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Lost Basildon
Originally a collection of villages in Essex, Basildon was developed as a new town after the Second World War in 1949. The last seventy years have seen incredible changes take place. New residents started to move in during the 1950s as the first homes were completed and, alongside the new housing, the town attracted businesses to its industrial parks, many of them household names such as Ford, Gordon's gin and GEC Marconi, as well as leading the way in new retailing with the largest covered shopping centre in Europe when it was built in the 1980s. Further regeneration of the town is planned, and the town retains traces of its historical past, as well as green, open spaces.Lost Basildon presents a portrait of this town in Essex, showing not just the buildings, streets and industries that have gone or changed, but also a way of life that is no longer. This fascinating photographic history of lost Basildon will appeal to all those who live in the town or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 15, 2019
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About the author
Lisa Horner
2 books1 followerI was previously a researcher for the Basildon Heritage Trail (Essex, UK) and Frances Clamp's Basildon, Our Heritage. For my degree in Art & Design Practice (BA Hons) I wrote my dissertation on how storytelling has evolved from its oral tradition through myth and ritual, theatre, ballad to the media of today.
My fascination for history began when a kind older friend provided information and pictures for a primary school history project about the village I lived in, Hockley in Essex, UK. It was hard to believe that at one time smugglers were hanged at the joining of three familiar roads or that many would travel for miles to go to the Hockley Spa pump room, although its fame was brief.
My Nan, Amelia was also a very good storyteller, how times had changed! Our family lived in comparative comfort to the early 1900's when Amelia was sent with some of her eight brothers and sisters to collect the scraps of meat from underneath the stalls at the old Spitalfields Market for a stew that Great Nan would make last a few days.
My fascination for history began when a kind older friend provided information and pictures for a primary school history project about the village I lived in, Hockley in Essex, UK. It was hard to believe that at one time smugglers were hanged at the joining of three familiar roads or that many would travel for miles to go to the Hockley Spa pump room, although its fame was brief.
My Nan, Amelia was also a very good storyteller, how times had changed! Our family lived in comparative comfort to the early 1900's when Amelia was sent with some of her eight brothers and sisters to collect the scraps of meat from underneath the stalls at the old Spitalfields Market for a stew that Great Nan would make last a few days.
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