Corringham memories
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We live one hundred yards beyond these vehicles, towards the bottom end of Woodbrooke Way. Our house was built in 1958, so this photo must be later - and at a guess I'd say around 1960. Lovely nostalgic images though.
The Old Conker Tree
I remember well the conker tree. I lived in Hill Terrace untll 1950 when I also went to New Zealand (Gisborne). And I remember the school house, by Danes Corner. I was at Herd Lane school from 1944 till 1950.
VILLAGE LIFE
I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the road) until 1974. Lampits Hill holds many memories for me. At the end of WWII (before I was born) my brother stood just past the phone box on the left when a lone German fighter plane flew low on its last run to bomb the refineries at Coryton (this may have been the bomb that hit St. Mary's churchyard). As a child I played on the haystacks in the fields on the right before the houses were built and walked by here to and from Herd Lane School. In the 1950s I watched the Queen drive by to celebrate her Coronation. I had my first kiss here. In the 1960s I used to catch the bus here to work in London. In... Read more
The Corringham Bull
The Corringham Bull brings back memories for me too. I remember very well the legendary publican Charlie Abbott, better known as 'short change Charlie'. I left Corringham in 1963 but I sometimes return for a visit and have a pint in the Bull but it never seems quite the same as it was, but I suppose that's the way it is, nothing stays the same.
Lampits Hill
Even after all the years, it still looks basically the same here!
The Bull
I recall being taken here for my first real drink aged 13 by my uncle. I had to sit outside of course. It soon became my local and I drank there up until the mid 70s.
Lampits Hill
I was born June 1953 in the white bungalow just to the right of the woman in the photo. It was called "Meadway" and my parents moved there in 1950 when there was just fields opposite where the houses can be seen.
My sister still lives on the plot of land in the house built in 1975 to replace the old bungalow.
The Old Conker Tree
This photo is taken from outside my grandparents house, Church Cottage, Church Road. This old tree caused some stress to my granddad as every year children would come and throw sticks to bring down the best conkers. I left in 1972 aged 14 to go to New Zealand. But this tree brings back great memories. My Great Aunt lived across the road another of your photos. We lived at 13 Fobbing Road. I may be on the other side of the world but this page has brought so many memories.
1955 to 1972
I grew up in one of the bungalows at the foot of One Tree Hill and often spent weekends and school holidays with the Keeper's children, Peter and Jonathon Scott. One Tree Hill was a fascinating place to spend our weekends and school holidays. I remember the sand pit and an old spa. There was also a wartime pillbox/gun emplacement placed centrally on the hillside.
My father worked at Cawdor Hall farm at the foot of the hill so I also spent time with the farm children, and if we weren't building straw camps from the bales we were fooling around in the barns. At Guy Fawkes we always had a bonfire which the children mostly built. We used to make a guy using old clothes and straw each year, with the Springfield Cafe being a tremendous source of firework money from "penny for the Guy" sessions.
Photography was a serious hobby of mine and I have several photos from the 1960's and 1970's. I lived there from... Read more
Regent Cinema
I lived in Corringham 1954-1972. The Regent, known to most of us as the old bug'utch or Stanford fleapit, was of course our local cinema. I saw many films there, they were usually nearly a year old before they were shown at the Regent. I'm presuming that a film just a few weeks after its grand London premiere would be expensive to rent and therefore the preserve of opulent cinemas in more upmarket towns, eg State and Ritz in Grays! By the time they'd been out for 9 or 10 months they became the legitimate prey of the Regent! The Regent I'm sure became a bingo hall in early 1970, though I'm sure it showed one last movie which I think was 'Waterloo', I don't think it ever showed another film. That was probably 1971. I left Corringham in the summer of 1972 [40 years ago in a few months]. Can anyone remember two Regent characters, the chap with the suit [and moustache?] who was the manager and a regular called... Read more
Lampits Hill Hall
I remember the hall next door to the garage in Lampits Hill. We used to attend socials there on Saturday nights and if my memory serves me correctly they were always well attended.
The Regent Cinema
I am a member of a dance club that has accquired the Regent Cinema in Corringham Road. The building was flooded early in 2010 and since then the new owners with help from their members have been slowly restoring the building. In early December 2010 the upper floor was finished and The Old Regent Ballroom opened for business. Work will commence downstairs early in 2011. During the renovations we have started to research into the history of the building and have been able to source a small amount of information, courtesy of the local newspaper archives, regarding the opening of the Cinema in 1935, the first film shown etc. What we are missing are photos of the original interior and the approximate date that the cinema closed, we know that it was in the 1970s. To enable us to find the last film, closing announcement etc what we need is the year and if possible the month it closed. Any assistance to locate this information would be greatly appreciated.... Read more
Lampits Lane
Has anyone got any info or photos on the playschool in Lampits Lane? It was in a bungalow, No 7. I am not sure of the year. Thanks, Steve
Old School
If you head down Lampits Hill and carry on past Giffords Cross road on your right, you then enter Church Road, the next road on your left is Fobbing Road. Opposite this junction is a building called the Old School House, this was the original school for Corringham long before Herd Lane (Corringham Primary) was built. I lived in Pump House, which is on the corner of Church Road/Fobbing Road from 1958 to 1966 as it belonged to my parents who came to Corringham from Kent in 1944, and took over the shop from my father's aunt Florence Dane (hence Danes Corner). As I recall, there was a church/village hall next to the site of the petrol station in Lampits Hill, then owned by Alec Monk, it is still owned and run by the same family today. In those days, the Manorway used to turn up Rookery hill into Church Road and all the traffic going to the refinery came this way and mostly went up Lampits Hill. I can remember,... Read more
Fire Station
I used to live in Fobbing Road and can remember the old fire station before its makeover, does anyone have any pictures of this?
School House or Church?
Is there anyone out there who remembers the building that was located where the car sales place/petrol station is on Lampits Hill. It was either a school house or church. I think it was located on a mound, I remember going there for Christmas bazaars and summer fetes. Has anyone out there got any photos of this? Would be nice to see one. Debbie..
Memories of Essex
Vera Waites
My mother-in-law has just passed away and we found this in her papers. My years at Stanford-le-Hope Laundry. I lived in a village where my mum and family had lived for generations. A signpost at the top of our lane said '24 miles to London'. Our house was in the last road on one side of the village before farm land, and almost a mile from the River Thames. It was the last week of our school holidays and my dad told me, when he cam home from his work at the oil refinery, that the next day I was to go to our local laundry and ask for the manageress. I knew this laundry as one of my aunts lived close by, and our best Sunday School dresses had always been sent there because my mum didn't have an ironing table or sleeve board, just the kitchen table. Our dresses were always the same colour for the three of us, and had long sleeves. My young sister had to wear the... Read more
Blacksmith's Yard
My paternal grandmother Annie Cowell came from Stanford and I have always been led to believe that the space on the left of the house in the foreground, where the trees are, was the site of her father's blacksmith's premises. Her husband (or husband to be) Thomas J Mead was also a blacksmith and probably worked there as well, hence the connection, before they moved to Romford and then Wooburn Green in Buckinghamshire. I understand that Mr Cowell was well known in the then village and was also a pillar of the church community.
I spent many of my early years, in the 1940's and 50's, holidaying in Stanford and staying with my auntie Alice King at 14 Salisbury Avenue, and on these occasions joining her in the Mucking Church Choir (to be with my friend Sylvia Hipsey); and remember well the frequent treks down Wharf Road and over the Warren at the weekends. I had my first legal drink in the pub by the Green on Church Hill.
Stanford 1955- 1965
Hello George I lived in Stanford 1947-1971. The house opposite the church was where Dr. Morris lived, I believe. The surgery was round the corner in what felt like old stables. It was a fine house but was later purchased by a pub chain, I am not sure what it is now. I do not recall the site you mention prior to 1960 when Lloyds bank had a branch built there. I lived in King Edward Road down Wharf Road and used to enjoy playing and dog walking on the route to Mucking and the gravel pit area. Also watching the huge steam engines pulling large tanker trains from Shell Haven.
School Days
I grew up in Leigh-on- Sea but because my mother taught at Hassenbrook we drove to Standford every day from the time I was 4 1/2 till I was 9. I attended Standford-le-Hope Infants and then when I turned 7 went across the road to the Junior school. I remember there was a green wooden shack which we called the Tuck Shop which was just outside the back gate of the Junior School where we bought sweets. My best friend in the Junior School was Elaine Bradshaw and I hated living in Leigh because we couldn't play during the holidays. I also was friends with Jane Pierce. Her dad was the Vicar or Rector of the church (St. Margarets I think) and I have great memories of playing in the grounds around the church, they were beautiful and huge. Before I started school I was looked after by a lady I called Aunty Rose. She lived in a thatched cottage that stood between the road and the recreation/playground. There was... Read more
A Village to A Town
Born at Orsett hospital in 1950, I remember many things about Stanford. My father was from east London, my mother from rural Essex. They settled at no. 8 Central Road, just round the corner from Barclays bank. Stanford and Corringham were not adjoined then, as they were two villages with an expanse of fields between them, including the old army camp (disused).
I remember the cattle market where the Welcome Club is now and at the corner of Kings Street there used to be a real bakers with a flour mill run by the Kings bakers.
Just behind the cattle market was Thomas Allen, a petroleum delivery company which went on for many years. My brother worked from them after completing National Service.
Coryton and the Shell Houses were about 9 miles down the road, though the children and families were allowed free transport to Stanford via a bus to shuttle them back to the refinery areas as they came to school at either Stanford or... Read more
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