Essex Life Magazine - June 2020

In this issue

Beautiful Essex
Essex Life readers share their views of the county.

Dame Nellie Sings
100 years since Chelmsford gave radio to the world..

HOPE AND HEALING

Denise Marshall talks to model and television personality Katie Piper about missing loved ones during lockdown and how we can put the pandemic into perspective and learn from it.

7 mins

Fabulous at 50

It is 50 years since the Dedham Vale was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. While celebrations may have been curtailed, could lockdown mean a brighter future for this landscape?

3 mins

SING BY ME

More used to singing for fun in Essex village halls, Andrew Small’s Essex amateur choir, the Buskerteers, has shot to fame after recording an online version of Ben E King’s Stand By Me in an effort to raise funds to support NHS workers. Nicky Adams tells the story

5 mins

The Joys Of Volunteering

June 1 to 7 marks Volunteers’ Week and there has never been a more appropriate time to celebrate and thank those that contribute so much in our county. Alison Dewar talks to six volunteers and hears how ‘giving back’ has also benefited them.

9 mins

Dame Nellie sings

This month marks the centenary of British radio broadcasting and nowhere will this celebration be most affectionately remembered than here in Essex

6 mins

Delivered to your door

Essex producers have quickly adapted to the diffiulties of lockdown by expanding their offer and delivering fresh produce direct to customers. Stephanie Mackentyre shares some of the success stories

6 mins

The gardens of Essex

With so many of us spending extra time in our gardens during lockdown, Essex Life asked readers to share what they have been doing in their gardens to demonstrate that Essex gardens really have never looked better

3 mins

Too good to miss

With gardens that would have been opening for the National Garden Scheme closed this summer, Essex Life decided there were some that were too good to miss, while the charities supported by NGS have never needed our help more

3 mins

ART of SURVIVAL

The lockdown has demonstrated just how much we value art. But art cannot be contained. Here, directors, curators and managers of our county’s leading art galleries and museums share their favourite artworks with you, currently hidden behind closed doors

7 mins

Rising to the challenge

How the agricultural industry is going above and beyond to keep the nation ticking over

2 mins

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Essex Life Magazine Description:

Essex Life magazine celebrates the very best aspects of life in this fabulous county – all wrapped up in a beautiful, monthly magazine. Each issue offers readers the chance to explore Essex with features on the county’s towns and villages plus interviews with the celebrities and most celebrated residents of Essex. After bringing news and views from the county for more than 55 years, Essex Life is well established as the favourite magazine in Essex.