History

An article from the Grays and Tilbury Gazette dated 17th August 1918. OVER the last four years, we have been taking a dip...

HERE is a selection of films that we made in 2008. We launched on September 1st and so over the next few days, we are...

A special exhibition opening at Thurrock Museum next week will take a look back at how life was for the children who attended school during the First World War.

THE purpose of the Grays Lives Project is to look at life in Grays, past, present and future.

High House Community Group History Day in Purfleet. Full details on poster.

THERE are some people we could listen to all day. Ninety-year-old John Crawley brought us back to his Grays memories of doodlebugs crashing on the Thameside library during the Second World War.

THE war memorial at Turps Corner, Little Thurrock, has received an extensive clean and maintenance work including experts re-etching the names of those whose sacrifice it commemorates.

AT the beginning of every Thurrock Council meeting, a list of those who fell, one hundreds years ago to th month, is read out.

THURROCK Museum has been awarded £10,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help it catalogue the treasure trove of local historical artefacts currently stored in their archives.

THERE are people who have lived in Grays all their lives. There are some who have just moved in.

THE Grays Lives Project, brought to you in a partnership between The Grays Riverside Big Local and YourThurrock, is a series of interviews with people who live and work in the area.

A DAY of celebrations and thanksgiving was held at the London Cruise terminal in Tilbury today (22 June) to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush into the port on Tuesday 22 June 1948 with hundreds of people on board who travelled for 30 days from Jamaica to begin a new life in Great Britain.

IN a video released today on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Windrush, Bishop Designate John Perumbalath questions if the Windrush Generation who were invited to come to the UK as guests 70 years ago were truly welcomed.

THROUGHOUT the next year, the Grays Riverside Community Project, in partnership with YourThurrock.Com, is running a project that celebrates, past, present and future, live...

I am searching for the family of the late :- Driver Geoffrey John TUFFEE is one of the 371 British Servicemen who died on active service during the four-year Cyprus Emergency April 1 1955 to April 18 1959, and whose name is among those remembered with honour on the British Cyprus Memorial.