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  • Living on Highcliffe Road 07/08/2022 Reference Elaine Goodyear's comment. Did the Fenwicks have a son called Paul? I was at Beauchamps from 1960 to 1965...
  • English Gymnosophical Society 01/08/2022 Editor: Leo Woodland contacted us - "Thanks for all your work on the Moonella site and club. They form part...
  • Barry Patmore – Morten Harket come to town! 31/07/2022 The first race was 1983, and it was considerably longer than 5 miles. I was one of the competitors and...
  • Help wanted to identify this building in Wickford!! 27/07/2022 Lipa and Isostat were manufacturers of electronic switches for the TV, Radio, Domestic Appliances and Professional Audio markets. It was...
  • Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 2) 25/07/2022 Reference Cranfield Park Road. My parents Don and Peggy Bolton bought "Hazeldene", Cranfield Park Road 100 yards from the Harrows...
  • Way Back When 22/07/2022 Reference Susan Burn (née Fenton): I knew your Mum Joyce and dad Harry and I think you had a younger...
  • ‘Ghosts’ of Wickford 21/07/2022 I heard the main entrance door to Runwell Church had an imprint of a hand on it which supposedly was...
  • A Brief History of Shotgate. 21/07/2022 For me its funny how memories of a cherished place never prioritise its local history. Only how warm the summers...
  • The Co-op shop, in the 1960s 17/07/2022 My wife Denise worked in the Co-op around about 1966 /67, her surname was Scott (now Bolton) and she lived...
  • Early views of the centre of Wickford 12/07/2022 I would love any information on the building that currently houses Natwest on the High Street. We were convinced that...
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL 08/07/2022 Unfortunately not Martin. I would have lost track of him on leaving Wickford Juniors when we went our different ways...
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL 07/07/2022 Reference reply from David Clarkson regarding Kenneth Draper at Wickford juniors would you have any idea of his whereabouts now....
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL 03/07/2022 I remember the name of Ken Draper although he would have been 2 years below me as I am now...
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL 28/06/2022 I moved up from Wickford Infant School to the junior school in 1956. Our teacher was a Mrs Page whom...
  • Dr. Clive Bruton (1941-1996): world renowned neuropathologist of Runwell Hospital 25/06/2022 I had the privilege of frequenting the Neuropathological Department whilst employed as a cadet nurse in 1971-72. I was working...
  • Belmont Avenue (b), photographs of the end of the 1950s. 25/06/2022 I remember the lad falling from a tree and dying - he was in my class at school - very...
  • St Margaret’s Church, Downham. 23/06/2022 The carving in the above picture appears to have been done by one of the daughters of the Reverend Edward...
  • Memories of of Downham and South Hanningfield 22/06/2022 I went to South Hanningfield school, so did my three sisters and brother, we were living next door to the...
  • St Margaret’s Church, Downham. 18/06/2022 In the early 1960's Downham was a small, restful, tightly-knit, sleepy little community. We loved it there. Our address was...
  • The Happy Hours Club 16/06/2022 My Mum, Iris Orr (who later became a member of Wickford Inner Wheel), was involved in The Happy Hours Club...
  • Wickford C of E school fire, 1908. 10/06/2022 My Mum, Ruth Flexman (nee Carter) the youngest of a family of 10 children, attended this school. When she was...
  • Beauchamps School, 1970s. 10/06/2022 Hi Valerie Some of those names I remember when I started there in 1973.
  • Fairmead Estate in 1960s 05/06/2022 Hi Tony, I was born there in 1968 and we lived there till I was nine. I remember so many...
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL, 1952-53 04/06/2022 Hi David I remember your name. Wasn't your dad the doctor in Wickford? My name is Allen Kemp and I...
  • Beauchamps School, 1970s. 04/06/2022 Hello. Just been reading your page and bringing back lots of memories. I left in 1961. This new school building...
  • King’s, the Grocers, High Street, Wickford. 02/06/2022 The above photograph shows H E King traded from the building which is now occupied by Nationwide Building Society, at...
  • ‘The Briars’, Sugden Avenue. 24/05/2022 I took the opportunity to visit Sugden Avenue last year. To my dismay I couldn’t decide which property had been...
  • Church Road in Ramsden Bellhouse, and the original houses. 18/05/2022 Brian Keen of Ramsden Bellhouse Village shop. In reply to John Sargent's question [below] regarding the death of Brian...
  • ‘Father of Wickford’ – Dr. Frew 10/05/2022 Dr Frew was family doctor to the Sawards. [I]? was born at Shotgate in 1936. (John Hawes [See comment below]:...
  • Ye olde Shepherd and Dog, Crays Hill, Matchbox Label 09/05/2022 Charles Dodd was granted a license as landlord of the Shepherd and Dog at the Brentwood Petty Sessions on 21...
  • ‘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...
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  • The Gables Garage, Rawreth, Wickford

    06/07/2022
    A garage from the 1950s.

  • Long Meadow Drive in the 1960s.

    24/06/2022
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  • The changing River Crouch.

    21/06/2022
    Changing views of the River Crouch

  • King's, the grocers..

    04/06/2022
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