If there has been a retrenchment then it comes at a strange time. Thurrock was castigated by the Audit Commission last year for having one of the worst records for community cohesion in the country. Have the powers-that-be decided that there is little they can do to stem the tide of cultural ghetto-isation that the Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillip has alluded to.
However,on both occasions, she stood alone as a representative of Thurrock Council. Mayor Cheale made her feelings quite plain last night when she told the council how disappointed she was that none of the councillors turned up to pay their respects to the heroes that saved their country.
"CONDITIONS were somewhat austere." says the narrator. We "grabbed" the clip which shows the shower curtain that would only cover the top half. Dignity, privacy, independence. A different world?
THE ROYAL Opera House took students from Thameside Infants down to the Port of Tilbury to bring to life Black History month in Thurrock. The setting was appropriate as sixty two years ago, the Windrush ship brought people from the West Indies to settle in the United Kingdom.
WHEN Tilbury resident Jack Doodes had the idea of restoring the Tilbury trough, he could have scored the Yellow Pages and found any company that came to mind but instead he put his faith in East Tilbury company Madstone.
It was not a 100th, even a 90th, but Deputy Mayor Cllr Eddie Hardiman and cabinet member for Adult Social Care, Cllr Tony Fish, were at the Corringham home to join the celebrations for Collins House’s own 40th anniversary.
Take the area of Tilbury. Jonathan, the mayor, cllr Anne Cheale, Jackie Doyle Price, MP and many local people gathered at Dock Road to "present" the Tilbury trough as well as the plaque that commemorates Tilbury receiving it's town status back in 1912.
THERE is something so admirable about another person's dreams and vision. So it is with David and Nishani Kampfner and their dream to restore the oldest steamship in the world and convert it into a photography museum.
WELL, they were in the summer of 1958 when Mrs Joyce Lewis campaigned against the cost of living. Joyce and the woman of South Ockendon banded together to complain that the local shops in Derwent Parade were putting the prices up on Fridays and Saturdays.
A member of the Irish community, Maria O'Sullivan said: "At one stage, 10% of the population of a town like Harlow was Irish. The second generation in the seventies and eighties were also the first generation to go to university.
At Purfleet, serious fires occurred at the Anglo-American Oil Works and other industrial buildings were hit and fires broke out. In Dockland, principally in the East India, West India, Surrey Commercial and Milwall Dock very serious fires broke out, due to the a large number of bombs.
Lest we forget: On September 1st 1940, 5 people were killed and 28 injured. The railway station was hit and both up and down lines blocked; gas and water mains were broken; the premises of Harland & Wolff received a direct hit;
THERE IS a rich quarry of archive footage in the Pathe website. We thought this would be a good month to dip into the archive and see what we would find. Here, we see Thames TV's John Stapleton venture into Thurrock to discuss planning matters (no change there then), the problems and the opportunities.
