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  • 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...
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  • Markets and Fairs

    09/02/2021
    Wynford Grant’s book on the Markets and Fairs of Billericay and the story of Norsey ...

  • The Railway Age

    09/02/2021
    Wynford Grant’s Billericay & District Quarterly Historical Review No.3, published in Spring 1964 celebrating the ...

  • Key markets/Gateway

    08/02/2021
    As far as can be told the shop beside Lion lane was originally a Key ...

  • Steam Fair 2008

    08/02/2021
    Barleylands Farm hosts an annual Steam Rally where steam traction engines are the highlight of ...
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