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  • English Gymnosophical Society 20/09/2019 My mum worked in Chelmsford for the Essex county, and made friends with a woman who Mum told me was...
  • Views of Halls Corner – floods in the period between 1945 and 1948. 18/09/2019 My father was George Warder. I’ve seen photos of the floods but not from the flat above his shop. ...
  • Wickford’s Schools 17/09/2019 I attended Wickford Junior school in the 1970s. We had country dancing in what was called the quad, a quadrangle...
  • The Chat and Chew Club. 16/09/2019 The Chat and Chew was a coffee and cake cafe set up at the community centre on Market Road. Staffed...
  • Personal Memories of Wickford in the late 1950s. 16/09/2019 Wow--thanks for all the time you must have spent on this article! Some really fascinating information here that I'll no...
  • Information and photographs needed. Can you help? 15/09/2019 Wondered if anyone remembers the Wickford Tally man - Lenny/Leonard? Around 1950, I think he was in the job quite...
  • Wickford Railway Station and Wick Lane Railway crossing 13/09/2019 The station master in the sixties was Mr Gordon. I went to junior school with his son in Market Road...
  • Downham Village 07/09/2019 It seems troops were stationed everywhere during the 39/45 war. I lived in Runwell, and the troops were everywhere, and...
  • Farms In and Around Wickford during the early years of the 20th Century 07/09/2019 Is this the Kenneth Saward who lived in Shotgate and went to Wickford Secondary school around 1940s/50s?
  • Three Wickford Men and a Boat 03/09/2019 Geoff. Interested to read your article. Often think of Stone - went back there on a short visit with my...
  • St George’s School, Wickford 14/08/2019 Regarding the photograph, that was a huge school with many pupils and several teachers and I wonder if Miss Hutchinson...
  • The Venice of Essex 13/08/2019 This is the row of shops in Lower Southend Road. The side wall of the Post Office (now Sorting Office)...
  • St George’s School, Wickford 09/08/2019 No, the house was not part of the school, the school building was originally a carriage storage area for a...
  • The Vanished Giants of Wickford. 08/08/2019 I remember elm trees on Fanton Walk and the horse chestnut trees just before Wick Lane on the Southend Road...
  • The Manor House at Ramsden Bellhouse 03/08/2019 Jo, the author of this post, and a member of Wickford Community Archive, is a former Head Librarian who now...
  • St Margaret’s Church, Downham. 02/08/2019 I have heard there is a soft bark tree somewhere on the grounds of this church. I remember in school...
  • Poplars Farm and Flemings Farm, Runwell. 28/07/2019 So nice to read some history in which I have been part of. My grandfather James Stewart Mallinson took ownership...
  • Wickford Carnival 1979, the Court. 22/07/2019 That was my sister Jane O’Keefe.
  • Harvey’s of Wickford. 20/07/2019 The gentleman at the front of the truck is my grandfather, Bernard Harvey. The company remained in the family and...
  • Wickford Secondary School 1951/2 – School Trip 20/07/2019 Margaret Stephens mentioned in information regarding photo, died 2016, aged 79
  • Wickford Secondary School 1951/2 – School Play, 20/07/2019 I was very interested in the 'Lady Precious Stream' item. My late wife, Margaret Stephens, was a cast member and...
  • “Little Tudor Palace in Runwell” 19/07/2019 His wife’s name was actually Georgina Goff, formally known as Jean.
  • WICKFORD COUNTY JUNIOR SCHOOL, 1952-53 14/07/2019 Thanks for posting this picture Sandy, I'm the boy on the far left, middle row. As for memories of the...
  • Wick Lane, railway men’s cottages, c.1915 – 1930. 26/06/2019 We lived in the big house just over the railway crossing in Wick Lane. Well the top half rented. Never...
Latest articles

  • The Wickford Flitch.

    30/08/2019
    An Essex custom staged in Wickford.

  • The Venice of Essex

    13/08/2019
    Motor cyclist with sidecar braving the flood. But where is this?

  • Wickford Secondary School magazine, 1957-58

    30/07/2019
    Memories of Wickford Secondary School, 1957-58.

  • Lorraine Taylor's Memories of her post-war years in Wickford.

    21/07/2019
    I have good reason for remembering the Coronation ....
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