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The section is devoted to the business life of the Town. Articles on individual factories, shops, community buildings and local companies.

If you have a story please upload it to the site or contact the editor editor@billericayhistory.org.uk

  • Ball's Plastics Factory

    Ball's Plastics Factory

    The Former Ball’s Plastics factory in Kennel Lane faced  farmland with the triangle of South ...
  • Banking in Billericay

    Banking in Billericay

    The growing pains of local banking
  • Billericay's Brickworks

    Billericay's Brickworks

    Our Industrial Past
  • Christine

    Christine

    History of a Billericay shop
  • Collier's Taxis

    Collier's Taxis

    William Henry Collier was born in Bow, London in 1892. His future wife, Alice Hall, ...
  • Cottis the Bakers

    Cottis the Bakers

    The images below are of Cottis the Bakers and are photographs taken of a print ...
  • Harrington's

    Harrington's

    This my great uncle Albert Harrington. He died in 1942 and  his daughter Bessie carried on ...
  • Hilltop Café

    Hilltop Café

    I moved from Greenford Middlesex to Billerica Essex about 1952 with my parents Francis (Frank) ...
  • Hilltop Café - Pt. 2

    Hilltop Café - Pt. 2

    My father would move an ice cream freezer out in the front of the cafe ...
  • Key markets/Gateway

    Key markets/Gateway

    As far as can be told the shop beside Lion lane was originally a Key ...
  • Made in South Green

    Made in South Green

    A Local Motorcycle Manufacturer
  • Mesnard's Butchers

    Mesnard's Butchers

    The photograph  was taken at Christmas December 1965 and shows the display of Christmas turkeys ...
  • Potash Stores

    Potash Stores

    The shop on the edge of town
  • Station Garage

    Station Garage

    These photographs take us back to the late 1970s when the land at the top ...
  • The Reading Rooms

    The Reading Rooms

    It All Started With the Newspapers!
  • The shop in Sun Street

    The shop in Sun Street

    Post war shopping
  • W. J. Cottis - Diploma 1909.

    W. J. Cottis - Diploma 1909.

    A diploma awarded to Cottis Bakers discovered in an unusual place.
  • Working at Key Markets

    Working at Key Markets

    My Mum, Hazel Morley, worked at Key Markets part time . She went to work ...
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