About
Hi, I'm Lisa Horner, writer and local history author.
I got involved in local history as part of the Basildon Heritage Project Team in 2007.
It has been very absorbing learning about the local history of Basildon. In my research I have met such interesting characters. I've had some wonderful feedback from people, as they've leafed through the pages, some have been brought back to the time of their childhood. The photographs evoke memories that time has left behind.​​
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I have had various links with Basildon in the past, as well as working there. I was one of the supporting cast in 'Beorhtel's Hill' a community play for Basildon, which was made to celebrate Basildon's 40th anniversary in 1989. I have also managed a series of community art events in Northlands Park for seven months in 2007.
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Apart from local history I write short stories and am a member of the Basildon Writers' Group.
I'm very excited to tell you that our anthology is out now, in which I have a story and a drabble. It is in fact the second anthology of the groups, as they had It Happened in Essex published in 2020 to raise funds for Basildon Hospital Radio when the volunteers struggled to raise funds in their normal way because of the pandemic. This is the first time I've had a story published. My story was based on the Great Flood that affected Canvey so badly in 1953, it's devastation was much wider of course. The group is once again raising money for Basildon Hospital Radio. In fact all proceeds are going to them. Please consider buying the book!
