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Bibliography

Below is a list of books about Silver End. Books highlighted in blue are available at Silver End Heritage Society

A brief History of Silver End

Author: Holden, Anne

Published by: in 2000
Very short, 3 pages.

A Sterling Idea

Author: Winspear, Jonathan

Published by: Essex Life and Countryside in 2006
Magazine article of Silver End with colour photographs

Deauville in Essex

Author: Lever, Jill

Published by: RIBAJ in 1979

Deco Mania

Author: Fisher, Kathy

Published by: Essex Chronical in 2003
Magazine article of Silver End and Frinton

Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Booklet 1929 – 1989

Author: Silver End School

Published by: in 1989

Experimental Cottages, Crittall and the English Modern Movement

Author: Thorogood, Ellen

Published by: in 2006
Extended dissertation for BA Hons.

Fifty Years of Silver End

Author: Scollan, Maureen

Published by: in 1976

Fifty Years of Work and Play

Author: Mr. & Mrs. F.H. Crittall

Published by: Constable & Co. in 1934

Minute book

Author: Silver End Community Council

Published by: in 1946 – 1960
Detailed minutes of monthly meetings

Mister Pink

Author: Carpenter, Robin

Published by: Essex County Council in 2007 – ISBN: 9781841940755
Legacy of W. F. Crittall

Modern Movement in Britain

Author: Powers, Alan

Published by: Merrell in 2005 – ISBN: 1 85894 255 1

Architectural book with excellent photograph and text (some of Silver End)

My Life, smilingly unravelled

Author: Crittall, Ariel

Published by: Braintree District Museum Trust in 2009 – ISBN: 978-0-9537936-3-1
Some references to S.E. many refs to Crittall family

Opening of Silver End Village Hall

Author: Silver End Development Company

Published by: Curwen Press in 1928

20 page souvenir booklet, images of Silver End and map.

Rivenhall Remembered in old photographs and captions

Author: Prime, C. K.

Published by: Mr C.K. Prime, 475 Rickstones Road, Rivenhall, Witham CM8 3HH in 1995 – ISBN: 0-9257079-0-x
Some references to S.E.

Silver End

Author: Thorogood, Ellen

Published by: 20th Century Society in 2007

Tour notes with photographs

Silver End 1926 – 1940: Creation of a Community

Author: Fierheller, E

Published by: Dept of Sociology, University of Essex (unpublished) in 1978
Unpublished dissertation

Silver End Beginnings

Author: Cleminson, A

Published by: Architectural Review in 1979
Vol 166 pp 302 – 304

Silver End Garden Village, 1926 – 1932

Author: Thurgood, G

Published by: The Thirties Society in 1982
Journal No 3 

Silver End Garden Village, Diamond Jubilee Edition

Author: Smith, Nicola

Published by: Privately in 1986

Silver End Memories

Author: De-Coverley, Carol

Published by: Carol De-Coverley, 6 Dowches Cottages, Kelvedon, CO5 9JE in 1996 – ISBN: 0-9528494-0-2
First hand recollections

Silver End Model Village for Crittall Manufacturing Co Ltd

Author: Crosby, Tony

Published by: Industrial Archaeology Review in 1998
Leaflet with photographs

Silver End The War Years

Author: Stait, Bruce

Published by: 8 Mornington Drive, Cheltenham GL53 0BH in 1995
First hand recollections and good bibliography, photographs

Silver End tour

Author: Unknown

Published by: 20th Century Society in 2001
Tour notes with photographs

Silver End, the making of an Essex village

Author: Mead, J

Published by: Dept of architecture: N.E. London Polytechnic (unpublished) in 1989
Unpublished thesis

Silver End, Garden Village – Past, Present and Future

Author: Banks, Natalie

Published by: in 2009
Major project for Masters degree an town planning.

Silver End, the Making of an Essex Village

Author: Mead, F. J.

Published by: in 1989
Written for the Department of Architecture for North East London Polytechnic.

Silver End: Voices from the Guv’nor’s Village

Author: King, Susam, MA

Published by: WEA Silver End Branch in 1996 – ISBN: 0-9528493-0-5
First hand recollections and good bibliography

Silver Lady / Thoroughly Modernist

Author: Parker, Pat

Published by: East Anglian Magazine in 2001
Two articles on Silver End Residents

The Modern House Today

Author: Dawe, Nick

Published by: Black Dog Publishing in 2001 – ISBN: 1 801033724
Photographs of Modernist houses in UK, including Silver End

The Story of Silver End

Author: Dyckhoff, Tom

Published by: The Guardian Newspaper in 2000
Magazine article with photographs

Thomas Tait and Silver End

Author: Tait, Clara

Published by: Unpublished dissertaition in 2007
Great granddaughter of Thomas Tait for “A” level

Villages of Vision

Author: Dareley, G

Published by: East Anglian Magazine in 1985
Vol 35, No 1

Window Vision, Crittall 1849 – 1989

Author: Blake, David J

Published by: Crittall Windows in 1989 – ISBN: 0-9515585-0-1
Story of the Crittall window empire, photographs

Witham, Kelvedon, Hatfield Peverel, Silver End and Rivenhall, pictorial history

Author: Marriage, John

Published by: Phillimore in 1995 – ISBN: 1 86077 000 2
Some references to S.E. Photographs