The Essex HMVA
Annual Show
After a number of successful previous years at Tilbury Fort, English Heritage were unable to allow us to continue to host our show there due to the deteriorating condition of the Fort and their desire to preserve the site for future generations. After a short period of moving venues, we held our first small scale Essex MVT area show in 2006 at Damyns Hall with just a dozen vehicles . Towards the end of 2013, we chose to run this event under our own management. To secure the future success of further shows and to enhance our public benefit, wew formed a not for profit charity called the Essex Historic Military Vehicle Assosciation early in 2014 that focused on its members as well as broadening the scope from just military vehicles to include military artefacts and heritage.
The show gained in popularity and size, playing host to over 300 vehicles with in excess of 10,000 visitors and participants. This gave us the opportunity to show the public our vehicles, living history displays and what we do for our community. We took the decision to change the event name to "Echoes of History" where we could take the best bits of many previous shows, merging them into what we hope would become fantastic future events, allowing us the opportunity to promote multi-period living history as well as military history throughout the ages and of course the historic military vehicles that are so much of a special feature of our show.
After many years of successful events, and a pause due to the effects of the Covid19 outbreak. we resumed our show cautiously back in 2021, in 2025, we are looking forwards to welcoming you back once again to our site in Rettendon, which is home to the Living Memorial - what better way to remember and educate future generations by holding our event at this fantastic site. The site also has much historic interest, with the GQH line, which was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. Maldon and the surrounding area was one of the objectives for the Germans during the planned invasion so this was to be right on the front line of Britain's defences.
The Echoes of History show offers exhibits from many periods of history, ranging from lighthearted events to more serious displays. Since 1606, when the first ships set sail for the New World from ports on the edge of Essex, the US has remained connected to the county through to thousands of soldiers waiting to head off for the D Day invasion. So come and see those from the "Wild West" to the D Day invasion troops as well many other countries as well as Britain. With arena events, music and other entertainment it is the show not to be missed. A great way to spend the day or weekend!
The event continues to be run on a charitable basis by a team of unpaid volunteers, with profits going to support the Essex HMVA Charity as well as other good causes. Monies raised from this main fundraising event goes to help keep our military history alive and allows us to run other free events and offer visits to schools and other local groups.
You can be added to our show e-newsletter here: subscribe to our e-newsletter
You can visit our show website at: https://www.echoesofhistoryshow.com
The show gained in popularity and size, playing host to over 300 vehicles with in excess of 10,000 visitors and participants. This gave us the opportunity to show the public our vehicles, living history displays and what we do for our community. We took the decision to change the event name to "Echoes of History" where we could take the best bits of many previous shows, merging them into what we hope would become fantastic future events, allowing us the opportunity to promote multi-period living history as well as military history throughout the ages and of course the historic military vehicles that are so much of a special feature of our show.
After many years of successful events, and a pause due to the effects of the Covid19 outbreak. we resumed our show cautiously back in 2021, in 2025, we are looking forwards to welcoming you back once again to our site in Rettendon, which is home to the Living Memorial - what better way to remember and educate future generations by holding our event at this fantastic site. The site also has much historic interest, with the GQH line, which was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. Maldon and the surrounding area was one of the objectives for the Germans during the planned invasion so this was to be right on the front line of Britain's defences.
The Echoes of History show offers exhibits from many periods of history, ranging from lighthearted events to more serious displays. Since 1606, when the first ships set sail for the New World from ports on the edge of Essex, the US has remained connected to the county through to thousands of soldiers waiting to head off for the D Day invasion. So come and see those from the "Wild West" to the D Day invasion troops as well many other countries as well as Britain. With arena events, music and other entertainment it is the show not to be missed. A great way to spend the day or weekend!
The event continues to be run on a charitable basis by a team of unpaid volunteers, with profits going to support the Essex HMVA Charity as well as other good causes. Monies raised from this main fundraising event goes to help keep our military history alive and allows us to run other free events and offer visits to schools and other local groups.
You can be added to our show e-newsletter here: subscribe to our e-newsletter
You can visit our show website at: https://www.echoesofhistoryshow.com
