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Holiday Memories from the Fifties.
18/11/2016
The following article was submitted by Colin Bristow:- I have some fond memories of happy, carefree holidays ...
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Photos - Regal Club Outing and Markham's Chase
18/11/2016
The following two photos were submitted by Brenda Brooks (Gray):- This was a Regal Club outing to ...
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Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2016
15/11/2016
Remembrance Sunday 13th November 2016 Unlike other remembrance Sundays, the service at the Laindon War Memorial ...
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A book entitled 'Morning'
15/11/2016
Featuring the space age climbing frames in Victoria Park, Laindon.
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Richard Henry Davison Chapman - Dunkirk Hero
14/11/2016
Dunkirk Hero – Richard Henry Davison Chapman On the credence table in the Sanctuary of St ...
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Laurie Hatherall - Bicycle Polo Team
23/10/2016
The following has been contributed by Barbara O’Brien, daughter of Laurie Hatherall:- “My dad, Laurie Hatherall, ...
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A Bit of Laindon History in Boston
22/10/2016
The College Club of Boston is a women’s club that began in December, 1890. It ...
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St Nicholas Church, Laindon War Memorial WW1
22/10/2016
The following are two names that appear on the war memorial shown below that we ...
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Prefabs
13/10/2016
I was born in “Marathon”, Exmouth Road, Laindon in 1942. In 1945, we moved to ...
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Country Walking
13/10/2016
Britain's best-selling walking magazine
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Joan Sims and the Carry On Films
01/10/2016
Pinewood Studios' 80th Anniversary.
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September Memory Day 2016
25/09/2016
At least 24 people attended the September ‘Memory Day’ at the Laindon Library yesterday. Two ...
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Victoria Park's New Playground and a Walk Around Alexandra Road.
25/09/2016
Over a year ago, during a ‘Memory Day’ at Laindon Library, an artist called Shaun ...
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Basildon Famous People
20/09/2016
New Book Release Basildon Famous People….by Ken Porter Basildon Borough as we now know is the largest ...
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Little Malgraves Cottages
11/09/2016
Inhabitants
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Nightingale Parade - Which Year?
02/09/2016
Page submitted by Gerald Jones (Gerry) 1 Nightingale Parade Langdon Hills & Laindon Co-Operative Society Schofield & Martin’s ...
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Art Project and Memory Walk
23/08/2016
Saturday 24th Sept. 2016 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. A walk around former plotlands ...
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War Veterans - Road Names - Dry Street Development
15/08/2016
The first phase of the housing development at Dry Street is very imminent and the Developers ...
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Laindon High Road - Which Year.
26/07/2016
Laindon Hotel (on the left) was built in 1896, the High Road was made up ...
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Looking for Jimmy Milne
25/07/2016
Old Bricklaying friend
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Hans Nagler - World War Two Prisoner of War
19/07/2016
Hans Nagler – World War Two Prisoner of War Hans was born on 10 March 1921 ...
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Lance Corporal William A Patrick - Korean Hero
16/07/2016
Back in 2014 I posted an article on the site in-respect of Private Arthur Judge ...
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William John Branch - WW1 Casualty
10/07/2016
Along with colleagues at Laindon Archive and Basildon Heritage we are continually researching those heroes ...
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Fabulous Strangers - who remembers them?
06/07/2016
Headlines from the Laindon Recorder 2 August 1961. LAINDON GROUP HOPE TO PLAY AT THE LONDON ...
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The Pets that stayed behind. Poem.
22/02/2019
That was very sad Ellen. We rented from the Basildon Development Corporation when we first got married. I remember reading...
The Pets that stayed behind. Poem.
22/02/2019
Oh, after fifty seven years, these memories resonate with me. We were compulsory purchased in 1961 and at that time...
Fords Research Centre – Before and After
22/02/2019
I would like to add that before Bourne Avenue was ‘made up’ in the mid-sixties, it had been an unmade...
Buckenham Butchers
22/02/2019
A LHR school friend, Margaret Cousins', father was a manager of this branch of Buckenhams, and they lived in the...
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