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  • Pill Boxes and Gun Emplacements in Wickford 22/02/2020 In the supermarket Car park, Iceland and Somerfields [/ Co-Op], by the Railway, near The bridge going to the Wick...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 19/02/2020 I remember my dad dressing up as a Womble. I knew it was him as the trousers weren't quite long...
  • Beauchamps School ‘Midnight Walk’. 17/02/2020 The walk was in aid of "Shelter". It was organised by the Essex Congregational Church; I was taking part and...
  • A ladies’ clothes shop in the High Street 16/02/2020 The Fishes lived in Southend Road, two houses up from Mount Cottage where my family lived 1957-96. Mr & Mrs...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 15/02/2020 David started the Boxing Day walk in 1975. He has written about how the walk started in an article elsewhere...
  • Poplars Farm House, Runwell. 13/02/2020 Do you remember the army camp there as my dad was stationed there during the war.
  • Poplars Farm and Flemings Farm, Runwell. 11/02/2020 My dad was in the army camp there during the war. Has anyone got any pictures of it then as...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 10/02/2020 I can see a young-looking David De’Ath standing to the immediate left of Jim Sloane in the Boxing Day Walk...
  • Views of Runwell Road from J F Corney. 09/02/2020 Center of lower picture is Runwell Cottage and to the left is Orchard Cottage.
  • Hawkins Close. 06/02/2020 Of course. It was Jeannette Cardnell who is connected to St Catherine church and who still lives in Wickford. The...
  • The Castle – destruction of a pub 03/02/2020 I worked at the Castle for a while. I can remember all the cockroaches that were there. There always seemed...
  • Closure of poultry farm, 1978 03/02/2020 When I lived down the end of Oakhurst Drive I do remember Alan and Helen Marks, John Kershaw, Alan Tilson,...
  • The Land Army 02/02/2020 In this photograph, my dad, the tractor driver, was the late Alfred A. Williams, who worked for the Department of...
  • Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 1) 02/02/2020 With reference to the road name of Terence Webster Road: The road was in fact named after Pilot F/Lt. John...
  • Bombings in the Wickford area during World War Two. 02/02/2020 It's previously been reported that the glider detached from its tow rope and which fell at Brock Hill, was not...
  • Closure of poultry farm, 1978 30/01/2020 Can anybody tell me what happened to the Poll Paks that was where Barclays Bank is today in Market Rd?...
  • Button factory and Southend Radio & Gramophone Co. Ltd. 30/01/2020 I knew Norman Caulfield many years ago, you lived in Jersey Gardens, the old police houses opposite John Sadds, the...
  • Closure of poultry farm, 1978 29/01/2020 I went to school with a Helen Marks who was part of the Marks family. What happened to her?
  • A sketch of Mayes Bros, Wickford. 29/01/2020 Hi there Kenneth Saward. Are you the Ken I knew at school and left the same time? I am still...
  • The Castle – destruction of a pub 28/01/2020 I use to drink in the Castle pub. Public bar only. I was a Wickford skinhead back then. None of...
  • Warders Bakery 28/01/2020 My father, George Warder, owned 'Warders Bakers' and the Bake House at Ramsden Heath, behind the cottages. He also ran...
  • Brock Hill area “Obelisks” 28/01/2020 That is interesting. I now live in Brock Hill area, and there is one opposite my bungalow at the bottom...
  • Belmont Avenue (b), photographs of the end of the 1950s. 28/01/2020 The house looks like the one at the bottom of the second part of Belmont Ave, which is still there,...
  • Belmont Avenue (b), photographs of the end of the 1950s. 23/01/2020 I think I recognise the house ... maybe closer to 40 Belmont, or it was knocked down when the Tudor...
Latest articles

  • Carnival Queen, 1945.

    19/02/2020
    Wickford's Carnival Queen in 1945. We would like to add photographs of queens prior to 1945. Can you help?

  • George Warder, owner of Warders Bakers

    15/02/2020
    Linda Elmy has commented “My father, George Warder, owned ‘Warders Bakers’ and the Bake House ...

  • Fremnells Manor and Hanningfield Reservoir(2)

    22/01/2020
    Details of the ownership of Fremnells

  • Belmont Avenue (b), photographs of the end of the 1950s.

    14/01/2020
    Following on from Sue Sage's memories.
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