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  • Wick Lane, railway men’s cottages, c.1915 – 1930. 26/06/2019 We lived in the big house just over the railway crossing in Wick Lane. Well the top half rented. Never...
  • The Wick before it was built upon. 18/06/2019 My name is Bruce and l used to go to Jack and Ada's farm with my great aunt Emma Lewis...
  • Button factory and Southend Radio & Gramophone Co. Ltd. 17/06/2019 I remember the button factory as we used to see it from the railway station. We used the trains to...
  • Runwell Hospital in a time of war (1). Memories of wartime. (Updated and republished). 16/06/2019 My mother was born at Runwell Hospital. I am not sure what hospital that was in 1941. Her name is...
  • How to meet the Archive group. 08/06/2019 I am enjoying looking at this site and find it informative. Can you tell me where in London Road the...
  • A sketch of Mayes Bros, Wickford. 30/05/2019 Just checking History of Wickford pages and became so interested in this thread with the postings being quite precise and...
  • The Wick before it was built upon. 20/05/2019 My name was Kathleen Sharp and from 1959 we lived in Newlands Road, off Cranfield Park Rd, and as a...
  • Fairmead Estate in 1960s 20/05/2019 I lived with my parents and my 2 brothers and sister in Newlands Farm which backed on to Fairmead estate....
  • Bomb damage – 1940 – Swan Lane Wickford 11/05/2019 Going to and from St. George's School, or shopping in Wickford, I would walk past this place and Mother would...
  • Church Road in Ramsden Bellhouse, and the original houses. 09/05/2019 Update on some people I remember living in Ramsden Bellhouse, late 1940/50: Thorns the milkman, farm in Orchard Ave, son...
  • The Wickford signal box 1980s (2) 08/05/2019 Dave Harris. Anyway, the box was haunted. I spent hours in that box when I worked there [See this entry...
  • Cyril Stiles, my story. 06/05/2019 Your aunt Laura that was killed by a shell, is this Norah Phyllis Styles, nee Carter, who was married to...
  • Carter & Ward, in the early days. 06/05/2019 The first man on the right of the image would appear to be Edward Phillip Bewers (1879-1953). He was one...
  • Walks around Wickford in the 1960s and 70s 05/05/2019 Hi Kim, just in case you ever read this page again, you were at Beauchamps at exactly the same time...
  • Memories of Pre-fabs in Wickford. 05/05/2019 I clearly remember the prefabs. They were empty at the time, just prior to the redevelopment of that area.
  • Wickford Animal Market 05/05/2019 I vaguely remember the livestock market in the 60s near the Community Centre. I remember seeing the pigs having their...
  • Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 2) 05/05/2019 Please note that Grange Avenue and Grange Road are at different ends of the town. I lived at Grange Avenue,...
  • Information and photographs needed. Can you help? 05/05/2019 Re Trevor Corner's comment: There was a shop called Pollards, though I can’t remember where it was on the High...
  • Wickford War Memorial (Part 1) 05/05/2019 I remember seeing the tablets as a young child, and being told it was the Midwife's House. Opposite was a...
  • KeilKraft 04/05/2019 I think that Ernie Webster was a friend of my parents and he taught pottery at Beauchamps School in the...
  • George Anstead, Hairdresser. 04/05/2019 I used to have my hair cut here in the 60/ 70’s. I remember it had a revolving red and...
  • Adrian’s 04/05/2019 I spent many hours and pounds in Adrian's as a teenager in the 70s. I remember there was a copy...
  • Wickford Community Centre 04/05/2019 When I attended Wickford County Junior School, the school used the Community Centre for the older children’s dinners. They were...
  • Congregational Church 04/05/2019 My parents were regulars at the Congregational Church and my father occasionally played the organ for services. My parents were...
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  • The Wickford Venus

    08/05/2019
    This statue was found at the Beauchamps Farm archeological site in the early 1970s, where ...

  • Closure of poultry farm, 1978

    28/04/2019
    "Threat to farmers as poultry farm shuts"

  • Benjamin Fox - rabbit seller

    28/04/2019
    Did you know this market trader?

  • Runwell Hall

    25/04/2019
    An early history of Runwell Hall.
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