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  • Berry Boys Club. 03/08/2022 I boxed at Berry Boys club 1970 to 1972. I Remember Derek and Steve and Bernard and secretary John. Also,David...
  • Ken Collier – Berry Boy’s Boxing Club 02/08/2022 Does anybody remember Mathew Laudat and David O'Neil at this club in 1971/72?
  • Chowdhary School Class Photo 1969/70 31/07/2022 I was in Miss Davis's class, she then married and became Mrs. Barnes. Steven Jack and Steven Troad were in...
  • Salvation Army Group Approx. 1950. 24/07/2022 Hi Joan Baterip and Martin Sarfas, similar train of thought to Joan my maternal grandmother is a Sarfas, also from...
  • Laindon Park Primary School 22/07/2022 I went to this school from 1964-1969, then to Laindon High Road. Glad this school hasn't been demolished like the...
  • Presland’s Fair 18/07/2022 I remember Presland's funfair very well! They used to visit Tolleshunt D'Arcy every year to provide the entertainment at the...
  • Photographs with a Purpose 12/07/2022 I was born at a house called 'Josephine' Langdon Hills Essex in 1946, my grandparents Mr and Mrs Simpson lived...
  • Direct ancestor of Philip Lambert Sr. (1737) 08/07/2022 I am the 4th great granddaughter. Looking for more information on him.
  • Old Hill Avenue 02/07/2022 'Milo' and 'The Briars' were owned by the Maynard family, not Mayard. My mother was one of the Maynard daughters....
  • Enefer’s Cafe 30/06/2022 Used to bunk school with Matt Foot and sit and drink milky coffee and have a crafty smoke unhindered back...
  • A little bit of Laindon’s past. 23/06/2022 Does anyone have any photos of the Regal Social Club? I have such fond memories as a child going there,...
  • Grant Best of Durham Road, Laindon 18/06/2022 Having worked as metal typesetter in various countries I settled in London and became a typographer to start with. Once...
  • Memories of Vowler Road 18/06/2022 I would love to know more about Vowler Road. Especially number 54 where I live now. My mum and dad...
  • Laindon High Road School 13/06/2022 I went to Laindon School between 1982 and 1985 and have a good memory. I would like to correct the...
  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ? 08/06/2022 Thank you very much Rob, I’ve been curious about them for quite some time now and just couldn’t work out...
  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ? 07/06/2022 As you drive on to the hospital site Helen and go to outpatients at the end ...on the right you...
  • History of Laindon 06/06/2022 My nan Mrs. Daisy knight lived there but not sure for how long. My mum Vera Lucy Knight had George,...
  • New Fortune of War 04/06/2022 Does anyone remember a car driven by my grandfather, driving into the double doors by accident in the early 50's?...
  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ? 03/06/2022 Thank you Rob. Where about are they? The look a lot older than the hospital.
  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ? 02/06/2022 Nurse flats originally but some are now offices.
  • Langdon Hills Old St Mary’s – Old Church Hill 01/06/2022 I and my husband had occasion to visit the grave of a recently interred friend at Old St Mary's cemetery....
  • Jillean Hipsey (neé Porter)…Netball legend 29/05/2022 I remember watching her in Trinidad in 1979 netball world cup. she was the captain and played centre. A very...
  • Bungalow Names 28/05/2022 My mother and aunt were born in Vowler Road. My aunt was called Delia,(De), and my mother was Kathleen Murrell....
  • Langdon Hills Old St Mary’s – Old Church Hill 28/05/2022 The church was sold in the ‘60’s l believe? but the churchyard itself is open to the public as the...
  • Rectory Cottages Dunton 28/05/2022 Brian, St. Mary the Virgin was definitely the only church in Dunton. Until 1934 the building that was in active...
  • Laindon High Road School 1958 (13 of 14) 25/05/2022 Is number 3 Garry Cooper?
  • 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...
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  • Memory Day Meeting 31st July 2022

    01/08/2022
    We were delighted to have the company of twenty friends of LDCA come along to ...

  • Can anyone please tell me what these towers near the hospital are ?

    25/05/2022

  • ANNUAL MEMORY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DAY – 28TH April 2022

    07/05/2022
    After two years of cancelled Annual Photographic Days, a beautiful day brought out dozens of ...

  • Plotlands to Suburbia – Memories of Freda Hand

    02/04/2022
    Freda and her husband Robert were brought up in the plotlands of Langdon Hills and ...
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