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| 08) Memories |
| 09) Calves Hill - Pitsea - 1 reply. |
| 10) The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury - 5 replies. |
| 11) The Old Nevendon Surround - 2 replies. |
| 12) Chicken Farm - Gardiners Lane, Crays Hill - 2 replies. |
| 13) Rust's menswear shop - 1 reply. |
| 14) Bowers Gifford |
| 15) Family |
| 16) Laindon - 3 replies. |
| 17) Vange Swimming Pool - 7 replies. |
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| 8. Memories |
Posted by bob on 18/7/2014, 5:58 am
can anyone remember bobby keeble alias nutty?
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| 09. Calves Hill - Pitsea |
Posted by Jo on 21/7/2014, 6:18 pm
Hi, I was in the cafe at The Place Pitsea and noticed among the other names of roads and places in Pitsea that decorate the walls one I did not recognise. It was a place called
Calves Hill.
Can anyone tell me where it was please?
Re: Calves Hill - Pitsea
Posted by Jo Cullen on 3/4/2015, 7:22 am
Hi I too saw this Road name in the cafe and did not recognise it.
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| 10. The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury |
Posted by Tim Bates on 27/7/2014, 9:03 am
Can anyone assist please...? (Genealogy only)
An unmentioned relative died while at the, what was, The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury (in Billericay) in April 1945, before the introduction of the NHS in 1948. Where would they have been buried having
died there? The age reads 13 months on the death certificate, which is correct with the birth certificate. The parents lived in Bowers Gifford at the time.
The person isn’t buried at the Pitsea Cemetery, Church Road beside the A13, which was my first port of call, as it’s only a short distance from Bowers Gifford. Also in the churchyard of St.
Margaret's Church, Bowers Gifford bottom end of Church Road and neither in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, South Benfleet. I have yet to visit the churchyards of St. Mary Magdalene
in Great Burstead, St. Mary the Virgin in Little Burstead and St. Mary's in Buttsbury.
Where did once stand The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury situated in Billericay. I would be guessing that an Isolation Hospital would have been to the outskirts at the time.
Any help, assistance or information please would be great.
Kind Regards
Tim Bates
Re: The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury
Posted by sarah patterson on 27/5/2015, 4:06 am
Hi
I have come across your post whilst looking for history about the isolation hospital on which the house we live in stands. If you need any help
please email me.
Sarah
Re: The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury
Posted by Tim Bates on 27/5/2015, 3:12 pm
Dear Sarah
Many thanks indeed for your reply. You are the first person on this subject, 10 months to the day.
What info do you have please? I, when I first came over this hospital mentioned on a death certificate, thought it was in Buttsbury itself,
but was wrong. Does any of the hospital still stand... Do you know or have any idea where people were buried if they died at the hospital. Did it have its own cemetery.
Any information would be great please.
Kind Regards
Tim
Re: The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury
Posted by sarah on 28/5/2015, 3:20 am
Hi
We are interested in the hospital as it is where we live. There is nothing left of the hospital, unfortunately.
As far as we are aware there was no cemetary here, the most logical place that they would have been buried would be at Great Burstead church, which is within Billericay.
Sarah
Re: The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury
Posted by Nina Humphrey on 8/8/2015, 9:14 am
Hi. My uncle Harry died from polio in the Buttsbury Isolation Hospital, Billericay in 1928. He was 8 years old. (he was my mum's younger brother). He is buried at
St Nicholas Church, Laindon.
Nina.
Re: The Isolation Hospital, Buttsbury
Posted by Tim Bates on 5/9/2015, 2:29 pm
Nina
Many thanks indeed for your email. Sorry I haven't replied earlier but due to changing family lines with my research I have forgotten about this site.
I am guessing, but haven't checked with the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford, that the person I am / was looking for may be buried at the church in Bowers Gifford
at the end of North Benfleet Hall Lane. I believe it was a CofE church but is now closed. By looking at Google Maps the church still stands but in the grounds of a
large farm like area... I may visit and view one day. Her parents lived in Bowers Gifford at the time.
Kind Regards
Tim
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| 11. The Old Nevendon Surround |
Posted by Tim Bates on 27/7/2014, 11:33 am
Can anyone assist please...? (Genealogy only)
In the old Nevendon surround, south of the today Southend Arterial Road, does anyone have information, photos or cuttings from newspapers, late 1930’s preferred, of the following road areas: -
1. Nevendon Road (Vange area) – today Timberlog Lane
2. Highlands Avenue
3. Bull Lane
4. Highview Road
Any help, assistance or information please would be great please.
Kind Regards
Tim Bates
Re: The Old Nevendon Surround
Posted by Jo Cullen on 3/4/2015, 7:21 am
Hi Tim
Do you live near Basildon if so pop into the green centre at Wat Tyler park Pitsea Basildon Heritage has a large selection of photos that you can look
through. We are open Mondays and Wednesdays 10-12.30 and Saturdays 11-4 pm
Re: The Old Nevendon Surround
Posted by Tim Bates on 27/5/2015, 3:18 pm
Jo
Many thanks indeed for your reply. Due to having no luck with answers to any of my subjects I had forgotten that i'd entered the question.
I am about 3hours travel from Basildon. Maybe one day...
Kind Regards
Tim
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| 12. Chicken Farm - Gardiners Lane, Crays Hill |
Posted by Tim Bates on 27/7/2014, 12:11 pm
Can anyone assist please...? (Genealogy only)
Looking for information or photos of a 5 acre chicken farm that once sat at the north end of Gardiners Lane, Crays Hill (pre war, 1930’s time)
Any help, assistance or information please would be great.
Kind Regards
Tim Bates
Re: Chicken Farm - Gardiners Lane, Crays Hill
Posted by Jack Fisher on 8/11/2014, 8:44 am
Was that Keelings farm?
As a boy I would cycle there from the Five Bells corner just to see his traction engines and hope to see them being used.
Re: Chicken Farm - Gardiners Lane, Crays Hill
Posted by Tim Bates on 23/11/2014, 5:43 am
Many thanks for your reply.
Unfortunately I cannot answer your question as I, as of yet, don't know myself. All I do know is that a member of the family had
a farm in the area. Sorry I didn't reply sooner but I gave up with answers and only checked once in 6 weeks.
Kind Regards
Tim
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| 13. Rust's menswear shop |
Posted by mike Fruin on 27/7/2014, 8:05 pm
In the middle 50s I can remember a gents outfitter called Rust's, which was later run by the son Tony Rust.
Also a variety type shop run by a jewish gentleman which we would sometimes visit before going on a date.
Re: Rust's menswear shop
Posted by John Wernham on 3/8/2014, 5:15 am
Hi Mike.
The variety shop you said was run by a Jewish gentleman, was in fact Elf Cohen, or `Elf the Market Man`. He was very entertaining on his Saturday market stall. I use go there
just to listen to all his sales banter. He was that good, he could sell you your own Grandmother!! They were great days !!
All the best,
John.
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| 14. Bowers Gifford |
Posted by stephen shaw on 10/8/2014, 3:55 am
Title: Childhood memories of Bowers Gifford, North Benfleet and Pitsea by John Wernham. Source: John Wernham. Copyright ©John Wernham, May-August 2009.
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| 15. Family |
Posted by danny murcutt on 30/8/2014, 5:00 am
hi my names danny murcutt .im looking for anyone related to thomas murcutt and terry murcutt so i can get in touch with them as they used to live in basildon
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| 16. Laindon |
Posted by david rand on 28/9/2014, 3:40 am
david rand
does any body remember me,any contact would be nice.
Re: Laindon
Posted by Dave Flashman on 1/5/2015, 6:56 am
Hello David are you related to Freddy?
Dave Flashman
Re: Laindon
Posted by david rand on 1/5/2015, 8:55 am
sorry i am not related to freddy dave flashman,
regarde david.
Re: Laindon
Posted by Sylva on 16/8/2017, 4:29 pm
David Rand are you related to Brian Frederick Rand
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| 17. Vange Swimming Pool |
Posted by Jack Fisher on 11/10/2014, 12:15 pm
How many of you remember the Vange Swimming pool at the end of Wharf Lane over the railway. I learnt to swim in that pool and the dykes that ran parallel with the Vange
creek. As a very young boy I remember the barges that brought wood up to the wharf turning using the large wooden pillows on the bend of Vange and Pitsea creek. hEven the rows of
house boats that were in Pitsea creek.
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by Geoff Baxter on 11/10/2014, 2:11 pm
I well remember swimming in Vange Creek and in the side pools the other side of the sea wall. The swimming pool had been closed by then because of a polio scare, and only used to catch
eels from the Creek. The side of the Pitsea creek were lined with rubbish lost from the barges that came down from London.
There were several very high tides during the 1950s and
recall the water being to the top of the wall and escaping through a little gap where the path on top of the wall had made a hollow.
Very easy to get stuck on the wrong side at high tide.
That water must have been bacterial soup, how did we survive?
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by Jack Fisher on 8/11/2014, 8:35 am
Hi Geoff
I've been writing my memoirs of the times as a boy living in the area and it includes the Vange swimming pool. I will send you an extract about the swimming pool if I knew your
email and any one else that's interested. The museum on Wat Tyler park can supply you with the full copy.
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by John Bullard on 8/6/2015, 6:44 am
Yes, I remember it too. I think you had to go past Johnson's wood yard. I seem to remember there was a shop that sold teas and ices nearby.
I think the swimming pool was filled
by the creek. There was a springboard and a basic waterslide.
I think it closed after a while because me and my brothers had to go use the 'sidepools' to swim in. There were fairly evil
places to swim in, but you couldn't really swim in the creek because it was just too muddy.
Re: Vange Swimming Pool&
Posted by John Hammerslag on 14/6/2015, 5:42 am
What wonderful memories I have of that basic pool, where I first started swimming without one foot on the bottom. Vange pool was fed by pumps that provided water directly from the
creek close by. To progress from the muddy shallows to using the shute and then the diving board was a major achievement.
For many local kids this was a perfect place to be
during the summer months. My younger brother and I spent many hours at this place and experienced pure joy, including a packet of Smiths crisps and maybe some ice cream.
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by Barry Cartwright on 7/10/2016, 6:22 pm
my mum and dad used to live in one of those houseboats and my gran dad lived in another one
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by John Marchant on 16/7/2017, 10:36 am, in reply to "Re: Vange swimming pool"
There is an inter-war postcard on eBay of a small crowd next to and swimming in Vange Creek at: Ebay postcard
Re: Vange Swimming Pool
Posted by John Marchant on 16/7/2017, 1:03 pm
Shorter web address to see the postcard of Vange Creek bathers: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222573474402?_trksid=p2471758.m4704
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