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Historic maps of Basildon and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Basildon maps
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Basildon books
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Basildon Living Memories
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Harlow Town and City Memories
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Saffron Walden Town and City Memories
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33 Basildon photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Basildon
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When I was born, Basildon was not built. I was born in Pitsea, when it was all country side. Although my mum took me back to London after the war, I returned to Pitsea often to stay with my grandparents. It was the happiest time of my life, the freedom of walking across the fields and buying fresh eggs and getting... [more]
Shared on 06 August 2008
We moved to The Gore, in about 1962. My brother was born here. Our family lived at number 83, and up until 2000, no other family had ever lived there. We moved in when the other end of the road was still being finished. I went to Gyhllgrove School, and can remember my first teacher, 1965, being a Miss Mehtha, an... [more]
Shared on 15 June 2009
Essex memories
These houses are in St. Nicholas Lane. I lived in the house on the left of the photo. It was named Neasden. We lived there until 1950 when we moved to London. The hill was a very good winter sports attraction with some very fast toboggan runs.
Shared on 12 November 2009
This was taken five years before I was born, but I remember the High Road very well and loved walking along it, looking in the shop windows, it seemed to go on forever.
Shared on 20 September 2009
This is a part of Laindon we must preserve, there's not many left, but it should be safe on top of the hill. Many happy days were spent in the fields behind, flying kites and playing football, when I was a child and with my grandchildren in recent years.
The Crown was a favourite lunchtime haunt when the children were little... [more]
Shared on 20 September 2009
This is another part of Laindon that is no more. I can remember waiting outside the Fortune of War with a Guy leading up to Firework Night, I always collected lots of change from the kind patrons of this local drinking establishment. I don't think anyone noticed that it was really my sister dressed up in the wagon, if they did... [more]
Shared on 20 September 2009
It was a very sad day when Laindon School closed and even worse when it was demolished. I have fond memories of my days at Laindon, I joined when Mr Chadband was head, and made many friends there. Apart from attending myself I was part of the PTA group that tried to keep it from closing, as my daughter was one... [more]
Shared on 20 September 2009
Extracts From Basildon & Essex books
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Basildon Living Memories Pocket Album
Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth. Lambert spent a year on the sculpture; Basildon spent £4,000 on it.
This is an extract from Basildon Living Memories Pocket Album.
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Basildon Living Memories Pocket Album
We are standing on what is now the golf course, above The Dell and Swallowdale. In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House. The 16th-century Vange Hall stood a little way to our right, near what is thought to have been the site of a Roman brickworks. All that now remains of the... [more]
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Basildon - A History & Celebration
BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants. Until the turn of the 20th century Basildon was just a collection of small villages. After 1900 the first sporadic growth began, and much farmland was turned into building plots for the tiny timber... [more]
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