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  • Nissen Huts in Hadleigh c.1960 10/08/2020 Hi Ian, The huts you refer to were actually occupied by Mr and Mrs Cooksey and Mrs Cooksey's parents. They...
  • King John’s Lodge on Kingston Way? 09/08/2020 I seem to remember walking down the lane in that area where there were horse chestnut trees to collect conkers...
  • Jane Chalk? 1917 08/08/2020 I would be most grateful if anyone can confirm that this is Jane Howard - nee Chalk. I am desperate...
  • Nissen Huts in Hadleigh c.1960 03/08/2020 Terry Barclay (an archive editor of this site) has linked them to pre WW2. In a 1919 Ordnance Survey map,...
  • 1945 VE Street Party at Church Road & Woodfield Road, Hadleigh 03/08/2020 45 is James Woods, father of Jim Woods and 77 is Gordon Woods.
  • James Booth (1927-2005) 30/07/2020 David is my 2nd Cousin, I never met him but my father (Douglas Edwards b.1919) and his cousin (Roy Edwards...
  • Nissen Huts in Hadleigh c.1960 28/07/2020 Whereabouts in The Avenue, Ian ?
  • King John’s Lodge on Kingston Way? 23/07/2020 What happened to the Gordon Smiths, who lived in Kingston House before you? Between 1964 and 1969, I lived in...
  • Pound Wood – Daws Heath 19/07/2020 Well done; a very good post, a lot of my childhood spent in that wood and football in the field,...
  • Help: Thundersley and Daws Heath Past – Pt 1 18/07/2020 Does anyone know if the boy on first left on the top row is Richard Bainbridge? I used to play...
  • Help: Thundersley and Daws Heath Past – Pt 1 16/07/2020 Hello Geoffrey, I remember your mum and dad. I own the house you mention in Cedar Road. Your parents moved...
  • Burches Farm, Burches Road, Thundersley 15/07/2020 My grandparents (Leonard and Joyce Everns) bought the farm in the 50s. They had 3 children; Paul, Hazel and Peter....
  • History of Hadleigh School 14/07/2020 After Mr Denton the new headteacher was Mr Baker.
  • Hadleigh Junior School staff, summer 1972. 14/07/2020 4th in on the left Mrs Shaw. Brilliant teacher. Best days at HIS. I remember playing marbles on the drain...
  • Hadleigh, High Street and around 11/07/2020 What was the name of the model shop just along from the newsagents on the corner; I think they sold...
  • Hadleigh Doctors Remembered 09/07/2020 I remember Dr John McGladdery very vividly and fondly as when it was my 16th birthday ?, I lived with...
  • Sandbagging in a Hadleigh Store 01/07/2020 During the latter part of World War 2 my father (Joseph Adams) was the manager of this shop. I believe...
  • Hadleigh Butcher: Clement Groombridge 01/07/2020 Is this the shop which was later on owned by Redmills at the end of 2nd World War which was...
  • The Kingsway Cinema 28/06/2020 Back in the '60s Saturday Morning Pictures was a treat at Hadleigh Kingsway and it cost just 6d. The manager,...
  • The Hadleigh I Knew 28/06/2020 Couldn't have put it better myself. Excellent!
  • Metal Detecting 28/06/2020 Coincidentally, I just bought a cheapo metal detector on impulse from “the middle of Lidl” last week. If a local...
  • Hadleigh Kingsway Cinema 28/06/2020 Ah nostalgia! My mum and dad ran the pet shop (8 Kingsway Parade) and in their pre-war and wartime years...
  • The Keys Brothers 27/06/2020 Mel and Samantha; I think Barbara is our great aunt if she’s Nanny Joan's sister; so Mel you must be...
  • The Keys Brothers 27/06/2020 Hi Mel, I’m Samantha Davis; Barbara is my auntie and Joan is my nan so I think we must be...
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  • Hadleigh: A step back in time: fourth pace.

    10/08/2020
    Another activity enjoyed by local folk was the John Burrows recreation ground at the corner ...

  • Jane Chalk? 1917

    07/08/2020
    Can anyone help me? My father was Derek Howard, son of William James Howard. My ...

  • The Eckworths of the White Hart, Thundersley

    01/08/2020
    As an archive, we have been most fortunate to receive the story of the Eckworth ...

  • Nissen Huts in Hadleigh c.1960

    17/07/2020
    Back in the 1960s I recall there were a pair of Nissen huts in The ...
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