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  • KeilKraft 03/08/2020 When my dad, Les Cook, who used to work at KeilKraft died we found bags n bags of it in...
  • KeilKraft 30/07/2020 I have just got my balsa wood, battery powered, model 'Otter' tug boat out of the loft to get working...
  • Silva Lesley Bewers Carter, 1907-1996. 26/07/2020 My grandmother was Hilda Carter, but I have no knowledge of her parents and where they fit into the Carter...
  • PEOPLE OF OLD WICKFORD 26/07/2020 Hi Sandra I am Julie, Beryl (House) daughter. We met at Mum's, 2019, and Dad's, 2014, funerals. I love this...
  • My Round 26/07/2020 Happy days of my paper round for Adcock's Newsagent, between 1950-52. My friend and I did most of Southend Road...
  • Wickford Junior Schools 22/07/2020 Yes, Stephen Winfield, I remember both you and your brother Philip! Pleased to know that you are teaching music in...
  • Franklin’s Butchers (1), the shop, early 1900s 21/07/2020 Jessie Forrester was my great aunt, from Newmarket, who started her working life as a maid at Kensington Palace. She...
  • NEW TO WICKFORD 09/07/2020 Sunbeam was half way between the river and the railway bridge. There were two properties on the plot.
  • Memories of North Benfleet, 1935 To 1944 06/07/2020 Does anyone have a map of the tank traps please?
  • 1920s photographs of shops in Wickford High Street. 05/07/2020 The top picture, H.Hodd, was in a row of shops on the east side of the High Street, now demolished....
  • Artificial flowers go all over the world – Mr William Croot. 01/07/2020 Thank you for posting the picture and item about our Great Grandad Croot. My older brother and sister remember him...
  • BARRY PATMORE – MORTEN HARKET COMES TO TOWN! 01/07/2020 Not sure if this was the same run that both Nick Faldo and Spurs GK Erik Thorstvedt came to the...
  • Memories of Robert Green. 12/06/2020 We have been informed that Robert Green died in the early part of May 2020. Robert was one of our...
  • Runwell Hall – the Lordship of the Manor of Runwell. 12/06/2020 Augusta Kemble was, I believe, unmarried, and was the last member of the family to live there. She left my...
  • Stanley’s sermon hits the airwaves 10/06/2020 Stanley Hodges came to Wickford in around 1959, I believe from Broxbourne, with his adorable wife, Edna. Replacing the then...
  • Wickford Youth Centre 08/06/2020 I have really enjoyed reading about Wickford Youth Centre. I am currently writing some research on youth clubs and youth...
  • Southlands Farm 08/06/2020 Does anyone remember anything about Mr Fisher who rented Southlands Farm around 1958-1982? This was my great grandad. Been there...
  • Madge Viscardini’s Memories of the Downham area (Circa 1930), Part 1 03/06/2020 Aww, so lovely reading this. My father was Malcolm Wood who owned Woods Coaches, and his father, Edmund Wood, (aka...
  • 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...
Latest articles

  • Shotgate Plotting

    08/07/2020
    The origins of the Shotgate Estate

  • Walker Bros., (Shotgate).

    10/06/2020
    A Wickford business in the 1930s.

  • Artificial flowers go all over the world - Mr William Croot.

    10/06/2020
    “I even send daffodils to Wales,” said Mr W. Croot, Vice President of the Wickford ...

  • A short History of the White Swan Hotel

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