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  • Hadleigh – An Essex Village 13/09/2019 My grandmother was a Harvey, my father has done substantial research into the Harvey family. I have visited the Hadley...
  • History of Hadleigh School 03/09/2019 I started at Hadleigh Juniors in 1971 and the first year kids had the small playground on the Church Road...
  • Hadleigh Doctors Remembered 31/08/2019 Dr Rough was our doctor and he visited me in Southend hospital after I had my appendix out. Good old...
  • More Hadleigh Memories 1930-1940 25/08/2019 Holboro House was built for my great grandparents, Alfred and Sarah Hawks. It is mentioned in articles contributed by my...
  • More Hadleigh Memories 1930-1940 25/08/2019 I have a pencil case given to me by my Mum when she was preparing to move in 2019. On...
  • St Peter’s Church, Thundersley 18/08/2019 Ian and Pearl Hawks were my parents and when I married at St. Peter’s in 1976 my photos were taken...
  • Growing up in Hadleigh in 1920s and 1930s 15/08/2019 I'm looking for information about a bicycle shop near Hadleigh Church. I believe my Grandfather Albert Gowers ran it or...
  • The Thundersley Home Guard 04/08/2019 I think the person second from the left, top row is my grandfather, Stanley Petchey of Church Road, Hadleigh.
  • The Kingsway Cinema 02/08/2019 Along with all the other commentators, used to pay sixpence to sit upstairs for Saturday morning pictures. Watching the Three...
  • The Kingsway Cinema 24/07/2019 I was also an ABC minor and went Saturday mornings. We owned the Crown Cafe opposite. The fair used to...
  • HADLEIGH KINGSWAY CINEMA 24/07/2019 As a child I used to go to Saturday morning pictures for children. We lived and owned the Crown Cafe...
  • Formerly Howards Dairies 23/07/2019 My wife and I lived in Hockley after our marriage. I left the Ford Motor Company to work in the...
  • Harold Hitchcock (23.5.1914 – 8.8.2009): Artist of Light 17/07/2019 I have been an admirer of Harold and Leonard Hitchcock's paintings ever since I saw their work displayed on the...
  • Who built Solbys House? 03/07/2019 My uncle, Walter Bashford, was the groundsman there and we were allowed to live in the house. I lived in...
  • Elaine`s Memories of Tarpots 02/07/2019 I was in the same class as Alan Durkin; also knew his elder brother Ron, I think Robert Lazell lived...
  • Thundersley Glen Memories 01/07/2019 I remember Thundersley Glen well. My family (Mum, Dad, brother John and myself) went over there regularly as we lived...
  • Jack Sims 28/06/2019 I found this page and saw with interest a photo of my father when we lived at Konini Road in...
  • Elaine`s Memories of Tarpots 25/06/2019 I remember moving to Church Road, Thundersley in 1963 and went to school at King John in Shipwrights Drive, I...
  • Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Hadleigh 24/06/2019 I have just found the ‘dog tag’ for my grandfather 2nd Lieutenant WJ Morris Garr Batt RWF. I think he...
  • June 2019 Local History Day 02/06/2019 Many years ago on the way to see the Bayeux Tapestry with a friend we stopped off in Caen. Realising...
  • Hadleigh’s New Road Nursery 1916 – 1959 23/05/2019 Would the nurseries have been where Templewood Court is now? I grew up there in the 70s - and the...
  • Barge: The ‘Hadleigh Castle’ 22/05/2019 It is possible that the Guildhall Library in London's Guildhall might have a record of this since a captain is...
  • Historic Policing in Thundersley and Hadleigh 19/05/2019 A very informative and enjoyable talk; mind you, he did admit the main reason for the cape was to keep...
  • Hadleigh Fire Station during World War II 15/05/2019 My father Alan Knevett was 15 at the time and narrowly escaped injury when the flying bomb hit in November...
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