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  • Corporal William Whalley

    Corporal William Whalley

    11/09/2018
    Identification has been difficult as there are not enough details pointing to a particular service ...
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  • Latter Day Billericay

    Latter Day Billericay

    04/09/2018
    A more recent Gallery from local photographer, David Twitchett
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  • Mesnard's Butchers

    Mesnard's Butchers

    03/09/2018
    The photograph  was taken at Christmas December 1965 and shows the display of Christmas turkeys ...
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  • A Policeman's Lot

    A Policeman's Lot

    29/08/2018
    The other later photograph shows sergeant Alfred John Candler with Jack Candler, Ada Candler, nee ...
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  • Sergeant Douglas Frederick Vieweg

    Sergeant Douglas Frederick Vieweg

    26/08/2018
    Service Number ‘7511’ – Hon. Artillery Company 2nd Battalion Died on Saturday 29th June 1918 aged ...
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  • Leading Stocker John French

    Leading Stocker John French

    26/08/2018
    Service Number ‘299542’ – Royal Navy, H.M.S. Formidable Died on 1st January 1915 aged 39. Son of ...
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  • Hanningfield Reservoir Photos

    Hanningfield Reservoir Photos

    06/08/2018
    These photos are to be viewed in conjunction with the full document. Click here
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  • Hanningfield Reservoir

    Hanningfield Reservoir

    05/08/2018
    On 19th September 1957 the then Minister of Housing and Local Government, The Rt. Hon. ...
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  • Champion Cook

    Champion Cook

    05/08/2018
    In 1995 Nicola Simmonds from Billericay School won the Essex Schools Cook of the Year ...
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  • Mr Stumpy R.I.P.

    Mr Stumpy R.I.P.

    03/08/2018
    Organising a much needed pruning of the trees outside St. Mary Magdalen in the High ...
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  • Bell Hill Windmill

    Bell Hill Windmill

    02/08/2018
    Stories abound of the Gastly Miller, Thomas Wood, who in 1763 was awarded a lease ...
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  • Britannia

    Britannia

    01/08/2018
    Britannia is a 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built in January 1951, the first of 55 ...
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  • Billericay's Shopping Mall

    Billericay's Shopping Mall

    01/08/2018
    In the late 1980s proposals were made to increase the number of shops in Billericay ...
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  • Billericay School Juniors 1963

    Billericay School Juniors 1963

    25/07/2018
    The photos below are from a long traditional school photo taken in May 1963
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  • Memories of Fairview, Southend Road

    Memories of Fairview, Southend Road

    25/07/2018
    My family and I lived at 5 Fairview where our back garden had the only ...
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  • My Great Great Grandfather

    My Great Great Grandfather

    15/07/2018
    My great-great-grandparents owned the Shepherd & Dog at Crays Hill. On the left is my ...
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  • The Retreat

    The Retreat

    19/06/2018
    Over the years the archive has had a number of requests from individuals seeking information ...
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  • The South Green Sign

    The South Green Sign

    07/06/2018
    When designs for the South Green sign were considered the history of the Green was ...
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  • Before Sunnymead School

    Before Sunnymead School

    30/04/2018
    DID YOU KNOW…. Before Sunnymede School was built the school land was intended to be ...
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  • Mayflower in the 1960s

    Mayflower in the 1960s

    30/03/2018
    Looking through our family photograph albums I was amazed to find this old photograph of ...
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  • Memories of Lockers

    Memories of Lockers

    30/03/2018
    I was bought up in Lockers on the Southend Rd from 1950 to approx 1962 ...
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  • 105-103 High Street

    105-103 High Street

    15/03/2018
    Caleb Houghton, linen draper, occupied this premises in 1848 adding a grocery department in 1860.  ...
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  • Ball's Plastics Factory

    Ball's Plastics Factory

    28/02/2018
    The Former Ball’s Plastics factory in Kennel Lane faced  farmland with the triangle of South ...
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  • St. Peter's School

    St. Peter's School

    28/02/2018
    In the late 1960s two schools were planned for this site, infant and this junior. ...
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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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