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High Street

This section contains details about the history and buildings in the High Street. It also contains memories and stories of the High Street

  • High Street 1955

    High Street 1955 (91)

    A story in pictures

  • "Then and Now"

    "Then and Now"

    I have tried to take photographs which give modern day comparisons to old photos of ...
  • 105-103 High Street

    105-103 High Street

    Caleb Houghton, linen draper, occupied this premises in 1848 adding a grocery department in 1860.  ...
  • A Policeman's Lot

    A Policeman's Lot

    The other later photograph shows sergeant Alfred John Candler with Jack Candler, Ada Candler, nee ...
  • Billericay circa 1962

    Billericay circa 1962

    Film Footage taken on 8mm by Ian Rough
  • Billericay's Shopping Mall

    Billericay's Shopping Mall

    In the late 1980s proposals were made to increase the number of shops in Billericay ...
  • Chapel Street

    Chapel Street

    Photos of Chapel Street
  • City Buses in Billericay

    City Buses in Billericay

    An Accidental Death
  • East Side North of church

    East Side North of church

    The photographs in this section relate to the portion of the High Street north of ...
  • Elephant Attends Wedding

    Elephant Attends Wedding

    Salt and Sauce came to Billericay in 1936 when Cissy Rosaire and Wally Shufflebottom married ...
  • Elizabeth Cottage

    Elizabeth Cottage

    Nestled at the northern end of Billericay High Street at the junction of Norsey Road, ...
  • Greywalls

    Greywalls

    Greywalls, Number 115 High Street, stood just across Lion Lane from the Red Lion, with ...
  • Growing up in the High Street

    Growing up in the High Street

    134 High Street
  • Harrington's

    Harrington's

    This my great uncle Albert Harrington. He died in 1942 and  his daughter Bessie carried on ...
  • High Street then and now

    High Street then and now

    Things have got a little busier!
  • Key markets/Gateway

    Key markets/Gateway

    As far as can be told the shop beside Lion lane was originally a Key ...
  • Mr Stumpy R.I.P.

    Mr Stumpy R.I.P.

    Organising a much needed pruning of the trees outside St. Mary Magdalen in the High ...
  • Shopping Outing

    Shopping Outing

    My memories of Billericay High Street
  • Slipped Discs

    Slipped Discs

    The Slipped Discs building, formerly Smith’s butchers shop and Billericay ‘s late lamented bookshop, Storyteller. ...
  • Sun Corner

    Sun Corner

    Billericay's Crossroads
  • The Billericay Chapel

    The Billericay Chapel

    In various writings there appears to be some confusion over the founding of a chapel ...
  • The Chantry House

    The Chantry House

    Origin of the Mayflower
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