If you would like to view and purchase any of the below pamphlets please visit us during our open hours.

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Basildon Borough

• A History of Basildon Borough in 25 Objects

• Basildon Borough's Cricket Clubs

• Basildon Borough's Football Clubs

• Borough Farms

• Borough Pubs

• Basildon's Train Stations

• The First World War: Trauma and Memory

• Haunted Borough

• Post Boxes (Queen Victoria, George V and George VI post boxes)

• Puritan Symbols

• Roll of Honour (1914-18 Roll of Honour for Basildon Borough)

• Witches of Basildon Borough

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Basildon

• Basildon Glass Bell Tower

• Basildon Hall

• Nathanial Woodard

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Billericay

• Joan Rosaire

• William Shackleton - Billericay

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Laindon

• Demise of Laindon's Fortune of War Hotels

• History or Krystal Radio

• Laindon Hall (Legenduna Manor)

• Laindon Speedway Track

• The Old School House, Langdon Hills

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Langdon Hills

• The Old School House, Langdon Hills

• Westley Green and Woodside Place Estates - Dry Street - Road Names

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Little Burstead

• Little Burstead in the Past

• Richard Johnson: Actor, His Life and Family

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Nevendon

• Marion Wilbeforce - World War 2 Hero

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North Benfleet

• Did Jack the Ripper visit North Benfleet?

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Vange

• All Saint's Church (£2.00)

• Barges at Vange Wharf (£2.00)

• Cashes Well (£1.50)

• John (Paddy) Hemingway (£1.50)

• The Barge 1832-2015 (£1.50)

• The Bull Public House (£1.50)

• Vange Board School 1876 (£1.50)

• The Vange Crystal Well Company (£1.50)

• Vange Fire Brigade 1934-1962 (£2.00)

• Vange Hall Brickworks (£2.00)

• Vange Reservoir & Southend Water Company (£1.00)

• Vange Swimming Pool 1933-1952 (£2.00)

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Wickford

• Hannah Lake - A founding Mother of America

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Related Local Research

• A Walk across the Thames

• The Ancient Hamlet of Peasdown

• Ernest Shackleton: Explorer

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Bound Newspapers

Basildon Heritage holds a number of bound local newspapers that researchers can arrange to view.

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Basildon News

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

• 1965

• 1966

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Basildon Recorder

• 1954

• 1955

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

• 1965

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Basildon Standard

• 1956

• 1958

• 1959

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

• 1965

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Essex and Thurrock Gazette

• 1946

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Laindon Recorder

• 1930-31

• 1931

• 1941

• 1944 (Peter Sloper)

• 1947 (Peter Sloper)

• 1956

• 1957

• 1958

• 1959

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

• 1965

• 1966

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Link

• 1967

• 1968

• 1969

• 1970

• 1971

• 1972

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Southend-on-Sea District Recorder (Basildon)

• 1955 (Jul-Dec Laindon)

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Southend and County Pictorial

• 1945

• 1946

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Southend Standard

• 1974

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Wickford Times

• 1946

• 1947

• 1948

• 1949

• 1952

• 1954

• 1957

• 1959

• 1962

• 1964