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| 01) Keith's Newsagents |
| 02) Website |
| 03) Helicopter Hills - 1 reply. |
| 04) Dunton |
| 05) Mopsies Road |
| 06) St. Marys Crescent |
| 07) Burnt Mills - 1 reply. |
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| 01. Keith's Newsagents |
Posted by Kevin Cullis on 5/1/2018, 2:16 am
hi everyone
My dad, Keith Cullis, who owned Keith's Newagents in the Broadway Laindon High Road in the 60's and then relocating to Laindon Shopping Centre, sadly passed away this week, aged 80.
If anyone remembers dad and has any stories or memories, myself and the family would love to read them.
Either use this forum or feel free to contact me directly via my email: Kjchammer @ gmail.com
Thanks, Kevin
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| 02. Website |
Posted by Basildon Borough History on 4/3/2018, 2:48 am
Hello,
I'm not sure if the Basildon History website is still used or updated. I hope it is.
I set up my own website a couple of years ago:
https://BasildonHistory.wixsite.com/Essex
I also have a Twitter account and Instagram account linked to the site:
@BasildonHistory
There is also forums attached to the site:
https://basildonhistory.freeforums.net
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| 03. Helicopter Hills |
Posted by chris on 11/5/2018, 5:26 am
Hello can anyone tell me why and when Helicopter hills was named so.
Re: Helicopter Hills
Posted by Bill (Basildon History) on 26/6/2026, 10:05 am
It's not an official name as such but one that the locals refer to when describing them.
They are man made and put there in the early 1970s at the time
of the creation of Gloucester Park's fishing lake.
The main hill, officially called 'Sharpesville' in 1985, but before then known as, and may still be referred to as, 'mud hill',
was begun years earlier, created from spoil excavated from the new housing estates being built during the early years of the 'New Town'.
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| 04. Dunton |
Posted by Christine Kilby on 27/5/2018, 2:31 pm
Re: Lower Avenue, Dunton
Honri Lodge, Lower Avenue was a bungalow built by my grandfather Walter Charles Latarche. It was a single storey wooden structure which I remember well from my
childhood. It was compulsory purchased by Basildon Council.
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| 05. Mopsies Road |
Posted by Linda on 9/8/2018, 6:15 am
Hello, I am currently researching my partners family history and have come across his Grandparents living in Annies Lodge, Mopsies Road, Basildon in the 1939
Census. He is recorded in the Census as a disabled incapacitated ex-serviceman. He was serving in WW1 and was affected by Mustard gas.
I am curious as
to why his grandparents were living in Annies Lodge. This has come as surprise for my partner and family as they all thought that their grandparents lived
in East Ham.
Was Annies Lodge a place of respite due to the effects of the Mustard gas? He did pass away in 1941 in East Ham.
I would be grateful for any help in solving this family history mystery.
Many thanks Linda
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| 06. St. Marys Crescent |
Posted by Roberta David on 10/8/2018, 7:00 am
Hi Beryl Lucas (nee Bull)
As a small child of 6 back in the late 50's my older sister, who would have been 19, used to take me to St Mary's Crescent to visit her friend June Edwards or June Hair
(not sure of the surname) and the family lived at number 89 St Mary's Crescent. I can't remember if June had any other brothers or sisters, but in my minds eye, I remember
thinking it was a big house in a very big street.
We must have got the bus to Pitsea and then walked all the way down Rectory Road, that in the late 50's, would
have been lined with bungalows, trees and green fields.
I have often wondered when the estate was first built would you have any knowledge as to when the estate
was completed and families started to move in?
Many thanks Roberta David
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| 07. Burnt Mills |
Posted by E Lamb on 19/8/2018, 1:08 pm
Some old maps show what is now called Burnt Mills as Burnt Ash.
Why and did it become Burnt Mills?
Re: Burnt Mills
Posted by eric on 23/7/2023, 5:18 am
WHEN DID BURNT ASH BECOME KNOWN AS BURNT MILLS?
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