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Day 7: Little Thurrock and around
The children of Thameside Primary Academy gave the walkers a fabulous musical welcome when we arrived with the flag on Wednesday afternoon! ...
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Day 5: the gorgeous gorges
I must admit we were a little worried about today’s walk. Only 10 people had booked in advance, and there were looming black clouds and rain promised for ...
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Day 3: Grays to Purfleet along the river
This unexpectedly interesting walk along the banks of the River Thames began early on Saturday morning at Grays railway station. A large group of sleepy walkers met at ...
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Day 2: Big Skies walk
Another blazing day dawned on Friday morning, and we met at the Bell in Horndon-on-the-Hill, a 15th Century coaching inn with a gruesome past: a blue plaque outside ...
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Day 1: South Ockendon
We couldn’t have had a more beautiful day for our first Thurrock 100 walk on Thursday morning. 30 walkers were joined by people from all over Thurrock and ...
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Jeff Brazier gets wound up!
This week Essex boy Jeff Brazier got wound up in the Thurrock 100 flag to show his support for the walking festival. Prepping for his second season as ...
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Trevor sets himself a challenge!
Not content with walking one of the Thurrock 100 walks, Trevor Rawson of Thai Chi for Health Essex (winners of last year’s Beat the Street) has decided to ...
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Community spirit alive and well in SS17
Terry Piccolo and Shane Ralph explain that community spirit is alive and kicking in SS17! ...
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Start walking – and turn your life around!
John Holmes, from Stanford-Le-Hope, and his wife Coral have signed up for the SS17 walk on 12th July. John, 67, who retired at 60 but still works part ...
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Snow+Rock put their boots on!
Thurrock 100 is hugely grateful to retailers Snow+Rock, who have generously agreed to support the project. The Romford outdoor specialists are supporting the project by leading one of the walks ...
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Paint a Flag this week!
We’re hard at work painting the 10 flags! Big thanks to everyone who’s come along to one of the workshops – we’re delighted with the designs. The studio will ...
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HW Wilson sign up to support Thurrock 100!
Plans for the start of the Thurrock 100 walking challenge moved on apace last week when Mayor of Thurrock, Cllr Sue Gray, met representatives from HW Wilson & ...
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Flag workshops underway!
Workshops in schools and community centres are taking place this week and next as Thurrock residents use their creativity to design 10 beautiful Thurrock 100 flags. These designs ...
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Help make a flag
We’re looking for creative people from all over Thurrock to help design and make ten 4m high silk flags at a series of workshops in June. You don’t ...
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Become a walk leader
We’re looking for walking volunteers in each area to lead the walks, to be a backmarker or to lend support in other ways. We also need volunteer marshals at designated points ...
