Jim Reeve

Explore the rich history of the Essex city of Chelmsford in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Explore Chelmsford's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Chelmsford has changed and developed over the last century.

Looking at the past and present of Basildon through the use of pictures and informative captions.

Although only children at the time, the Second World War had a permanent effect on the schoolboys who lived through the conflict. Watching a country preparing for war and then being immersed in the horrors of the Blitz brought encounters and events that some will never forget. Now in their seventies and eighties, many are revisiting their memories of this period of upheaval and strife for the first time. In this poignant book, the author shares vivid memories of his evacuation from war-torn London to the comparative safety of places like Newquay, St Ives and Redruth in Cornwall. From touching recollections of enjoyable days spent with loved ones to the dark moments of falling bombs, this is an honest account of a wartime child’s formative years. Together with rare images and accounts from fellow evacuees who were sent to Cornwall to escape the ravages of war, this book reveals how these experiences are indelibly inscribed on the minds of wartime children.

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 London 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.

Illustrated with over 100 old photographs, this book brings together the personal memories of people who have lived and worked in Wickford, vividly recalling childhood and schooldays, shops and businesses, and the war years.