Celebrating with a silver balloon with '50' on its front cover, the High Country History Group has reached a significant landmark in the production of the quarterly Journal for members. As usual it contains a wide range of items relating to the local history of Greensted, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Tawney, Theydon Mount and beyond. Contents this time include:
- An Appeal for Information: about a Mr Mugleston who took the tenancy of Littlebury Farm in Stanford Rivers in the 1870s
- Attack on a Constable
- 101 Uses of a Church Porch: Stanford Rivers South Porch use for "habitacion" in 1600
- Ongar Through The Centuries. 40 Little Known Facts: a booklet just published by the Ongar Millennium History Society
- Greensted and the Course of St Edmund's Translation: taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (New Series, Volume 10, 1907)
- The Diary of Anna Reeve of Stondon Massey, 1888
- Hill Hall and Copt Hall: taken from Memorials of Old Essex (published 1908)
- In Memoriam. Lewis Newcomen Prance: taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society ('New Series', Volume 13, 1913)
- Harriet Archer-Houblon: born 1812, Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon
- Coopersale: taken from Kelly's Directory 1933
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