Brainstorming

Essex traditions:

1) Traditional church architecture( Norman effected)

2) Apple festival (South Essex gardeners celebrate)

3) Harlow sculptures ( collection of nation)

4) Essex country cricket (since 1876)

5) Essex traditional flag (with 3 knifes)

6) Essex traditional skipper (discovered in 1888 in Essex)

Victoria and Albert museum

http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/adult_resources/memory_maps/database/index.html

7) Baby's grown dress (hand knitted in cotton threads Essex 1851)

8) Linen (embroidered with silk in cross 1704 Ipswich, Essex)

9) Furnishing fabric (made in Braintree, Essex , the biggest manufacture of silk)

10) Porcelain teapot with famous essex family coat of arms ( In 18 century was famous to order porcelain from China and make own initials)

11) Wallpaper (Colchester, Essex) a copy of Chinese wallpaper

12) Vase (1959) studio in Essex Ian Auld made stoneware ornamented with applied moulded seals.

13) Wooden oak panel (1500-1530) covered the walls of a room in the Abbey House, Waltham Abbey, Essex.