Basildon, Market Place 1961
Photo ref: B438003
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This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here. Everything bears the hallmarks of the late 1950s and early 60s—from the contours of the ice-cream van (right) to the Guinness advertisement (with the shoe-soles) on the hoarding (centre left).

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Basildon, Market Place 1961

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Basildon has an interesting history, for it was ‘reinvented’ not once, but twice. At the start of the 19th century Basildon was a small rural parish, bounded on the west by Laindon, Dunton, Langdon Hills and Lee Chapel, and on the south and east by Vange, Pitsea and Nevendon. They were quiet, agricultural places – but an agricultural depression in the 1870s caused landowners to look for new uses ...see more