Thurrock Council are working with the Heritage Lottery, speaking with local residents of Thurrock, about your memories of the park. The Council will use the information they collect to ask for lottery funding to improve the park in the future. Your views are valuable to them and they would like to create ‘Friends of Grays Park Group’ to help generate interest in the project.
THE Shaftesbury took boys from the age of 12 to 15, who were sent there to learn a trade: seamanship. The book includes events such as, the night the ship broke its moorings and ran aground in a wintery storm, the day when the Duke of York, who later became George V came to Grays to visit the ship and the tragedy that took place on that day and the discovery of a large fraud by an officer, who absconded leaving a Grays tradesman going to the Assizes wrongly accused.
AS WE do on this day and have done since we began, we pause for a moment for Neil Robin Wright. Neil went from Tilbury to New York City to work for Cantor Fitzgerald. Neil perished in the South Tower.
LIFE will never be the same without you, you're absolutely irreplaceable, and the day you passed away was a day which I just never thought would come. I cry whilst writing this, but know this Grandad, we knew how much you adored us, and you knew how much we adored you. The last time I saw you, you could barely speak, you took my hand and gripped it tight, it was your way of saying how much you loved me, and I'll never forget that. You were one of a kind and it absolutely pains me that I'll never be able to see you again and have a conversation with you again. I know, though, that you're up in Heaven now, looking down on us and you'll guide us through our lives. It was an absolute honour being your Grandson, Grandad. Thank you for 19 and a half years of unconditional love. You'll always live on in our hearts.
THE first of a new series of local history books is about to be published. It covers the history of Thurrock’s Great War Memorials. Author Steven Cape was born in Stanford-le-Hope in 1960 and following a brief visit to the former Western Front in 2005, became hooked on the subject of the First World War and decided to research the names found on his home town’s memorial.
THE original 1955 bronze plaques bearing the names of 69 Bata employees who lost their lives in the Second World War will be replaced by new black granite plaques and will have the names of 81 Bata employees who have now been traced. Paving around the Memorial will be replaced and work will also take place on the immediate garden area. The 1955 plaques will eventually be permanently located in St Catherine’s Church, East Tilbury.
IN the summer of 1914 the dark cloud of war fell over Europe. Despite the belief that it would be “all over by Christmas” the First World or Great War destroyed lives until November 1918 and beyond.
DON'T forget to see the premier next week of the DVD 'The Story Behind the Roads'. This tells the history of the street names of Tilbury town featuring voice overs from June Brown, Peter Hewitt MBE , Les Morgan, Sue Yates, Jack Doodes, George and Shelia Ridges and project manager Annie O'Brien.
THE MAYOR of Thurrock, cllr Tony Fish, has sent a letter of congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their son George, prince of Cambridge. The announcement was made at full council after Stanford West councillor, Shane Hebb, called for the chamber to send their congratulations regarding the happy event, which took place on Monday, July 22nd.
THE BELLS of St Peter and St Paul's church rang out last night to announce and celebrate the arrival of the prince of Cambridge, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The baby boy was born at 4.24pm on Monday afternoon.
A GROUP of people interested in the history and heritage of Thurrock (Essex, UK) have started a national campaign that aims to ensure the preservation of the gardens and house built by Alfred Russel Wallace in Grays Thurrock. The campaign has been welcomed by Dr. George Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum who said “The Dell is historically very important because it is the only one of the three homes that Wallace built which still survives.
"I PAY tribute to the Windrush generation and praise their fortitude and determination in overcoming those difficult challenges. Younger generations are rightly very proud of those early pioneers, and while some social issues still need to be tackled, I strongly believe that our country today is an overwhelmingly fair and tolerant one. And this is in part down to the people from the Caribbean and around the world who settled here.
ESSEX Fire Museum in Grays is looking to recruit a team of volunteers to help capture the history of fire fighting in the County. Volunteers will meet, interview and record the living memories of people who served in Essex County Fire and Rescue Service as part of a project to create an oral history of our organisation.
Pipe fitter and jazz fan John Graham jumped from a 75ft gantry at the Coryton refinery over fears of a visit from VAT officers, his widow told an inquest. Mr Graham was contacted by VAT officers who had been informed about his sideline in selling records, posters and pictures at concerts and festivals. Although he put a lot of effort into the ‘business’, it was actually more of a hobby and barely covered his expenses.
ALL of 818 years ago on 11 June Henry de Grey, a Norman knight, acquired the Parish of Thurrock from King Richard the Lion Heart. On Tuesday this year Thurrock Council marked the first step in the creation of a town named Grays with a Thurrock Heritage Plaque.
