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  • 1. Towards the railway bridge from The Broadway.
    1. Towards the railway bridge from The Broadway.
  • 2. Hall's Corner in the 1958 flood
    2. Hall's Corner in the 1958 flood
  • 3. London Road, with Ivy Cottage on the right.
    3. London Road, with Ivy Cottage on the right.
  • 4. The High Street.
    4. The High Street.
  • 5. The village pump, in the High Street.
    5. The village pump, in the High Street.

    • Browse through these pages and share your thoughts on Wickford’s history.

    This website is a developing collection of memories, photographs, stories and comments, forming the community history of Wickford – the town and its surrounding areas. In ‘Wickford’ we include Runwell, Battlesbridge, Shotgate, Rawreth, North Benfleet, Crays Hill, Downham and the Ramsdens – the boundaries are very flexible.  You are invited to explore this history and to add to it, by adding comments to existing articles or providing new photographs, memories and personal histories.

    Featured subjects
    • Businesses

      Businesses

    • Carnival and Fetes

      Carnival and Fetes

    • Private houses

      Private houses

    • The Market

      The Market

    Featured articles
    • Carter & Ward, new venture after the Second World War.

      Carter & Ward, new venture after the Second World War.

      Karrimix, one of the Carter and Ward group of companies.
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    • Wickford Academy of Music and Elocution

      Wickford Academy of Music and Elocution

      Principal: Florence Fox, L.L.C.M. A.L.C.M.
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    • Wickford Railway Station and Wick Lane Railway crossing

      Wickford Railway Station and Wick Lane Railway crossing

      These photographs are showing the railway through Wickford in earlier times.
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    • How to meet the Archive group.

      How to meet the Archive group.

      Meet members of the Archive at their Memory Desks.
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    Latest articles

    • The Wickford Venus

      08/05/2019
      This statue was found at the Beauchamps Farm Archeological site in the early 1970s,where a ...

    • Closure of poultry farm 1978

      28/04/2019
      "Threat to farmers as poultry farm shuts"

    • Benjamin Fox - rabbit seller

      28/04/2019
      Did you know this market trader?

    • Runwell Hall

      25/04/2019
      An early history of Runwell Hall.
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    Latest comments
    • Bomb damage – 1940 – Swan Lane Wickford 11/05/2019 Going to and from St. Georges School or shopping in Wickford I would walk past this place and Mother would...
    • Church Road in Ramsden Bellhouse, and the original houses. 09/05/2019 Up date on some people I remember living in Ramsden Bellhouse, late 1940/50: Thorns the milkman, farm in Orchard Ave,...
    • The Wickford signal box 1980s (2) 08/05/2019 Dave Harris. Anyway, the box was haunted. I spent hours in that box when I worked there [See this entry...
    • Carter & Ward, in the early days. 06/05/2019 The first man on the right of the image would appear to be Edward Phillip Bewers (1879-1953). He was one...
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