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  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ?

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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?

    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

    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

    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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