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  • Memories of of Downham and South Hanningfield 18/11/2019 I now am the very proud owner of Whitelilies Farm and would love to trace as much of its history...
  • ‘Ghosts’ of Wickford 15/11/2019 These tales are interesting, as my sister, Karen, and I grew up there. We have links to Canon John de...
  • Stanley’s sermon hits the airwaves 13/11/2019 An article in the Evening Echo in March 1983 reported that Stanley had recently preached his last sermon at Christ...
  • Memories of Runwell & Wickford People 07/11/2019 My father lists his sister as next of kin in his Army records. Mrs I Hall of Ethalstan, Lower Brock...
  • KeilKraft 04/11/2019 Does anyone remember the shop in Hertford called WOODCRAFTS? As a youngster I gave a hand to Bill Freeman-Young who...
  • Belmont Avenue, memories from the 1950s. 01/11/2019 Do you remember Mrs Lavin's son's first name? The name Lavin does not appear on the Wickford war memorial. If...
  • Policemen at Crays Hill 24/10/2019 Hello Angela, did your Dad work on road building in the 60s, for a contractor called Scott Hale? If so...
  • The Land Army 24/10/2019 Sorry Trevor, I did not know your Dad by name, but I recognise his face. I was only 5yrs old...
  • How to meet the Archive group. 16/10/2019 Wow! Thank you for this amazing site. My Mom is the daughter of Leonard Longman (the first soldier from Wickford...
  • News of the flood of 1958 goes out to the nation. 11/10/2019 Hi, the water in these pictures was taken a day or so after the big flood as I was one...
  • Suttons Hardware Shop 11/10/2019 What a great little job I had at Suttons.I remember filling paraffin cans (for delivery) before school around 1970. I...
  • Wickford Carnival Queens 09/10/2019 My sister Sandra Callaghan won Carnival Queen back in 1974
  • Wickford Carnival 1979, the Court. 06/10/2019 My sister, Sandra Callaghan, was Carnival Queen back in 1974 and has very fond memories of being Carnival Queen.
  • Personal Memories of Wickford in the late 1950s. 06/10/2019 I was born at Wickford at Ethelred Gardens in 1958. My mum and dad had a bungalow at Ethelred Gardens,...
  • Wickford, Runwell and Shotgate street names. (Part 3). 05/10/2019 Lindon Road was previously Linden Road, part of Station estate, but a person helped themselves to the sign when it...
  • The Bewers family, outside Guinea Pig Hall 26/09/2019 I remember the Boultons as I went to school with them - Rita, Shirley and David. Where are they now?...
  • Wanted: History of “The Swan” 22/09/2019 My grandad owned the pub through the 1990s, and into the 2000s too. His name was Geoffrey Shepherd. Having lived...
  • 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...
Latest articles

  • My Round

    09/11/2019
    John Hawes, a former resident of Runwell, remembers his newspaper round.

  • Demolition of 2 - 12 The Broadway 2019

    20/10/2019
    Buildings demolished in the Aldi development.

  • Ursuline School, Brentwood.

    13/10/2019
    A Wickford girl remembers a war time attack on her school.

  • Andrea Olley's memories of Azalea Avenue.

    13/10/2019
    Azalea Avenue in the 1950s.
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