THE modern history of the Dengie 100 will be explained in detail at an on screen memories event next month.

Burnham-based postcard historian Michael Head, of Glebe Way, will be taking guests through the last 120 years of life in the peninsula, its 18 villages and two towns.

The visual slideshow along with commentary and analysis from Mr Head will feature many lost and surviving aspects of life in the Dengie, including all the lost shops and schools and those still going strong today, and will also document the very early days of the farming of the land from the Victorian era right up to the present day.

A new addition to this talk will be many different character stories from individuals embedded into the various Dengie communities of the 20th century, including village doctors and nurses, and hardworking farmers and school teachers.

Pieces of history will include the Steeple School, one of the peninsula’s lost centres which closed down 50 years ago.

The village of Dengie will be explored in details, including its only village shop “Mazawattee Tea”, which closed 60 years ago, and the hunt and other events at The White Horse pub, which is also closed down.

The presentation aims to summarise how the communities of the Dengie worked, rested and played over the course of time with developing technologies.

Michael Head has presented many history talks about the Dengie in previous years, with this latest session along with his previous talks about Churchill’s Secret Army being a part of his “Dengie and Local Villages – The last 100 years” series, chronicling the last century of highs and lows of the district’s past.

Mr Head’s talk will take place on Wednesday October 11 at 7.30pm at Dengie Village Hall.

There will be refreshments available, with entry costing £5 per person.

Archive pictures and postcards will be displayed during the presentation.

All proceeds from the event will be going towards the funding of the Burnham and District Museum of History.

Call 01621 783456.