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Remembrance Day Service at 3pm at the Laindon War Memorial Sunday 11th Nov. 2018.
26/10/2018
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Park Lodge – Synagogue 1968 – 1976
23/10/2018
Park Lodge, built by Isaac Levy, on the corner of High Road and Park Avenue, ...
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2019 Calendar
22/10/2018
The LDCA 2019 calendar is available priced £6. Please contact the Editor.
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Peter Gibbons – ‘Birchlea’ Bridge Avenue, Langdon Hills.
01/10/2018
Peter came to Memory Day at Laindon Library for the first time on Saturday 29th ...
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Alexander Cope - WW1 Hero
26/09/2018
Alexander died on the 4th April 1952 and is buried in St Mary’s Old Church ...
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Memories of Vowler Road
17/09/2018
Further to my comments re Jack Lockett who passed away in 2009, ( see below ...
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Langdon is Special - It's Official
14/08/2018
Well we have always known that Langdon Ridge is special but Natural England appears to ...
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Who Remembers - Circus Rosaire
14/08/2018
On 25 March 1949 the local paper reported that the Circus Rosaire who have their ...
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Joseph Green, Jobbing Gardener and the tragic death of his father on Black Tuesday 18th January 1881.
11/08/2018
This very old photograph (shown below) was recently sent to me by my friend Vivienne. ...
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Gransden - Arterial Road (A127)
07/07/2018
The following enquiry was recently received from Margaret Payne. “In 1958 I visited a great ...
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Memory Day 30th June 2018.
30/06/2018
Despite an Armed Forces Day event taking place in Basiildon Town Centre and the temptation ...
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Westley Green Development - Dry Street, Langdon Hills
21/06/2018
The Redrow development at the east end of Dry Street is progressing well and a ...
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Langdon Hills Army - Casualties - Kenneth Allen Appleby
20/06/2018
In the Old Church cemetery half way down Old Church Hill, Langdon Hills is the ...
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St Nicholas Church Lads Brigade
20/06/2018
Over the years I joined various youth activities, one was the St Nicholas Church Lads ...
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The Retreat - High Road, Laindon
20/06/2018
My Mother Joan Lodge lived in this house in Laindon, named the Retreat over 90 ...
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L A M Stubbs & Son
16/05/2018
I came across this manhole cover at One Tree Hill the other day and wondered ...
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Langdon Hills Nursing Home
30/04/2018
These excellent photographs of Sissinghurst and Lyndhurst have been contributed by David Osborne. David was ...
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Basildon Drive 1945.
29/04/2018
Sue Fawcett, recently found this old photo amongst her mother’s possessions. It shows the 1945 ...
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Correspondence between Andrew Greenaway and Alan Davies about Berry Lane, Prescott Avenue, Beatrice Road and Raglan Road, Langdon Hills.
17/04/2018
Hello Andrew, Yes, I lived in Raglan Road when it was a three foot wide cinder ...
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LHRS Speech Day 1962.
10/04/2018
I was recently contacted by a former classmate of mine, Arthur Abbot. Arthur kindly sent ...
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The 2018 Annual Display
01/04/2018
The 2018 Annual Display on 31st March was a great success. Dozens of people flocked ...
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Archived Laindon Forum Messages
29/03/2018
The following 732 forum entries have been recovered from the old Laindon site and republished ...
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Harry Lowe's café on Arterial Road
20/03/2018
Being a philatelist I lately purchased a set of envelopes, containing an envelope that was ...
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Snagtails Farm
19/03/2018
As mentioned in previous articles, my family home in Laindon was surrounded by fields. This ...
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