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  • ‘Ghosts’ of Wickford 08/05/2022 We had a lovely life schooled in the area and miss Mrs Bone and her team of teachers. I remember...
  • Coltcott School. 05/05/2022 I went to the school from about age of 3. It is in Southend Road and the studio was built...
  • Hazel Ann Dance Academy 05/05/2022 Hazel Ann now runs the talent theatre school in another part of Wickford with her daughter.
  • Wickford Market 02/05/2022 Used to sell eggs on a stall at weekends for a local farmer and had many laughs in the 80s....
  • Living on Highcliffe Road 22/04/2022 My grandparents, George and Maud Goodyear, lived in 46, next door to the Fenwicks.
  • Runwell Residents 12/04/2022 Top photo: Ye Old Runwell Fayre. Standing Left to Right: Mr Fred Wells, Mrs Sylvia Wells, Mr Peter Minnie, Norma...
  • 1977 Jubilee celebrations in Waverley Crescent, Wickford 12/04/2022 Are there no more photos of the 1977 street party as I thought more were taken? I was there also....
  • V2 Rocket Venturi, Sugden Avenue, 3rd December 1944. 11/04/2022 How interesting, this article brought back a story my mother told me about the V2 in Sugden Avenue. Her aunt,...
  • Downham Village 11/04/2022 I remember all the below. Next to the Elvins there was Mrs Havis and Dora Havis. Her brother Sid and...
  • Charlie Simpson’s children outside Wickford School. 10/04/2022 Is there a way to correct the names of the children in the photo? As Dennis Smith wrote, the boy...
  • The History of the Royal British Legion in Wickford. 05/04/2022 British Legion - The beginning of the Wickford branch. It was on Friday 2 March 1928 when Rowland Smith, the...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 04/04/2022 In reply to David Clarkson, this was walk number 3, and there were 28 of us. It was the only...
  • St Margaret’s Church, Downham. 04/04/2022 In 1962 we had a nice two-storey red brick house built on a lot in Downham, opposite a tractor dealership...
  • Memories of Cranfield Park Road 31/03/2022 Mr M, Thank you for the information. The Gonnella family would have only lived at your house when it was...
  • Memories of Cranfield Park Road 31/03/2022 Mr M who now lives at this property contacted us with the following information - "The name changed from Inyati...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 30/03/2022 Julie Stacey, I remember calling at your house, the window was open and your sister and you were singing "Our...
  • Memories of Cranfield Park Road 29/03/2022 Mr M, thanks very much for posting this information. I had wondered if 'Inyati' was pulled down to make way...
  • Carter & Ward, a new venture after the Second World War. 25/03/2022 I worked on that tower many times. Changed the conveyer belt once, which was 600 yards long, with a couple...
  • Carter & Ward, in the early days. 25/03/2022 I started an apprenticeship as a builder's plant mechanic and engineer here in 1969 aged 15. I used to wash...
  • Memories of Cranfield Park Road 22/03/2022 Very interesting. I actually own the property now, and it’s called 'The Paddock', Cranfield Park Road. I do understand and...
  • Burr Hall 18/03/2022 There used to be three or four cannons and heaps of cannon balls alongside each gun. I do not know...
  • Runwell 1977: Celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. 18/03/2022 David Clarkson, it was the third walk. I did the first from the Quart Pot, up to about walk number...
  • Runwell Village Fete 16/03/2022 Runwell Residents Fete 1989, Sunday 18th June, not 23rd June. No.1 Photo - Sally Wells receiving cup for ? was...
  • Harringtons’ shop, Station Avenue. 13/03/2022 As a former paper boy at Harringtons' I can confirm the rivalry between us and our Adcock counterparts. Harringtons' paid...
  • Harry Skeggs (1924 – 2017) – one of the first British troops to enter Bergen-Belsen, in April 1945. 10/03/2022 My father was also one of those who saw Belsen in the first days. He mentioned it in conversation, but...
  • Fremnells Manor and Hanningfield Reservoir(2) 09/03/2022 Thank you for your comment David. As James Nason states in the comments below, the picture in the Illustrated London...
  • Fremnells Manor and Hanningfield Reservoir(2) 06/03/2022 My Great Aunts were Dora and Phylis Avila. I would be interest in obtaining copies of the photo that you...
  • Artificial flowers go all over the world – Mr William Croot. 05/03/2022 He was my dad's uncle so I reckon he was my great uncle. He lived at the top of Waverley...
  • Artificial flowers go all over the world – Mr William Croot. 02/03/2022 Uncle Bill was a real character, all the family had flowers. He was my Dad's uncle but we all called...
  • KeilKraft 01/03/2022 I can remember visiting the Keil Kraft factory with friends and being shown around. Considering that this was the early...
  • Marion Wilberforce – a resident of Nevendon Manor. 27/02/2022 If ever a historic blue plaque belonged anywhere, the location of Nevendon Manor I’d have thought would be a prime...
  • Various scenes around Wickford – the London Road 20/02/2022 I lived in the house called 'Ivanhoe', with my parents, attached to Dear's coal yard, from the early 70s for...
  • ‘Father of Wickford’ – Dr. Frew 20/02/2022 James wondered why his surgery (with his father Robert supposedly working next door) was taking so long, then he looked...
  • Wickford Library, the Mural 18/02/2022 The complete set of individual murals that were painted by local children and others have been saved, and are currently...
  • Runwell Road, Then and Now.(1) 17/02/2022 Picture 5 is shown on old maps as Orchard House. Just behind it are Rose Cottages, with Chapel Row further...
  • Runwell Road, Then and Now.(1) 16/02/2022 Do you have a name for the house shown in photo 5?
  • Nevendon School 01/02/2022 My dad was an evacuee from Stepney, London, and was evacuated to Wickford and went to this school. I would...
  • Memories of South Hanningfield 28/01/2022 I remember Reg and Lily Sam's from when we lived in Warren Road Rettendon. My father worked on Poplars Farm...
  • Wick Lane, railway men’s cottages, c.1915 – 1930. 27/01/2022 I used to live at 62 Wick Lane with my mother, Maureen, and my two brothers, Tracy and Linnroy (sadly...
  • Christ Church, the history 25/01/2022 Although we left Wickford in 1969, the Congregational Church will always have a place in my heart as being where...
  • Fremnells Manor and Hanningfield Reservoir 16/01/2022 There is a Pathe News video about the creation of the reservoir here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ri1tESZlKM
  • Wick Farm 13/01/2022 I kept my pony at Wick Farm for several years up until 1965 when my Father died, I was 15...
  • Wickford Junior School Coronation Pageant (2) 08/01/2022 Little blond girl second from left, is my sister Carol Gentry.
  • Halls Corner, Wickford, c1960. 03/01/2022 Wow, interesting to see the old houses that were there before the bypass - that was before my time and...
  • Madge Viscardini’s Memories of the Downham area (Circa 1930), Part 1 02/01/2022 My father lived in Mill Lane, Ramsden Heath, Billericay. His name was Cyril Clark (Nobby). He had 6 sisters. The...
  • Southend Road bridge 19/12/2021 It's there in photos of the 1958 flood, but gone in photos on the Francis Frith site captioned "circa 1965"...
  • English Gymnosophical Society 17/12/2021 I can confirm first hand there was a naturist club in Castledon Road in the 50s and 60s. It was...
  • Wickford War Memorial Fund. 05/12/2021 Editor: Steve Newman, who wrote the earlier articles on the history of the War Memorial, has added a further comment....
  • Water colour paintings of scenes in Wickford. 03/12/2021 As I said before, I remember during the War 39/45 my Mum used to take your sister and me in...
  • A little more history of Shotgate. 01/12/2021 I lived in Shotgate some 45 years ago and I remember the Craig family as I was good friend with...
Latest articles

  • Nevendon Road, Then and Now.

    27/04/2022
    Pairs of pictures, comparing past and present, compiled by Peter Ostrowski.

  • St Nicholas, Rawreth

    15/04/2022
    A Brief History of the Early Years and of the Nineteenth Century

  • H.G.Collin

    10/04/2022
    An insight into some aspects of life in Wickford in the 1950s.

  • 1977 Jubilee celebrations in Waverley Crescent, Wickford

    09/04/2022
    Do you have any more photos of this event?
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