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This memory is my mum's - in the 1940s she remembers her dad taking her (on his motorbike with mum in the sidecar) to a smallholding on Eastwood Road in Rayleigh - she thinks probably to buy 'day-old chicks' (her parents kept chickens). We are trying to find out the name of the business or the people who ran it as part of our family history investigations - my great-grandfather had previously married Rhoda, who I'm told was a sister of the owner, but it would be interesting to find out what her maiden name was so that we can find out a little more about the family. Any information about the people, the name of the business or even photographs of the smallholding, would be very useful.
Shared on 12 August 2009
I would like to know if anyone out there has any photos of the row of cottages that were just in the Eastwood Road as you came into Rayleigh High Street, I would be very interested, as they were part of me childhood, I remember sitting upstair on the bus and it always felt if I put my hand out the window I could touch the windows of the cottages. I have been looking for photos for a long time, are there any?
Shared on 28 February 2009
I too remember this cottage well as I used to walk past it every day going to Sweyne School. I found this site by accident but am glad that I did find it. As I now live in New Zealand it is good to see some photographs of my old home town which I grew up in (getting homesick now). Thank you for the pictures.
Shared on 15 January 2009
Rayleigh, Dutch Cottage c1955
Ref: R224022
I also remember this charming little cottage from my childhood in the 1960's. Was so pleased to see it featured on BBC Breakfast this week & to hear it is open to the public once a week by the young woman who now lives there.
Shared on 06 September 2008
Rayleigh, Dutch Cottage c1955
Ref: R224022
I live 4 doors down from the cotttage and it is still going strong.
Shared on 01 September 2008
Rayleigh, Dutch Cottage c1955
Ref: R224022
I used to walk from way down Eastwood Road to Crown Hill and down to The Sweyne School for many years. I always used to look at the Cottage with awe thinking how old it was and wondering at the history it had seen. I doubt that it exists today, because the vandals would have desecrated anything old in favour of a new parking lot or similar. They will only regret it when it is too late.
Roger Ball 2008
Shared on 29 March 2008
Rayleigh, Dutch Cottage c1955
Ref: R224022
As a boy i walked past the Dutch Cottage on my way to the high street , as a child i found it a bit eerie , i saw a small person coming out of there a couple of times which seemed to add to the afect . by the mid 70`s the cottage had lost it`s clean chocolate box cover look and had become dirty and in need of some TLC , i think this is due to the bus`s and lorry`s they all used Crown Hill back then , i`d be intrested to know what the cottage looks like now as i haven`t seen it since the early 80`s when i moved to Cornwall.
Shared on 28 December 2007
My wife's grandfather, Mr Alfred Victor Newman, ran a fleet of Ford V8 taxis from Rayleigh High Street during the 1940s. He lived and parked the taxis in Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh. If anyone remembers him, or knew him or has pictures of him or his taxis, I would be pleased to talk to them for family tree purposes. Mrs T Smith nee Newman.
Shared on 14 June 2007
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