Residents of all ages from across Thurrock attended a poignant memorial service in Grays to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Residents, community leaders and local schools...
THIS Remembrance weekend, Findmypast is offering free access to all records to enable more people to discover their family’s wartime experiences.
This comes after new research conducted...
LONDON Museum Docklands has today announced its next major exhibition Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London's lost treasures (4 April 2025- 1 March 2026)....
SUNDAY (21 April) will bring a celebration of the presence of Gurkhas in the Thurrock community.
The event, at Purfleet-on-Thames Heritage and Miliary Centre on...
PEOPLE across England will be able to celebrate local historical figures under a proposed expansion of the official blue plaques scheme which currently only...
FOLLOWING on from 'War in the Sky' the next exhibition in the Thameside Gallery produced by its vilunteers is 'Thurrock at Sea' which opens on Saturday, 16 September and closes on Friday, 20 October at 11am.
ONE of their staff members will be joining NHS staff and their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh for a special service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the NHS 75th birthday.
LOCAL train operator c2c will be offering free travel for service personnel on Remembrance Sunday and is also commemorating the event with a Remembrance day poster designed by a local school pupil.
PLANS are being made by the High House Community Group to ensure the next Heritage Open Day at the Purfleet-on-Thames venue next month will be a success.
IN 1948, hundreds of people from the Caribbean boarded the Empire Windrush and travelled to Tilbury Docks in Essex. With them they brought an explosion of dance, art, writing and music which would transform British culture.
AT our March meeting we welcomed Twigs Way, Research Consultant with the Essex Gardens Trust. Working with the Land of the Fanns she worked on a project to find the lost gardens of Thurrock. The project was in four parts – 50 Fabulous Features, 17 Sites, 15 Lost Gardens and 12 Volunteer Researchers.
