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| Friday August 13, 2010 14:58:02 pm |
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Anne Jones (nee Parker) |
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Just Surfed In |
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Hi I was born in Pitsea in 1953. Lived in the prefabs in Cromwell Gardens. Then when they were demolished moved to Delhi Road. Attended Pitsea School and then Fryerns. Left the area in 1973 after I was married at St. Gabriels Pitsea. Lovely to look at the old photos, it brings back so many memories. Does anyone else remember the prefabs? |
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| Saturday August 7, 2010 23:15:39 pm |
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| Name: |
Mike Harris |
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Chelmsford |
| How I got here: |
Search Engine |
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I was Born at 17 Northlands Drive Pitsea on the 23 September 1946 My dad Manny Harris was once captain of Bowers United Football Club and my mum Ruby Harris was a teacher at Pitsea School where both I and my dad were pupils as were his eight brothers and sisters. We left Pitsea in 1959 after compulsary purchase as did most of my dad's family but would love to hear from old aquaintances. |
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| Tuesday July 13, 2010 10:34:19 am |
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| Name: |
nadine bunn |
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brittany france |
| How I got here: |
Just Surfed In |
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bonjour, is there anyone out there who can remember me? i lived in laindon for most of my life, and am trying to find any person who remembers me. i went to markhams chase school in the mid fifties and then on to laindon high road until the age of 14, i am now sixty one. my best friend was christine kemp who had a sister called sandra i used to live on the pound lane estate in fonteyn close, then moved to the king edward road area. and am now living in france it would be good if there is anyone who knows me. |
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| Tuesday June 15, 2010 18:09:40 pm |
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| Name: |
Leonard Boret |
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Bracknell, Berkshire |
| How I got here: |
Search Engine |
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Attended Langdon Hills Primary 1940 to 1946 and then Laindon High Road until 1950. Lived in langdon hills, remember sticky bombs dropped in the cow fields, v1 in vowler road when on way home from Radion cinema. Teachers:- mr Radford, Mr mrs Lee, lovely art teacher who took us for dancing after lessons. Mr Lang, can't remember the others except for Mr Woodward the last headmaster. All my 4 sisters and one brother also attended. Happy days. |
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| Saturday June 5, 2010 20:12:32 pm |
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| Name: |
Isabel Smith [nee Beaney] |
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South Africa |
| How I got here: |
Occasional Visitor |
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This site has really increased since I last saw it. If there is anyone who knew my family when we lived in Langdon Hills from the early 1940's to 1958 it would be interesting to get news. I particularly would like to know of Pat Card who lived in Shelley Avenue and Wendy Darke who lived in Lincewood Park Drive.
I went to Langdon Hills Primary School and Laindon High Road [left in 1957] |
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| Monday April 5, 2010 22:05:33 pm |
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Bob Britnell |
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Canterbury UK |
| How I got here: |
Search Engine |
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I was looking for any images I could find of Staceys Corner, Timberlog Lane and found this site as a 2007 post referred to the Stacey's shop at the bottom end of Long Riding.
I moved in to a plot land bungalow in Timberlog Lane, 10 days after I was born in 1949, we lived opposite my grandparents bungalow which was where Chittock Gate now is, my grandparents were Mr and Mrs E G G Stacey, and they ran a small business from their home, selling coal, wood, paraffin, vegetables etc. Stacey's Corner was the corner in Timberlog Lane where the road turned to go down to what became Barstable Grammar School; the road straight on towards Fryerns Grammar School was much later. The Staceys in the shops were unrelated to us, pure coincidence.
My mother Peggy Stacey was born in Basildon in 1921, married my dad in 1946 and moved back in 1949.
We lived in the corner bungalow until my parents were bought out in the 1970s for a road widening of Timberlog Lane, it never happened and finally they built houses on the land.
I had two brothers, Fred born 1947, Rory born 1951 and we all were paperboys in our time, at Martin's newsagents next door to Stacey's hardware shop; we all went to Fryerns Grammar and Technical School.
My great great uncle Percy Edgar Hocking was responsible in the late 1890s - early 1900s for laying out the plots of land in the Vange Hills Estate as it was then known and he, my great grandparents and my great great grandparents are all buried at All Saints Church, Vange.
Bob
There are still Staceys in the south Essex area, some in Basildon. |
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| Sunday February 28, 2010 13:39:56 pm |
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| Name: |
Charles J Fisher (Jack) |
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Retford, Notts |
| How I got here: |
Regular Visitor |
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I was born in Vange in 1938 in a road called Bellevue Drive in a house/shack called Charmain. I was nine months old when my family moved to Moores Ave off the Fobbing high Rd just the other side of the railway crossing at the Five Bells. I worked as a projectionist in the then Century cinema in Pitsea and at the A B C cinema in Basildon. I was the one that put the first pictures on the screens at the A B C and the last one in the Century cinema. I have been looking for a film of the 1930 Pitsea and Vange carnival. Taken from off the canopy of the then Broadway cinema. I can remember a lot of what Basildon was like including the war years. I have been writing my memoirs down if you are interested I will E-mail you a copy. Reading these have brought back a lot of loving memories. Keep up the good work. |
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| Tuesday January 19, 2010 09:21:14 am |
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| Name: |
Maureen Harris nee Tolfrey |
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Adelaide Australia |
| How I got here: |
Just Surfed In |
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Moved to Pound Lane, Pitsea in 1960 and worked at Arrow Shirts (Sales Office) or Cluett Peabody & Co. Ltd. in Benfleet (opposite Tarpots) for six years, where I met my husband. Is there anyone out there who remembers and or worked there in that time. I worked and became friends with a Joyce O'Nions who was my bridesmaid when I married. Also working there: George Hill, Tony Virgo, John Pannett and a lovely girl called Daphne who married a cricketer named Dave Clark. Many others of course whose names I cannot recall. Moved to Basildon - Grimston Rd as a new married. Husband, Laurie Harris, being a Basildon boy. Look forward to any info. |
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| Sunday January 10, 2010 19:47:51 pm |
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| Name: |
roy cox |
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pitsea |
| How I got here: |
Just Surfed In |
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born in 1954. Went to pitsea infant and junior then chalvedon when built new.
Know lots of old pitsea.
Anyone who remembers the good old days would love to hear. |
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| Friday January 1, 2010 23:07:49 pm |
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Brian Baylis |
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Norfolk |
| How I got here: |
Regular Visitor |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and I am the last & first again this year. lol! |
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