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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Rose Cleary - How to be a French Girl

I interviewed Rose Cleary on 30th March 2021 in what was still the lockdown periods. I chose to do podcasts at the time to widen my narrowing world. Rose Cleary has her debut novel out now called How to be a French Girl . Rose Cleary, born 1990, is an author and writer from Essex. Her writing has been previously published in the New Socialist, The Southend's Twilight Worlds, Hyperallergic and TOMA. She has exhibited her art internationally at galleries including Nahmad Projects and The Vaults in London, and Backlit Gallery in Nottingham. How to be a French Girl is her debut novel. You can follow her on Instagram and visit her website http://rosecleary.com/ 3:AM Magazine has printed an extract from the book here . Read a post by Rose on the London Review Book Shop where she talks about the process of writing the book here . https://www.lisajhorner.com/

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Sylvia Kent - A Prestigious Lady

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