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  • Victoria House Corner (date unknown)
    Victoria House Corner (date unknown)
  • Victoria House Corner c.1925
    Victoria House Corner c.1925
  • Victoria House Corner in the 1970s (1)
    Victoria House Corner in the 1970s (1)
  • Victoria House Corner in the 1970s (2)
    Victoria House Corner in the 1970s (2)
  • Victoria House Corner in 2011
    Victoria House Corner in 2011

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    • Memories of Bygone Years

      Memories of Bygone Years

      Arundel Road did not exist beyond the holiday bungalow next to my grandmother’s property, so we had to use her garden to walk through to Overton Road.
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    • Stanley Thomas Jermyn

      Stanley Thomas Jermyn

      South Benfleet Botanist and Conservationist. Author of 'The Flora of Essex'
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    • Coronation Party Summer 1953

      Coronation Party Summer 1953

      Photo of the party
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    • St Mary's Church Wind Vane after repairs

      St Mary's Church Wind Vane after repairs

      The repaired St Mary's wind vane.
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    • St Mary's Church Bell Tower Wind Vane

      St Mary's Church Bell Tower Wind Vane

      On top of the St Mary's Church Bell Tower has been a wind vane since 1785.
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    • Barbarossa

      Barbarossa

      A gaff ketch built and sailed by Robert and Susan Hart
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    • The Last Chairman of Benfleet British Legion

      The Last Chairman of Benfleet British Legion

      In the summer of 1946, Sergeant A.S. Davis was finally released from the Royal Artillery after almost 8 years service.
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    • Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s

      Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s

      Despite the state of the unmade roads, it was nice and quiet due to the lack of traffic, and there was plenty of wildlife. I used to sit on the back doorstep and watch the lizards running around the yard.
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    • Tracing my mum's early childhood

      Tracing my mum's early childhood

      I am trying to trace my mum’s early childhood years. I believe up to the age of 14 she lived initially around Thundersley and then Hadleigh'
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    • 54th CLESC Battalion of the Homeguard

      54th CLESC Battalion of the Homeguard

      The Home Guard at Benfleet in 1944
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    • My recollections of Ted FitzGerald

      My recollections of Ted FitzGerald

      John Peters recalls working with Ted FitzGerald
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    • Thundersley Primary School 1948/49

      Thundersley Primary School 1948/49

      Thundersley Primary School class photo 1948/49
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    • C.W. Comerford

      C.W. Comerford

      New material/photos and sketches on this artist.
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    • VE Day Celebrations Albion Road

      VE Day Celebrations Albion Road

      Photos showing residents of Albion Road celebrating VE Day.
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    • HMM Algeciras leaves the UK on the 15th June 2020

      HMM Algeciras leaves the UK on the 15th June 2020

      The world's largest container ship, HMM Algeciras leaves the Thames on the 15th June 2020.
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    • Memories of Tarpots in the 1960s

      Memories of Tarpots in the 1960s

      I moved to New Thundersley as it was then known in 1963.  At that time we would come to the Tarpots to shop.
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    • The Changing Face of Tarpots

      The Changing Face of Tarpots

      Do you remember Tarpots as seen in these photos?
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    • Gloster Meteor jet crash

      Gloster Meteor jet crash

      On the 12th April 1952 a jet plane crashed behind houses in Philmead Road
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    • Work progresses on the Colvin Bridge

      Work progresses on the Colvin Bridge

      Building The Colvin Bridge 1930
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    • Delivering the milk in Grove Road

      Delivering the milk in Grove Road

      Fred Sharman in his milk float.
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    • He worked for Howard's Dairies

      He worked for Howard's Dairies

      My Great-granddad, Herbert Read
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    • Benfleet Landmarks

      Benfleet Landmarks

      Video views of Benfleet
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    • Memories of Thundersley Infant and Junior School

      Memories of Thundersley Infant and Junior School

      Growing up in Thundersley when it was still very rural, wild wooded and pretty gave me the knowledge and huge respect for wildlife and nature that I have as an adult.
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    • Life at Kents Hill Cottages, Villa Road

      Life at Kents Hill Cottages, Villa Road

      The Miles and Parmenter Families
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    Latest articles

    • Memories of Bygone Years

      11/05/2021
      Arundel Road did not exist beyond the holiday bungalow next to my grandmother’s property, so we had to use her garden to walk through to Overton Road.

    • Benfleet Institute 1892-1932

      09/05/2021
        I found the first reference to the site which The Institute came to occupy,  in ...

    • Sport clubs in Benfleet in the early 20th Century

      05/05/2021
      Photos of old sport clubs.

    • Arundel Road before and after it was developed

      03/05/2021
      Life in Arundel Road before it was developed.
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    • St. Mary’s Church Bells 13/05/2021 A comment on "In 1949 a new bell, a treble, was added." I have a small hand-bell marked "Thanksgiving for...
    • New Thundersley County Primary School, Rushbottom Lane, Tarpots 13/05/2021 Hi Janice, how wonderful you can remember all those names! As I read your comments I remembered all those children...
    • Houseboat Database 11/05/2021 Good Afternoon, I am searching to find out about my great Grandfather William Crudgington who lived with Alice on Jumbo...
    • Appleton class from the past 11/05/2021 I think that may be me, in the middle, short dark hair looking to the left....but I might be wrong....
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