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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
08/01/2021
The White School of Dancing was held at the John Boscoe Hall in Benfleet High Road.
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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
03/01/2021
A comment by Steve Davis
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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
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
18/12/2020
Benfleet Christmas Tree and Lights 2020.
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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
04/12/2020
Memories of an educational school cruise.
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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
24/11/2020
Part of the history of the Scone
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54th CLESC Battalion of the Homeguard
17/11/2020
The Home Guard at Benfleet in 1944
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2nd Thundersley scout group
15/11/2020
Can you name anybody in this photo?
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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
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
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
24/10/2020
Does anyone recognise themselves in this class photo from the 1970s?
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Boyce Hill Farm
19/10/2020
Boyce Hill farm as shown on the 1841 tithe map
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Great Tarpots Farm
19/10/2020
A small farm on the 1841 tithe map
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Thundersley Life Boys
11/10/2020
Thundersley Life Boys on a trip to Southend Pier, early 1950s.
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My recollections of Ted FitzGerald
01/10/2020
John Peters recalls working with Ted FitzGerald
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Geoff Radford's Recollections of Thundersley
31/08/2020
Memories of living in Grasmere Road. At Falkus’s fish shop, the ever-cheerful Emma dispensed chips in open fourpenny or sixpenny bags.
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Thundersley Primary School 1948/49
26/08/2020
Thundersley Primary School class photo 1948/49
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An unusual view of Benfleet Station
03/07/2020
Approaching Benfleet Station from Leigh-on-Sea
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