Top Twenty Visited Posts on this Blog

It's nice to see when a post does well and gets a lot of visits, and sometimes I can help it along by posting it on a relevant site, for example the top visited post on this blog, and I have a lot of posts now, is Yardley London Celebrates its 250th Anniversary as we Remember Yardley's in Basildon. This has reached the grand total of 1557 views. I have shared this on the Basildon Memories Facebook page and it got a lovely reception. So below are the top twenty visited posts of this blog. You can click on them and view the post if you so wish.

1 Yardley London Celebrates its 250th Anniversary as we Remember Yardley's in Basildon - 1557 views

2 Pete's Place is Packed! - 1022 views

3 Noting the Changes to East Walk and East Square - 799 views

4 Article in Essex Life Magazine January 2020 - 526 views

5 Irie Perera - Poet & Avid Charity Fundraiser S1 E10 (podcast) - 502 views

6 Sylvia Kent - A Prestigious Lady - 283 views

7 Sylvia Kent's Top Ten Tips for Writing and Promoting a Book - 282 views

8 Society of Women Writers and Journalists - 271 views

9 Basildon Through Time - 216 views

10 Ideas for an Exciting Basildon Museum Inspired by Vin Harrop - 168 views

11 Lost Basildon 167 views

12 The Ghetto in the Heart of London 157 views

13 A Lovely Reminder 147 views

14 Ingatestone Musical Operetta Group shine again in Spamalot 145 views

15 Meeting Sylvia Kent 128 views

16 People from the Past 128 views

17 Welcome Publicity! 125 views

18 Radion Project 119 views

19 Ken Porter - Historian and Author S2 E3 (podcast) 75 views

20 Ian Eagleton - Author of Nen and the Lonely Fisherman S2 E4 (podcast)

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Yardley London Celebrates its 250th Anniversary as we Remember Yardley's in Basildon

YARDLEY London, that legendary purveyor of perfumes, soaps and toiletries will celebrate its 250 th anniversary this year. The company which was once called Yardley of London is one of the oldest brands in the history of perfume, toiletries and cosmetics. It has been awarded ‘Royal Warrant of Appointment’ six times, starting with Edward, Prince of Wales in 1921 then including the Queen and the late Queen Mother and most recently, in 1995, Charles, Prince of Wales. At the end of January 2020 it will be 21 years since Yardley of London closed its doors at its site in Basildon. The last man to leave was security guard Roy Davis. He locked everything up and put the key through the door in January 1999. Unfortunately the company had got into financial problems in the mid-1990s and it went into receivership in 1998 after a year of marketing attempts to try and turn around its then old-fashioned image even though it had swapped Hele...

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