This section will include information about prominent Upminster people and events including
- The Holden family – Rectors of Upminster
- The Branfill family of Upminster Hall
- Thomas Lewis Wilson – village historian
- Henry Joslin JP of Gaynes
- Sir Peter Griggs – developer of the Upminster Garden suburb
- Miss Henria Helen Leech Williams – suffragette
- Upminster during World War One
- Rev William Derham
- Upminster’s May Festival
Old Upminster 
I found a milk bottle from pages farm today how old is it
Not something I’m expert about but if it’s Padfield’s Diary it’s probably early 20th century: is it like the one in this article?: https://upminsterhistory.net/2018/12/11/upminster-common-revealed-part-two-gaynes-common-and-south-from-the-four-want-way/
Looking for a Miss Anne Ungoid from 1974,she was a teacher at the Bell infant/junior school. I was one of her pupils, she and another, Miss Metcalf took me under their wing and looked after me.
My name is Amanda Hadley.
Hi Amanda. Our children were at the Bell until about 1993 & my wife worked in the junior school from 1993 to 2014. Anne Ungoed was then a Y5 (third year) teacher and retired in the 1990s. We think she lived in Hornchurch. Suggest you post a request on the Upminster and Hornchurch History Facebook group.
Wow!!!!, thank you sooo much, I can’t believe I got a reply, fantastic!!!!. I would dearly love to see Miss Ungoid and Metcalf but I doubt that’s possible. Thank you very much for replying and telling me.
Yours sincerely Amanda 😁
My name is Alex Knoops, I’m boardmember of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Association (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging Onze Luchtmacht) in the Netherlands. We are partners with 322 Squadron Royal Netherlands Air Force which I still an operational unit with the Royal Netherlands Air Force at Leeuwarden AB on the F-35A Lightning II. This Squadron was founded on June 12, 1943 in Woodvale as a Dutch Unit, part of the RAF . The unit lost 18 of their pilots during the war mainly Dutch nationals. But one of them was a son of Upminster who died very tragically at the age of 22, on VE day May 8, 1945 at Varrelbusch airfield in Germany. His name was Donald James Hunter born in 1923. He was a Spitfire pilot with 322 Squadron at that time. He is buried at Becklinghausen War Cemetery, Germany. Very little is known about him. I know he was the son of James Brown Hunter and Elsie Gladys Hunter of Upminster and husband of Betty Jean Hunter of Phoenix Arizona USA. Are there any persons who can help me with additional information of Donald James Hunter? His background, his period in Upminster, pictures of him etc. etc.
Thanks in advance. Yours sincerly Alex Knoops
Hi Alex. Thanks for your interest. Can you email me please on tony-benton@ntlworld.com and I’ll get back to you.