The potted history that Wesker called "Boerthel's Hill" [55] was acted out by a members of the community recording a fascinating history of London's East Enders, who were the first Basildon residents. Basildon currently has one cinema, Cineworld , which is located at the Festival Leisure Park. This changed hands several times becoming a Cannon and a Robins cinema before closing in In , planning permission was granted for a new ten screen Empire cinema, along with new restaurants on the site of Freedom House in Basildon town centre, [61] with demolition of the current buildings on site starting in Basildon Central Library is now based in the Basildon Centre [63] since , but had previously been in prefabs next to the temporary council offices on Fodderwick.
Basildon was designed with large amounts of green spaces with Gloucester Park dominating the centre of Basildon. Even though Basildon is a new town, there are still traces of its historical past visible. Dry Street is a perfect example of old Basildon, as it is an undeveloped country lane that runs through One Tree Hill and Langdon Hill Country Parks and is home to several listed properties. Other than St Martin's Church, most of the historical parish churches still exist.
St Michael's at Pitsea is said to be 13th century, but was rebuilt in [80] and now only its Bell Tower remains on Pitsea Mount. Nevendon Hall was built in and is Grade II listed.
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One notable building is Little Coopers Farmhouse, which was originally located in Takeley. It was designated a Grade II building in In the late s, due to redevelopment, the whole structure was dismantled and re-built at the Wat Tyler Country Park.
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On the west side of town, the Dunton Plotlands area was occupied by small rural dwellings in the mid twentieth century. Today, it forms Langdon Nature Reserve.
In , a National Lottery funded heritage trail was started to highlight the s architecture. Basildon has its own community radio station, which is aimed towards the residents of Basildon, East Thurrock and its surrounding areas called Gateway Basildon Development Corporation had installed a Cable Television service into many of its home, called Rediffusion , but this service stopped during the s.
The service was replaced by United Artists Cable which were based in the town; this is now Virgin Media , although the customer service operation closed in the s. The town has been home to The Yellow Advertiser since Basildon had a great influence on the s music scene with bands Depeche Mode and Yazoo , and later by Alison Moyet in her solo career and Vince Clarke in his role with Erasure. Martin's Church in Basildon town centre is a modern structure. The church was consecrated in by the Bishop of Chelmsford. Although there are a number of tall buildings in central Basildon, there are also many newly constructed buildings closer to the 'Basildon Enterprise Corridor' situated in North Basildon.
The largest structure in the new town's town centre is Brooke House, a story residential tower block that fronts the west side of the town centre's East Square. The building was chosen to have a residential function, as opposed to commercial office space, to retain life in the town centre after the shops had closed. Shops were positioned to the rear of the building, with Brooke House acting as a covered forecourt. It was conceived as a structure to define Basildon's urban status and to act as marker to identify the town centre's location within a largely low-rise settlement set in a flat landscape.
The building was given Grade II listing in East of Brooke House is East Square, a sunken open-air public plaza accessed from Brooke House by a monumental staircase and a curved ramp which was listed in as Grade II. Formerly on the wall of Freedom House is the oldest piece of public sculpture in the new town: installed in , it is a wire and aluminium relief by the sculptor A.
Poole titled "Man Aspires". Freedom House was demolished, along with the Post Office building as part of the new cinema construction in Down the middle of this zone runs a rectangular raised pool. Within the pool is a bronze sculpture and fountain, titled "Mother and Child", by the sculptor Maurice Lambert and dating from [] which was listed as Grade II in The building was listed in and is Grade II listed.
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