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Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ?
25/05/2022
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ANNUAL MEMORY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DAY – 28TH April 2022
07/05/2022
After two years of cancelled Annual Photographic Days, a beautiful day brought out dozens of ...
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Plotlands to Suburbia – Memories of Freda Hand
02/04/2022
Freda and her husband Robert were brought up in the plotlands of Langdon Hills and ...
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Reminiscing the Old Days
01/04/2022
Reminiscing the Old Days I have been perusing through old local newspapers and have come across ...
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High Road shops - South section
01/03/2022
There has been a great deal of interest in the names and locations of the ...
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Westley Green - Road Names
28/02/2022
Westley Green – Road Names The Westley Green development by Redrow has just added the following ...
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Cornerstone
12/02/2022
Another one of our old bungalows is disappearing into the mist of history. The bungalow ...
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Westley Mews - Road Names
31/01/2022
In addition to Westley Green off Dry Street, Redrow’s new development Westley Mews in the ...
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Memories of Old Laindon
17/01/2022
Does anyone Remember Squires, the electrical shop next to the Radion? I used to take ...
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Rectory Cottages Dunton
18/12/2021
Hello, I am researching my family and have obtained the birth certificate of my fathers ...
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Memory Day 25th September 2021
30/09/2021
After nearly two years break due to the Covid Pandemic we held a very successful ...
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2022 Calendar
04/09/2021
2022 Calendar Due to the continuing circumstances, we have again decided to make our 2022 Calendar ...
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New Book - A Tribute to Langdon
12/08/2021
The Langdon Ridge is one of the landscape gems of South Essex. Long famed for ...
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The Woodsman comes home
07/08/2021
The Woodsman comes home Who remembers the Woodsman that stood in St Martin’s Square, Basildon town ...
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Raglan Road, The Hall Family
03/08/2021
Helen Hall is my grandmother, Leonard Hall her son is my father and my mothers ...
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Brian Cordell
22/07/2021
Brian Cordell It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of Brian ...
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Grant Best Limited, Durham Road: A potted history
18/06/2021
The firm was inaugurated and owned by my parents, Francis and Ethel Grant, of Victoria ...
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Cliftonville, the home of Grace Healing
09/06/2021
In the course of researching my family history I am piecing together the movements of ...
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Nina Humphrey 1946 - 2021
02/06/2021
With great sadness we announce the news that Nina lost her battle with her illness ...
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St Nicholas Church by Georgina Nottage
22/05/2021
ST NICHOLAS CHURCH by Georgina Nottage The Church of St Nicholas sits on high spire high in the ...
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PROGRESS FOR BETTER OR WORSE by Georgina Nottage
22/05/2021
PROGRESS FOR BETTER OR WORSE by Georgina Nottage “Would you deny progress?” the young man said Hearing this I felt ...
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Little Burstead school pupils 1946-47?
13/05/2021
Peter Rushen has sent in a photograph of children from the Little Burstead School on ...
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Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon
08/05/2021
I started my apprenticeship as a hot metal compositor at Grant Best and worked with ...
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Basildon's Famous People Volume Two
09/04/2021
Back in 2016 I published my first book on Basildon’s Famous People whereby I wrote ...
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Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70
20/05/2022
Assuming that's the old Chowdhary Primary School in Basildon? I was there from 1966 to 1971. I remember teachers like...
Cast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Laindon Park School
13/05/2022
Hi Is there anyone on here that would like to pop in and talk to the children that attend Laindon...
Canon John Vaughan-Jones Curate of St Nicholas Church, Laindon
08/05/2022
Interested to read Nick Davies’s comments. I am John Vaughan Jones’s daughter Maggi and would love to get in touch...
Reminiscing the Old Days
30/04/2022
Opposite St. Peter's Mission Church, just outside the fence around St. Peter's Hall to the west, was a small elevated...
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