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  • 1953 Flood

    1953 Flood

    Frances Drewer (Bingham)
  • 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment Cadet Force Band 1942

    2nd Battalion Essex Regiment Cadet Force Band 1942

    How this led to a semi professional music career.
  • A Few Memories of Brian Walker's

    A Few Memories of Brian Walker's

    I lived with my father, mother and grandparents in St Mary’s Drive in late forties ...
  • An Oasis In Benfleet and the last of its kind.

    An Oasis In Benfleet and the last of its kind.

    Mo Perkins and Hilltop "Pick Your Own" fruit Farm
  • Ann Mintram (nee Yeo)

    Ann Mintram (nee Yeo)

    Some childhood memories of Benfleet
  • Benfleet and Houseboats 1948 - 1955

    Benfleet and Houseboats 1948 - 1955

    Memories of Sally Bennett
  • Benfleet Man Witness to Atomic Bomb Tests

    Benfleet Man Witness to Atomic Bomb Tests

    On Christmas Island 1958 - 1959
  • Benfleet Primary School 1926 to 1934

    Benfleet Primary School 1926 to 1934

    Listen to Doug Wilson's Memories of School Days
  • Benfleet Seventy Years Ago

    Benfleet Seventy Years Ago

    Written in 1947 by Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, Bart.
  • Benfleet Shops

    Benfleet Shops

    What Was Here Before These Shops?
  • Betty Light Remembers

    Betty Light Remembers

    Growing Up In St Mary's Drive in the 1940s/1950s
  • Canvey Island Floods 1953

    Canvey Island Floods 1953

    I survived to tell the tale
  • Childhood Days

    Childhood Days

    Fred Emery's memories of growing up in Benfleet
  • Childhood Memories

    Childhood Memories

    Growing up in Benfleet
  • Cod Liver Oil, Orange Juice and The Marshall Plan

    Cod Liver Oil, Orange Juice and The Marshall Plan

    Aid for Europe
  • Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Recollections of the Second World War in Benfleet
  • Cumberland Avenue, Flood Sept 1968

    Cumberland Avenue, Flood Sept 1968

    Elderly couple rescued by group of neighbours
  • Dark Lane Caravan Site 1961

    Dark Lane Caravan Site 1961

    Finding accommodation was difficult
  • Doreen Batchford's Childhood Memories - 1950's

    Doreen Batchford's Childhood Memories - 1950's

    New Thundersley Primary School - To 1950's Living Conditions.
  • Embedded in the Depths of Consciousness

    Embedded in the Depths of Consciousness

    South Benfleet was no more than a small hamlet that appeared more farming community than railway suburb.
  • Ernie Rogers Our Benfleet Home Was Bombed

    Ernie Rogers Our Benfleet Home Was Bombed

    Childhood Memories
  • Essex Way

    Essex Way

    In the 1940s and 1950s
  • Forty Acres

    Forty Acres

    Mystery of the Buttons
  • German Junkers 88 Aircraft Crash on the Old Golf Course

    German Junkers 88 Aircraft Crash on the Old Golf Course

    I am sure we only just escaped with our lives.
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