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  • Chalk Family Timeline 10/11/2018 My mother Doris Chalk (b.1916) and her younger sister Ida were the daughters of William James Chalk. He married Ada...
  • Hadleigh Youth Club in the late 1940s 08/11/2018 Basil Scott, Judith Isles, Ann Krayling, Michael Eley, ? Collender, Geoffrey Seagrave, Margaret Edney.
  • The Kingsway Cinema 06/11/2018 The Manager's name was Gus Keeling. I would arrive via the No 1 bus from Hart Road on Saturday aged...
  • The Kingsway Cinema 01/11/2018 I remember the ABC minors on a Saturday morning with very fond memories. Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Flash Gordon, the...
  • The Kingsway Cinema 30/10/2018 I was an ABC minor back in the 1950s; sixpence on a Saturday morning. I do believe the manager at...
  • The last remaining plotlands dwelling in Manor Road, New Thundersley 30/10/2018 I was born in number 12, Manor Road in 1946 and remember many of those plotland builds and lots of...
  • The Choppens 26/10/2018 Great book Bob which answered a few questions about the Choppen side of my family.
  • Hadleigh Castle 1400~1551 06/10/2018 I am very interested in Hadleigh Castle during the reign of Edward IV - Henry VII. I was told of...
  • ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY IN HADLEIGH 16/09/2018 I don't remember how many huts there were other than at least one. They were situated at the end of...
  • Hadleigh, High Street and around 14/09/2018 That's the row of commercial properties which has included the Ancora restaurant, MS Carpet Services etc., directly opposite the Castle...
  • Hadleigh, High Street and around 14/09/2018 The red building sticking out in front of the Morris Minor isn't a pub but it was part of a...
  • Hadleigh, High Street and around 13/09/2018 I am interested in the red building sticking out, in front of the Morris Minor in the photo looking East....
  • A Timber Boarded Cottage in London Road Hadleigh 12/09/2018 I remember speaking to my grandfather some years ago, (he passed away in 1984), his family lived in this cottage,...
  • Scrambling on Hadleigh Downs in the 1970s 25/08/2018 Claire, I knew your father when I worked at Greeves. Initially the Comp shop was at the back of the...
  • Scrambling on Hadleigh Downs in the 1970s 24/08/2018 This brings back wonderful memories, my father Bill Brooker was the comp manager for Greeves, I was lucky to have...
  • Scrambling on Hadleigh Downs in the 1970s 24/08/2018 The 2nd photo by Robert Hallmann titled “Dust marks the route” shows Monkey Hill in the background where the riders...
  • Hadleigh Albion Football Team 24/08/2018 I played for Hadleigh Albion in 1970s. Evolved from Hadleigh Salvation Army Torchbearers Youth Club playing initially on Salvation Army...
  • Porter’s: Information Exchange 23/08/2018 Thanks very much for your information. I have still not proved exactly where the shop was situated in the High...
  • Potter Family Tales from the Thundersley Turnpike 22/08/2018 I have found the above picture in an old Southend Pictorial. Who is this Mrs Potter and how does she...
  • Porter’s: Information Exchange 22/08/2018 CB Porter was my Great grandfather 1854-1929 and he had 2 sons, Charles and Wallace. Their address was the High...
  • Thundersley School Children, circa 1938 20/08/2018 My Dad was Terry Withers and was mentioned as a possible for number 5 in the back row. In fact...
  • Hadleigh & Thundersley Cricket Club 16/08/2018 I might be wrong but I think you'll find the Sheavills' were associated with the Castle Pub not the Crown...
  • Morrisons; the old and the new 14/08/2018 I'm pretty sure the first supermarket was quite near where Choice is now and was Howards Dairies, probably part of...
  • Formerly Howards Dairies 08/08/2018 Howard's diaries was in Oak Road South Hadleigh. It was the general stores for all of the shops of which...
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  • Photos of Tennis Club and Ramblers of Thundersley

    17/11/2018
    I have just come across some photographs of my great aunt Dorothy Dunger who must ...

  • WW1 Hadleigh War Graves at the Armistice Centenary 2018

    05/11/2018
    The War Graves Commission website lists the WW1 graves in the St James-the-Less churchyard on ...

  • A Local History Day at Hadleigh Library

    07/10/2018
    This was so successful in February this year that a further FREE Local History day ...

  • Val Jackson

    03/10/2018
    For Val Jackson’s funeral of 12th June 2018 in St James the Less Church, Hadleigh, the ...
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