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1910 - 1919
 

1910

15 January -
10 February

Elected MP.

3 - 19 December

Elected MP.

1911

13 February

The new Langdon Hills school opens. The old school becomes a private residence.

1912

 

The first telephone in Laindon installed.

1913

 

 

1914

 

The Cole family establish a grocery business in Laindon. This lasted through to the 1970s and included a shop in the High Road, Langdon Hills and a stall on Basildon market.

1915

 

 

1916

 

 

1917

 

 

1918

14 December

Elected MP.

1919

 

Parkinson's Bros garage opens in Laindon. Bert, Cecil and Cliff Parkinson open a garage in an ex army hut on the corner of Somerset Road and High Road, Laindon. All full range of services were available from mechanical repairs, including cycles, to their own brand of oil. They even had a petrol pump and taxi service. When the A127 opened in the 1920s they opened another garage on the Arterial Road. Cliff would later run the business for more than 40 years until 2004, by which time Parkinson's had relocated to the corner of Durham Road into the former Green Stores when land at Somerset Road was developed as a roundabout.

 
Text written 2001 with revisions 2002-2007.
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