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Down memory lane: Hole truth about Lakeside
Thurrock Ramblers took first steps 30 years ago
How the head tried to save his burning school
How the unions used to protect railwaymen
Thurrock link to fallen soldier found in Malta
Port bid failed, years before London Gateway
Book highlights training ship lessons
Memorials popped up everywhere after war
The many different guises of our market
Finding out more about the Great War
How the show has changed in 60 years
The spectacular sight of sailing on the Thames
First the harvest, then Orsett Show
Potato eating bug that made Tilbury its home
Tracing the footballing likely lads from 1953
The lions that guarded explosives factory
Thurrock's key role in the Peasants' Revolt
What's in a name? Pub's colourful past
Interesting history of a delightful church
Paying tribute during Armed Forces Week
How boat's arrival marked the start of multi-culturalism
How Thurrock helped the war landings effort
How Thurrock partied for the coronation
Sinking that also led to a diver's death
When Prime Minister MacDonald opened landing stage
The danger of transporting garrison gunpowder
Sixty years of library serving community
We're going underground!
Choir still in great voice after 75 years
The days when they fundraised to buy a bomber
The company that put it all back together
Reward to down the Zeppelins!
History of the Co-op movement in borough
The day our most famous author moved to town
When Orsett became full of basket cases!
Little known about sailor's heroic act
How our library eventually went Thameside
How making cement once ruled the borough
Can you help ID Scouts from the 1950s?
How the Queen boosted us after the floods
Journeying again down the light railway
Remembering the Tilbury floods 60 years ago
How V became the symbol of a war victory
The devastating blaze that claimed the Goliath
Treasure that's been found in Chadwell
Tracing the history of The Oak
Stories from our Four Weddings church
From then to now...a history of The Gull
When our cricketers left for Oz
Visit 19th century South Ockendon
History society's 60th birthday
When the Corinthic ran aground
The characters that made Little Thurrock
When Samuel Pepys visited Grays