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  • Bomb damage – 1940 – Swan Lane Wickford 11/05/2019 Going to and from St. Georges 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 Up date on some people I remember living in Ramsden Bellhouse, late 1940/50: Thorns the milkman, farm in Orchard Ave,...
  • 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...
  • 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 60’s 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 Midwifes 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 70’s. 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...
  • Silva Lesley Bewers Carter, 1907-1996. 03/05/2019 I remember my grandad, Frank Carter, would take me and my brother and our cousins to see great, great Uncle...
  • A little more history of Shotgate. 02/05/2019 In about 1968 my parents, Len and Win Wilks, my sister Carol, my brother Chris and myself-Barbara = moved to...
  • KeilKraft 02/05/2019 I had a summer job here in the early '70s. You are right about health and safety, after 10 minutes...
  • Wickford Industrial Site 02/05/2019 Does anyone know about Edward Farr's engineering works built on Nathan's old small holding. I worked 1957/9
  • Changes at Rettendon crossroads. 30/04/2019 In about 1964 I had a 1955 VW Beetle car. On the way back from Chelmsford the clutch cable snapped,...
  • Wick Farm 29/04/2019 I remember visiting the farm in the early 60’s with my mum and dad. We were visiting dad's brother Albert...
  • Wickford Secondary Modern School 23/04/2019 Anyone from the Osbourne family? Three ? girl's and two ? boys, all came from South Woodham, lived in a...
  • Church Road in Ramsden Bellhouse, and the original houses. 23/04/2019 I am trying to find a house in Ramsden Heath. A relative lived there during 1930s. The house was called...
  • Prentice’s cycle shop (Republished August 2016 with family photograph). 20/04/2019 Was great to meet Vaughan today at Stow Maries Aerodrome. He showed us around. Really enjoyed his tour and stories....
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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 a ...

  • 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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