Stock, Essex
Stock photos
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Stock maps
Historic maps of Stock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Stock maps
Stock books
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Essex memories
I remember this old cafe very well - not too well lit inside, but friendly atmosphere - my Mum, her friend Joan Slaney and son Michael (who was the same age as me) used to have tea and cakes etc. in the cafe on some occasions after our Mum's had picked us up from school. The last time I went to... [more]
Shared on 08 February 2009
Catholic Church, Laindon Road, Billericay
This old church was modernised, including an extension at the front, sometime in the 1980s (I believe). My cousin Marion got married here, early 1980s, and the modernisation work took place sometime later - need to find dates. Personally, I did not think the modernisation work was in keeping with the original architecture.
Shared on 08 February 2009
1929-1939
I didnt live there mydad's family lived there .they came down from tottenham.
they were in the building trade. an address for my uncle is st helens slicers gate mill
road. I wonder if any one remembers the family.
My uncle left to build his own house over the river fenn creek woodham ferrers.
My dad Gordon... [more]
Shared on 12 January 2008
I have wonderfull memories of Billericay, Church. As a child my Mother would take my Brothers Paul, Barry & Sisters Margaret & Angela & I to the Sunday Service. Father Alawyshes Roch was the priest at that time. He was a good family friend to the Gurnett's. I believe Father Roch wrote a couple of books.... [more]
Shared on 02 January 2008
Hi, we moved to Galleywood in the mid 70s and my mum Valerie went to work in the White Bear but unfortunately don't have any photos of it in the 70s.
Shared on 03 May 2008
I was at school in the 1940s. I remember a teacher there, I believe he was a Mr Davis. I remember the annual sports, these were held on a field just a short walk from the school. The days of the great snow fall in 1947, living at Padhams Green it was a mile walk down to the village and the... [more]
Shared on 10 October 2008
My Great Grandfather, George Collyer, farmed at Bariff's Farm, Mountnessing in the 1870's and early 1880's. He farmed 40 acres with his son Richard and a boy. Does anyone know the location of Bariff's Farm?
Shared on 27 January 2008
I got a job as a Junior House Officer at Runwell Hospital in March 1958 and worked there for a year, initially living in the hospital residence and then, after I married in Dublin, Ireland later the same year, moved into a very small flat in Wickford Hall on the Southend Road. I recall that it was a muddy place during... [more]
Shared on 24 April 2008
Extracts From Stock & Essex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Stock, inspired by Frith photos.
Chelmsford Photographic Memories
The building with the cupola was Chelmsford’s first purpose-built police station (erected in 1907), so the policeman in the picture was not far from home. His successors would stand in this same spot on points-duty. Note the car with its wheel- covers - a feature that was not phased out until the late 1920s.
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Chelmsford Photographic Memories
The Shire Hall was built in 1789-91 by John Johnson, the County Surveyor. It is Chelmsford's most imposing public building. Over to the left are the studios of Frederick Spalding, the well-known photographer. His premises are capped with a lantern-like structure, to let in maximum light. He also traded in gifts and knick-knacks.
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Chelmsford Photographic Memories
We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.” Today, this scene is much as it was in 1965 - except that the production of 'Oklahoma!' has long since finished. Unlike 'The Mousetrap', it has not run and run.
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