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  • Burr Hall 29/05/2020 A friend of mine, Howard Gough, lived there with his parents and sister early 70s and 80s His Father was...
  • KeilKraft 28/05/2020 Hi I'm in New Zealand, I'm 72 and retired. Years ago, I purchased a number of plastic model kits for...
  • Simpsons Restaurant, 1977. 27/05/2020 My mother took me here in the early 80s, when I was about 12 or so. It was big occasion,...
  • Carter & Ward, new venture after the Second World War. 24/05/2020 Hello, my name is Jonathan. I’ve found some photos of Karrimix mixer lorries, Karritip skip lorry, the pit at Grange...
  • The Vanished Giants of Wickford. 22/05/2020 Yes I remember the trees in our garden on Southend Road. I had many years of fun climbing them. We...
  • Burr Hall 14/05/2020 My great uncle, Percy Stacey Anderson lived here in 1937 according to Kelly's directories, Essex. Do you know whether several...
  • Wickford Carnival 1979, the Court. 14/05/2020 My over riding memory of carnival day 1979 were the unfortunate events following its conclusion. My nan and grandad were...
  • 75th Anniversary of VE Day (8th May 2020). 11/05/2020 I was only five years old at the time, did not start school until I was six so no contact...
  • Father Christmas visits Wickford 11/05/2020 That’s Graham Westall on the back.
  • Wickford County Secondary School 08/05/2020 Yes, I remember going to Basildon for a while on the bus. We must have met at the very least....
  • KeilKraft 04/05/2020 I worked on one of those presses as a summer holiday job. Brings back many memories. Brilliant film.
  • Runwell Cricket Club 2 03/05/2020 From the back row top left: Colin Lee, Jim Sloane, not known, not known, Snapper Smith, Colin Willats, not known....
  • The Harrows, North Benfleet. 29/04/2020 The Harrows was one big bar capable of taking two or three coachloads of Londoners who came down from London...
  • Rosemount Superette 29/04/2020 I knew the Hodgsons. Myself and Brian Letch hand-dug the footings of Georgian houses in South Hanningfield Way, on the...
  • Church Road in Ramsden Bellhouse, and the original houses. 25/04/2020 I lived at "Rozel" from 1972, until I married in 1980. The house was previously owned by a gentleman called...
  • Mayfield’s Swimming Pool in Battlesbridge 23/04/2020 Hi all. I now live in Brisbane, Australia, emmigrated in 1962 with family. I remember the Battlesbridge pool fondly, late...
  • Franklin’s Butchers (3), Christmas Display 19/04/2020 My grandad, Albert Franklin, ran the shop in South Woodham, and just to say that his sausages were the best...
  • Franklin’s Butchers (1), the shop, early 1900s 19/04/2020 Albert Franklin (the Mr A from the note above) was my grandad, and had a butcher's shop in Station Road...
  • 1920s photographs of shops in Wickford High Street. 19/04/2020 Middle photograph. I do not recognise this building, past or present, and doubt the photograph was taken in Wickford. However,...
  • Views of Wickford Broadway, including during the First World War. 18/04/2020 I was born on the Broadway in 1946, next store to the butchers to the left and the camera shop...
  • Mayfield’s Swimming Pool in Battlesbridge 18/04/2020 Battlesbridge Swimming Pool was called May Phill. In 1934 Philip Horace Evans (1880-1965), a Master Builder of Chase Side, Southgate,...
  • Mayfield’s Swimming Pool in Battlesbridge 16/04/2020 I spent many happy times at Battlesbridge swimming pool, often with my friend Vivienne Cox. We usually caught the 251...
  • Sergeant Longman – The First Soldier From Wickford to Die in the Second World War. 13/04/2020 Sergeant Longman was my dad’s brother. Terribly sad.
  • Carter & Ward, new venture after the Second World War. 12/04/2020 Hi. My grandad, Mr Martin Cook, used to work for them at Tiptree and Wickford.
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  • A short History of the White Swan Hotel

    30/05/2020
    The original Swan premises were owned by Thomas Bell.

  • Highcliffe Road Street VE party 1945?

    22/05/2020

  • Lorraine Taylor's memories of the post-war years.

    11/05/2020
    Not being in school on VE Day meant that I did not know if schools ...

  • 75th Anniversary of VE Day (8th May 2020).

    09/05/2020
    What do you remember of 8th May 1945, V.E. Day?
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