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  • Memories of Lillian Board

    Memories of Lillian Board

    27/06/2020
    Is there anyone who went to the celebrity (charity) football match in 1967 where the “golden ...
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  • Billericay's Warship

    Billericay's Warship

    27/05/2020
    During the early part of the Second World War the Royal Navy had lost a ...
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  • Elizabeth Cottage

    Elizabeth Cottage

    15/05/2020
    Nestled at the northern end of Billericay High Street at the junction of Norsey Road, ...
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  • Billericay Lawn Tennis Club

    Billericay Lawn Tennis Club

    14/05/2020
    A short history of the Lawn Tennis Club.
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  • History of 'Plimoth Plantation'

    History of 'Plimoth Plantation'

    22/02/2020
    This will open a new tab with Bradford’s History of “Plimoth Plantation”
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  • Lockers Hall

    Lockers Hall

    07/02/2020
    I lived at Lockers for a few of my early years, and then in its ...
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  • Finding the cinder stone path off Perry St.

    Finding the cinder stone path off Perry St.

    06/02/2020
    I am looking for information on my Grand parents residence in the 40s. Their names ...
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  • Unusual Visitor

    Unusual Visitor

    26/01/2020
    Today, Sunday 26th January 2020 at about 4.30pm, saw an unusual visitor to South Green ...
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  • South Green Scenes

    South Green Scenes

    26/01/2020
    The scenes below come from postcards that I have collected. Some places are easy to ...
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  • Postcards of South Green

    Postcards of South Green

    22/01/2020
    I recently came across a number of old postcards of South Green that I hope ...
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  • Living on the East Side

    Living on the East Side

    22/01/2020
    We came to live in Saffron Walk in 1959 and we have seen many changes ...
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  • Grove Road

    Grove Road

    13/01/2020
    In 1950 Grove Road had two houses on the electoral Register, Halford Glen and The ...
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  • Frithwood Lane

    Frithwood Lane

    09/01/2020
    The 1950 Electoral Register for Frithwood Lane
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  • Archer Hall Dinner.

    Archer Hall Dinner.

    31/12/2019
    This photo (not great quality) was found in my Uncle Fred Wren’s belongings after his ...
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  • Slipped Discs

    Slipped Discs

    15/12/2019
    The Slipped Discs building, formerly Smith’s butchers shop and Billericay ‘s late lamented bookshop, Storyteller. ...
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  • School report from 1932

    School report from 1932

    14/12/2019
    My grandads school report from Great Burstead Senior School in 1932. This school report is ...
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  • Sun Corner

    Sun Corner

    02/11/2019
    Photos around the Sun Corner Junction
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  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers

    Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers

    26/10/2019
    The photo above shows teachers at Great Burstead County Primary in Laindon Road believed to ...
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  • Mayflower 375th Anniversary Plaque

    Mayflower 375th Anniversary Plaque

    16/10/2019
    Anniversaries pass every year, some almost unnoticed. This, nearly 25 years before next years 400th ...
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  • Postcard of the Rising Sun

    Postcard of the Rising Sun

    16/10/2019
    I have just purchased an expensive old postcard of the Sun. It was sent ( ...
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  • When Billericay was a Barracks Town

    When Billericay was a Barracks Town

    06/10/2019
    Wynford Grant’s Billericay & District Quarterly Historical Review No. 2, published during the winter of ...
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  • The Crown

    The Crown

    04/10/2019
    This is the third Crown that has been in Billericay This building was put up ...
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  • Early Billericay

    Early Billericay

    03/10/2019
    Wynford Grant’s book on Early Billericay, which was No. 1 in the Billericay History Series. To ...
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  • Historical Review

    Historical Review

    24/09/2019
    Wynford Grant’s Billericay & District Quarterly Historical Review No. 1, published in September 1963. To see ...
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  • Angela Smith’s memories of Tensing Gardens 07/04/2021 Angela, how lovely to listen to you and read your memories about Tensing Gardens; I am wondering if we were...
  • Shepherd & Dog, Crays Hill 31/03/2021 Must be after 1890 as that was when Chelmsford Brewery was registered to acquire Wells & Perry. This would be...
  • FA Vase 1976-1979 documentary 29/03/2021 We all went there for the match, a small town like Billericay playing at Wembley, who could not go !...
  • Collected Memories from Members of the Billericay Society 22/03/2021 I only used that pub once many years ago. The daughter of a former girl I went to school with...
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