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  • Memories of Dry Street 12/06/2021 Hi Anthony, You may find these links to the Basildon History website of interest, they show images from the sanatorium...
  • Memories of Dry Street 11/06/2021 I have been trying to trace my grandfather, and I do know that he suffered with tb. I'm pretty sure...
  • Cliftonville, the home of Grace Healing 11/06/2021 Thank you for taking an interest in this, Colin. Since my original post a couple of days ago, I too...
  • Cliftonville, the home of Grace Healing 10/06/2021 Hello Chris. I have searched through the 1949 electoral register and have found two properties with the name 'Cliftonville'. The...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 09/06/2021 I am so sorry to hear of the passing of Nina she was an amazing lady who did so much...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 09/06/2021 I am so sorry to hear this. She was a lovely lady. I went on several walks with her and...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 08/06/2021 I've been on this site since 2011. In the early days Nina was the one most active, naming all the...
  • Langdon Hills Primary ( 9 of 10) 08/06/2021 No 40 is Guy Ward who sadly drowned when we were on holiday on 11th July 1964
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 03/06/2021 Sad to hear of Nina's passing. I loved her memories of old Laindon, both by talking to her and on...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 03/06/2021 I have just heard of Nina's passing, I feel numb. She was an amazing lady and her knowledge was second...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 03/06/2021 I'm so sorry to hear about the passing of Nina, she helped so many people. The world will be a...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 02/06/2021 Nina was my dad’s (Jim Burton) cousin. She helped me immensely when I started out tracing my family tree. Her...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 02/06/2021 So sad to hear this,deepest sympathy to the Humphrey family. Will be sadly missed on this site.
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 31/05/2021 RIP Nina
  • A Pictorial History of Laindon’s Buses (2 of 2) 18/05/2021 Brings my childhood back to life. We moved to Dunton Road in 1956 when I was 9 and buses played...
  • Joan Dowling 18/05/2021 Thank you so much for the information. I collect Royal Film Performance programmes and theatrical garden party programmes and I...
  • Markhams Chase School Photos 15/05/2021 The Black and White Minstrel Show was published on April 9th 1960 by Basildon Standard Still have the cutting out...
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 14/05/2021 Eric Grant was my dad, Len Robinson's cousin and my godfather. My brother, Martin, worked for a while there to...
  • Laindon High Road School 1956 (11 of 11) 12/05/2021 No. 2 is Pamela Allan, I remember her well as she was my first date, took her to the cinema...
  • My school days at Little Bursted 11/05/2021 I attended the school from 1944 to about 1949 when it closed. My teachers were Mrs Collins and MIss Storey....
  • Little Burstead Coach Outing 11/05/2021 I lived in the village with my parents for 15 years, 1941-1956. My father Alec John Rushen who worked for...
  • Churms family continued. 09/05/2021 Do you remember Betty Andrews of Devonshire Road think she lives in Wickford now.
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 09/05/2021 Hi Paul, I remember Grant Best because I worked for another printing company called Smith Greenfield which was located across...
  • Churms family continued. 06/05/2021 Congratulations We married the year before, also at St Nicholas.
  • Nightingale Ave Langdon Hills 06/05/2021 Hi Alan, there was a Cedric that lived in Stacey Drive, not a very common name so could be the...
  • LHRS Speech Day 1962. 05/05/2021 I'm pretty sure Mr Hawkins would have joined in 1949. I vaguely remember him teaching gardening before he stepped into...
  • Churms family continued. 05/05/2021 In the photo of the babies, Daphne Oughton is my wife, we met at Laindon high Road school about 64/65...
  • Photo from a recent Rail magazine, anybody know of Alec? 05/05/2021 Thank you Nina.
  • Nightingale Ave Langdon Hills 03/05/2021 Hello Sam Feeney Lee. You mention the large family of Lee's living in Nightingale Ave in the 1930's. There was...
  • George and Maria Mihill of Dry Street 02/05/2021 I’ve just discovered this page and seen these photos of my great great grandparents George and Maria. I am the...
  • Joan Dowling 02/05/2021 Very Sad at such a young age & so talented .. One of her co-stars also died young - Ann...
  • William Patrick Gamon 29/04/2021 What a great article - this is about my Uncle Bill, my Mum's brother. Mum was Joan Gamon. Uncle Bill...
  • Nightingale Ave Langdon Hills 29/04/2021 Dear All - My great grandparents Edgar & Marie Lee lived in the first cottage in the 1930s - they...
  • Laindon Library – Gates 25/04/2021 If these gates had been around in 1940, they might have been sacrificed to the war effort. Many iron gates...
  • LHRS Speech Day 1962. 23/04/2021 I left the school in July 1966 being one of the pupils who left in the 4th year, us leavers...
  • Park Lodge – Synagogue 1968 – 1976 22/04/2021 Does anyone have any info or photos of Whiteways. It was my granddads childhood home so I’d like to find...
  • Happy Days, by Judith Howgego (née Dutnall) 13/04/2021 Hello Judy Ranson Yes, I remember your name; we must have been in the same class in primary school. The...
  • Happy Days, by Judith Howgego (née Dutnall) 13/04/2021 Hello Ray Prince! Good to see your message. Yes, as I attended Woodlands Girls' School and Youth Club, I was...
  • Spartan Football Team 12/04/2021 These young chaps were a few years older than I but I knew some of them --- at least by...
  • LHRS Speech Day 1962. 11/04/2021 Nina, I've just looked at this again with the magnified version. Thanks for working on it. I agree that Mr...
  • Spartan Football Team 09/04/2021 Bobby Rasmussen was my dad...I’ve never seen a team picture of him although we were told while growing up that...
  • WW2-Spitfire Collision- Markhams Chase School-5th September 1940 02/04/2021 I was part of the ATC that excavated the Dornier. I think it was 1973 or 1974. As I recall...
  • Memories of Vowler Road 28/03/2021 I was a friend of Jack Lockett and he told me he worked for the post office in the motor...
  • Daphne Wyatt Nee Austin, I lived at 5 King Edward Terrace. 22/03/2021 Hello, I was in the same class as John Austin in the first year. We had Mr Rosen as our...
  • Mini Wear shop in Laindon Centre 21/03/2021 Mini Wear as the name suggests was a baby and children's wear shop and was situated at no 18 Laindon...
  • Laindon Shopping Centre Free Guide 21/03/2021 I worked at Lloyds bank from September 1973 to March 1985. I remember lots of the old shops.
  • Daphne Wyatt Nee Austin, I lived at 5 King Edward Terrace. 21/03/2021 Yes John Austin was my Brother sadly he passed away few years ago.
  • Daphne Wyatt Nee Austin, I lived at 5 King Edward Terrace. 21/03/2021 I recall a boy in the same year as me at the High Road school, John Austin, I wonder if...
  • Uncle Bill Foyle and King 20/03/2021 Hi Ann so good to know your out there! I hope lifes been kind to you, I remember you from...
  • Uncle Bill Foyle and King 20/03/2021 Hello, Billy Foyle was my father I'm the youngest of the four daughter Anne.
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  • Cliftonville, the home of Grace Healing

    09/06/2021
    In the course of researching my family history I am piecing together the movements of ...

  • Nina Humphrey 1946 - 2021

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    With great sadness we announce the news that Nina lost her battle with her illness ...

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