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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
12/09/2018
St. Andrew’s Church, 20th – 22nd September 2018.
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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 Celebrate 100 years.
20/07/2018
On the 12th June 2017, Wickford Women’s Institute celebrated their 100th anniversary. The Queen sent ...
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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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Memories of Pre-fabs in Wickford.
03/05/2018
Mrs Angela Randall showed us these photographs. The top one, taken about 1950, is of her ...
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Open Day, 2018, remembering the 1958 Flood.
01/05/2018
Jo Cullen took a number of photographs during the day. Here is one of them.
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Gigney 'advertising plate' found.
30/04/2018
On Saturday 28 April 2018, the Community Archive group held its annual exhibition. One of ...
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The Happy Hours Club
28/04/2018
The Happy Hours Club was a group run by Reg Tidridge within the Runwell Youth ...
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The Wickford Branch Library
24/04/2018
The photos from the Evening Echo archive show the Wickford Toy Library at its opening ...
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Harry Skeggs (1924 - 2017) - one of the first British troops to enter Bergen-Belsen, in April 1945.
23/04/2018
The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for ...
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Wickford Cricket Club members WW1
29/03/2018
Over the past 4 years we “The Forget Never Team” have carried out research on ...
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The Harrows, North Benfleet.
27/03/2018
The Harrows public house was originally in Harrow Road, North Benfleet. See photos below. The night ...
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Dr. Clive Bruton (1941-1996): world renowned neuropathologist of Runwell Hospital
22/03/2018
Clive Bruton was born in Leicestershire in 1941. He was educated in South London and ...
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Wickford Junction Signal Box
17/03/2018
Wickford Junction Signal Box. The train from Southminster approaches Wickford with the driver handing over ...
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Edward Bentley, the Runwell Horse-Burker
14/03/2018
Written for 'Essex Belongs To Us' under the title, 'The Shocking Case of the Essex Horse-Burker'
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Brock Hill area "Obelisks"
14/03/2018
Having recently moved to Brock Hill, I have noticed some peculiar “obelisks” situated in the ...
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Personal pictures of carnival preparations.
12/03/2018
The picture of the bride and groom is of my Auntie Pat ( Kathleen Taylor) ...
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Wick Farm
12/09/2018
Editor. In late April 2018, Les came back with another comment. "After discussing the dates with relations yesterday, it is...
Runwell Hall – the Lordship of the Manor of Runwell.
06/09/2018
My grandmother, Ethel May, was cook at Runwell Hall in the early 1900s, and married Mark Gentry, who also worked...
Nevendon School
03/09/2018
My mum went to this school. Her name was Shirley Rickards, and she was born in 1938.
What’s in a name?
28/08/2018
Thanks for the guidance Trevor. I went with EB-M in B scheme in the end and the model is almost...
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