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  • Sustainable crafts: Basket making in Hadleigh 29/07/2021 There are many other local crafts, many no longer in action; but there are some surprising new crafts being honed....
  • W and HL Carruthers, Daws Heath Builders 27/07/2021 A Few Corrections ___ It was our maternal grandmother, Louise Moss who lived at the Triangle, our grandmother Charlotte remained...
  • Memories of an old Hadleigh resident 13/07/2021 I live at 5 Castle Road and had no idea of our house’s history until my neighbour showed me this....
  • Stones of Ancient Britain 13/07/2021 It’s at the church laying down now on its side
  • Hadleigh Junior School staff, summer 1972. 06/07/2021 Back: Harris, Hewitt, Smith, Shaw, Lazell, Carlane, unknown, Knight, Seymour, Edge (?), Allen Front: Unknown, Unknown, Evans, Mott, Denton, Layram,...
  • Rayleigh Weir Stadium 06/07/2021 Would you have a 1949 Rayleigh home programme that you are interested in selling? {Editors: we regret that we have...
  • Suffolk House and the Tookeys 28/06/2021 Charles was also my great grandfather. My grandfather being Harold Edward, born 1903. Found this randomly on the internet but...
  • Burches Farm, Burches Road, Thundersley 26/06/2021 Caroline Orchard née Lucena, I'm looking for the next of kin of Mavesyn Ross Lucena for a book I'm writing....are...
  • 6 Kingsway Parade 20/06/2021 My aunt Mrs. Hilda Stroud used to work in Crafts in the early 1960s, which for this six year old...
  • Hadleigh Public Hall 20/06/2021 If my memory serves me correctly Georgina married Alex Stenhouse then a player for Southend United, I took some photos...
  • Contact us 14/06/2021 I’ve found out the original name of my house was ‘Topex’ It’s a 1930s house off Commonhall Lane. Would anyone...
  • Contact us 14/06/2021 I was wondering, when was the reservoir built in the country park and did it/does it supply water to anywhere,...
  • C. S. Wiggins – the early days 26/05/2021 In response to Sheela's post below: Stan's three children were Cyril, Mary and Joe. It was Joe who was your...
  • Norman Hudder: A Hadleigh Farm Colony worker who went to war 23/05/2021 Thanks for your comment Neville, you apparently are still following Hadleigh Farm and our website. Happy days.
  • Thundersley and Daws Heath – A History 21/05/2021 I have just received a copy of this book which I am really looking forward to reading. However, on glancing...
  • Norman Hudder: A Hadleigh Farm Colony worker who went to war 21/05/2021 Unfortunately, whilst the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have an excellent track record of maintaining the names of all those known...
  • A Timber Boarded Cottage in London Road Hadleigh 17/05/2021 My mother Adelaide Cordelia “Peggy” Stace was born here 1922. The children climbed a step ladder to their beds. They...
  • A Timber Boarded Cottage in London Road Hadleigh 17/05/2021 My great grandfather and his family were the Staces who lived in Montisdene after the Welsh family. My grandfather had...
  • Third and final column of 1902 report on Thundersley 17/05/2021 PSA stands for "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon". This was a religious revivalist movement that first emanated from the Birmingham area and...
  • Barge: The ‘Hadleigh Castle’ 11/05/2021 Hi, William Turner was master of Hadleigh Castle in the 1911 census with his 2 sons as crew. He was...
  • Croisette’s 3, Kingsway Parade 05/05/2021 I started buying records there in the late 50's early 60's. I used to be a DJ at the Forum...
  • 1 Kingsway Parade, Hadleigh 04/05/2021 My mother lived at 1 Kingsway Parade; I believe my grandparents, certainly my grandmother, ran the cafe. Gran's name was...
  • Arcadian Gardens – A well, a stream, and things that went bump in the night! 04/05/2021 I believe this is about my house! I would love to get in touch and find out more information about...
  • Formerly Howards Dairies 03/05/2021 Hi, I live in Perth, Western Australia but was born and lived in Southend on Sea, some 38 years ago....
  • 1945 VE Street Party at Elm Road, Hadleigh 02/05/2021 No 46, I think, is Tony Freeman. Additional information, in case it is of any use - Tony was the...
  • Southend Waterworks Company Houses 30/04/2021 This excellent article adds to the research currently being carried out by AGES Archaeological & Historical Asociation as part of...
  • King John’s Lodge on Kingston Way? 25/04/2021 I am researching my relative Winifred Warren Foster (great aunt.) As you can see from the link {https://bit.ly/330ogsB } they...
  • Arcadian Gardens – A well, a stream, and things that went bump in the night! 23/04/2021 What a stunning poster! Strongly reminiscent of those fabulous interwar Art Deco Railway and Travel Posters. When these houses were...
  • The Keys Brothers 14/04/2021 Hi Stuart. All I can recall is that my dad Jim Keys, died on the 14th of February 1978. He...
  • Hadleigh Fire Station in the 1930s 06/04/2021 I believe that my father, William Light, (known as Bill or Sonny) was also a fireman at Hadleigh Fire during...
  • 1945 VE Street Party at Castle Road, Hadleigh 06/04/2021 Hi This photo was taken outside our house (no 58) where I was born 23rd February 1945, to Florence Day....
  • The Keys Brothers 04/04/2021 Hi James, if you can let me have year of birth or death of your family I can trace them...
  • About the Pipes in Pieces Project 03/04/2021 The virtual museum is very interesting, but just for clarification, the Kingsway was demolished and the first Safeway was built...
  • The Keys Brothers 02/04/2021 My grandad William Keys was a Thames sailing barge master. He had four sons, Fred, Jim, Bob, and Tom. All...
  • Thundersley & Hadleigh Football Club {2} 25/03/2021 The only player I can recall is my father's cousin, Peter Howard (goal keeper), fourth from left, back row. I...
  • 643-645 London Road 21/03/2021 Re Broadvue Stores at 643 London Road, Hadleigh; I remember it was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Clough and was...
  • The Ecclesiastical Census of 1851 20/03/2021 Fascinating to me that Thundersley’s biggest church congregation in 1851 was the Baptists! Their chapel, it seems, was established in...
  • James Booth (1927-2005) 18/03/2021 My dad has just done some work on the family tree, Vanessa; it may be of interest to you. Not...
  • Thomas Causton Thundersley Protestant Martyr on Rayleigh Memorial 14/03/2021 Who were the three people who paid for the memorial in Rayleigh?
  • Lockharts Cocoa Rooms 12/03/2021 For those wishing to experience the Cocoa Rooms for themselves, there might be an opportunity at the new Museum of...
  • Lockharts Cocoa Rooms 10/03/2021 Very interesting new addition to the article and the link to the mudlarking site has kept me busy for hours...
  • Thomas Causton Thundersley Protestant Martyr on Rayleigh Memorial 06/03/2021 Hey thank you! I hadn't seen this, as had not been researching due to illness and archives closed .. but...
  • James Booth (1927-2005) 04/03/2021 Just trying to do my family tree. My dad always says he is his cousin but can’t quite work it...
  • Thundersley & Hadleigh Football Club {1} 03/03/2021 From information received, the above photo seems to have been taken circa 1958. Jim Donovan, who was Captain at that...
  • Some Schoolboy Memories 27/02/2021 I live in New Road by the park and I'm desperately trying to find out the history but I can't...
  • Hadleigh’s New Road Nursery 1916 – 1959 27/02/2021 I live in one of the houses in the background! Any idea of the date of the nursery field photo?...
  • Thundersley & Hadleigh Football Club {1} 23/02/2021 Front left is my Dad...Donald Cook...sadly passed away 12th March 1991. Dad loved football and supported Ipswich with his brother...
  • War Time Memories of Thundersley 21/02/2021 The Spitfire incident at Nutt's Oakleigh Poultry Farm is one of the incidents that can be read about on the...
  • War Time Memories of Thundersley 20/02/2021 Hi; My grandfather actually owned that poultry farm. I grew up hearing stories of that day. Apparently many chickens died...
  • Thundersley’s Biggest Christmas Tree 20/02/2021 I was born in a caravan at White Hart caravan park.
Latest articles

  • Hadleigh Junior School Artwork Designs for an AGES Well Dressing

    31/07/2021
    I suspect that the first question might be what is a well dressing? In the ...

  • Sustainable crafts: Basket making in Hadleigh

    27/06/2021
    Click on the first picture for a magnified view. Osiers are visible on the left, ...

  • The Good Companions Café

    24/06/2021
    Thomas Hearn asked in July 2015 –“Does anyone remember the Good Companions Café at the ...

  • Is it a reservoir?

    23/06/2021
    I was wondering, when was the reservoir built in the country park and did it/does ...
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