BILLERICAY'S SPECIAL CENTENARY DAY ORGANISED BY MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

 

Saturday's exhibition at the new Chantry Centre in Billericay, brought together a great number of residents to meet exhibitors and experience what life must have been like for ordinary people of the town during the First World War.

Cllr Jim Devlin & Town Crier James Shrubb

This nostalgic event brought so many of our friends from members of the Billericay Branch of the Royal British Legion, the Tenth Essex Living History Group, the Essex Branch of the Western Front Association, Billericay History Archive and the superb Model Aircraft of the Great War (all created by Ken Wisdom, member of the Western Front Association). And, of course my own Billericay Archive Group.

The talented Ken Wisdom

This special day continued with a moving church service at nearby St Mary Magdalen Church, following the laying of wreaths at the town's war memorial in remembrance of our fallen.