Amazon price new from used from hardcover please retry. The docks at nearby tilbury were the source of much employment in the area for both fathers and sons alike. Search for local events, cinemas, homes, cars, and jobs. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. One day walking down the garden in allenby crescent, grays, essex, i happened to notice displayed on a shelf in a window of a neighbours shed, a silver cylindrical object, which i immediately. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Local historian evans moved from london to grays, on the banks of the thames in essex, in 1959. But for those who live in and know the area, thurrock still retains secrets revealed only by research, especially into its past, and in this new book a well known local historian will intrigue them with his very readable narrative account, illuminated by a profusion of carefully chosen and fullycaptioned old pictures. Grays thurrock, usually known simply as grays, is the main centre of the borough of thurrock, lying beside the thames 34 km. His history of the thurrock area begins with an account of prehistoric finds dating to 100,000 years ago through the middle ages.
Their first home was in the fairway at grays thurrock, where they lived until my father was conscripted in to the raf in april 1941. It was formerly a small port, with chalk quarries, brickworks, and a brewery. Buy grays thurrock revisited 1st edition by barnes, barry isbn. The town is approximately 20 miles 32 km to the east of london on the north bank of the river thames, and 2 miles 3. According to terry carneys book, thurrock in the twenties, in 1928, two newly built houses on lodge lane were on sale for. A extraordinary collection of historic photos and maps of grays thurrock, the grays area and essex. Grays thurrock in the great war tells the story of grays and the wider thurrock area from the outbreak of the great war until the peace of 1918. Grays or grays thurrock is the largest town in the borough and unitary authority of thurrock in essex and one of thurrock s traditional church of england parishes. Perhaps some of thurrock s more dejected residents should consider taking a leaf out of mary lowes book. Browse 68 photo books on grays and the surrounding area.