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  • Cyril Giachardi 12/05/2021 Mr Giachardi taught my mother to drive in the 1950’s and my brother, sister and myself in the 1980’s. He...
  • A South Green Boy 09/05/2021 I went to South Green infants in 1966 (I think) and remember Mrs Hallet well - she was so kind...
  • Great Burstead Stores 09/05/2021 My parents, Steve & Iris Briggs owned what we knew as ‘Grange Stores’. I think we moved there in 1965...
  • A Perry Street Kid 08/05/2021 Wow that photo of Shuttleworths jogged a few memories for me. I bought my first fireworks there aged 9, different...
  • Mayflower in the 1960s 30/04/2021 Aint it strange , I can remember thigs from the 60's like yesterday, yet what I did last week !!...
  • Boys Will Be Boys 30/04/2021 Hi Roger, I used to play on the railway as well on the embankment opposite where I lived in London...
  • The Chequers 28/04/2021 I had my first pub pint in the chequers, I would have been about 15 around 1973/4 it cost me...
  • H.M.S. Cattistock 27/04/2021 Mr. Hoey, Can you post an image here of the reverse of the ship's crest as mentioned above that can...
  • A Perry Street Kid 26/04/2021 Well, this read has jogged my memory. During the war period, 1940 / 1945, my father was in RAF so...
  • Downham War Memorial 20/04/2021 Does anyone have an image of Richard Keddie please? I would like one for a book I have written titled...
  • 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...
  • Collected Memories from Members of the Billericay Society 20/03/2021 Unfortunately this is one of the well known buildings that we do not have a photo of. Is there anyone...
  • Collected Memories from Members of the Billericay Society 20/03/2021 I used to live in South Green in the 1980's i used to work in the Burstead Plough pub then...
  • The Mayflower Symbol 18/03/2021 Be Interesting to find out where Mary Prower & her son Solomon were born, Mary married Christopher Martin in Great...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital 10/03/2021 I did my training at St Andrew’s between 1965 and 68 . I have very fond memories of my time...
  • June Smith 10/03/2021 It’s fascinating to know the history.
  • Key markets/Gateway 07/03/2021 I can remember having my Ford Anglia serviced at Hensman’s garage in 1970 and later, my mother used to work...
  • Ball’s Plastics Factory 28/02/2021 My name is Joanne I worked for Ball Plastics and married Danny Claridge who worked for Henry J Peter’s.
  • Practical Pork Butchering 26/02/2021 Though the book is interesting, all of the above recipes use proprietary seasonings. I was wondering if anyone knows whatever...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 23/02/2021 I went to this school from aged 8 in 1956, and remember Miss Ager and Mrs Butler and loved them...
  • The Pilgrim Myles Standish 21/02/2021 Well done Sian!
  • Memories of Billericay from 1947 to 1964 21/02/2021 What wonderful memories you’ve brought back to me! I was born in Upminster in 1948 and moved to Shanklin Avenue...
  • The Coronation 21/02/2021 I was in Miss Ager's class. Missed out being chosen as the May Queen to a very pretty new girl...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 21/02/2021 Happy memories. Miss Ager third from left in the back row. Joan Ashman, who taught me all the songs I...
  • Little houses in Church Street 21/02/2021 We have just found out my husband’s father lived in 5 Grange Cottages in 1947 his father was a herdsman....
  • A Perry Street Kid 10/02/2021 My grandparents lived at Queens Park. Moving to what had been their summer house 'Blanchette' to get away from bombing....
  • Cap guns and Tree swings. 09/02/2021 I remember walking from Barleylands Farm, Southend Road and meeting up en-route to Billericay School with Alan Butler, Biscuit, Smut,...
  • Key markets/Gateway 08/02/2021 I started working for Keymarkets as a Saturday girl then worked full time until 1988 when I moved to Hemsby...
  • Testing Times 07/02/2021 In 1973 I was very happy to be welcome in Mr and Mrs Nutt's house !!! I started speaking English...
  • Forum 06/02/2021 Found this site by chance. Yes, I remember them. I think I remember one of the son's name as Jeremy,...
  • Forum 03/02/2021 Does anyone remember Jean "collop " Shirmer & the Shirmer family. They lived on the southern road outside of South...
  • Memories of Billericay Pubs in the 1960’s 30/01/2021 My youth was spent in Billericay, being an Essex lad, a ricky-boy as we called ourselves then. We spent many...
  • Famous Billericay Families 25/01/2021 My dad A Jackson worked with Ben and John Clarke for many years in the butchers shop. He went on...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 24/01/2021 I remember Mr Doyland. He was my teacher in 3rd and 4th year junior school 1963/65. I really liked him....
  • June Smith 22/01/2021 It was my dad who used to collect the cows every day from Mill Meadows for milking, I collected them...
  • Famous Billericay Families 16/01/2021 I clearly remember moving to Tye Common Road in about 1948 from Clarks the butchers in the High Street. My...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 13/01/2021 I lived in the school house with my husband Ron Cater and my daughter Stephanie. My son, Nicholas Cater, was...
  • 1957 – Quaker Girl 11/01/2021 I was very interested to see the photographs and newspaper cuttings of Quaker Girl as I was one of the...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 09/01/2021 The teacher at the end of the back row on the left was my father, Ron Cater. My mother Maida...
  • The Rising Sun 05/01/2021 Who where the resident trio group who ran the Billericay folk club Friday nights at the Rising Sun in the...
  • Testing Times 01/01/2021 I was at the school for 4 years 1966-1969 inc. I remember Bernie Cooper (worked in a fruit and veg...
  • Memories of Billericay School 30/12/2020 I agree with the fella who has posted Lenny was a psycho. I remember him as an angry, little bald...
  • Made in South Green 29/12/2020 In the late 1960s, I would fill up my Ford Anglia with petrol there which cost the princely sum of...
  • South Green Memories 29/12/2020 My late mother Joy Balls lived at 24 Hickstars Lane in the 1950s along with her mother Edith and two...
  • Great Burstead Stores 29/12/2020 Yes, the shop was owned by Mr Fennel in the 1950s and my mother was a regular customer. Before it...
  • South Green Scenes 28/12/2020 I was really interested in your photos of South Green as my late mother Joy Balls lived there for many...
  • Ball’s Plastics Factory 24/12/2020 I worked at Ball Plastics for 6 months in 1976. I had been made redundant from the printing trade so...
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