ON Sunday 10 June, 23 local artists from communities along the Lower Thames Estuary - Barking and Dagenham, Dartford, Gravesend, Thurrock and Southend - joined thousands of women celebrating 100 years of women in the UK having the vote.
AN exhibition marking Tilbury's connection with the Empire Windrush started at Tilbury Hub on Friday 25May and is open to the public until Wednesday 20 June 2018.
WE were disappointed that our speaker for our May meeting was unable to attend but our Chairman Susan Yates ably stepped into the breach at the last minute and gave us a tour across Thurrock in old photographs, with a tale to tell for each one.
ENTERING hospital his toe nails were torn off and the toes plastered with pitch and bound with paper bandages. His toes, said his parents, were curled under the feet, and whereas he formerly weighed 12 stone, he was only five stone, four pounds when he returned to England.
Thurrock Local History Society
20 April 2018 – AGM followed by History of Tilbury Docks Police by Jackie Doyle-Price MP
By Norma Leach
AFTER the AGM at...
BATA Heritage Centre is hosting their first open day of 2018 this weekend, including tours around the iconic Bata factory site, to showcase the restoration of their collection.
New Thurrock Heritage Plaques
As part of the Thurrock Local History Society's HLF funded project, there will be new Thurrock Heritage plaques voted for by...
Thurrock Local History Society
Gardens in Essex by Linda Holdaway
AT our March meeting we had a delightful talk by Linda Holdaway about the National Gardens...
