Grays Thurrock Carnival.

 

    Interest in the carnival has unfortunately been in decline now for many years  but these two pictures from the 6th June 1959 show how things used to be when people turned out in droves along the route to watch the procession finishing often, as in this particular year, on Blackshots Playing Field. People then went to the fair also held on the playing field.

 

Henry Griggs.
Arthur Street School.
Memories of William Bannister.- taken  from the Grays and Thurrock Gazette, 1934.
Memories of Dave Hillier.
Memories of Gino Reeve.
VE Day Street Party 1945.
Frank Terry-shoe repairer.
The Methodist Church, Little Thurrock.
A Letter from Maureen.
Arthur Horncastle.
Molly Pocock's dance school.
The Bricklayers Arms Fishing Club.
The Carnival.
The 1953 Floods at Tilbury.
Frank Jennings, the Tramps Parson.