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It's almost time to venture out and enjoy the delights of our wonderful historic pubs!

By Neil Speight

11th Apr 2021 | Local Features

With perfection of timing, occasional Thurrock Nub News columnist Susa Yates, chair of Thurrock Historical Society has delivered her latest article:-

WE are now just a day away from being able to sit in a pub garden and enjoy a drink with friends.

Properties of the week - new development in Grays

By Neil Speight

8th Apr 2021 | Local Features

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GRIFFIN Residential offers a selection of new townhouses in a gated development.

League winners and why a third is very important....

By Neil Speight

4th Apr 2021 | Local Features

PHOTOGRAPHERS who are members of Thurrock Camera Club have celebrated the end of a competition that has taken place over several months and six rounds.

The club's Projected Digital Image (PDI) League competition reached its conclusion with the winners being selected from the sixth round of submissions.

Bronze age experience and standing in the footsteps of an Emperor

By Guest

24th Mar 2021 | Local Features

In the latest of her occasional features, Susan Yates - chair of Thurrock Historical Society - years for a return to the road and imagines all the places she will be able to see soon - Covid-19 willing!

THE children are back at school but us golden oldies are still stuck at home. I have just bought a new car and long to take it for a drive. Perhaps to visit St Osyth Priory, Roman Colchester or maybe the bronze age site at Springfield Lyons.

Taking a tour aRound the region's churches

By Guest

6th Mar 2021 | Local Features

THURROCK Historical Society chair Susan Yates continues her occasional series of features as she takes another trip down Memory Lane

ESSEX is a county of wonderful things and great history from the Romans at Colchester to Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury; from St Cedd to the Prince of Prittlewell.

Frame fillers and winners

By Neil Speight

5th Mar 2021 | Local Features

ONCE again we are delighted to feature the latest winners in Thurrock Camera Club's competitions.

The three images feature in our picture bar and were produced by Tom Irving (Remains of the Jetty), David Whyman (Waiting to Strike) and Chris Dennis (A Snowy Climb).

Orsett grave is just one legacy of a night of horror over East of England

By Neil Speight

22nd Feb 2021 | Local Features

The grave of Flying Officer Robert Laval Proudfoot. The epitaph reads: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"

Thurrock Nub News reader Mike Roch has contributed this article which tells the story of a hero who rests in the borough.

A QUAINT English village lives in the imagination of classical novels and faintly coloured movie reels. Yet this image can be experienced today in the village of Orsett. Thatched cottages coupled with wide open spaces.

Corringham's top ten in the listed house stakes - taking a walk down memory lane with Susan Yates

By Guest

21st Feb 2021 | Local Features

Thurrock Local History Society chair and Nub News columnist Susan Yates brings us her latest look back down memory lane.

WHEN people think of old buildings in Thurrock very few would think of Old Corringham but the church of St Mary the Virgin Corringham is the oldest surviving church in Thurrock and is Grade I listed.

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