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THURROCK is an area of South Essex which displays strong individuality, despite its contrasting mixture of quiet countryside to the north and intensive industrial development along the Thames Bank. Apart from its own, fascinating, local history, many strands of the rich tapestry of England's story are woven into its past, including involvement in the PeasantsAE Revolt, the famous Armada speech of Queen Elizabeth I and other headline events. Its appeal to early man is becoming ever more evident from archaeological excavation and chance discoveries; while the Saxon site at Mucking is world famous and has provided Europe-wide scholars with new information about the Saxon immigration period by t...
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Programme of events held to mark the Festival of Britain in Thurrock. Also contains articles on the local council, local history, industry and the arts.
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. The Docks at nearby Tilbury were the source of much employment in the area for both fathers and sons alike. They also played their part in the war, but not as a hub of military deployments. In May 1915 the German spy Augusto Alfredo Roggen, a Uruguayan born in Montevideo, arrived at Tilbury on board the SS Batavia, which had sailed from Rotterdam in Holland. On his arrival in England he made his way to Scotland to carry out his spying activities at the Loch Long torpedo range. He was captured, found guilty and executed by firing squad at the Tower...
This two-volume report, examines the final outcome of a single-issue review of Policy ETG2 of the Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) for the East of England, covering Thurrock Key Centre for Development and Change. The need for a robust strategic planning framework to guide the regeneration and redevelopment of Lakeside Basin was identified in the RSS. Lakeside is strategically important as a location within South Essex, as emphasized in the Government's Thames Gateway Delivery Plan 2007. The main report explains how, under this policy review, the northern part of the Lakeside Basin becomes a Regional Centre and forms part of the Regional Structure of Town Centres defined in the East of Engla...