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  • How to meet the Archive group. 17/10/2020 How lovely to read your comments Lorraine. Yes Mum is Loretta. Mum and Dad (Sid) sailed to Australia in 1959....
  • Charlie Simpson, Sergeant, Wickford Home Guard 15/10/2020 Bob Dilworth was my uncle. My mum is Lilian Hawes (nee Dilworth, Bob's younger sister). If anybody would have any...
  • A sketch of Mayes Bros, Wickford. 03/10/2020 Thank you for these comments Eric, they mean alot to my family. My father came to be near to me...
  • Mayfield’s Swimming Pool in Battlesbridge 02/10/2020 I loved going to Battlesbridge pool. We cycled from Rayleigh, and used to play music on the juke box. I...
  • Wickford C of E School in the early years of the 20th century. 27/09/2020 I remember the school very well as my Grandparents, Daisy and Percy Pitt, lived in the house connected to the...
  • Award to Wickford Fireman, 1973. 26/09/2020 I can remember Bob Wright. My dad Albert Percy Pitt was a barber in Wickford and there were times when...
  • Runwell Hospital in a time of war (1). Memories of wartime. (Updated and republished). 25/09/2020 My mother worked at Runwell with Miss Macmullen during and after the war. She had come from Southern Ireland. My...
  • Burr Hall 23/09/2020 I went to school with Howard Goff. We used to sit on the beams in the hall whilst he played...
  • Carter & Ward, a new venture after the Second World War. 02/09/2020 My dad (Laurie Laybourn) was the manager at the Grays site when I was a kid. I spent many summers...
  • Photographs without information. 31/08/2020 My Dad, Robert Cass, was born in Wickford in 1938 and he’s in the VE Day picture labelled Wick Lane...
  • Hall-Mark Hatcheries 26/08/2020 My Grandad Frank William Shynn joined Hall Mark Hatcheries in about 1937 as Foreman and worked there until his retirement....
  • Sidney C Darby. Agricultural Engineers. 24/08/2020 Really interesting reading all the above as my late father Ben Cootes started his career as an Agricultural engineer at...
  • Runwell Hall 24/08/2020 I think Eileen Todman in West Hanningfield may have lived here as a child. Heard stories about a ghost on...
  • The Dickens Public House, London Road. 20/08/2020 I used to be there every Friday and Saturday nights. I loved it there.
  • Wickford Animal Market 16/08/2020 Both of my Grandfathers attended Wickford Cattle Market. Alf Fance, Rochford butcher, was a Grader there during the years all...
  • Excavation of World War 2 crashed Dornier Bomber 16/08/2020 I was wondering if anyone has the exact location of the crash site on a modern map, grid ref etc,...
  • Bananas grown in Wickford 13/08/2020 In late 1940 while I was working at Ramsden Bellhouse nurseries, Tommy Sowerbutts, the manager, grew a Sport Chrysanthemum which...
  • A sketch of Mayes Bros, Wickford. 07/08/2020 Message for Maggie Carman: I remember your dad very well indeed and your mum too. Once when he was painting...
  • A 19th century view of the village of Wickford. 07/08/2020 The song includes the name Gigney which may refer to previous owners of Mayes Bros Broadway Wickford, which was established...
  • 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...
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  • Eighty years ago today.

    08/10/2020
    Extracts from Billericay War Diary, 2nd October 1940.

  • Old times in Wickford recalled

    08/10/2020
    Memories of Miss Jephson in 1949.

  • Shotgate, the new development.

    05/10/2020
    These 2 pictures  show how the development of Fanton Chase was sold to local residents ...

  • Paul Drury.

    05/10/2020
    Amongst our files archived from the original photographs held by the Evening Echo newspaper was ...
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