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The "Bank" has occupied this site since the late seventeenth century. Although you cannot see from either this view or indeed from the street, there is an exquisite garden and lawn in the centre! The Bank underwent an extensive ...Read more

A memory of London in 1963 by John Howard Norfolk

My father worked on a construction site at Tilbury I think it was, so our family moved from Thornaby to Corringham.  We lived in a trailer on a farm just behind the Bull Inn, right next to a school.  There was a lane between ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1951 by Max Anderson

I attended Heolddu Comprehensive school from September 1980 to May 1985. For the first two years I was going to the one that was in Park Cresent, formally known as Bargoed grammar school. Mr Keri Edwards was the head ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed by Andrew Dexter

I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper rounds ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by David Stallwood

Hi all. My brother and I were evacuated to Skipton in late 1941 from London. As we all sat on the floor in some large hall in Skipton after out trip up from London, people were walking around ...Read more

A memory of Broughton in 1941 by Robert Munn

We lived on Fishers Lane, Pensby then moved to Barleyfield Road where my little sister was born in the front bedroom of no 1. We walked down to Greenbank Junior School every day, three little kids holding hands through fields of barley ...Read more

A memory of Pensby in 1967 by Debbie Ranson

Science Mr Charles, Mr McGrath. Rural Science Mr Wilson, Mr Baker, Mr Anglesey. Art Miss Nunn. Woodwork Mr Hucker, Metalwork Mr Ladds, Technical Drawing Mr Thomas. Religious Knowledge Mr Clayton, Miss Edwards. ...Read more

A memory of Borehamwood in 1963 by Eric Oliver

I left Corringhamin 1956 when I was 11 years old I well remember the Bull Inn as I passed it every Sunday on my way to church, my dad was the rector there for 21 years. I remember all the coaches that took the church members on trips ...Read more

A memory of Corringham by ursulambennett

In 1960 the world's population was probably a mere 5 billion, now it is over 7 billion people. It was a bit of a shock to realise that people actually wanted to come and live in Eastry and presumably prices were slightly less than the big ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

I worked at Shepperton Electrics just across the road from the Bull in around 1968/9. Used to lunch at Bull and had a girlfriend at the time, Anne Sink, from Acacia Avenue. Shepperton Electrics opened a 2nd store in the High Street and I moved on to work in London. Good days and memories.

A memory of Shepperton in 1969 by Barry Lamb