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  • 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!
  • 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...
  • The Keys Brothers 27/06/2020 Hi Mel, my Nan is Joan Davis (maiden name Keys) on her birthday yesterday she turned 90
  • Nanny Ede’s Cottage 26/06/2020 Eileen: Yes please to the photo looking west from Waggon & Horses; do you have a date for it? Also,...
  • Nanny Ede’s Cottage 26/06/2020 Firstly, thanks to all for responses which are being looked into. Matt: yes I recall the sweet shop and from...
  • Metal Detecting 26/06/2020 Back in the early '70s I was into bottle searching with a spade. One such place I went to was...
  • The Keys Brothers 16/06/2020 Sid was my great grandfather, Emily Keys was my grandma. My father is Mick Wilkins and my name is Oliver...
  • Hadleigh Kingsway Cinema 08/06/2020 Jack Banbury played the organ at the Kingsway until 1956.
  • The Keys Brothers 07/06/2020 Hi Stuart, My nan was Barbara Keys (maiden name) her father was John Keys. She had 2 sisters and a...
  • Nanny Ede’s Cottage 05/06/2020 I have a photo taken from opposite where the Waggon & Horses stood, looking west towards London and the cottages...
  • St James the Less Church 04/06/2020 Thanks for sharing such details about the stained glass windows and the graves. I visited the church when I came...
  • WW2 Pathfinder Force 03/06/2020 I am still in contact with Fraser Chestney, a best friend from school. I know his mother Ruth very well...
  • Nanny Ede’s Cottage 30/05/2020 That was one of the few food shops open on Sunday. A bit dodgy parking on the dual carriageway, though....
  • Nanny Ede’s Cottage 29/05/2020 This would be on the site of where Runwood Homes offices now stand. It’s a long shot, but if you...
  • A.R.Adams Funeral Directors 24/05/2020 John, Do you remember when Nellie Adams (Win and Ivy's mother) passed away or where she was buried? I think...
  • Mornington Crescent Hadleigh 22/05/2020 Further to comment below re "Sinclair Road was off Seymour Rd when I was growing up but you could only...
  • “Thundersley” in Benfleet Parish 21/05/2020 It’s an interesting article as I lived with my parents in the sixties and seventies in Kiln Road, on its...
  • Help: Thundersley and Daws Heath Past – Pt 1 10/05/2020 I am Geoffrey Cavalier; I was 10 years old in 1956 and at school at Thundersley Primary school, Mr French...
  • 1945 Victory in Europe (VE) Celebrations in Hadleigh 08/05/2020 My father-in-law Charlie Knott lived in Downer Road North. He remembers celebrating VE Day a few days later in a...
  • 1945 Victory in Europe (VE) Celebrations in Hadleigh 08/05/2020 Excellent research and recollections, Malcolm. Congratulations!
  • A.R.Adams Funeral Directors 08/05/2020 My Mother was Ivy Skinner. I remember Aunty Win when living in Leigh/ Chalkwell area.
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  • Kingsway Cinema, Hadleigh

    02/07/2020
    Hadleigh’s long lost cinema, The Kingsway.

  • Pound Wood - Daws Heath

    29/06/2020
    I started walking to the wood across the field by St Michael’s Church. The grass ...

  • Hadleigh Businesses

    17/06/2020
    Did anyone out there used to work at Messrs Trevards Manufacturing of London Road, Hadleigh? ...

  • Hadleigh: A step back in time: third pace.

    08/06/2020
    Some Hadleigh characters that come to mind are firstly a man called Monty (who lived ...
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