Photo Album

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'Bill' & Mary in 1979 at new home, 508 Ashingdon Road, Ashingdon.

1979

Wilf in his garage workshop

Mary & Sister-In-Law, Ivy (Huskisson) Leggett in 1980

Wilf & Ivy

Letter from old work colleague, Roy Burford after 'Bill' was made redundant from Aladdin Plastics.

2nd letter from Roy Burford congratulating 'Bill' on his new employment with 'Clarks of Basildon'

After leaving 'Clarks' in 1981, Wilfred started his own business again working from home.

Business stationary

Here in 1982 is Wilfred with one of his many photograph albums from which approximately 80% of this Website's content comes.

Mary & Sister-In-Law, Ivy (Huskisson) Leggett in Feb. 1984

Wilfred working in his home office - 1985

Mary - 1985

Wilfred recovering in Rochford Hospital after surgery for diverticulitis - 1985

One of Wilf's many letters to the local newspaper. In this one he protests against the imminent closure of the hospital ward where he had been treated.

Recovering at home

Wilfred on holiday in Brussels - 1985

Mary in Brussels

In Luxembourg

In Paris

Home at 508 Ashingdon Road

A protest letter from Wilfred in the local 'Evening Echo'

Mary's testimony which she read at her baptism in 1986

Wilfred - 1986

Xmas 1988

Mary & Bill at an awards ceremony after winning a competition for a Dinner Service set. (1989)

Wilf at the holiday apartment in Malta which he and Mary owned for a few years in the late 1980s

Mary in Malta 1989

A letter from Wilfred in the local 'Evening Echo' (1989)

.....and another.

.....and another - (1990)

Dad playing the Organ

Wilf & Mary on the occasion of their Ruby Wedding Anniversary - 28th July 1990

More letters to the local papers (1991)

1991

Poem written in honour of Wilfred by daughter, Alice (1992)

Wilf with Mary (Barnett) Rutland (or 'Nanny Olsh') and Wilfred's sister, Ivy (1992)

Wilf in 1993

Wilf reviving a favourite childhood pursuit - fishing for tadpoles

A 1993 letter to the local paper

Wilfred in his new garden after he and Mary moved to 20 Woodlands Close, Hockley

A funny Xmas photo

1994

Another of Wilfred's letters from 1994

Wilfred with his Cousin, Elsie West in 1994. Elsie's mother was Edith Kate (Huskisson) who was killed during a German bombing raid on Southend in 1917

At home in 1995

On holiday in Italy, 1995

Wilfred in St Paul, Malta, 1995

In Valetta, Malta, 1995

Mary with daughter, Alice at Colchester Zoo, 1996

At Home, 1996

30th July 1996 at home

Enjoying a cream cake in Basildon, 1996

On holiday in Marsaxlokk, Malta 1996

1996 Portrait

At home 1997

Malta 1997

Looking thoughtful, 1998

Wilfred's controversial letters and a reply, erroneously addressed to 'Alfred', from the local newspaper

Mary on Southend Pier, and quite ill by now with Motor Neurone Disease.

Taken on Mary's 73rd birthday, 19th Oct. 1998

Mary's last Xmas, 1998

The last known picture of Mary taken 29th Dec. 1998

Wilfred's note sent to friends and relatives, after Mary's death on 4th January 1999

Death Notice in local newspaper

Shortly after Mary's death, Wilfred made one last trip to Malta where he took this rather sad picture of himself in his hotel room

A brave letter, from Wilfred to close family friends Florrie & Bert Riches. This was just a few months after Mary's death (1st July 1999)

Myself with Dad (Wilfred) in 1999 at one of our many family tree research sessions at 26 Woodlands Close, Hockley. This is how it all started!

With Ivy, and visiting their cousin Joan Simmons - (Daughter of  Lydia Laurie Alma (Huskisson) Butler)

Last known picture of Wilfred, now very ill, taken during a family gathering on 29th October 2000.