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Council Notifications concerning Roads (1961 and 1963) and Sewers (1956) in Homefields Avenue
25/11/2023
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Benfleet Urban District Council Civic News 1974
25/11/2023
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Brownies, St. George's Church, New Thundersley
25/11/2023
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Benfleet Methodist Church Photographs from the 1950s
25/11/2023
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Thundersley Branch S.E. Essex Conservative Association Grand Fete, 11th September 1954
25/11/2023
A collection of photos taken on the day, if you recognise anyone please let us know.
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Benfleet Hoymen Morris Dancers
13/11/2023
Peter Banks writes, “My father owned the Old Windmill in South Hanningfield in the early 1960’s ...
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South Benfleet Remembers
12/11/2023
Once again the people of Benfleet have attended a moving ceremony to remember the fallen. ...
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Cycle hill climb competition on Vicarage Hill, Benfleet
10/11/2023
Southend Wheelers held their 2023 hill climb championships on Sunday, October the 15th.
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Who was the rustic woodworker of Thundersley in 1917?
09/11/2023
I noticed the two cleverly made rustic garden chairs under the tree in the garden ...
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The Last Summer of Steam Train Services to Benfleet
06/11/2023
The last timetable for the complete operation of steam hauled trains on the London, Tilbury, and Southend line, was published by British Railways – Eastern Region, for the summer period 12th of June to the 10th of September 1961.
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The Kennall Club, Victoria House Corner
28/10/2023
Does anybody else have information about this Club that they could share with us?
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The Army Camp
19/10/2023
Benfleet resident Moira Coveney has recently come across these photographs of everyday life in the Benfleet army camp.
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Reports on the Canvey Island and East Coast Floods 1953
14/10/2023
A compilation of reports originally written after the east coast floods of 1953.
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The 'Scone' in Whitstable
11/10/2023
In June 1977 she was bought from Geoff Ward by Stephen Mallett, as a derelict ...
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Good " safe" days
05/10/2023
I went to Jotmans Primary School in 1958, and was born in Jotmans Lane. We ...
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Further Information on Henry Fuller Hobden
30/09/2023
Following my earlier comment on Henry Fuller Hobden, as expected there has been no sighting ...
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Beavers Woodyard in the High Road
29/09/2023
Beavers Woodyard was two doors away from my parents’ Newsagent shop in the High Road, ...
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Teenettes
26/09/2023
My mother owned a shop at 190 High Road Benfleet from 1959 until 1965. It ...
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Tarpots Post Office post card dated May 1936
29/08/2023
This postcard of Tarpots post office has cinema billboards outside it which give several clues as to when it was taken.
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Pound Lane Memory
28/08/2023
I used to walk through Pound Lane many years ago to the farm, to get ...
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The Puzzle of the Red Rubber Bricks
24/08/2023
How a job-lot of these high status bricks ever ended up in a humble plotland cottage, is a complete mystery.
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Green Road- the beginnings
23/08/2023
I live in what was Carlton Villa, number 6, Green Road, and would like to ...
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Harold Jefferys Cooper
25/07/2023
Harold Jefferys Cooper was one of a family of five sons, born to Florence Louisa and John Albert Cooper in the late 1890s/1900s.
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Motor Sport on Church Hill
21/07/2023
From 1920 until 1923 Church Hill Thundersley was used by motor vehicles for the sport of hill climbing.
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