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Products available in Gigney's Stores 1894
16/01/2019
This is a list of products available from the Gigney’s Stores according to an advertisement ...
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KeilKraft
15/01/2019
E. Keil and Company Ltd originally made reproduction furniture. The company was founded by Edward Keil. ...
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WICKFORD TOWN YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB - the history.
19/12/2018
1968: The very first game was in December 1968 at Wickford Memorial park, pitch 3, ...
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Wickford Floods, 1958: Personal Memories.
30/11/2018
Between the 20th and 22nd of September 2018, there was an exhibition of work produced ...
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'Jasmin', Sugden Avenue.
27/11/2018
‘Jasmin’, in Sugden Avenue, was one of the last plotland houses of Wickford.
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Gas Explosion in Wickford
20/11/2018
In November 1971 there was a gas explosion outside the post office in Lower Southend ...
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Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 3).
10/11/2018
Please note that none of the information here can be guaranteed to be correct or ...
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Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 2)
10/11/2018
Please note that none of the information here can be guaranteed to be correct or ...
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Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 1)
10/11/2018
Please note that none of the information here can be guaranteed to be correct or ...
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Runwell Hospital. Photographs from the 'Echo' archive.
26/10/2018
When the ‘Echo’ closed its archive a year or two ago these photographs came into ...
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Adrian's
25/10/2018
Adrian’s has been a feature of Wickford High Street for some decades. Although it is ...
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A school report from 1941.
18/10/2018
This is my report dated July 1941 from Wickford infants school: in September the same ...
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The Turnpike in 1930s
18/10/2018
I have a picture taken from a newspaper and showing the Turnpike in the 1930s ...
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Gigney 'advertising plate' - the original.
12/09/2018
“Please see the pictures which I hope will prove of interest. The plate is the ...
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Wickford Floods, 1958: a community exhibition held 60 years later.
12/09/2018
St. Andrew’s Church, 20th – 22nd September 2018. Most people have heard of the great North ...
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Wickford Market 1950s
20/07/2018
This photograph shows a rather drab time. Bright colours were in short supply. The structure in ...
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Wickford Women's Institute Celebrates 100 years.
20/07/2018
The Wickford WI celebrated its 100th anniversary in June 2017 in Christ Church Hall in ...
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Stanley's sermon hits the airwaves
20/07/2018
On the 27th May, 1981, the Rev. Stanley Hodges had the biggest congregation of his ...
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MEMORIES OF ELIZABETH (BETTY) SHYNN, NEE WATTS, APRIL 2018.
24/05/2018
In 1941 my family moved from Thundersley to Wickford. At first we lived in a ...
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Memories of Wickford - Suzette Higgins
23/05/2018
Paula Sloane, one of our Archive members, who sadly died in November 2017, had met ...
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DOLPHIN PRINT 1959-2018
08/05/2018
My parents bought the shop about 1959 and ran it as a greengrocers. They then ...
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'West View', Belmont Avenue.
05/05/2018
‘West View’ is one of the oldest houses in Belmont Avenue, being built in 1905 ...
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'Unexploded bomb' dredged from the Crouch in Wickford.
04/05/2018
The Open Day ‘Gumboot Alley’ exhibition drew in many visitors who wanted to share their ...
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Wickford Community Archive Open Day 2018
03/05/2018
Saturday 28th April was our annual Open Day. The theme of the day was ‘Gumboot ...
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Sergeant Frederick Brewer
11/01/2019
I remember Sgt. Brewer well. During the war I was with my father in the market. The black market in...
A little more history of Shotgate.
06/01/2019
My Dad grew up at, I believe, 16 Fanton Walk in the 1950s/60s. His name was Terry Mayne and he...
A little more history of Shotgate.
04/01/2019
I grew up at 19 Fanton Walk from 1936 to 1959. My wife and I moved to New Zealand. We...
Wickford Methodist Church
02/01/2019
The bypass was not built until 1980 or so and this church still existed when I finished primary school in...
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