Rectory To Big
The Rev. E. B. Rees, M.C., rector of Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount, has moved from his 28-roomed rectory to a former gardener’s cottage, because of heavy expense.
Essex Newsman 3 September 1948
Dawn Search Caught Two
By dawn to-day squads of police using torches and co-ordinated by wireless had recaptured two of the three good conduct prisoners who escaped from the prison without bars at Theydon Mount.
They were Harold Pryte and Jack Josephs. Pryte was recaptured when police closed in on a copse near Epping just before midnight. He was serving a two-year sentence for theft. Josephs, who was caught later, was sentenced for shopbreaking and theft.
Police and wood choppers were watching copses and thickets for the third man, William Henry King, in prison for receiving, was continued by daylight.
They had originaly been in Chemsford Gaol, but had become members of the working party at Epping because of their good conduct.
Essex Newsman 5 April 1949
Parson Wins Bus Fight
After five years of agitation, a group of North Essex villages have persuaded London Transport to run a bus service from Epping to Toot Hill, near Ongar, through Theydon Mount and Stapleford Tawney.
Chief protagonist for the villagers has been the Rev. E. Bennett Rees, M.C., Rector of Stapleford Tawney and Councillor for Ongar Rural District.
He says he will ride in the first bus – scheduled to run tomorrow.
When the villagers started their own service, the Transport Commissioners stopped them.
Essex Newsman 29 August 1950.