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  • Basildon’s Worst Case Of Eviction? 18/03/2019 Unfortunately a lot of people have a short memory or are not bothered because it never affected them, the so...
  • Langdon Hills Primary School Band 1951/52? 16/03/2019 Hello Alan, the family lived in Derek Dene, Berry Lane, so near Samuel Road. My aunt Helen was born there...
  • Langdon Hills Primary School Band 1951/52? 14/03/2019 Ann Cook, I remember Benji Ellis. We were not the closest of friends but would sometimes end up playing football...
  • Langdon Hills Primary School Band 1951/52? 13/03/2019 My aunt is Helen Ellis and still lives in Berry Lane - she had sisters, Theresa, Josie, Betty, Marjorie, Kathleen....
  • Keith Cullis – Shop in The Broadway, Laindon. 09/03/2019 Yes, Keith was Sheila's brother, Sheila lives in Dorset. There were twelve of us, I am Sandra born in 1946....
  • My Langdon Hills Burr / Partridge Ancestors 09/03/2019 I have been trying to get to know my mother's family. Her maiden name is Burr. I came across the...
  • Laindon Athletic FC 07/03/2019 I passed this photo to Richard Everard about 1995. At the back, 3rd from the left, is my dad, Bill...
  • ‘Mr Laindon – Parky’ 27/02/2019 Parky and my mother Savitri Chowdhary were great friends...they understood each other well and Parky was always so attentive when...
  • The Curious Building in Station Approach. 27/02/2019 Good thinking Alan. The Rawley family moved to Laindon in 1919. In addition to the small office shown in this...
  • The Curious Building in Station Approach. 27/02/2019 Nina, thinking further. I was born in 1934. My parents moved to Laindon in 1935/36 and rented "Low Lands". I...
  • Spire’s Supply Stores 10-12 Laindon High Road. 26/02/2019 Nina...I agree with that.
  • Spire’s Supply Stores 10-12 Laindon High Road. 26/02/2019 Great photos Ken but I think the Laindon spirit still lives on in many of us.
  • ‘Mr Laindon – Parky’ 26/02/2019 Lovely article Ken.
  • 28 September 2012 – Laindon Library Memory Day 25/02/2019 Hi there. I am Alvin Howard and left Laindon in the late 1960s. The name Penny Shead rang a bell...
  • The Curious Building in Station Approach. 25/02/2019 I may be mistaken but memory says that this building was Rawley Estate Agent considerably earlier than the 1950's that...
  • Keith Cullis – Shop in The Broadway, Laindon. 25/02/2019 Great photos. Me and my friend Jane Briton were always in Keith's sweetshop. I remember him very well.
  • Uncle Bill Foyle and King 25/02/2019 Hi. Yes I think Billy had two lions. I grew up in Basildon in 1970s to 80s. I remember my...
  • Gladys Turbard – The Queen of Laindon 25/02/2019 We are pleased to say that we have now received permission from BBC Essex to publish the recorded interview with...
  • Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70 25/02/2019 The girl back row top right on the end is our daughter Tracey English, she said there was a girl...
  • Keith Cullis – Shop in The Broadway, Laindon. 25/02/2019 You could be right Alan. Keith did have a sister called Sheila, born 1935, two years older than himself.
  • Keith Cullis – Shop in The Broadway, Laindon. 25/02/2019 I cannot remember Keith Cullis although, from the photograph, he looks awfully familiar. Perhaps I knew him by sight. Was...
  • Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70 25/02/2019 Is that black girl me, Tracey but known as Bella?
  • Keith Cullis – Shop in The Broadway, Laindon. 24/02/2019 Thanks for adding this information Nina! I can confirm that my dad (Keith Cullis) did own both ‘Keiths’ and Dangerfields....
  • Laindon & District Horticultural Society 24/02/2019 I used to belong to this horticultural club, I used to come with my dad, Ken Cullis. I won the...
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