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  • Bell Hill 18/10/2019 The second photo in the piece above shews the old Bell Inn from which the hill takes its name. Also...
  • Rising Sun 18/10/2019 The 1898 sale catalogue refers to bicycle traffic. It is well to remember that many an old coaching inn, deprived...
  • The Rising Sun 18/10/2019 The writing on the internal stack on the chimney detail photos reads 1st? Oct 1939.
  • Town Sign Unveiling 07/10/2019 Geoffrey Amos (number three) designed and carved the sign which became a prominent feature of the town for nearly forty...
  • Archer Hall 30/09/2019 We have the name Archer in Archer Hall, but who was he or she? There is no reference, that I...
  • South Green Sunday School 1949/50 27/09/2019 Bullstead Walk was the row of prefabs that faced the Chapel and Outwood Common Road.
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital & the Burns Unit 26/09/2019 Hi I too had a 25000 volt shock on the railway in 1987 and would like to thanks all the...
  • Memories of St Andrew’s Hospital 26/09/2019 Hi John may I ask who your mum was? I was in there in May 1987 (the burns unit), I...
  • Sgt Henry Thomas Joel 25/09/2019 Reference to Richard's recent interest - work is underway to raise a proper memorial to all those 33 men who...
  • Workhouse to Welfare State 09/09/2019 See our page The Retreat for some more information. Unfortunately you will not be able to get hold of...
  • Workhouse to Welfare State 08/09/2019 I too had a grandmother who is registered as dying in the retreat of cancer. I can find no information...
  • Random Recollections of Billericay 28/08/2019 Jill Whitaker was my best friend at primary school and we had a dreadful reputation for giggling at everything. I...
  • Shopping Outing 28/08/2019 This was amazing. I was born in 1951 and lived in Billericay from then till 1967. I also went to...
  • Great Burstead Church 25/08/2019 I was always told this was a plague victim ???? I remember seeing the grave in the 1960's
  • 5. Nos. 71 & 73 08/08/2019 My Mother Patricia (Pat) Hammond was born in the Westbury Dairy in 1931 where her father Alfred Thomas Hammond rented...
  • Railway Hotel 08/08/2019 My father Albert John Garner was born in the Railway Hotel in 1928. His father Albert James Hill Garner became...
  • 3. No.105 28/07/2019 I think the new shop built in its place was called “Christines”. Sold children’s clothes if I remember rightly.
  • Billericay School Juniors 1963 27/07/2019 I have this picture, but alas can't find myself in the photo. Very few of the subjects of the pic...
  • Memories of Billericay School 26/07/2019 I attended between 1961 and 66. Antony Bates who was in the same class as me for much of the...
  • Memories of Billericay Pubs in the 1960’s 26/07/2019 I brought my first beer in the Rising Sun, dinner break for the then comprehensive school, well I was leaving...
  • 3. No.105 15/07/2019 My Grandmother worked in that old shop in the mid 1960s and Holly Court was there at that time. I...
  • Billericay School Juniors 1963 13/07/2019 We are having a school reunion for 1966/67 leavers on 20th September 2019 1.30pm at The Stable Room behind Red...
  • South Green Recreation Ground 09/07/2019 My parents bought South Green P O and shop in 1948; I was six. Living opposite the park I spent...
  • FA Vase 1976-1979 documentary 02/07/2019 I hope you enjoy this, and it brings back many happy memories of those glory days in the 1970s. It...
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  • Postcard of the Rising Sun

    16/10/2019
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    04/10/2019
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