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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..

    General information for all users of our new website
    Important info. for registered users of our old site retaining the same email address
    Important info. for registered users of our old site now with a new email address

    All existing pages and comments from our previous website are here on the new one.  You will find links to all our subject material in the top bar and links to featured posts and new material down below.

    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 Plotlands

      18/02/2019
      Shirley Butterworth remembers life on the plotlands.

    • Photographs of the 1958 Wickford Flood.

      13/02/2019
      John Potton remembers the 1958 flood.

    • Presentation to Castledon School

      13/02/2019
      Graham Gooch makes a presentation to Castledon School.

    • Meeting of Wickford Headteachers

      13/02/2019
      Wickford headteachers meeting in 1991.
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    Latest comments
    • Recollections of Tony Livermore about the Church of England School. 15/02/2019 My grand father R Harris moved to Shotgate 1924. They lived at 16 Fanton Walk; my mother was 13. She...
    • Wickford in the Second World War 14/02/2019 My father was in the Home Guard at Shotgate. He had a rifle; I know because I got a finger...
    • Memories of South Hanningfield. 12/02/2019 How many years after the Wooten Family lost their daughter to the reservoir, did the Goymer Family lose their son...
    • Runwell Hospital in a time of war (2). (Sequel to previous article on memories of Runwell Hospital during wartime). 08/02/2019 I recall and correct the name of my former colleague to John Mugford (not Mugley).
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