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001 Prehistoric Time...
What do you think these objects are? They were found in Essex. The coin is there to show you how big they are. 55 million years ago South Essex was part of a shallow tropical sea. The London Clay, which lies beneath Basildon, stretches across from London to the coast, and contains fossilised s...
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002 60CE Boudicca
Do you think the person who made this picture thought Boadicea was a terrorist (Roman view) or a freedom fighter (Celtic view)? South Essex has always been a favoured route into the south of England for migrants, settlers and invaders. The Celts, called “Britanni” or Britons by the Roman wri...
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003 Saxon and Viking
What do you think these are? Do we still use them? The coin is there to show you how big they are. After the Romans left Britain in 410 CE, some warriors from the continent were invited to protect the country against other raiders. This marked the beginning of the Saxon migration, which pushed...
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1576 Essex map
This is part of a map made in 1576. Note how some of the place names are spelt. The letter that looks like a long “f” in Pitsey and Basildon is in fact an “s”. In the name Buers Gifford, the letters are “f”. if you look carefully you can see there is a difference. Other places hav...
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1622 Essex map
This map is strangely empty. In 1622 there were far more towns than this in Essex. Is it more of a story map, linking places to important ideas shown as people? It seems to be almost a mythological map, with the towns shown as having spirits rising up from them. Towns did disappear, for many...
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1785 Balloon pioneer
In 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard made one of the first balloon flights in Britain, just two years after the first flight in the history of world aviation. He flew a hot air balloon from Chelsea over 30 miles and landed on the Langdon Hills, near Laindon, shown on the 1576 map. He was tracked all the ...
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1840 marriage certif...
A marriage document from parish records for 1840. Abraham Barham, the son of Isaac Barham, is marrying Martha Furck; they are both from Nevenden. Neither of them can write their own name, and have to put a cross next to “Abraham Barham his mark” and “Martha Furck her mark”. But two people...
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1845 Essex map
In 1845, when this map was made, life was changing fast. In the previous ten years these had been invented: the sewing-machine, the stapler, the bicycle, the postage stamp, the revolver, photography, and the first calculator. When it was first proposed that people as well as goods should travel ...
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1863 Railway map
In 1863 the Tilbury and Southend Railway ran from London to Southend via Tilbury, Stanford-le-Hope, Pitsea, South Benfleet, and Leigh. Pitsea was spelt Pitsey, not Pitsea. Many of the names around Basildon are clearly visible: Sawyers, Middle Hall, Little Barstable Hall, Little Gobions, Langdon C...
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1900s Barstable Cott...
In 1953, this building, known as Barstable Cottage, stood where Basildon Town Centre is now. It was also known as Hotwater Hall, as it stood at the end of Hotwater Lane. The glass escalator of Northgate House occupies this spot now. Describe what the area is like now. How quickly do we for...
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1900s Vange school
Vange School about 100 years ago. It had been built in 1885 for 195 children. Discussion and research opportunity Is it still on the same site? Are these school buildings still there? Do they look like this now? Can you stand at the same point that the photographer stood at that time? W...
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1911 Vange School pu...
A group of children at Vange School in 1911. Although the children are all dressed smartly, there does not seem to be a standard school uniform. How was school then different from school now? Activity Who were these children? Give them names. What happened to them? Invent brief life-stori...
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1914 marriage certif...
Two marriage records from September and October 1914. In the first document Thomas Taylor, a sergeant in the 12th Lancers, and the son of a brewer, from Dublin, is marrying the daughter of his superior officer, a sergeant-major in the 12th Lancers. She is known as a spinster, the word used then ...
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1916 Zeppelin wrecka...
The wreckage of a Zeppelin which crashed at Great Burstead near Basildon during World War One. Late on 24th September 1916, the German Zeppelin L32 crashed in flames. The Zeppelins had been flying from across the Channel to bomb towns and cities in England. When the news of the end of this cigar-...
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1928 Laindon
Laindon in 1928. In the photograph, Churchill and Johnson, the building supplies store, lies between Northumberland Avenue and Station Approach. The pole on the left of the road with the horizontal rods was called a telegraph pole, though by this time it would have been carrying telephone lines. ...
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