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  • Second World War Civil Defence Messengers

    Second World War Civil Defence Messengers

    28/08/2017
    WW2 Civil Defence Messengers Researching through some old newspaper clippings that had been handed to Basildon ...
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  • Memory Days at Laindon Library 2017

    Memory Days at Laindon Library 2017

    28/08/2017
    Memory Days at Laindon Library are as popular now as when they first started six ...
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  • The Strangest Laindon Church

    The Strangest Laindon Church

    22/08/2017
    Laindon's Theomonistic Church
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  • Early Saint Nicholas Rectors

    Early Saint Nicholas Rectors

    16/08/2017
    Which Language Was Spoken In Early St Nicholas Church?
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  • Sponsorship/donations

    Sponsorship/donations

    11/08/2017
    Following a previous post, we are still appealing for donations to help fund the transfer ...
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  • Prefects, 4X and 5X 1959/60

    Prefects, 4X and 5X 1959/60

    29/07/2017
    Laindon High Road School
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  • Memory Day at the Library 29th July 2017

    Memory Day at the Library 29th July 2017

    29/07/2017
    Another happy gathering at Laindon Library this morning.  Twenty two people attended and spent two ...
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  • Photographs from Bob Moore

    Photographs from Bob Moore

    29/07/2017
    The following was received from Patsy Mott at this morning’s Memory Day at Laindon Library:- Some time ...
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  • GW Jeakins Removals and Storage

    GW Jeakins Removals and Storage

    25/07/2017
    Arterial Road Laindon
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  • Betting

    Betting

    17/07/2017
    The Not So Secret World Of Bookies.
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  • Direct ancestor of Philip Lambert Sr. (1737)

    Direct ancestor of Philip Lambert Sr. (1737)

    13/07/2017
    looking for information
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  • St Nicholas Sunday School

    St Nicholas Sunday School

    03/07/2017
    1947 & 1948
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  • Early School Reports 1930s

    Early School Reports 1930s

    03/07/2017
    These belonged to a lady who passed away a few years ago. Due to the ...
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  • Old Photos - Jemima Chapman (nèe Rhind)

    Old Photos - Jemima Chapman (nèe Rhind)

    30/06/2017
    My family were originally from Fife in Scotland.  My parents (William Rhind and Caroline Carey) married ...
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  • Memory Day at Laindon Library 24 June 2017

    Memory Day at Laindon Library 24 June 2017

    26/06/2017
    June’s Memory Day saw a group of 16 at Laindon Library, including a former Laindon resident ...
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  • May Queen 1956/57

    May Queen 1956/57

    25/06/2017
    May Day gathering at Laindon High Road School for the crowning of the local Guide’s ...
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  • High Road Laindon 1929 - ?

    High Road Laindon 1929 - ?

    23/06/2017
    A photograph of High Road, Laindon which I haven’t seen before.  I’m not sure which ...
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  • Work and a schoolboy

    Work and a schoolboy

    23/06/2017
    My first foray into the demanding world of work was as a newspaper delivery boy. ...
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  • James Horslen - Laindon Army Veteran

    James Horslen - Laindon Army Veteran

    21/06/2017
    I have been researching the British Newspapers Archive and it is amazing the interesting individual ...
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  • LHR School Sports Days 1960, 1962 and 1963.

    LHR School Sports Days 1960, 1962 and 1963.

    16/06/2017
    I now have photocopies of the LHR School Sports Day Results for 1960, 1962 and ...
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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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Latest comments
  • Old Hill Avenue 02/07/2022 'Milo' and 'The Briars' were owned by the Maynard family, not Mayard. My mother was one of the Maynard daughters....
  • Enefer’s Cafe 30/06/2022 Used to bunk school with Matt Foot and sit and drink milky coffee and have a crafty smoke unhindered back...
  • A little bit of Laindon’s past. 23/06/2022 Does anyone have any photos of the Regal Social Club? I have such fond memories as a child going there,...
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 18/06/2022 Having worked as metal typesetter in various countries I settled in London and became a typographer to start with. Once...
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