Dee Gordon - Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Southend-On-Sea

Thanks to Becky Latchford and Martyn Lockwood from the Essex Police Museum, Jenny Butler and Vanda Jeffrey from Essex Record Office, Pat Reynolds at Surrey Heritage, Dot Bedenham at Chelmsford Museum and everyone at the Rural Life Museum, Southend Central Library, and the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London. Not forgetting Mark Kimber, Pat Stone at Southend University Hospital, Peter Owen www.flickr.com and Richard Platt, writer, www.smuggling.co.uk for their help with photographs, Donna Lowe for her help with research, Judith Williams for her search tips, and Triple Knot www.pierrepoint.co.uk.

Southend rising from the mud in the nineteenth century. ( Authors Collection )

Beck, Maurice, Policing before Police Forces (Essex Police Museum, no date)

Benham, Hervey, The Smugglers Century (Essex Records Office, no. 94, 1986)

Benton, Philip, A History of Rochford Hundred (A. Harrington, 1867)

Calendar of Assize Records Essex Indictments: Elizabeth I (HMSO, 1978)

Calendar of Assize Records Essex Indictments: James I (HMSO, 1982)

Chisman, Norman M., Bygone Benfleet (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1991)

Church, Robert, Murder in East Anglia (Robert Hale, London, 1987)

Cloud, Yvonne (ed.), Beside the Seaside (Stanley Nott, London, 1934)

Cockburn, J.S. (ed.), Crime in England, 1550 1800 (Methuen, London, 1977)

Day, J.W., The James Wentworth Day Book of Essex (Egon Publishers, Letchworth, 1979)

Deary, Terry, The Measly Middle Ages (Scholastic, London, 1996)

Denney, Patrick, Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Colchester (Wharncliffe Books, Barnsley, 2005)

Emmison, F.G., Elizabethan Life: disorder (Essex County Council, 1970)

Evans, Stewart P., Executioner: the Chronicles of a Victorian Hangman (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2004)

Gardiner, Tom, Broomstick over Essex and East Anglia (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1981)

Goodman, Anthony, The Loyal Conspiracy (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1971)

Gordon, Dee, People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 2006)

Gray, Adrian, Crime and Criminals in Victorian Essex (Countryside Books, Newbury, 1988)

Greenblatt, Stephen (ed.), The Norton Shakespeare: Richard II (Norton & Co., London, 1997)

Grieve, Hilda, The Sleepers and the Shadows vol. 1 (Essex Record Office, 1988)

Guy, John, Medieval Life (Entertainment Ltd, 2003)

Hill, Marion, The Honeypot Killers (Next Century Books, Beds, 2000)

Hill, Tony, Guns and Gunners at Shoeburyness (Baron Books, Buckingham, 1999)

History of Prittlewell Priory (Southend Museum Publication no. 4, 1922)

Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History (Helicon Publishing, Oxford, 1995)

Jarvis, Stan, Essex Pride (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1984)

Jarvis, Stan, Smuggling in East Anglia, 1700 1840 (Countryside Books, Newbury, 1987)

Jarvis, Stan, Essex Murder Casebook (Countryside Books, Newbury, 1994)

Johnson, W.H., Essex Tales of Mystery and Murder (Countryside Books, Newbury, 2001)

Johnson, W.H., Essex Villains (Countryside Books, Newbury, 2004)

Keeble, N.H., Richard II by William Shakespeare York Notes (Advanced) (York Press, London, 1988)

Knights, Edward S., Essex Folk (Heath Cranton Ltd, London, 1935)

Latham, Robert, The Shorter Pepys (Bell & Hyman Ltd, London, 1986)

Lewis, Geoffrey, Behind the Walls (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1996)

Liddell, W.H. and Wood, R.G. (eds), Essex and the Peasants Revolt (Essex Record Office, no. 81, 1981)

Liddell, W.H. and Wood, R.G. (eds), Essex and the Great Revolt of 1381 (Essex Record Office, 1984)

Maple, Eric, The Dark World of Witches (Robert Hale, London, 1962)

Morgan, Glyn, Secret Essex (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1982)

Neale, Kenneth, Essex in History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1977)

Nichols, J.F., Southchurch Hall (The Public Library & Museum Committee Corporation, 1932)

Occomore, D., Curiosities of Essex (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1984)

Orford, Maureen, The Shoebury Story (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 2000)

Payne, Jessie, K., Southend on Sea, A Pictorial History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1985)

Payne, Jessie K., Ghost Hunters Guide to Essex (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1987)

Pearce, Marion, Milton, Chalkwell and the Crowstone (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 2000)

Pierrepoint, Albert, Executioner: Pierrepoint (Geo. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1974)

Pool, Daniel, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Robinson Publishing, London, 1998)

Priestley, Harold, Essex Crime and Criminals (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1986)

Priestley, H.E. and Phillips, W.T., A History of Benfleet (Castle Point District Council, 1977)

Roe, Fred, Essex Survivals (Methuen, London, 1929)

Samaha, Joel, Law and Order in Historical Perspective (Academic Press, New York, 1974)

Saul, Nigel, Richard II (Yale University Press, 1997)

Sharpe, J.A., Crime in Seventeenth-Century England (The Press Syndicate, Cambridge, 1983)

Sipple, Mavis, Titbits and Tales of Essex Inns (Brent Publications, 2001)

Sipple, Mavis, Rochford, A History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2004)

Smith, Ken, Canewdon: a pattern of life through the ages (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1987)

Storey, Neil R., Grim Almanac of Essex (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2005)

Stratmann, Linda, Essex Murders (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2004)

Torry, J.G., Chelmsford Prison (East Anglian Magazine Ltd, Ipswich, 1980)

Totterdell, G.H., Country Copper (Geo. Harrap, London, 1956)

Trevelyan, G.M., English Social History (Pelican Books, 1967)

Vingoe, Lesley, Hockley, Hullbridge and Hawkwell Past (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1999)

Ward, Jennifer C., The Essex Gentry & the County Community in the Fourteenth Century (Essex Record Office, 1991)

Williams, Judith, Leigh-on-Sea: A History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2002)

Williams, Judith, Shoeburyness, A History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2006)

Williams, Judith, Wickford: A History (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2006)

Winn, Christopher, I Never Knew that About England (Ebury Publishing, London, 2003)

Yearsley, Ian, Islands of Essex (Ian Henry Publications, Romford, 1994)

Yearsley, Ian, Hadleigh Past (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1998)

Yearsley, Ian, Essex Events (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 1999)

Yearsley, Ian, A History of Southend (Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2001)

Magazines, Newspapers and Journals

Too numerous to mention, but including copies of Essex Review, The Times, Essex Countryside and Southend Standard at Southend Central Library, Chelmsford Chronicle at Essex Record Office, and Illustrated Police New s and Essex Weekly News at the British Library, Colindale.