History

AS PART of our World War One coverage, YT has been follows life at home. Our reporter went to the crime pages of the Grays and Tilbury Gazette and discovered that a number of juveniles

THE wonderful British Film Institute (BFI) website now allows you to punch in your post code and find films made in your area.

IN October 1916 the editor of the Grays and Tilbury Gazette had this to say on the Zeppelin raids and the price of milk.

ON Sunday 23rd October visitors to Tilbury Fort will be taken back in time to 1815, when the soldiers of the Duke of Wellington's army will be training at the English Heritage site in Tilbury.

OUR first meeting of the season started with a change of programme from that advertised. At short notice we welcomed back Eve Regelous to give us a talk entitled Everything Stops for Tea.

LAST weekend saw local councillors Brian and Sue Little attend the 73 commemoration and thanks giving service at St Mary The Virgin Church at Bulphan for the B-17 American Airmen who perished in a mid air collision in September 1943 in the fields at Tillingham Hall Bulphan.

WW1 exhibition at Thameside Museum

IF YOU have a moment today, have a little think about a Tilbury man called Neil Robin Wright, who went west to find his fortune but died in the North Tower on September 11th, 2001.

A LOCAL retired railway man celebrated his 94th birthday and fulfilled a lifetime ambition last Friday (2 September) with a special train cab ride to London Fenchurch Street.

THURROCK Council is recognising the contribution of the Merchant Navy past and present to borough and the country as a whole.

THE former MP for Thurrock, Andrew Mackinlay has paid his own personal tribute to Thurrock historian, Jonathan Catton, who passed away on Thursday.

THE THURROCK community was in mourning after hearing the news that much-loved historian Jonathan Catton has passed away.

TILBURY Riverside Project are looking for some more volunteers for their "Making More Memories" project.

IN a very different way to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, seven members of Chafford Hundred Running Group set off at dawn for a 10-mile run.

Mayor of Thurrock, Cllr Steve Liddiard, local councillors and senior council officers were at Tilbury Fort for a day-long event which attracted around 1,000 visitors. And deputy mayor, Cllr Sue Gray, was at St Catherine’s Church, East Tilbury, and the nearby Coalhouse Fort for the Lights Out commemoration on Monday evening.