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  • Wickford Secondary School 1951/2 – School Play, 30/03/2020 What a good feeling to see the photograph of all the cast in Lady Precious Stream. Brought back many happy...
  • ‘The Briars’, Sugden Avenue. 28/03/2020 I lived next door to old Mr Shepherd, his daughter was Mavis and she was married to Joe Pingram and...
  • KeilKraft 25/03/2020 Big thank you for posting the link to this film as it shows my dad, Jim Bloomfield, working on a...
  • Three Wickford Cinemas 23/03/2020 I went there once. It rained and you could not hear the Dialogue because of the corrugated iron roof. I...
  • 5Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 1940 19/03/2020 If you travel along the old A130 Wickford to Chelmsford road and look carefully either side you will see loads...
  • Wickfords WW2 Air Raid Wardens 19/03/2020 My mother was a warden also, and I kick my self because when the house in Linden Road was sold...
  • Betty Shynn’s memories of “The Hut”, Runwell Gardens 17/03/2020 Thanks, Bob, I really thought with your great memories you would have remembered the pillbox. It makes me think I...
  • Wickford Floods, 1958: a community exhibition held 60 years later. 16/03/2020 Wickford should be shown as a example to the country as how to save flooding, before dredging and afterwards. As...
  • Wickford Floods 1958 16/03/2020 The Picture of boat in the picture at Halls Corner was taken a day or even later because the water...
  • Wickford in the Second World War 15/03/2020 I was unofficially evacuated from London and staying with my aunt in Brock Hill. They had previously lived in Browns...
  • The village of Wickford 10/03/2020 Mark Butcher is shown on the 1881 census under South Hanningfield. He was living at Great Road. The census was...
  • Carter & Ward, new venture after the Second World War. 10/03/2020 Yes, I remember Karrimix. The drivers could not control how much you got in a barrowload, owing to large wheel...
  • Betty Shynn’s memories of “The Hut”, Runwell Gardens 09/03/2020 Sorry I can't remember a pill box in Church End Lane, there was one at Wantz corner. Ask Dennis Smith...
  • The Venice of Essex 04/03/2020 Wickford proves a point. I have lived here nearly 83 years and seen Wickford flooded many times, but when they...
  • The Wickford floods 04/03/2020 Sorry Barry but it was Coxheads before Egans. Peacocks was further up the street, Coxheads were plumbers, Peacocks I think...
  • George Warder, owner of Warders Bakers 01/03/2020 I remember Mr George Warder and his bakery in Ramsden Heath. He was such a lovely man. When I married...
  • Wickford Pictures 23/02/2020 Picture 2, the old Bargainland Shop, was the bakers I believe. Pardey and Johnson, about 1959?
  • 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...
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    03/04/2020
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    11/03/2020
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