East Tilbury
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Location
Thurrock

Country
United Kingdom

Year of Research
18th century

Culture
    In Saxon times, the area on which the church now it was concealed by tidal marshland.This is the probable site for the minster church started by St Cedd at Tilaburg.
    In the 1860s, Coalhouse Fort was constructed on the bank of the Thames, near to the parish church.East Tilbury was part of the Orsett Rural District,From 1894 to 1936.
    The architecture of a Bata Shows factory in the 1930s accrued in substantial development in East Tilbury. The factory has since closed down.
    The Bata company established as not only a factory, but also a town for workers, constructed in the modernist style, and a sizeable estate of listed buildings remains.
    A sizeable Czech workforce was relocated here, and has joined into the local community after connections were lost with Czechoslovakia after the Second World war.
    John Tusa's father became manager of the factory.