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Looking for people who went to Rochford Primary or Secondary in the 1950s

1950s Rochford

How Paglesham Saved "The Elephant Man"?

Weekend Party Film-makers

Reminiscence by Bernard White.

Stranded off Foulness but an adventure then commenced

Britains Deadliest Pathway

Shopland Road, Sutton, Rochford

Country life in the mid 20th century

The Anchor

Two well known family lines came together

A Reynolds or Raynolds farm in Shopland

Rankin's first match

The Birds of Rayleigh Sewage Treatment Works - 1992

The Scrubs - 1989

The Birds of Gusted Hall Wood - 1990

The Birds of Primrose Wood - 1991

Some early photos

The Birds of Cotton's Wood - 1991

Top of Snowdon

August 28th 1890

Some Photographs

Copies of correspondence

Stambridge United v Leigh Ramblers 1970

WW2 letters and food parcels

Where was his house?

Jim Cox, steam engine modeller

Rollerman

Len Padfield WWI hero

Anyone know more about photo?

Last annual picnic

Myrtle Doe's story

Creeksea Horse Boat

How we got there

Ashingdon and Hadleigh

Canewdon

at the Creeksea signal post

a Father and a Son

WW1 Service

Xmas Card 1918

Wallasea

Information Sought

day tripper

The pond

Nicknames of local characters in Rochford and surrounds

High resolution maps in B&W

Xmas on Leigh Ward in 1970's

Fred Matthews shop

hi am interested in any old ferry's across the crouch and the history of the river...
By clive marfleet
On 03/01/2023

My memories

I wonder if Dennis remembers one of the pop groups that practiced at the YC around 1965. That was after The Kiwis (later Excel Five I think) were well established. I formed The Ebonies with local...
By Nigel Stockwell
On 03/01/2023

A history of one of the first radar stations

My father was in the RAF and we had just got back from Singapore in 1956 I believe, I was 6 years old. We ended up in a quarter, their was two, semi detached In the area of the old radar station just...
By Ted Farrier
On 17/11/2022

My Dad was a pupil at Rochford Primary.  He would have been in the same year as Terry Cramp and the other pupils he mentioned, but he doesn't remember them, so I think he must have been in...
By Teri-Ann Twine
On 17/11/2022

Hi Nicky. I cannot believe it's almost 10 years since I posted on here, and almost as long since I checked back! So, your dad's name is Michael, whose sister would be your auntie Sandra? ...
By Ian Walton
On 08/09/2022

I started at Love Lane Primary in 1941 (my maiden name was Margaret Ball). Of the teachers pictured I remember Mr Sample, Mrs French and Mrs McQuibban. I seem to also remember a Miss Day. My cousin...
By Margaret JOHNSON
On 08/09/2022

Part 2 of article

Does any one remember my mum Elizabeth Butler she made it to supervisor at Rochford dept on the wheels and ask dept in the seventies  then married Chris Browning she lived at Beresford Road...
By Peter browning
On 08/09/2022

"John Gullock"

If you do have any further information, please contact Reverend Kevin John Gullick by email. kjgullick@sky.com. To Robert Alps mentioned above, I look forward to your reply.  ...
By Reverend Kevin John Gullick
On 08/09/2022

The way it was in the 60s

In the 1940's on market day we would pop through the ally by the bank on the south side of the square. In the old stable buildings in Back Lane the was a market for small livestock with cages...
By Rex Watson
On 08/09/2022

An active amateur dramatic group

Hi all hope everyone is keeping well..Be nice if we could get more comments on here.Its been a while since we had some new posts..There must be a lot of ex Tudor Queen actors out there. All the best...
By David Vance
On 17/08/2022

Rankin's first match

Christopher and Frank Warren were later the owners of C and F Warren garage in South Street on the corner of Union Lane. Harry Chapman Lived in Stambridge Road. When well in his eighties in the...
By Rex Watson
On 17/08/2022

Part 2 of article

Worked there between leaving sixth form and starting university. Must have been 1974 summer. Always sad I lost contact with another student worker. She went onto Southampton University and I think...
By Tim Hall
On 17/08/2022

A Very Peculiar Preacher

My maternal Grandparents who lived in Canning Town and then East Ham in London, went to the Peculiar Peoples church. They had stopped by the time I was born in 1942 but I still have a Bible that was...
By June Higgs
On 17/08/2022

An active amateur dramatic group

How wonderful to find this page! Tudor Queen Players were a big part of my teenage years. My maiden name was Susan Bradbrook and I was Alice Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington.  I remember the...
By Sue Earnshaw
On 27/05/2022

Fred Matthews shop

My dad is John the barber and used to work for Fred. I have lots of happy memories of Olive and the toffees, she used to slide me an old penny to pay for a bag and I still have a little child’s...
By Jacki meaney
On 27/05/2022

Do you know anything about it?

I was born at No 4 Hambro Hill (now 48) my Grandparents lived at No 1 (now 54) the house next to the bungerlow and the structure you're referring to was at the top of their garden. Yes a boy died...
By Christine Holmes
On 27/05/2022

Hi, my name is Trish Swinscoe, daughter to.Ernie and Peggy Swinscoe who owned the Mayfield club and sweet shop, I would love to get in touch with Diane.Swinscoe, I wonder find my details could be...
By Patricia Ellison
On 27/05/2022

i was interested in the comments about Hawkwell Brickfields, my grandfather William Staines was general foreman there until they closed. My father Ted Warr and my uncle Leslie all worked at the...
By keith warr
On 27/05/2022

The Smugglers Den is on my birth certificate as my parents address in 1965 ...
By Beverley Hussein
On 27/05/2022

I spent the first 12 years of my life in Hockley.  I went to Hockley County Primary School, as did my Mother and my Aunt.  My Mother was the Tawny Owl of the 1st Hockley Brownies who met in...
By INGRID HOUSE nee Miles
On 27/05/2022

I went to the Elizabeth school of dancing from 1965 until 1977. I then went to stage school, and became a professional dancer. My Mums name was mentioned above. She was indeed a dress maker, and...
By alison duro
On 27/05/2022

Dad was born on the island and family mentioned in John dobsons book....
By Irene(Shelley)moran
On 27/05/2022

Dad was born on the island and family mentioned in John dobsons book....
By Irene(Shelley)moran
On 27/05/2022

The Anchor

I have just seen this article by John Buxton (son of Albert & Maria Buxton). John Buxton was also my grandad. My mother (Joyce) was his daughter from his last marriage. I have been working on my...
By Adrian Smoothey
On 20/02/2022

My memories

I went to this school, about 1957 or 58 and left when it closed and moved to Vaughan Close which is now King Edmonds. My Grandson went there as well. He left nearly 2 yrs ago, and he's now at...
By Diana Sullivan née Critchett
On 30/01/2022

Has anyone got any class photos (pupils) between 1955/ 1957 please that may have myself in ??...
By Camelia Turner
On 30/01/2022

When did The Weir or now called The Rayleigh Weir become a harvester pub how long ago was it just a pub...
By Derek coffey
On 30/01/2022

Nick Turner of the Hadleigh & Thundersley Archive advised that an article and comments about the Brass of SIr Thomas Stapel, removed from Sutton Church to St Andrews Rochford, has been posted on...
By Brian Keith Pettitt
On 14/01/2022

An active amateur dramatic group

Would be wonderful to hear more from any members of Tudor queen drama group. Happy new year to one and all....
By David Vance
On 14/01/2022

More memories

I remember in 1967, back after the school closed, I ran the Youth Employment Office from this virtually empty building....
By Jeanette Gliddon
On 14/01/2022

... pre Purdys estate

I was born in Rochford, my Father was Wallis Roughton...
By Jennifer Roughton
On 28/12/2021

I was born in Hullbridge in 1953. My great uncle Charles Elliott owned the Newsagents before he retired and sold it to Ernie Long. My grandmother owned the Wool Shop which was next door to the...
By Heather Moore
On 13/12/2021

Potton and Rushley go under the hammer

Together with my family, cousins, uncles and aunts I lived on Potton island...
By Clive Muggridge
On 13/12/2021

A history of one of the first radar stations

I see one of your contributors, Kathleen McLeod, died recently. She was stationed at Canewdon and then Gt Bromley, tracking V2 rockets, and was a real expert on the subject. She was interviewed in...
By julian foynes
On 28/09/2021

I landed in Hackney in 1977 in the Throwbridge Estate, my mother told me to go down and look for a job in Matchbox Lesney, so I went down on a Friday and was told to start on Monday, could not...
By Tony byrne
On 28/09/2021

An unusual Christian sect

For anyone interested in the Peculiar People: I have just published a biography of the preacher John Sirgood called 'Sirgood A River of Living Water' which also tells the full story of the...
By John Cochrane
On 08/09/2021

Some history and memories

Very interesting, I played in the park as a kid in the late 90s and always wondered what those buildings were and why they were in the middle of a housing estate. Thanks for publishing the info...
By Jimmy
On 08/09/2021

Rawreth, Canewdon and Foulness each hit five times

My Aunt and Grandfather were killed in the V2 bombing in Rayleigh on the 14th November 1944 so the record here is incorrect....
By Marion Stanton
On 08/09/2021

My memories

Yes I was at the old school in the early 1960's and moved to the new Ashingdon School for my last two years.  Symes Jennings French Longhurst  are teachers I remember. The old school...
By John Stringer
On 08/09/2021

My memories

Yes I remember Mr Sykes @ French . The English teacher was good but name escapes me . My old name maiden name was Lutterloch ...
By Heather Wing
On 08/09/2021

Hi,  I am researching my great grandmother, Florence E Elcock, born in Canewdon in 1886.  I have one record from the 1901 (31.04.1901) census stating that she is 14 and an inmate of the...
By SamO
On 08/09/2021

Hello. My Grandmother Rose Amos and Mother Vera Amos ran a Tearoom at 61 West Street Rochford and I was raised there for a few years after my birth at Rochford Hospital. I would like to have some...
By Rosemary Arthur
On 08/09/2021

Pictorial memories

I had a horse who was bred at Pulpits Farm in the 1960s. She was called Bracken and had a sister Fern. I believe the Arab stallion also lived there, was called Sheraan....
By sally jarvis
On 12/07/2021

Interested in the history of foulness Island as i have some ancestors from the Island as i was told when i was a small boy! My parents lived in Westcliff on Sea before they moved to Barnet in North...
By Simon burles
On 12/07/2021

Does anyone remember?

We hired this car for our wedding in the summer of 1976 think it cost us two bottles of scotch. The driver took us the long way round from St Mary’s church to the Roslin hotel on Southend...
By Anita Leonard
On 12/07/2021

A brief history

I lived in “Temple View” formally (Booseys) with my parents when we moved from Romford, I was around Seven & a Half then, my Dad Bob Veitch took the Battlements down from the roof as...
By Jacqueline D Townsend
On 12/07/2021

I attended Rochford Primary from 52/53 to 56/57, after which I went on to Rayleigh Sweyne. Mr Baltrop was still Headmaster and Mr. Daly took 1a. Other teachers were Ms. Brassier (?) and Ms. Stevenson...
By Terry Cramp
On 12/06/2021

Two well known family lines came together

Hi Tony,  It's been a while. Life got in the way. How can I get hold of you? If you want to reach out to me then the email is biffordyoungest [at] gmail [dot] com....
By Sam Byford
On 08/06/2021

Nature Reserve

I walked home from school down Rectory Road and past Magnolia Road from 1978 to 1983. I seem to remember there was a printing company in Magnolia Road fairly near to the bridge in Rectory Road. Does...
By Mitch Thraves
On 08/06/2021

I was also bussed out to Thundersley . We went in three coaches with the number plates LUB..JO..LPG. Jo was the slowest and we always wanted to be on LUB as it was forever breaking down so we were...
By Diana Hooke
On 08/06/2021