Bata Heritage Centre and the impact of the Coronavirus crisis
I WAS hoping to send out this “round robin” with good news but the current UK situation is far from that. What may be seen by some people as draconian advice from the Prime Minister
Re-enactment group at Tilbury Fort
THE Re-enactment Group 95th rifles and Royal Horse Artillery will be there firing their guns.
Letter to the Editor: Appalling decision over Coalhouse Fort
I write on behalf of my members who were appalled to find out that another part of Thurrock’s Heritage is being allowed to go.
Thurrock Council to formally recognise WW2 veterans for VE Day 2020
CLLR Deborah Huelin, Portfolio Holder for Communities, has announced Thurrock Council’s plans to recognise the brave contribution of World War Two (WW2) veterans as part of Victory in Europe (VE) Day celebrations later this year.
Thurrock Local History Society
AT our first meeting of the new year Mark Rowland gave us a detailed and well-illustrated lecture on riverside commerce in Grays, south of the railway. In 1840 a pier was built for passenger steamers to London, also pleasure steamers, a service which was killed by the coming of the railway.
Standing together for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020
RESIDENTS in Thurrock can come together and commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day at a free public event.
Thurrock memorial flame to feature in Holocaust anniversary exhibition
A MEMORIAL flame created by an East Tilbury stone masonry company in partnership with Thurrock Council will appear in a national art exhibition to mark 75 years of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Thurrock Museum Volunteers – Exhibition ‘The First Christmas’
‘The First Christmas’ a free exhibition researched and presented by Thurrock Museum Volunteers will be in the ground floor exhibition space of the Thameside Complex from Monday 9 December to Friday 27 December (closing at 11am on 27 December).
Free travel for service personnel and veterans on C2C for Remembrance Sunday
TRENTALIA-owned train operator c2c is offering free travel to service personnel and veterans on Remembrance Sunday and commemorating the day with a special train mural designed by local pupils.
Football clubs to observe silence on remembrance weekend
ON Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November, before kick-off at Essex football fixtures, there will be a two-minute pause in quiet reflection and Remembrance of fallen British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and more recent conflicts.
Thurrock Local History Society: Greenwich and the Sheerness Project:
AT our October meeting we welcomed Will Palin (a descendant of Rev William Palin of Stifford) chair of the Sheerness Dockyard Preservation Trust who, together with The Spitalfields Trust, aim to preserve the buildings and bring back life to the area.
Thurrock Museum’s Attic Project hailed a success
THURROCK Museum’s Attic Project has come to an end, a year after the initiative was awarded £10,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund which enabled museum volunteers to organise its archive of historical artefacts so that new items could be displayed within the collection.
Thurrock Local History Society: My life as a magistrate
DENNIS said this would be his last talk, his first talk being in 1940 about what he learned as a St John Ambulance cadet. He grew up in Grays and started work at the age of 14 as an office boy for an insurance company for £1 a week.
Bata Heritage Centre: Open Day
HELLO to all our friends and supporters. It seems ages ago that I last wrote but it was in March. I spoke the about enjoying the longer evenings and now we are faced with the shorter ones and dusk being upon us before we know it.
Graham Carey: A tribute
ON FRIDAY, the funeral took place of Graham Carey, who died after a short illness.
History: The Phoney War in Thurrock
Exhibition THE PHONEY WAR Presented by Thurrock Museum Volunteers The early months of World War II Bata Local Defence Volunteers Home Guard (Dad’s Army) at Thurrock Museum Monday 14 October – Friday 1 November (closing at 11am on Friday 1 November)
Fire service at 21, VIP at 100: Hocky Hockets’ incredible story
‘HOCKY’ Hockets, who was based at the original fire station in Orsett Road Grays in what was then the National Fire Service, was greeted by family members in a special surprise three days after reaching her 100th birthday.
9/11: The tale of two men from Tilbury
AS you may know, every year we publish our tribute to Tilbury’s Neil Robin Wright, who died in the North Tower on September 11th, 2001.
9/11: From Tilbury to the Twin Towers: In memory of Neil Robin Wright
IN A FAR corner of a cemetery in Chadwell St Mary lies the grave of Neil Robin Wright.
Remembering World War II in Thurrock
REMEMBER World War II’ a free exhibition researched and presented by Thurrock Museum Volunteers will be in the ground floor exhibition space of the Thameside Complex from Monday 2 September to Friday 20 September (closing at 11am on 20 September).
Gurkha Day at Purfleet Heritage Centre
PURFLEET Heritage and Military Centre are holding their annual Gurkha Day on Sunday 4th May 10am till 3:30pm.
WWII memories in Thurrock come to life in latest museum display
FIND out what World War Two was really like for people living in the borough at a free exhibition in Grays.
Thurrock Local History Society: The Tilbury Riverside Station
IN a change from our advertised programme, at our last meeting Susan Yates and Scott Sullivan, directors of the Tilbury on Thames Trust, gave us an illustrated talk on the history and future of Tilbury Riverside.
Thurrock Museum moves onto World War 2
‘WWII Memories of Thurrock’ a free exhibition researched and presented by Thurrock Museum Volunteers will be in the ground floor exhibition space of the Thameside Complex from Monday 22 July to Friday 9 August (closing at 11am on 9 August).