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    Church Corner, South Benfleet
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    Church Creek, South Benfleet
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    The Benfleet - Canvey Ferry
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    The Stepping Stones, Benfleet Creek

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    Featured articles
    • Priestley - The Lost Pictures

      Priestley - The Lost Pictures

      H.E. Priestley was passionate about local Benfleet History and was also a skilled  artist. These pictures have been lost for around 30 years
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    • Kents Hill Road - From Rural Idyll to Modern Suburb

      Kents Hill Road - From Rural Idyll to Modern Suburb

      Discovering the farms and fields before the plotlands
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    • Essex Carriers Ltd - Video

      Essex Carriers Ltd - Video

      At Work and Play
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    • Edward Sargent of Melcombe Road

      Edward Sargent of Melcombe Road

      Travelling Greengrocer & Fruiterer
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    • Bread and Cheese Hill

      Bread and Cheese Hill

      An Accident Blackspot
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    • 1940s Day Out for Glanfields Ladies

      1940s Day Out for Glanfields Ladies

      Perhaps you know someone in this 1940s photo of staff at Glanfields
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    Latest articles

    • Mr. & Mrs Conyard

      17/07/2018
      Janet Lane (nee Osborne) has written to tell us of her memories of Fred and ...

    • Boyce Hill Golf Club as featured in The Bystander, November 2nd 1938

      05/07/2018
      The page below appeared in The Bystander in 1938, in the Golf Clubs at Home ...

    • A Few Memories of Brian Walker's

      04/07/2018
      I lived with my father, mother and grandparents in St Mary’s Drive in late forties ...

    • Thundersley Christian Spiritualist Church

      29/06/2018
      This year, in October, Thundersley Christian Spiritualist Church celebrates the eighty-fifth year of its founding. The ...
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    Latest comments
    • Cargoes carried in the Scone 17/07/2018 Looked at web site for barge scone are there any plans to re fit it?
    • Mr Joyce’s memories of HMS London and PQ17 13/07/2018 My uncle, George Cumby was on this ship during the Yangtse incident. I have his medal and papers following his...
    • Thundersley Primary School 1966 12/07/2018 My word seeing myself in School Picture 15 front row how lovely.
    • King John School Teachers’ Football Team 1974-5 08/07/2018 Phil Beddow, woodwork. Top right 1 before end.
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