BBC Essex - Secret Essex

When Dovercourt said Hi-de-Hi! campers

What was it like living on the real Essex holiday camp where Hi-de-Hi! was filmed.

How top secret documents about the D-Day invasions were discovered in a Ford Escort.

In 1904, Goldhanger residents began a search for gold on an uninhabited Norwegian island.

Maldon grocer Edward Bright weighed an incredible 44 stone when he died in 1750.

Was the second wife of King Henry VIII buried in the village of East Horndon?

Was the door of Saint Botolph’s church in Hadstock covered with the skin of a Viking?

How Guglielmo Marconi and an Essex workforce changed the way we communicate forever.

Were the 17th century residents of Henham near Saffron Walden terrorised by a dragon?

Who were the four men who played a key role in creating Essex County Cricket Club?

It was the battle which led to the end of World War Two and Essex was on its front line.