Some of the photos here show Albert Jones, a very well known shopkeeper who ran a corner shop in Long Road, Canvey for many years
Don, who died last month at the age of 104 and was one of the last surviving Normandy veterans, will be given a huge send off
PLANS have been unveiled for the funeral of Basildon’s beloved war hero Don Sheppard – one of the last few remaining D-Day veterans.
Tributes to Don have poured in from the many people he inspired during his eventful life
Basildon’s much-loved D-Day war veteran Don Sheppard has died at the age of 104.
FAMILIES visiting Southend Pier earlier this August were left pleased as punch thanks to the annual puppet festival
HERE are some long lost photos of the spectacle that was once the Southend Carnival
Charabanc became a form of mass transport in the 1840s, but reached their heydays in the 1920-30s when they were used to ferry daytrippers from London
Climate Central which shows that by 2030 huge swathes of south Essex could be below the annual flood level
One of the British Pathe films currently available on YouTube and Facebook is a newsreel about Southend during the August 1955 Bank Holiday
