On Sunday, July 27 at 3pm you are all welcome to attend the unveiling of a Thurrock Heritage Plaque – commemorating Joseph Conrad’s living and working in Thurrock.
The ceremony will be at Ivy Walls in Billet Lane, which was his second house, the other being in Victoria Road.
We shall be marking the occasion with a visit by a delegation from Plock in Poland and the Director of the Polish Cultural Institute.
Joseph (pictured) and his new wife Jessie arrived in Stanford-le-Hope in 1896 on the recommendation of a friend.
They first moved into a new built semi-detached villa in Victoria Road, however Joseph took a dislike to the ‘jerry built’ house.
However, he then moved on to a late medieval timber framed farmhouse, Ivy Walls’, with views on to the Thames and close to where he moored his small boat.
During his time here his son Borys was born and he completed a number of his novels, including ‘Heart of Darkness.’
HISTORY FEEDBACK:
Again a great response on both Eileen Fowler and shrimps!
Grahame Thomas has reliably informed me he purchased High House in Horndon from Eileen. She had lived there from 1942 until 1977 when he moved there. On the shrimp front Valerie Grant has found a blue young’s Shrimp pot for the museum collection – many thanks.
HISTORY FACT OF THE WEEK:
22nd July 1920: Annual Inspection of the Training Ship Warspite carried out at Tilbury.
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