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  • Captain Edgar Hazel Hester

    Captain Edgar Hazel Hester

    19/09/2018
    Identification has been difficult as there are not enough details pointing to a particular service ...
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  • Bell Hill

    Bell Hill

    19/09/2018
    Bell Hill has a long history, it has been a major road through the town ...
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  • Engineer Commander Frank Reginald Pendleton

    Engineer Commander Frank Reginald Pendleton

    11/09/2018
    H.M.S. “Conquest.” Royal Navy Died Tuesday 25th April 1916, aged 40 He is remembered on the Chatham ...
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  • 2 Lt. Edward Kimber Wenham

    2 Lt. Edward Kimber Wenham

    11/09/2018
    Identification has been difficult as there are not enough details pointing to a particular service ...
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  • 2 Lt. Niel Creaton Dawson

    2 Lt. Niel Creaton Dawson

    11/09/2018
    16th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) attd. Trench Mortar Bty. Died on Wednesday 12th ...
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  • Captain John Alworth Merewether

    Captain John Alworth Merewether

    11/09/2018
    9th Bn. Rifle Brigade Killed in Action on Friday 15th September 1916 Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial Son ...
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  • Private Charles West

    Private Charles West

    11/09/2018
    Service Number ‘10770’ – 1st Bn. Essex Regiment Died 6th August 1915 aged 17 during an ...
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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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Latest comments
  • Key markets/Gateway 30/07/2022 I lived in Billericay from 1972 until 1981, when my family moved to Sussex.. My parents didn't drive so we...
  • Before Sunnymead School 25/07/2022 I too did my first ever swimming badges in the freezing raised pool at Sunnymede - a "width" and a...
  • Archer Hall 23/07/2022 I went to ballet and tap classes both here at Archer Hall and also above the Co-op in the High...
  • H.M.S. Cattistock 17/07/2022 My grandfather served on Cattistock during the war, he was chief stoker.
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