Jonathan Catton

This week we look back to the opening of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway.

This week in Down Memory Lane, I recall a major historical event held at Tilbury Fort, which many members of the community will remember, in August 1988!

This week in Down Memory Lane I reflect on “rambling”, specifically the Thurrock Group Ramblers Association’s formation 30 years ago.

This week in Down Memory Lane I go for “the Full Monty”, as it is 80 years this month that Grays saw the opening of Montague Burton’s tailoring shop in the High Street.

In Down Memory Lane this week, we look back 60 years to an exciting school day in Horndon.

This week in Down Memory Lane we visit the redundant St Clement’s Church, in West Thurrock.

For military reasons in the need to move large amounts of foot soldiers and their equipment fast towards any part of the British coastline during times of threatened invasion it was to Thurrock that the army sort ways to cross the Thames.

This week in Down Memory Lane we visit Arthur Street Board School in Grays, opened in 1888 to accommodate 680 pupils in the infants and juniors and now called Thameside Primary.