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  • Dunton School 30/11/2020 Hi Kathy, You were my best friend at Dunton school and I was so upset when you moved away. Often...
  • Laindon Home Guard and ARPs 22/11/2020 Ken. I found Laindon Ponds on the 1939 Register. In residence were; Frederick K W Seward, date of birth 13.03.1885...
  • Laindon Home Guard and ARPs 22/11/2020 I have been reading the following book 'WARMEN COURAGEOUS' The history of the Essex Home Guard - 1940 - 1945...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 21/11/2020 Hi Stuart, Yes, you are correct. My mistake. I'm not sure what the shelters we had at Langdon Hills Primary...
  • Patsy Mott (née Tyler) 21/11/2020 I lived at 17 Powell Road from 1968 ish until 1977. Have such happy memories of this road.
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 21/11/2020 Hi Alan, Sorry to correct you but Morrison shelters were rather like a dog cage, about the size of a...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 21/11/2020 Hi Sara, It seems everyone from Laindon in that era had an Anderson shelter and we all had the same...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 20/11/2020 The incident in Vowler Road has interested me for as long as I can remember. Dad (Laurie Cuttler) first told...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 20/11/2020 Hi Alan Davies. Lawrence Cuttler is my father and he remembers you very well. Dad is now 84 and living...
  • Buckenham’s 20/11/2020 Dear Editor, I must apologise for attributing the articles written by Jean Rowe and W H Diment incorrectly as the...
  • Correspondence between Andrew Greenaway and Alan Davies about Berry Lane, Prescott Avenue, Beatrice Road and Raglan Road, Langdon Hills. 19/11/2020 I have found this thread between Andrew and Alan most interesting. As a relative newcomer to Langdon Hills,moving to a...
  • Photographs of some Laindon Roads 18/11/2020 I work down Wash Road at the moment and I'm sure the house Barbara Holmes mentioned is still there with...
  • Circus Incident in Laindon 1948. 18/11/2020 I can’t remember the name of the road, but near the station there was a bank with a road by...
  • Buckenham’s 18/11/2020 Dear Editor, Further to my comment of an hour ago, I should have said that I am not the Paul...
  • Buckenham’s 18/11/2020 Further to Jean Rowe (21.11.2019) and W H Diment, (19.11.2019)my cousin Brenda Buckenham is now in a nursing home near...
  • Christmas Party in St Nicholas Church Hall 1957. 16/11/2020 Spent my (almost) entire scouting time in that hall. Reg Boatwright, he was my Scout Leader in the beginning. My...
  • David Blaine’s Plotland memories. (1950/60s) 16/11/2020 Fancy seeing you on here Cousin David and what great memories you have. Some of my happiest days were spent...
  • New Triangle Shops – Langdon Hills 16/11/2020 I can remember, back in the 70's, going to the Chinese takeaway on my forages for food after a session...
  • ‘Mr Laindon – Parky’ 16/11/2020 I remember regularly visiting Parkinson's from the mid 80's to the late 90's, I always got a little lecture that...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 15/11/2020 Hi Stuart, I knew the Cuttlers. I remember they lived in Vowler Road, probably less than a hundred yards from...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 15/11/2020 Hi Stuart Would love to have any photographs you have on the incident...regards..Ken (Porter)
  • Wootton House – Dry Street 14/11/2020 Hi, this is a message for Heather Wax - are you related to Heidi? As well as Ken and Margaret,...
  • V2 Rocket (Wasp) Vowler Road 1944 11/11/2020 As we near the anniversary of the V2 rocket landing in Vowler Road on 13 November 1944 I thought readers...
  • Nightingale Ave Langdon Hills 08/11/2020 Hi Stephen, I remember your family living in Nightingale Avenue. The first three white bungalows in the picture are at...
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