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  • LHR School Sports Day Results 1961

    LHR School Sports Day Results 1961

    15/06/2017
    The field events took place one afternoon.  That was when I won the discus throwing ...
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  • LHR School Sports Day Results 1959

    LHR School Sports Day Results 1959

    14/06/2017
    A few years ago, for my own records, I took a photocopy of the Laindon High ...
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  • Crown Sign at Langdon Hills

    Crown Sign at Langdon Hills

    09/06/2017
    What happened to the fine plaster inn sign of the Crown Hotel, Langdon Hills which ...
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  • School teams

    School teams

    08/06/2017
    A little help is needed from someone, anyone. I have recollection of being in a ...
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  • Langdon Hills Second World War Army Camp - Final Bugle Call

    Langdon Hills Second World War Army Camp - Final Bugle Call

    05/06/2017
    The camp was built towards the end of 1938 and became the home of first ...
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  • A model/starlet who lodged in Laindon?

    A model/starlet who lodged in Laindon?

    04/06/2017
    I was told by my sister Anne, that we once had a young fair haired ...
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  • Across the footlights - Dorothy Reeves (4)

    Across the footlights - Dorothy Reeves (4)

    26/05/2017
    Another local celebrity from the newspaper archives – Laindon Recorder March 1951: Dorothy Reeves and her ...
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  • Paul Egholm

    Paul Egholm

    21/05/2017
    The Pinkees 1980s Pop Group.
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  • Sponsorship

    Sponsorship

    30/04/2017
    Laindon and District Community Archive – Sponsorship www.laindonhistory.org.uk Re: Saving our Community Archive website We are looking for sponsorship ...
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  • George Hill

    George Hill

    19/04/2017
    Sadly George Hill, my old friend of over sixty years, died unexpectedly last Thursday April ...
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  • A man who don't refuse

    A man who don't refuse

    23/03/2017
    A man who don’t refuse Here is a man, who don’t refuse, To make or mend your ...
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  • Unexploded Bomb Railway Approach 21.03.17

    Unexploded Bomb Railway Approach 21.03.17

    21/03/2017
    I first heard of this via the Basildon Memories Group on Facebook.  Looking on the map, ...
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  • Growing up in the shadow of St Nicholas

    Growing up in the shadow of St Nicholas

    12/03/2017
    Expanding on Boyhood Country Style 09/15
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  • Report and Photos of the Annual Display at the Manor Mission 29.04.17.

    Report and Photos of the Annual Display at the Manor Mission 29.04.17.

    08/03/2017
    A new attraction was added to this year’s Annual Display at the Manor Mission Hall ...
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  • Ken Collier - Berry Boy's Boxing Club

    Ken Collier - Berry Boy's Boxing Club

    05/03/2017
    My dad Ken Collier joined the club around 1948 when he was 10 years old ...
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  • Laindon People

    Laindon People

    03/03/2017
    Worldwide distribution
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  • The Weather Cock Is Back.

    The Weather Cock Is Back.

    27/02/2017
    After some 40 odd years, St Nicholas Church has its weather cock back. Sometime during ...
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  • Memory Day 25th February 2017

    Memory Day 25th February 2017

    25/02/2017
    Memory Day at Laindon Library is proving to be as popular as ever at the ...
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  • Pretoria - Sandringham Road

    Pretoria - Sandringham Road

    25/02/2017
    Vivienne Salmon (nèe Bragg) kindly provided some photographs of her Grandparent’s bungalow in Sandringham Road, ...
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  • A Tenth Birthday Party in Noak Hill Road

    A Tenth Birthday Party in Noak Hill Road

    25/02/2017
    Two photographs provided by Vivienne Salmon (nèe Bragg) of her 10th birthday party in August ...
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  • Co-op Opening Day, Laindon Centre Feb, 1970.

    Co-op Opening Day, Laindon Centre Feb, 1970.

    19/02/2017
    This newspaper cutting was kindly provided by Julie King nèe Wright, (the little girl in the picture then ...
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  • Salvation Army Group Approx. 1950.

    Salvation Army Group Approx. 1950.

    05/02/2017
    Joan Sarfas is the little girl in front of the lady in uniform. Joan would be interested ...
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  • Manor Mission Brownies Late Fifties.

    Manor Mission Brownies Late Fifties.

    02/02/2017
    This Brownie pack used to meet at the Manor Mission. Can anyone add to the following ...
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  • 3rd Laindon Girl Guides July 1937.

    3rd Laindon Girl Guides July 1937.

    02/02/2017
    This photograph was taken in the grounds of St Nicholas Church. Back row: 5th from left, ...
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Latest comments
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 14/05/2021 Eric Grant was my dad, Len Robinson's cousin and my godfather. My brother, Martin, worked for a while there to...
  • Laindon High Road School 1956 (11 of 11) 12/05/2021 No. 2 is Pamela Allan, I remember her well as she was my first date, took her to the cinema...
  • My school days at Little Bursted 11/05/2021 I attended the school from 1944 to about 1949 when it closed. My teachers were Mrs Collins and MIss Storey....
  • Little Burstead Coach Outing 11/05/2021 I lived in the village with my parents for 15 years, 1941-1956. My father Alec John Rushen who worked for...
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