Welcome to this brand new website for Burnham-on-Crouch and the Dengie Hundred community. The site is so new, that I haven’t quite made up my mind what to do with it.

I know one thing for sure. The site is going to contain as much detailed and up-to-date information as possible for the town and the surrounding villages. The best way to do this is to source feeds and content from other providers such as The BBC, Network Rail, Weather.com and the likes, and bring these into one place specifically for Burnham.

So, does that mean this website is going to be a ‘Mashup’ then and what is a ‘Mashup’ whilst we are on the subject?

Well, a Mashup combines data and content from more than one source into a single integrated  website, and yes I think this site is a mashup as it grows by adding interactive content such as polls to gauge local opinion on subject matters close to the heart of the community and the like. I could go on with more ideas that I’m having (even as I type this introduction), but for now let’s start small.

Over the coming weeks I will be adding extra pages, posts and elements to the site, so keep coming back to see how I’m doing. For now take a look around the homepage (it updates itself every minute) to get an idea on how the site will grow in the not too distance future.

Oh, and before anyone starts asking about copyrighting and licensing fees, it is worth noting that this site is run as a hobby. It is not for profit and no monies are made from the site’s content. Any articles, imagery or text content will be acknowledged should the source be external to this website.

However, I do reserve the right to add advertising on the site should the time come.

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The building at Stow Maries near South Woodham Ferrers contained hay and 30 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, which have been lost.

Six pumps attended the incident early on Saturday 19th July with crews also using a nearby open water source.

The barn has been severely damaged and was 80% alight when firefighters arrived, a fire service spokesman said.

The River Crouch will become a stage this weekend.

In the absence of RIVERfest, the RiverRats are taking to the water to celebrate music in Burnham on Saturday July 5. They will be sailing aboard Maverick, a fishing and work boat owned and piloted by Crouch waterman Harry Lymer.

Pete Crisp (lead guitar), Warren Hallam (vocals) and Paul Lester (drums) make up the band who are so named because of the rat-infested raft they used when they first performed live rock music from the River Crouch in 2000.

Supported by Saint FM, they will be performing pop and rock classics as the Maverick navigates up and down the Burnham waterfront, playing to both local residents and tourists.

Weather permitting they will set sail at around 1pm and play until just after high tide at 3pm.

Source: Maldon and Burnham Standard | Written by Lauren Hockney

12 Jul 2008 

St. Marys Church Burnham on Crouch will be holding their Open Garden Afternoon on Saturday 12th July from 2pm-6pm. Programs will be available from the Church Car Park or any participating garden on the day, priced at £3, accompanied children free. There will be refreshments, plants for sale & stalls with books, handmade greetings cards & Home made Preserves. Sorry No dogs.

When
14:00 - 18:00
One day only

Where
Start at St Marys Church
St Marys Church, Church Road, Burnham-on-Crouch 
Burnham on Crouch
CM0 8DA

Event contact details
Telephone: 01621 783114
Email: lindatamarisk@aol.com

Price
£3 inclusive for all gardens, children free

I have added a couple of extra features to the site..

First is a VOTING button which has been applied to all articles displayed on the site. Now where you see the VOTE link at the bottom of the article you can indicate how you feel about it by clicking the VOTE link. The more votes for an article, then the more popular that article becomes and I know where to focus the site’s focus on.

Secondly, I’ve added Social Bookmarking links to each article. This allows you to post the article link directly to a number of social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon and Reddit.

Burnham Sailing Club held the annual pursuit race on Wednesday evening in three sections, the cruisers, the sports boats and the juniors.

The idea is that the boats are sent off in order of their handicap and the one that is in the lead at the finish time (8.15pm) will be the winner.

The first boat away was Zipper at 6.20, although she was overtaken by some of the Hunter 707 fleets (part of the sports boat section) she was still in the lead at the allotted finishing time and thus won the race.

John Lewis in Baby Beluga had a very fast race and was ahead by a wide margin as the finish signal was sounded.

The top mark was Canewdon, with a circle around the buoys near Bridgemarsh Island, back to Fairway no. 7 and then up to no. 13, and then ever decreasing circles which meant that the finish was in sight of the race box.

The breeze was gusty and several boats were broaching - one hunter 707 did a complete 180 degree turn as a large gust hit with the spinnaker flying.

Ben Harden in a laser 4.7 was the winner in the junior fleet.

Sunday was due to be the Commodores cruise from the Burnham Sailing Club but the gale force conditions meant the event had to be cancelled.

BSC club president and lifelong member of Burnham’s sailing community Bob Cole celebrated his 95th birthday at the club this weekend so very happy birthday to him from the Crouch Log.

l The Royal Corinthian One Design class held a regatta for the class this weekend starting with a race on Friday, two on Saturday and one planner for Sunday.

The class has taken delivery of two restored boats: Coralie, which has spent the last four years in Lowestoft at the boat building school and Corella finished to an extremely high specification by Rice and Coles, with Nick Oliver now in partnership with the boats owner Vic Maller who has had her since 1972. The boats were on display along with Cormorant which was willed to the class by her owner Ken Bushel who sadly died earlier this year. He had painted her orange - the colour of a cormorant’s feet and beak.

Sunday blew far too hard for any boats to go out so the weekend was based on three races. Bob Melville, veteran of several different fleets on the river and who has been sailing on the Crouch for around 75 years, was sailing his boat Corinna and won two of the three races. Class captain John Heathfield, instigator of the current restoration programme, snatched a win in Corpo Santo on Saturday morning. The racing was so keen that there needed to be a general recall on what turned out to be the final race on Saturday afternoon. Anyone who is interested in joining the class can telephone the RCYC on 01621 782105.

Saturday, although rather grey, had a perfect force three breeze for the regular sailing in the afternoon. Although several of the Squib class have now gone to the National Championships in Lowestoft, there were still eight on the line in the afternoon - Tombo, Bill Jones finished in the top slot.

The boats went round Redward and up the Roach with a run back down to Coleward before dropping the spinnakers to get in shore for the reach back to the finish line. In the RBODs, Jade, Martin Smith, had built up a big lead on the others after the tidal gate at the Roach buoy but a navigational error found her heading for the wrong mark whilst those behind kept their kites filled to Coleward, this gave the lead to Annette and Jade managed a second. An unfortunately incident had a crewman on an RBOD requiring hospital treatment, but the efficiency of all the personnel involved had an ambulance waiting at the RCYC ready to take him as soon as he came ashore.

The HDRC had the third race of their second summer series on Tuesday evening with nine competitors taking part in the 12 race evening. Phil Newman won by three points from Pete Hutchings. Both were well ahead of third placed Neil Fulcher. Pete Hutching is currently leading the series by one point.

Source: Maldon and Burnham Standard

Burnham Town Council agreed to pay for one session a week from the Essex County Council Youth Bus.

The £480 at £80 a session will mean youngsters can enjoy the cafe, internet, music and other entertainment provided by the bus each Friday during the summer holidays.

Source: Maldon and Burnham Standard | Written by Adam Cornell

Burnham Week 2008 will soon be upon us. For more information on this event visit the official Burnham Week website at http://www.burnhamweek.org.uk. 

With absolutely nothing to do with this year’s Burnham week, I’ve inserted this video as it’s the only sailing reference to Burnham that I could find on YouTube.

Back and determined to make more money and get more people involved than last year, depending on your viewpoint, Burnham welcomes it’s 3rd Annual Pub Crawl!

This year’s Summer theme is going to be MOVIE STARS & CHARACTERS.

In tradition the crawl will start at 4pm in The Railway Inn on Saturday July 12th, Station Rd, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.

So far, in the previous two Burnham-on-Crouch crawls,  over £850 has been raised for The Samaritans Organisation. The past two events have had about 100 different participants and it is intended to keep this up every year, so if you haven’t made your debut yet now is the time to do so!!!

Source: http://www.b-o-c-pubcrawl.co.uk

Saturday’s race, for the Jane’s Cup, started in a solid northerly breeze of 15kts. All three classes started cleanly for the spinnaker reach out of the Crouch. Spinnaker’s soon gave way to headsails as boats came closer to the wind on leaving the river before setting again for the predominantly downwind race.

The wind continued to blow throughout the race, unfortunately accompanied by rain at frequent intervals. Only on the final leg, up the Medway to the finish, did the wind drop as a result of shelter from the docks.

Overall, S, J & R Galloway’s Elan 40 Titian won class 2 and overall. In class 3, Bob Fawkes’ Carter 37 Tigo IV and Tony & Chuffy Merewether’s Sunfast 32 Amazon enjoyed an engaging tussle, with Tigo IV just taking 2nd overall and class 3 with Amazon placing 3rd overall. Stan Fenton’s J122 Jedi Knight won class 1 and came 5th overall.

Source: yachtsandyachting.com | Written by Tim Cross