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Memories of Hill Top Road Laindon
01/12/2022
A few weeks ago we were contacted by Susan Bass who told us about her ...
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Memory Day 26 November 2022
28/11/2022
Memory Day 26th November 2022. Saturday Day memory morning on the 26 November was another great ...
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Puritan symbols
25/11/2022
The Old Church of Langdon Hills – ‘St Mary and All Saints’ laid in a ...
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Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2022
17/11/2022
Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2022. Around 125 people turned out at 3pm for this year’s Remembrance ...
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Lamp oil deliveries to the plotlands
03/11/2022
During the October Memory Day at Laindon library we were delighted to welcome Norman Flint ...
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St Meachard Dry Street Langdon Hills
02/11/2022
I only just found the Laindon history site a few months ago and I was ...
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October Memory Day at Laindon Library
30/10/2022
On Saturday morning Laindon Library was buzzing with conversation when at least 25 people gathered ...
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Grandmother I never knew
18/10/2022
My grandmother Elizabeth Lucy Cordwell nee Web who died 1855-1905 is buried in St Mary’s ...
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George Sawyer
06/10/2022
I am saddened to report the death of one of Laindon’s well known sons. George ...
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New Road Sign - Westley Green Development, Dry Street.
05/10/2022
The Westley Green Development off Dry Street has added another road name after Kathleen Davis ...
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Laindon Speedway Track
29/09/2022
Who Remembers the Laindon Speedway track which was situated alongside the Arterial Road (A127), more ...
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George VI Coronation
28/09/2022
I have found a book that was given to my father, Henry Sargeant, to commemorate ...
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2023 Calendar
23/09/2022
Our 2023 Calendar is now available and we have been able to reduce the price ...
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Weekends away from London after the war
09/09/2022
I lived in London in the 1940s/1950’s. My Dad had a small plot of land ...
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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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