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  • Bell Hill Windmill 15/09/2021 Wonderful history of Billericay Post Mill. Mention is made of the post still being in situ near the top of...
  • My time at Buttsbury Junior School 12/09/2021 I remember Mrs Rae giving me a lunchtime on my 1st day in 4th year Junior. Around 1976ish. All because...
  • My time at Buttsbury Junior School 12/09/2021 I attended Buttsbury in the early 60’s. The junior school was brand new, we moved over the road when I...
  • The Pilgrim Myles Standish 01/09/2021 He is my Great Grandfather 18th removed. I think it is amazing all the family he has connected to him....
  • Town Sign Unveiling 25/08/2021 I believe number 10 is Rev. S. Powley, Vicar of Billericay at the time.
  • My time at Buttsbury Junior School 17/08/2021 I attended Sunnymede junior school in the 80s and Ian Bennewith was my teacher in year 6. He didn’t like...
  • Memories of Billericay from 1947 to 1964 24/07/2021 We moved to Billericay just before the war started, had a home in Sunnymead, I remember it was called UMTALI,...
  • Random Recollections of Billericay 23/07/2021 Hello Mark, It's your old buddy Graham Jones. I was doing some searching about the old days in Norsey Road...
  • A Billericay schoolboy 20/07/2021 Hi Trevor - The photo of 2393 squadron in front of the Avro Shackleton at RAF St Mawgan (August 1969?)...
  • Key markets/Gateway 14/07/2021 According to my research the Key Markets logo was a yellow/gold key on a dark blue background. I'm afraid the...
  • Mayflower in the 1960s 13/07/2021 I started Mayflower in 1969. I remember being totally overwhelmed by the size of the school and number of students....
  • Key markets/Gateway 12/07/2021 Key Markets was not the first supermarket on that site. I remember it opening, though I could not possibly give...
  • Memories of Billericay from 1947 to 1964 05/07/2021 My name is Sue Peters. I lived in Billericay for the first 18 years of my life, first on Southend...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital 28/06/2021 My mother worked on nights for 20 years and also worked on Out Patients & Maternity, Mrs Rolfe was my...
  • The Cold War 20/06/2021 I think you'll find the guns were replaced with Bloodhound (or such like) anti-aircraft missiles somewhere middle/late 50's. I used...
  • Ball’s Plastics Factory 18/06/2021 Does anyone know a Robert Thompson or a Patrica Thompson, they worked in the Clacton on Sea factory in the...
  • Status Quo in Billericay 15/06/2021 A little bit of digging on the internet revealed that Thin Lizzie played Mayflower School on 9th February 1972. The...
  • The Rising Sun 14/06/2021 Simon and Garfunkel came to a folk evening hosted by Great Burstead Church in the 60s. It was held in...
  • The Rising Sun 13/06/2021 Paul Simon lived in Brentwood at this time and was playing gigs all over the UK. You may recall the...
  • Status Quo in Billericay 12/06/2021 Yes, remember this, it was our PE teacher Mr. Clark who sorted this. He also got Thin Lizzy to appear....
  • The Rising Sun 10/06/2021 My brother Les used to go the folk club in the 60s, he remembers seeing an American guy play to...
  • Memories of Billericay School 10/06/2021 Oh, Jack, I do so remember you. You ran the Pathfinders Club at the church in Toongabbie. You are remembered...
  • Boys Will Be Boys 07/06/2021 We went ferreting all along the rail line, as well as in Norsey Woods....in fact anywhere there were rabbits. No...
  • Cyril Giachardi 07/06/2021 Cyril Giachardi is interred at Great Burstead churchyard. Walk down the road beside the church and beyond the church hall....
  • My time at Buttsbury Junior School 28/05/2021 I hated Mayflower, but Buttsbury was a very happy time. I can remember every teacher I had, Mrs Crossley in...
  • Sgt. Charles Corbett Stevens 24/05/2021 I couldn't agree with you more. On the war memorials we researched which feature bronze plaques, it is possible to...
  • Ball’s Plastics Factory 22/05/2021 I worked at Ball Plastics (Clacton on sea), sister factory to Billericay, until it’s closure in 1985, I believe. I...
  • 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...
  • Sgt. Charles Corbett Stevens 12/05/2021 I am very sorry to have to tell you that you have the wrong man. The man commemorated on Little...
  • 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 things 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...
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