Social & Christian Change

This panel is a storyline across the top, then follow the puddles to start again across the bottom. Look for the clever linking of the individual events.

• Congregationalist public school (1741).
• Baptist in Rayleigh (1797, Rev. James Pilkington).
• Methodism comes to Rochford via Leigh fishermen (c1820).
• Poor Law of 1835 led to Rochford Workhouse in 1837.
• James Banyard forms the Peculiar People (1837).
• Police Stations in Rayleigh & Rochford (1840).
• Hockley Spa (1842).
• Philip Benton from Sutton (c.1860s) – historian of the Rochford Hundred.
• Inspector Chase disturbing a sleeping 'dancing bear'.
• Women’s Suffrage disorder in Rayleigh (1912).
• Rayleigh Elim church dates to 1926.