I lived on the Bata Estate from 1955-68 as both mum & dad worked at the shoe factory. Many of these photographs evoke cherished memories-what was the old Espresso Bar opposite the cinema. The Bar had a great jukebox. Bata Hotel was where I obtained my first pack of cigarettes (half crown in the machine with thruppence change), the Nook cafe along Princess Margaret Road near to the junction with Bata Avenue, and the garage where I’d get a puncture fixed if dad wasn’t around. The playground next to the tennis courts where 20-25 boys would be playing football of an evening. You’d get a knock on the door and be asked to get down there where you’d find yourself being shoved in goal being a latecomer. It was a marvellous place to grow up.
Thanks for sharing. Mum and Dad both worked at Batas. It's where they met. I was born in a bungalow on Princess Margaret road started my schooling in the now demolished christian school ( it was made from shiny black flint). Dad and I used to sail our model yacht back and forth across the moat at coalhouse fort, followed by a pineapple juice for my sisters and I and a shandy for mum and a beer for dad. Fond memories, we migrated to Adelaide Australia in December 1971. I have never been back to visit, now I'm retired and covid is no longer causing the travel restrictions I should get over and take a walk on English soil again it's been a long time.
Thank you for the wonderful trip down MEMORY LANE..My earliest memories of Bata / East Tilbury go back 60 years and has a special place in my heart.. It is said that you do not miss something until it has gone...so very true.
Many thanks for a great film. The only point I would make is that the picture of the church is of West Tilbury church, not East Tilbury.I was at Bata's from 1962-1968 - a pity there don't seem to be any pictures of the Bata Technical College around.Bernard Butler.
I lived in chadwell st mary but would cycle with friends to go swimming as a child in. the late fifties such lovely memories and when I left school in the sixties worked in both leather and rubber factories it was a lovely clean place many fond memories also of the esspresso bar and the cinema
I lived on the Bata Estate from 1955-68 as both mum & dad worked at the shoe factory. Many of these photographs evoke cherished memories-what was the old Espresso Bar opposite the cinema. The Bar had a great jukebox. Bata Hotel was where I obtained my first pack of cigarettes (half crown in the machine with thruppence change), the Nook cafe along Princess Margaret Road near to the junction with Bata Avenue, and the garage where I’d get a puncture fixed if dad wasn’t around. The playground next to the tennis courts where 20-25 boys would be playing football of an evening. You’d get a knock on the door and be asked to get down there where you’d find yourself being shoved in goal being a latecomer. It was a marvellous place to grow up.
Thanks for sharing.
Mum and Dad both worked at Batas.
It's where they met.
I was born in a bungalow on Princess Margaret road started my schooling in the now demolished christian school ( it was made from shiny black flint).
Dad and I used to sail our model yacht back and forth across the moat at coalhouse fort, followed by a pineapple juice for my sisters and I and a shandy for mum and a beer for dad.
Fond memories, we migrated to Adelaide Australia in December 1971.
I have never been back to visit, now I'm retired and covid is no longer causing the travel restrictions I should get over and take a walk on English soil again it's been a long time.
I remember going to Batas to get school shoes.
Great memories. Working the Evening shift after another full days working in Basildon.
Thank you for the wonderful trip down MEMORY LANE..My earliest memories of Bata / East Tilbury go back 60 years and has a special place in my heart.. It is said that you do not miss something until it has gone...so very true.
Elizabeth Reign Castillo pleased you liked x nostalgia is treasured emotion bitter sweet xx
So many memories Thank uou
I live there I almost cried 😢😢😢
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Many thanks for a great film. The only point I would make is that the picture of the church is of West Tilbury church, not East Tilbury.I was at Bata's from 1962-1968 - a pity there don't seem to be any pictures of the Bata Technical College around.Bernard Butler.
Hi Bernard - if you look in the right place you will find some views of BTC. Try BRRC or BHC website.
I lived in chadwell st mary but would cycle with friends to go swimming as a child in. the late fifties such lovely memories and when I left school in the sixties worked in both leather and rubber factories it was a lovely clean place many fond memories also of the esspresso bar and the cinema
Thankyou for your feed back appriciate the info there ☺
I have only recently discovered the factory which is disused. I noticed a sign that had the bata name on it whilst I was on my way to my sisters house
Stanford house is still in east Tilbury