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  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 25/07/2021 I remember you getting married but I think you left soon after. I used to get Eric's dinner from the...
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 24/07/2021 Hi Paul, reading your story has certainly brought back memories for me !. I started at Grant-Best in late 1960...
  • Brian Cordell 22/07/2021 I am shocked to hear of Brian Cordell's passing. I was at Laindon High Road School, a few years younger...
  • The Church on the Hill – St Nicholas 22/07/2021 As a recent new volunteer helping to keep Mother Nature in check with the Church grounds, I am proud alongside...
  • Markhams Chase Story 22/07/2021 I attended Janet Duke Primary and Juniors from about 1961 (I was born in 1956) I think my first teacher...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 17/07/2021 Sad news indeed. I had the pleasure of meeting Nina and Colin seven or eight years ago on an extended...
  • Sandy Penson 14/07/2021 Do we know who the other shadow dancers were please?
  • Grant Best Limited, Durham Road: A potted history 13/07/2021 I remember your father well. We lived on the other side of Victoria Avenue a little further along. I recall...
  • The Blacksmith’s 12/07/2021 Too far back for living memory but my ancestors came from Laindon in the early 1800s. In 1884 Edward Miller...
  • The Old Fortune Of War 12/07/2021 Noticed the name of the pub Fortune of War. My 5x grandfather Edward Miller ran the Fortune of War pub...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 05/07/2021 I'm so saddened to hear the news about Nina. She was a lovely lady and I really enjoyed getting to...
  • Who remembers our Joan Rosaire and her Wonder Horse Goldy 05/07/2021 My friends and I used to go regularly to the winter quarters in Coxs Farm Road. Joan was always very...
  • Langdon Hills Primary ( 8 of 10) 04/07/2021 29 is Ronnie Edwards
  • Langdon Hills Primary ( 9 of 10) 04/07/2021 36 is Stephen Price
  • Langdon Hills Primary (10 of 10) 04/07/2021 No 26 is Trevor Adams
  • Langdon Hills Primary ( 6 of 10) 28/06/2021 No 29 is it Harry Hopkins the family did emigrate to Australia after his sister was born
  • Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70 28/06/2021 Hi Ellen remember Tracey English well - think bottom next to Bella is me Karen steel and next to Tracey...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 23/06/2021 I am very sad to read the news that Nina has gained her angel wings after such a long struggle...
  • Nina Humphrey 1946 – 2021 18/06/2021 Dear friends, thank you for your kind words. Sadly because of the covid pandemic we have been unable to keep...
  • The High Road from North to South. 17/06/2021 Thank you for the pictures Barry. We lived in the bungalow "Jireh" in the 50's between Dr Choudray and Cleggs...
  • Uncle Bill Foyle and King 13/06/2021 My mother Margaret Doubtfire was friends with Bill Foyle in about 1963, I went to his house and I saw...
  • 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...
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  • Brian Cordell

    22/07/2021
    Brian Cordell It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of Brian ...

  • Grant Best Limited, Durham Road: A potted history

    18/06/2021
    The firm was inaugurated and owned by my parents, Francis and Ethel Grant, of Victoria ...

  • 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

    02/06/2021
    With great sadness we announce the news that Nina lost her battle with her illness ...
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