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How boat's arrival marked the start of multi-culturalism

1:26pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane we recall the arrival, on June 22, 1948, of the SS Empire Windrush, at the Tilbury Riverside Landing Stage, with the first shipload of more than 600 West Indians seeking employment in what they describe as the Mother Land.

How Thurrock helped the war landings effort

Conundrum being made at Tilbury Docks

1:07pm Wednesday 5th June 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane we remember the allied landings in France during the Second World War.

How Thurrock partied for the coronation

Notices of coronation events in the Gazette

1:48pm Wednesday 29th May 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane we remember the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, and how Thurrock celebrated.

Sinking that also led to a diver's death

The Brig William

10:59am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane I recall the sad death 175 years ago of a sapper (Royal Engineer) off Tilbury Fort in 1838.

When Prime Minister MacDonald opened landing stage

Ramsay MacDonald at the opening

11:27am Wednesday 15th May 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane we remember the visit 83 years ago to Tilbury by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald (October 12, 1866 – November 9, 1937) who was the first ever Labour Party prime minister in 1924, and from 1929 to 1931, as well as a National Government from 1931 to 1935.

The danger of transporting garrison gunpowder

The damage after the explosion in Tilbury

11:02am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THIS week in Down Memory Lane we investigate press gangs and explosions related to the delivery of gun powder from the Royal Waltham Abbey gun powder mills to the Royal Gunpowder magazines in Purfleet.

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