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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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  • 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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