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  • 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.
  • Billericay School Juniors 1963 16/07/2022 I must be somewhere in these pictures? I attended the 61-64 school year. I was a resident of Stockwell Hall....
  • Potash Stores 08/07/2022 My name was Sylvia Richardson and I was a little friend of Margaret Cordell, do you remember me Margaret? I...
  • 1987 Storm Damage – Great Burstead and South Green 30/06/2022 I think you will find it was Budgens. The company was sold to the Irish...
  • 1987 Storm Damage – Great Burstead and South Green 30/06/2022 What was that shops name in South Green to the far left on the second photo (it's currently a Tesco's)?...
  • Miss Archer’s Tea Urn 27/06/2022 I'm pretty sure the Carpenters went to serve in WW1, off the top of my head. I traced the family...
  • Billericay’s Warship 30/05/2022 My dad and his twin brother were wireless operators/signalmen on HMS Lark, from before D Day to her torpedoing in...
  • Billericay School 1964-1968 29/05/2022 Does anyone in the 1968 class (give or take a year either side) know a boy (he may have left...
  • Status Quo in Billericay 28/05/2022 I remember this well. I was on the school dance committee, under the care of maths teacher David Clarke, and...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital 27/05/2022 I was born here on the 15/03/1972 and would love to know my weight etc as I was adopted and...
  • The Chelmsford Steam Bus 16/05/2022 A friend tells me that a similar photo exists taken outside the Eagle at Galleywood. He thinks he saw it...
  • Memories of Billericay 11/05/2022 Hi Andrew, I remember you too. We were at junior school together. If I remember correctly you had an older...
  • Memories of Billericay 11/05/2022 I remember you Peter, I lived in Ganels Road and still do. I have not moved away at all and...
  • Shepherd & Dog, Crays Hill 09/05/2022 Charles Dodd was granted a license as landlord of the Shepherd and Dog at the Brentwood Petty Sessions on 21...
  • The Retreat 04/05/2022 My Birth Certificate reads 'The Retreat, Gt. Burstead', date June 15, 1950. As far as I know, the Workhouse finally...
  • Shepherd & Dog, Crays Hill 02/05/2022 My great grand-uncle, Charles Richard Maryon Dodd, was landlord of the Shepherd and Dog from 1908 until at least 1937...
  • Evelyn Lockhart (nee Cullis) 1917-2006 26/04/2022 Did you know a Mr Lockhart who taught at Buttsbury Juniors? He was my teacher and the best teacher there...
  • Status Quo in Billericay 22/04/2022 I well remember Status Quo... they cost the school £250 I think. As I and my friends, Guy Chinery, John...
  • My time at Buttsbury Junior School 22/04/2022 I started a Buttsbury around 1961. Mr Bromhead was the head and I think Mr Unwin was the (smashing) deputy...
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary Teachers 17/04/2022 Strange feeling to see your name mentioned in the blog. This got my memory going and I felt motivated to...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital 12/04/2022 I was born at St Andrews in Jan 1962, apparently delivered by a Russian nurse. I wonder who that lady...
  • 5. No. 22 10/04/2022 Visited Billericay on April 9th for the first time. A great grandfather of mine worked with Dr Frederick Carter and...
  • Billericay Hospital 04/04/2022 Have just found this fascinating page, and cannot believe it mentions Sister ‘Cinders’ who helped deliver me in 1958! My...
  • Collected Memories from Members of the Billericay Society 20/03/2022 It was lovely to read Jean Langford’s piece about Jasper Layland , was this my grandmothers younger brother or his...
  • Billericay Community Archive 12/03/2022 Only just seen the remarks about the fire, it was rubber tyres and the smell lasted forever, 1948 I...
  • Billericay’s cold war secret 11/03/2022 The Bunker is now fenced off.
  • Parade 1970 09/03/2022 Any one got any photos of the 1960 carnival it was the first one after the war
  • Parade 1970 09/03/2022 Was there always a fair at sun corner after the carnival? I remember going every year with my family…I was...
  • Parade 1970 09/03/2022 Yes this was the annual Billericay Carnival that was always well attended in the 70’s My Dad - Ted Hooper...
  • Ball’s Plastics Factory 06/03/2022 I worked there in the 70's. Delivered the first batch of Leyland motor car badges, 500, the iconic blue stripes,...
  • The Retreat 05/03/2022 Board of Guardians November 1 “It was resolved to describe the Union House as the ‘Retreat Great Burstead’ for the...
  • The Retreat 01/03/2022 World War II Civilian Deaths has Christopher Webster dying at St Andrew’s Emergency Hospital, 21 Feb 1945, Urban District of...
  • Foxcroft Children’s Home Remembered 27/02/2022 My name is Helen and I'm trying to get a better understanding of my Dad . His name was Leonard...
  • Goatsmoor Lane 12/02/2022 There was a clearing opposite Bishops Farmhouse. Just where the Lane was gated in the 17th century. I believe it...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital & the Burns Unit 11/02/2022 I'd like to thank this hospital for reconstructing my foot after it was crushed when I was around 5 years...
  • Goatsmoor Lane 09/02/2022 It was a “lovers lane” in the early 60’s, commonly known as “Oatsmoor Lane”!
  • Gt. Burstead County Primary School 02/02/2022 I was in Mr. Tom William's class in 1956 or 1957. My main memory of him is his occasional outbursts...
  • Mayflower in the 1960s 31/01/2022 I started school in Billericay for one term, I believe in Sept 1971, just before my 5th birthday in November...
  • Stockwell Hall 31/01/2022 I went here when I was 8 years old when it was a children's home. I finally left when I...
  • Parade 1970 17/01/2022 Mrs Jean King, her daughter Annabel and her Mum are in several photos outside Westminster Bank (Natwest). She is the...
  • Potash Stores 16/01/2022 Duncan Patterson and I came here many a time to get penny chews , 1/4 lb Bonbons or fudge, bottle...
  • Parade 1970 15/01/2022 I believe that the family with the children with no clothes on could be the Smart family from South Green....
  • Parade 1970 14/01/2022 I believe the parade was Saturday July 18th (my mums birthday). I rode in the parade in a miniature version...
  • Parade 1970 14/01/2022 I am not in these pictures but in 2012 I was massaging 5 Olympic Athletes from the University of Southern...
  • Memories of Billericay from 1947 to 1964 11/01/2022 My Husbands Uncle and Aunt (William (Bill) and Alma Taylor lived in Mountnessing Road Billericay. Bill’s mother Laura Balchin also...
  • The Village Smithy 10/01/2022 A bit further west where the old folks home is. I spotted it on a large scale old OS map...
  • The Village Smithy 09/01/2022 I think the Smithy was next door to Goodey's Stores on the Southend Road. It appears in Roger Green's 'Billericay,...
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  • 1987 Storm Damage - Great Burstead and South Green

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