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  • Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70 20/05/2022 Assuming that's the old Chowdhary Primary School in Basildon? I was there from 1966 to 1971. I remember teachers like...
  • Cast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Laindon Park School 13/05/2022 Hi Is there anyone on here that would like to pop in and talk to the children that attend Laindon...
  • Canon John Vaughan-Jones Curate of St Nicholas Church, Laindon 08/05/2022 Interested to read Nick Davies’s comments. I am John Vaughan Jones’s daughter Maggi and would love to get in touch...
  • Reminiscing the Old Days 30/04/2022 Opposite St. Peter's Mission Church, just outside the fence around St. Peter's Hall to the west, was a small elevated...
  • Memories of Vowler Road 29/04/2022 Dr. Garson and family lived at "Bethune", High Road . Niki and I were inseparable from the the day we...
  • Old Laindon photographs 26/04/2022 The sweet shop was run by the Griffin family in the early sixties. Daughter Christine was in my classes at...
  • Old Laindon photographs 25/04/2022 There was a sweet and tobacco shop directly across New Century Road from the Radion. I think it changed names...
  • Old Laindon photographs 24/04/2022 Hi, Does anyone remember the little sweet shop with the tin roof on? I can't remember if it was to...
  • Cecil Alec Hewett 1926-1998, another one of Laindon’s famous and talented people 21/04/2022 I was interested to come across this page, as I am Cecil Hewett's youngest son ( age 64 ). I...
  • The Haven and Plotlands 16/04/2022 I have found this information very interesting. My grandfather bought six adjoining plots, four were off Third Avenue and two...
  • Memories of Vowler Road 29/03/2022 I was born in 1962, and lived in Norman Villa, Vowler Road, Langdon Hills until April 1965. My Dad (Henry...
  • Sloper’s Dairy of Laindon 27/03/2022 Some wonderful memories here. My Dad (James aka Jim Ellis) worked for Wife & Sloper at the Farm and Markhams...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 24/03/2022 Further to your post, Alan, I have a few other names and questions regarding Berry Lane residents around that time....
  • Memories of Old Laindon 22/03/2022 Following up on Colin's comment that he "can remember most of the families in Berry Lane". I think I am...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 15/03/2022 Paul Gibson, you have a fantastic memory, something I'm often told I have also. You're spot on with everything you...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 15/03/2022 As a young lad in the late 50s I remember the local builder who I assume was your father his...
  • The Haven and Plotlands 14/03/2022 Hi all, and thankyou for this website. I proudly retired to Brooklands, Jaywick 18 years ago on a cold wet...
  • Laindon and its Railway; or how the Ancient Institution of the parish was lost 09/03/2022 My family used the train service from Barking to Laindon in the late 1960s/early 1970s to visit family in Basildon....
  • The Old Fortune Of War 08/03/2022 Good evening. I wonder whether you are able to assist me. I am the custodian of a vintage car, a...
  • Bungalow Names 06/03/2022 I used live in a bungalow in the 1960 it was called 'Ethel' Bridge Avenue Laindon, in the plotlands close...
  • Bungalow Names 05/03/2022 My nan Ivy Hoskins lived in a bungalow in Berry Lane Langdon Hills called 'Penshurst', she had two children, my...
  • Almada Avenue, Lee Chapel 03/03/2022 The editor has noted that the bungalow in Little Lullaway was "‘St Elmo’, in Rayleigh Drive". This bungalow is too...
  • Bottled memories of a long-gone farming life 02/03/2022 The man who died after the V2 attack on the 19th Feb 1945 was Christopher Iveson Webster, a bookbinder aged...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 02/03/2022 Alan, yes, I am a member of that Carey family that lived in Berry Lane just before Lincewood Park Drive...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 01/03/2022 Colin, I was at Langdon Hills School earlier, from 1939 to 1946. The teachers I remember are Mrs. Hanson, Mrs....
  • Memories of Old Laindon 01/03/2022 Alan, I too was a pupil at Langdon Hills primary school from '48 to '54. It was a lovely school...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 01/03/2022 I do not remember steps up to the Paramount store but you may be right. I was familiar with Bata...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 27/02/2022 Yes, Alan, I do remember Paramount, wasn't it at the top of some steps? Perhaps a bit later there was...
  • Bungalow Names 27/02/2022 I lived in a bungalow called Eleanor which was in New Century Road in 1938 does anyone recall a nurse...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 27/02/2022 Squires competitor was Paramount (I think that was their name) next to Bata shoes. It has always amazed me that...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 27/02/2022 Thank you for adding the photo of Squires Electrical shop next to the Radion cinema. Does anyone also remember another...
  • Memories of Old Laindon 26/02/2022 I believe that my parents bought their first television set from Squires in 1953. The man who delivered it was...
  • Private Arthur Judge – Korean Hero 25/02/2022 ARTHUR G JUDGE: Arthur was my uncle, l am proud of him more than mere words l can say! If...
  • Dry Street Development – Road Names 19/02/2022 Private Arthur Judge - l am his nephew, my father was his elder brother. I am so, so very proud...
  • Memories of Mrs Emily Ada Tossell (Emma) 18/02/2022 Hi l'm looking for information of Charlesville Laindon in the early 1900’s. The Tossell Family. Thank you if anyone has...
  • The Dagenham East Rail Crash 13/02/2022 Just found out today that my husband is a close relative of Joseph Theobald of Rosemary, Sunnyside Gardens who tragically...
  • Laindon High Road School 1958 (10 of 14) 13/02/2022 Number 53 is definitely Brian Macdonald
  • Memories of Dry Street 08/02/2022 My stepmum lived in that cottage in the 1980's I'm the reason it caught fire when I was a baby....
  • S. X. Tools, Pound Lane, Laindon 06/02/2022 Worked there from 1966 to 1970 and can remember most of the faces there. Have some photos of a football...
  • The Walker family, Victoria Road, Laindon 04/02/2022 When were the houses in Powell Road built?
  • ‘Mr Laindon – Parky’ 30/01/2022 Used to visit Parkinson's in the late 60's early 70's for parts for my early Morris. Always managed to get...
  • A model/starlet who lodged in Laindon? 18/01/2022 Hello, I have just seen her in Dial 999 on Talking Pictures TV. A real blonde bombshell! Love to know...
  • The Haven and Plotlands 12/01/2022 My father and his wife owned and lived in the Haven in the 80’s and I spent many a lovely...
  • Presland’s Fair 06/01/2022 I am a distant relation of the Presland family from Deptford. My great great grandfather is Walter Richard Presland who...
  • The Lee Family 05/01/2022 Does the house called Banchory in Dry Street still exist?
  • The Lee Family 03/01/2022 My grandmother was Ellen Lee (nee Duggan) who in the 1950 at least, lived at Banchory in Dry Street. I...
  • The Old Rectory – Langdon Hills 03/01/2022 I am 70 now but as a child I lived in the medieval house next door called Rectory Cottage. I...
  • The Old Rectory – Langdon Hills 03/01/2022 Although Eusebius Digby Cleaver did have links to the linen family, he is more well known in Ireland for being...
  • Nightingale Ave Langdon Hills 01/01/2022 Rick Desmier, Hi Rick I remember staying at your farm after you had moved to Burgess hill Sussex Freek's Farm...
  • The Cracker Factory 01/01/2022 I was looking for info on the cracker factory (thinking incorrectly that it was part of the Tom Smith company)...
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