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    • Explore, share and contribute to Billericay’s history

    Welcome to the Billericay Community Archive. This website contains photos, video, stories and memories of Billericay and the surrounding villages uploaded by local people and those with a link to the Town.
    Find out more about us or get in touch.

    Featured subjects
    • Clubs & Societies

      Clubs & Societies

    • Foxcroft

      Foxcroft

    • Help Wanted

      Help Wanted

    • High Street

      High Street

    • High Street 1955

      High Street 1955

    • Local War Memorials

      Local War Memorials

    Featured articles
    • Billericay Welcomes Circus Rosaire

      Billericay Welcomes Circus Rosaire

      Joan Rosaire Remembers
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    • Cap guns and Tree swings.

      Cap guns and Tree swings.

      Growing up in South Green in the 60's & 70's
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    • City Buses in Billericay

      City Buses in Billericay

      An Accidental Death
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    • Potash Stores

      Potash Stores

      The shop on the edge of town
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    • Shopping Outing

      Shopping Outing

      My memories of Billericay High Street
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    • South Green Memories

      South Green Memories

      Growing up in Hickstars Lane
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    • The Ritz Cinema

      The Ritz Cinema

      Chapel Street
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    Latest articles

    • Great Burstead Stores

      30/01/2019
      Number 68 Church Street, Great Burstead, was originally built as a typical two-story 1930s detached ...

    • Memories of Maple Mead

      08/12/2018
      I lived at 2 Maple Mead in South Green until when I was about 6 ...

    • London Coach Trip

      22/11/2018
      The 1950s were the heyday of the coach trip. This photograph shows many of my ...

    • The story of the Ritz

      21/11/2018
      The Ritz Cinema was built by local contractor, W&C French in 1938, just after they ...
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    Latest comments
    • Gt. Burstead County Primary School 19/03/2019 Lovely reading this, I went to this school. Still remember it so well & most of the teachers & headmistress....
    • Great Burstead Stores 18/03/2019 Yes this was Fennel stores because we lived just a few yards up Kennel Lane in the 1950s. My mum...
    • Great Burstead Stores 16/03/2019 Thanks for this article. Would this be the store owned by Mr. Jim Fennel ? This would have been in...
    • Billericay School 1964-1968 16/03/2019 Yes I remember Alfie Russell, he had thick auburn hair & his family had a farm.
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