar, the White Horse, the King’s Head and the Swan – relatively easy. It was the smaller beer houses which created more of a challenge for him. That’s not surprising really, because some of the...

A FOUR-month-old baby boy from Iver had an incredible escape in 1986 when his mother’s car crashed on the M4, catapulting him out of the vehicle at 70-mph. Tiny Sam Morris was thrown out of the broken window during the impact and he bounced 30 yards across the motorway, down a 15-foot roadside embankment. His mother Gillian told the Observer: “After the crash, I looked round and saw Sam had gone from his carrycot, and I panicked, passers-by stopped and helped me from my car, all I could think of was “where’s my baby?” Amazingly little Sam had bounced nearly 50 feet, but only...