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Memories

  • Parker Family Grocers

    Parker Family Grocers

    Life above the Shop
  • Pat Archer (nee Higgins)

    Pat Archer (nee Higgins)

    Memories of Benfleet in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Pat Baldwin (née Eliot)

    Pat Baldwin (née Eliot)

    Memories of my Childhood in Benfleet
  • Peter Freeman, Insurance Agent during Canvey Island Flood.

    Peter Freeman, Insurance Agent during Canvey Island Flood.

    I couldn't get on the Island for six weeks
  • Photos of Bill Shaw

    Photos of Bill Shaw

    These photos relate to a comment added by Doug Mansfield on the page titled ‘An ...
  • Photos relating to a comment by Doug Mansfield on the page titled 'Forty Acres'

    Photos relating to a comment by Doug Mansfield on the page titled 'Forty Acres'

    Click here to read Doug’s comment about Forty Acres.  I don’t know who the young ladies ...
  • Pictures of Church Creek, Benfleet 1930 - 1951

    Pictures of Church Creek, Benfleet 1930 - 1951

    Houseboats and Swimming in the Creek
  • Ray View, The Downs, Benfleet

    Ray View, The Downs, Benfleet

    The Maternity Home on the Downs
  • Recollections of Thundersley

    Recollections of Thundersley

    Memories of living in Grasmere Road as a child and playing in the surrounding areas.
  • Ron French

    Ron French

    Benfleet born and frequent visitor
  • Spending My Pocket Money At Tarpots

    Spending My Pocket Money At Tarpots

    Tizer and Nelson Slice
  • Summer Holidays in St Osyths - 1950's

    Summer Holidays in St Osyths - 1950's

    It took a whole day to get there.
  • Tales From Percy Cox's Shop Bike 1952 -1956

    Tales From Percy Cox's Shop Bike 1952 -1956

    An insight into how local shops delivered their goods
  • Teddy Boys Hang Out At Mendozer's 1954

    Teddy Boys Hang Out At Mendozer's 1954

    The coffee bar at Tarpots
  • The "Swinging 60s"

    The "Swinging 60s"

    If you lived through the 1960s, what were your experiences of the Swinging 60s?
  • The Army Camp

    The Army Camp

    On the area that is now the Bird Estate
  • The Blacksmith shop in Benfleet Village

    The Blacksmith shop in Benfleet Village

    Henry (Harry)Thurgood owner
  • The Bucks and Burnsides

    The Bucks and Burnsides

    Residents of Benfleet 1920 to 1946
  • The Clock House Café

    The Clock House Café

    My father Frank Hagon and mother Florence Hagon, bought The Clock House Cafe after the war. I remember the inside of the shop was like something out of Dickens.
  • The gentleman who bred champion bulldogs

    The gentleman who bred champion bulldogs

    What was the Benfleet connection in this famous pedigree?
  • The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 1

    The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 1

    Part 1 of 3
  • The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 2

    The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 2

    Part 2 of 3
  • The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 3

    The Memoirs of Miss Henderson - Part 3

    Part 3 of 3
  • The Tarpots Public House

    The Tarpots Public House

    Staff of the Tarpots Public House 1944
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