Hullbridge, The River Crouch And Tower Caravan Park c.1960

Photo ref: H179037

Yes, I remember Alvin Finch. He was an excellent artist. My father supplied the carnival float for the 1953 carnival (I think it was that year I was only 8 at the time). My brother Alan Downes who was 19 years old at the time (unfortunatly now deceased) had a girlfreind whose name I think was Jennifer and she was the carnival queen in that year. My father made a butterfly out of paper mache at the cab end of a large ...see more

My memory is a bit hazy as to which year the big flood was but I know it was between 1963-69 as this was when my family and I lived in Hullbridge. I do remember that Watery Lane lived up to its name and was completely cut off, my mum worked at the mouse farm down there and was unable to get to work, and friends who lived half way down Ferry Road were flooded, as was my brothers' friend who lived opposite the ...see more

My parents knew a local artist of this name who lived at a place called Windmill in Hullbridge. I was only 4 but got the impression that he lived in the tree in the garden of his mother's house and she kept goats. He always wore an long old tweed coat and painted a couple of pictures of me - one in pastels and one in oils which I still have. I would be very interested to hear if anyone else remembers him?

I lived in a caravan park in Hullbridge 60-64. My memories are of bats that swooped after dark and the year it snowed so bad that the gas froze in the bottles. It started Boxing Day and went on until Easter and we had to leave the van and live with family.