Please note that the Heritage Centre will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May 2026
We will re open at 10:00 am on Wednesday 6th May
Announcing the Basildon Heritage Time Travel Terminal.
Now available to visitors to the Green Centre, travel back in time to the 1950's onwards via our digitised local newspaper collection.
Fully searchable, look up your school, workplace, street, church, football club etc. Capture the memory with your smartphone on our large high resolution monitor.
Imagine waking up and not being able to see past the end of your own nose... that's EXACTLY what happened in London in 1952... many of you may even remember this!