1.Wickford Broadway c1900
2.Wickford High Street c1893
3.Wickford Swan Lane, undated. Note the flooding, apparently the river Crouch flooded at this point on a regular basis.
4.Wickford High Street c1893
5.” Ladybrow” the Frew family home, c1907, in Wickford High Street. Note the advertisement for Gigneys on the gate.
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I would love any information on the building that currently houses Natwest on the High Street. We were convinced that it was haunted by a person so something had happened there in the past as we would often hear footsteps coming up the stairs and the doors opening.
I remember visiting Ladybrow as a child and a teenager to see the doctor. The surgery was down the right hand side of the house. I cannot remember if it was purpose built or already there as part of the property. I remember the Doctors Frew – two brothers, if I remember correctly, and their father who used to wear a hat on home visits and swished his thermometer around the goldfish bowl! I also remember a Doctor Anderson who lived in a large house somewhere right out on the road to the Hanningfields. This was in the fifties and sixties.
I remember the river used to flood every time it rained in the mid forties. I used to walk down Swan Lane to school in them days and I used to go back home and say “I can not go to school, Wickford is flooded”. I suppose I could have got through, it was about 6-9 inches deep outside the Swan public house, as you can see by the picture.
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