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Posted by Jess Pearce
on 5/6/2009, 12:14 pm, in reply to "memories"
Hi I am what they called second generation originals, as I was born in Great Gregorie. Our family moved to Basildon as my grandad helped to build the Shell Haven oil refinery and were given a council house in Theydon Crescent. My mum says she can remember going along the road, when it was still being built, and they were given a few sets of keys and given the choice of which house they wanted! I was also the first baby to be Christened at the United Reformed Church at the bottom of Whitmore Way. I was also one of the first pupils at Ghyllgrove school, when the Green hills were nick named the mud hills as the trucks were dumping all the mud from where the town was being built. The first truck load of mud dumped, (before that the area was flat) almost killed my auntie on her bike. Many more memories are hiding in my head!
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