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  • The Last Chairman of Benfleet British Legion

    The Last Chairman of Benfleet British Legion

    10/01/2021
    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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  • Sports Day South Benfleet School

    Sports Day South Benfleet School

    09/01/2021
    South Benfleet Junior School Sports Day mid 1960s.
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  • Hopes Green Post Office

    Hopes Green Post Office

    09/01/2021
    Hopes Green Post Office and Wards Hairdressers, High Road, 1977.
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  • Benfleet Station Signal Box

    Benfleet Station Signal Box

    09/01/2021
    Signal box at Benfleet Station taken in 1977, three days before demolition.
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  • Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s

    Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s

    08/01/2021
    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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  • White School of Dancing

    White School of Dancing

    08/01/2021
    The White School of Dancing was held at the John Boscoe Hall in Benfleet High Road, can anyone help us and supply a photo?
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  • King John School visit to Interlaken, Switzerland (1966)

    King John School visit to Interlaken, Switzerland (1966)

    06/01/2021
    Did anyone go on this school trip during the summer of 1966?
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  • Memories of King John School in the 1960s

    Memories of King John School in the 1960s

    03/01/2021
    A comment by Steve Davis
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  • Jupiter and Saturn conjunction December 2020

    Jupiter and Saturn conjunction December 2020

    26/12/2020
    Jupiter and Saturn before the conjunction on December 2020 as seen from Benfleet.
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  • South Benfleet Primary School Christmas Decorations

    South Benfleet Primary School Christmas Decorations

    19/12/2020
    At Christmas 2020 the South Benfleet Primary School displayed these handmade bells and baubles.
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  • Benfleet Christmas Lights and Tree 2020

    Benfleet Christmas Lights and Tree 2020

    18/12/2020
    Benfleet Christmas Tree and Lights 2020.
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  • The Postbox hat is added to for Christmas 2020

    The Postbox hat is added to for Christmas 2020

    17/12/2020
    In 2019 someone from Benfleet put a hat on the postbox on the corner of ...
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  • 1971 South Benfleet School Cruise to Norway & Denmark

    1971 South Benfleet School Cruise to Norway & Denmark

    04/12/2020
    Memories of an educational school cruise.
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  • Tracing my mum's early childhood

    Tracing my mum's early childhood

    01/12/2020
    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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  • Pictures of the barge Scone

    Pictures of the barge Scone

    24/11/2020
    Part of the history of the Scone
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  • 54th CLESC Battalion of the Homeguard

    54th CLESC Battalion of the Homeguard

    17/11/2020
    The Home Guard at Benfleet in 1944
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  • 2nd Thundersley scout group

    2nd Thundersley scout group

    15/11/2020
    Can you name anybody in this photo?
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  • Benfleet Remembrance Sunday 8th November 2020

    Benfleet Remembrance Sunday 8th November 2020

    08/11/2020
    This video is of the spontaneous event to mark Remembrance Sunday 8th November 2020. Pictures of ...
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  • Poppy Displays Around Benfleet

    Poppy Displays Around Benfleet

    08/11/2020
    A number of places in Benfleet had poppy displays this year. These are a few ...
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  • Remembrance Day 8th November 2020

    Remembrance Day 8th November 2020

    08/11/2020
    On Remembrance Day 2020 we had Covid and confusion which meant that no official ceremonies ...
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  • Appleton class from the past

    Appleton class from the past

    24/10/2020
    Does anyone recognise themselves in this class photo from the 1970s?
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  • Boyce Hill Farm

    Boyce Hill Farm

    19/10/2020
    Boyce Hill farm as shown on the 1841 tithe map
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  • Great Tarpots Farm

    Great Tarpots Farm

    19/10/2020
    A small farm on the 1841 tithe map
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  • Thundersley Life Boys

    Thundersley Life Boys

    11/10/2020
    Thundersley Life Boys on a trip to Southend Pier, early 1950s.
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Latest comments
  • He worked for Howard’s Dairies 12/01/2021 Susan is this Herbert Charles Read or Herbert Robert Read? Was he married to a Broomfield (Helen/Halan/Nell)?
  • Howard’s Dairies 12/01/2021 Sara Smith, Do you know when the Clements began the dairy or if they bought it from someone else?
  • Thundersley Primary School 1954 12/01/2021 Pete Robbins - My Mother's brother is Chris Cottle. My Mother Mary Cottle would dearly love any other photos from...
  • A Chance Introduction to a Fascinating Family – The Coopers 12/01/2021 My Mother, Mary Cottle, attended the San Toy dance school in 1952 - 1958. She was there with her foster...
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