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  • Glen Road 01/07/2020 There was an abandoned stables in Glen road, on the left as you looked towards Bread and Cheese hill. I...
  • The Devil Steps 27/06/2020 I was born in Thundersley Grove early 60's & lived there until I left home in the early 80's. Spent...
  • The Benfleet Constabulary before 1957 25/06/2020 I live in the yellow house now, it's kinda weird an' I wonder if there's any hidden stuff.
  • Mr Joyce’s memories of HMS London and PQ17 23/06/2020 My father Arthur William Henry Bush was a rating on the HMS London on the convoys.
  • Hall Farm Close 1954 and 2011 22/06/2020 Doug and Lavinia Flack were friends of my parents, (Don and Yvonne Jones), and they lived in one of the...
  • Hall Farm Close 1954 and 2011 21/06/2020 We moved in to the cottage (2 Hall Farm Close) just over 4 years ago and have done a lot...
  • Bygone Days 21/06/2020 As a child in 1976-aged 8 I was a regular in that post office. I collected my mums child benefit....
  • Benfleet Junior Class of ’76 21/06/2020 I attended Benfleet primary in 1974. In 1976 I was 8 years old. Trying to locate teachers that I remember....
  • Pictures of Church Creek, Benfleet 1930 – 1951 20/06/2020 My dad, Kenneth Cripps, with his brothers and my Nan lived on a house boat on the creek. Need help...
  • Benfleet and Houseboats 1948 – 1955 20/06/2020 My dad Kenneth Cripps, his brothers lived on a house boat on the canvey creek. I was born in 1968,...
  • Pictures of Church Creek, Benfleet 1930 – 1951 19/06/2020 Has any one got pictures or information about the tea boat in 1948 run by Dorothy Ada Payne, my grand...
  • Walter Pickford 16/06/2020 Interesting to read about my grandfather Walter. Blessed that my aunt Helen is able to recount these stories. Have many...
  • Benfleet House Names 07/06/2020 Our family in the 1911 census are shown living at Hillside, Thundersley Common. Does anyone know where this house is...
  • The Devil Steps 07/06/2020 I lived most of my childhood in Southwell Rd, Benfleet ( from approximately 1972 until about 1987, until moving to...
  • King John Comprehensive – Prefects 1970 06/06/2020 I'm trying to find some of my old class mates from 1969 to 73. I was Ann Burden and was...
  • My School Days 03/06/2020 Hi John, We now live at 9 Langford Crescent and have done very happily since 1996. We were only talking...
  • Benfleet Shops 28/05/2020 I had a Saturday job at Smiths Bakers in the early 70s (on the corner of Thundersley Park Road) and...
  • Tarpots Hall – A Function from the mid 1950s 23/05/2020 I lived behind tarpots, does anyone remember a family that used to live in church road called the Craddocks?.
  • Childhood memories of Bowers Gifford, North Benfleet and Pitsea 22/05/2020 Mr. Polly was Fred Polly and he worked for Mr. H Palmer the corn merchant on the corner of High...
  • Forty Acres 22/05/2020 The pond in the forty acres was known to me and my cronies as Dingle Dell and at one time...
  • Unknown Artist (3) 22/05/2020 Not sure if I have this correct but my Mother was well aquantied with a May Bettany? who lived in...
  • Benfleet Water Tower 22/05/2020 Only there because my Dad kept an eye on it during the war with his Home Guard Lee Enfield rifle...
  • The Changing Face of Tarpots 21/05/2020 My story is almost identical to Jacqueline's. I've lived in Benfleet all my life, and still do. I too went...
  • “The Elms” – 448 Benfleet High Road 21/05/2020 Hello Jodie I spent many happy hours in this house in the 1970's when I was a teenager. The Edermaniger...
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