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Memories Of Basildon
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Author : Jim Reeve
language : en
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Release Date : 2006-09-01
Memories Of Basildon written by Jim Reeve and has been published by History Press (SC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with categories.
Modern Basildon has its roots in the railways and the decision of The Land Company in 1891 to buy up land from cash-strapped farmers and sell it on in plots; posters went up in Lndon advertising the benefits of country living, and must have sounded like heaven to many people living in the slums of the East End. In this book the children of these original plotlanders vividly recall their experiences: how they lived, went to school and played, along with more modern reminiscences of the schooldays, wartime and working life of the newcomers who arrived in the New Town from London and all parts of the country.At the end of the war we children did not have a street party and were put to bed but the adults has one in the Railway Hotel Pitsea. People were dancing, singing in the street with their red, white and blue knickers on. We crept out of bed and pressed our noses up against the windows of our upstairs flat watching the grown-ups go mad.Memories of Basildon offers the reader a fascinating view of the town's past and will appeal to all who know the area.
Francis Frith S Basildon
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Author : Russell Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Francis Frith S Basildon written by Russell Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Basildon (Essex, England) categories.
A collection of approximately 100 detailed period photographs from the Francis Frith archive of the 1940s, 50s and 60s with extended captions and a full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers, the volume includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photograph shown in the book.
A Portrait Of Basildon Plotlands
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Author : Deanna Walker
language : en
Publisher: Phillimore
Release Date : 2010-09-01
A Portrait Of Basildon Plotlands written by Deanna Walker and has been published by Phillimore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Basildon (England) categories.
The former plotlands around Laindon and Dunton are still held dear in the memories of many of their former residents. Most of the grassy lanes have since been swallowed up by new housing, but the combination of archive material with the recollections and photographs of those who once made the plotlands their home will bring back to life the period from the 1930s to the advent of Basildon Development Corporation in the 1950s, when the plotland population was its highest. Although the memories of those who owned weekend huts are included, the focus is on the permanent residents who were here all year round. They couldn’t depart for London when the mud reached the tops of their boots, the milkman’s cart got stuck in a rut, and the standpipes were frozen solid. Some had fled the London blitz but now found themselves under attack in the Essex countryside. Material from Lord Leatherland’s estate shows how the Parish Invasion Committee helped plotlanders prepare for possible invasion and even held an exercise to test their preparations. Coverage includes plotland lanes in the west of Laindon, an area that has received little attention so far. Documentary evidence reveals just how the Corporation tackled the thorny question of ‘what to do with the shack dwellers’. For the unmade roads lined with self-built bungalows were home to those who coped without the basic mains services that were generally being taken for granted. Other hazards included adders, bulls, spiders in the loo, vicious dogs, disappearing bread, shotgun pellets and arson attacks. And yet the plotlands inspire enormous nostalgia, and those who recall with pleasure the hot tea and blackberries they once enjoyed here will find a great deal in this delightful book to amuse them.
Memories Of An Essex Ghosthunter
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Author : Wesley H. Downes
language : en
Publisher: David & Charles
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Memories Of An Essex Ghosthunter written by Wesley H. Downes and has been published by David & Charles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A renowned psychic investigator reveals his most chilling cases in the haunted villages of Essex. Headless coffin bearers. Evil rectories. Otherworldly church choirs. Mortuary stirrings. They’re all part of Wesley Downes’s job. After his own experience with the uncanny, Downes was invited to join The Ghost Club, Britain’s most esteemed society of paranormal research. For nearly a century its members included such luminaries as Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Dennis Wheatley, and horror-film legend Peter Cushing. Throughout the next sixty years Downes joined the ranks to venture into the spirit world pursuing legends, myths, and unexplainable phenomena. Now, one of England’s leading hunter of ghosts shares his strangest cases: the floating monk of Holy Cross Church; the Poltergeists of Harlow; the Mystery of Gun Hill House in Dedham; the dreaded Butcher Shop in Clacton-on-Sea; the Sandeman apparitions of Mistley; the Happening at Seven Rivers; the Phantom Eyes on Clinghoe Hill; and more true inquiries into the unnatural. Memories of an Essex Ghosthunter is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Secret Chelmsford
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Author : Jim Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Secret Chelmsford written by Jim Reeve and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Photography categories.
Explore Chelmsford's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs
Lost Basildon
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Author : Lisa Horner
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Lost Basildon written by Lisa Horner and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Photography categories.
Fully illustrated description of Basildon’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
Essex At War 1939 45
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Author : Frances Clamp
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Essex At War 1939 45 written by Frances Clamp and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with History categories.
Although much maligned, Essex is a vibrant county with a long and exciting history. Being close to the Continent and with one of Britains longest coastlines, it was an obvious target for invasion as the threat of war grew. Many defensive structures were built by the sea and to protect major routes across the county. The remains of pill boxes can still be seen.Essex at War 1939–1945 tells how war greatly affected the county: children were evacuated both to and from Essex; being close to London the county suffered from regular air attacks; farming was important and the Womens Land Army arrived in force. Accounts of Essex airmen and sailors who supported those escaping from Dunkirk are told, and once the USA entered the war there was a new type of invasion in the county when their servicemen arrived and were welcomed at many of the countys airfields.Memories of children growing up during those difficult years are recalled. These include nights spent in cold, damp Anderson shelters, sleeping under solid tables or in claustrophobic Morrison shelters. We learn about disrupted school lessons and the fear felt when the air raid siren wailed. When the V-1 and V-2 unmanned flying bombs were launched in 1944, many still remember listening for the engines to switch off and counting the seconds until they fell to earth.
Basildon
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Author : Mara Cottrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Basildon written by Mara Cottrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Basildon (England) categories.
Pieces Of Light
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Author : Charles Fernyhough
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Pieces Of Light written by Charles Fernyhough and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Psychology categories.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize 2013 and the 2013 Best Book of Ideas Prize. Memory is an essential part of who we are. But what are memories, and how are they created? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, like a snapshot, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. Remembering is an act of narrative as much as it is the product of a neurological process. Pieces of Light illuminates this theory through a collection of human stories, each illustrating a facet of memory's complex synergy of cognitive and neurological functions. Drawing on case studies, personal experience and the latest research, Charles Fernyhough delves into the memories of the very young and very old, and explores how amnesia and trauma can affect how we view the past. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, Pieces of Light blends science and literature, the ordinary and the extraordinary, to illuminate the way we remember and forget.
Laindon In The Great War
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Author : Ken Porter
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-11-30
Laindon In The Great War written by Ken Porter and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-30 with History categories.
A brief history of how the people of Laindon and district coped with the problems of the First World War Throughout the book are individual family memories, over 100 photographs and appropriate oems mostly written at the time. Indication of why Britain went to war Insight into the role of the local Explosive factories. Individual stories of those who applied for exemption and the hysteria of suspected spies. The role played by our Women Folk Culminating in individual stories of our men folk who went to war on our behalf.
