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  • Working in the Tarpots Area 30/07/2021 Looking through all the old Tarpots photos. I'm the child outside the Newsbox. Probably 2 or 3. I have the...
  • H.M.H.S. St. David 29/07/2021 My brother was injured when taking tanks from LCT 542 to the beach head, taken aboard RHS St David, too...
  • Appleton early 1970s 29/07/2021 I was in Mr Steers class, he was scary and he used to throw the blackboard cleaner across the room...
  • “Blood Moon” over Benfleet 24/07/2021 With the super blood moon that recently happened and a handful of really cool moon events throughout the rest of...
  • ‘Formosa’, Roseberry Avenue 22/07/2021 Hi I am the daughter of Oswald, the son of the original owner, my grandmother. I can give you a...
  • The Battle of Benfleet 22/07/2021 Wonderful stories to share with us. Thank you Robert and Richard
  • Kents Hill Road – From Rural Idyll to Modern Suburb 21/07/2021 Thank you for this amazing social history of Kent's Hill Road. I'm sitting in a Leigh coffee shop with my...
  • Ray View 19/07/2021 My parents were very good friends with Kit and Ernie Tyler. They were a lovely couple with whom my mother...
  • Hopes Green Stores, 209 High Road 17/07/2021 Hello Stephanie, my name is Stephen Cotterill and it was my parents, Peter and Sylvia Cotterill, who took over the...
  • Benfleet FC – c.1962 16/07/2021 The player second from the end, front row, is Les Luxford. Played alongside him with Benfleet Rangers at the end...
  • Woodham Ley Primary School 1928-1988 12/07/2021 Hi, did anybody on here make a record about England and the World Cup? 1980s? Or know anyone that was...
  • The Benfleet Tennis Club Goes to Paris 05/07/2021 Keith Hosking was the player and he used to partner Norman Chisman. The lady you called Gloria George’s is actually...
  • Benfleet Primary School 1926 to 1934 28/06/2021 My mum went to this school, she's going to be 95 this November and still lives in Benfleet, one of...
  • Pictures of the barge Scone 28/06/2021 Rob Hart..Fred was in a chatty mood that day then!!
  • Views of Bread and Cheese Hill 28/06/2021 Keith, I also lived close to Bread & Cheese Hill in the 50s and 60s. The trees you refer to...
  • Dr. Tom Wilks 27/06/2021 I remember Dr Wilkes coming to our house on horseback in Arundel Road. There would have been no other way...
  • Views of Bread and Cheese Hill 26/06/2021 I used to live close to Bread and Cheese Hill in the late 1940s to 1970s. I remember my dad...
  • A Howard’s Dairies milkman and his horse retire 25/06/2021 Thanks for the photo. I lived on Hillway, Westcliff on Sea. I can remember the milkman and his horse driven...
  • Benfleet FC – 20 years of their history 22/06/2021 Andrew please add your photo, with as many names you remember. Thanks.
  • Benfleet FC – 20 years of their history 21/06/2021 My name is Andrew Wilson, I played with Benfleet in the early 60s, and remember playing with Johnny Nunn, Geoff...
  • The Brickmaking Work Force 18/06/2021 Thank you for such a fascinating and useful article. My 3x great grandfather (John Rogers) and his sons were brick...
  • King John School Days in the 1960s – Remembered by Glenn Newman 04/06/2021 I'm trying to find any information/photos etc. of my uncle, Derek Allan Dudley, who I believe may have attended this...
  • King John school ‘Hotrods’ 01/06/2021 Hi Carol The girls in the picture are, left to right, Gay O’reagan, Laura Green, me (behind Louis Phillips) and...
  • Dr. Tom Wilks 25/05/2021 Lovely article in the Echo about Tom Wilks. I joined the medical practice as assistant in 1961 to ease his...
  • Cycle Speedway in Benfleet 24/05/2021 To Alec Kinch, Do you remember the Drain Brothers, they rode for the Buccaneers as did I a few times....
  • Recollections of Thundersley 23/05/2021 Gosh that brought back a few memories! I too grew up in Grasmere Road at number 30, which adjoined the...
  • Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s 23/05/2021 Good to hear from you Dennis. What was the relationship between my mum and your dad, were they 1st or...
  • Thundersley Primary School 1964 22/05/2021 Photo 2 Mavourneen Moore (nee George) I do remember you. Happy days.. I wonder how many more are still with...
  • Living Above Glanfield’s Clothing Factory 21/05/2021 My mum worked at Glanfields and then the “Arrow Shirt Factory”. She actually made collars for the shirts. I didn’t...
  • Living in Bowers Road in the 1950s & 1960s 20/05/2021 Hi Steve Great to read all the memories which of course some is shared with me and my family being...
  • Forty Acres 20/05/2021 We used to enter 40 Acres from the end of Kents Hill Road, by crossing Church Road near the Greaves...
  • Forty Acres 19/05/2021 I saw the message about the lady who wondered where buttons she used to find as a child at Tarpots...
  • Benfleet Road in the 1970s 19/05/2021 Ah yes, I remember the Abattoir alongside King John school. We used to get eyeballs from there to use in...
  • Benfleet Rangers 19/05/2021 Keith Wey was like your Bobby Moore of the team, so eloquent, should have gone on to bigger things.
  • Benfleet School Football Team 19/05/2021 I can remember Mr Farrel asked me if I wanted to play for the school football team, you would have...
  • Benfleet FC – 20 years of their history 19/05/2021 I can remember Ron Atkinson manager of Cambridge turning up to cast an eye on Ray Ansell and Nigel Baker....
  • Bygone Days 18/05/2021 I was a member of Benfleet sea scouts. We would hold meetings in the scout hut on Benfleet creek when...
  • Benfleet Road in the 1970s 18/05/2021 Benfleet was twinned with a French town and not long after the Appleton Arms opened we got a football team...
  • Jo Karslake 18/05/2021 We lived in the High Road opposite Ponds garage. Our mother Flo Regan was house keeper and baby sitter for...
  • Miss Bass Teaching at Benfleet School 1943 -1947 17/05/2021 I was at south benfleet primary school in 1947. My birthday is in august 1941 and so I was probably...
  • Recollections of Thundersley 16/05/2021 Do you remember a David Lowther from the school he lived in Thundersley Grove, Kings Lodge, very much an old...
  • Recollections of Thundersley 16/05/2021 Lovely story which jogged many memories. My Dad worked at Greeves and I remember that swing. The place was called...
  • Appleton Comprehensive School opened 1966 15/05/2021 Hi, I’m third from the left (Ian Rudall) on front row.Jeffery Ashwell is first then I think David Dickinson. Next...
  • Benfleet Military Camp 15/05/2021 I grew up on the Bird Estate. I lived in Dove Drive. I don't know if anyone ever died at...
  • St. Mary’s Church Bells 13/05/2021 A comment on "In 1949 a new bell, a treble, was added." I have a small hand-bell marked "Thanksgiving for...
  • New Thundersley County Primary School, Rushbottom Lane, Tarpots 13/05/2021 Hi Janice, how wonderful you can remember all those names! As I read your comments I remembered all those children...
  • Houseboat Database 11/05/2021 Good Afternoon, I am searching to find out about my great Grandfather William Crudgington who lived with Alice on Jumbo...
  • Appleton class from the past 11/05/2021 I think that may be me, in the middle, short dark hair looking to the left....but I might be wrong....
  • Houseboat Database 10/05/2021 To the editor, a big thanks I will pass on the information you supplied this will bring back some happy...
  • H.M.H.S. St. David 10/05/2021 My Grandfather was on the St David. His name was William Rees,sadly he died when my mum was just 5...
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