Editing Thurrock (section)

===Heritage plaques===
In 2002, a partnership between Thurrock Council, Thurrock Heritage Forum and the Thurrock Local History Society began an initiative to place heritage plaques marking the famous people, events and organisations associated with Thurrock.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thurrock-community.org.uk/historysoc/plaques.html|title=Thurrock Council}}</ref> By September 2021 plaques included:
*[[Joseph Conrad]]
*Alice Mangold Diehl (Musician and Novelist, born in [[Aveley]]) 
*[[Dracula]]'s connection to Purfleet
*The arrival of the [[Empire Windrush]] at Tilbury on 21 June 1948
*The training ship Exmouth
*The [[Kynoch]] factory in the [[Corringham, Essex|Corringham]] marshes
*The shooting down of [[Zeppelin]] L15 at [[Purfleet]] in 1916
*[[Vincent Motorcycles#Phil Vincent|Philip Vincent]]
*[[Alfred Russel Wallace]] and his house at [[the Dell (Thurrock)|the Dell]]
*[[Arthur Young (writer)|Arthur Young]]
*The establishment of the town of [[Tilbury]] in 1912
*[[John Newton]]'s connection with [[Aveley]] and [[Purfleet]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]'s connection with the design of a lightning conductor for the Purfleet gunpowder magazine<ref>Thurrock Yellow Advertiser, 26 April 2012</ref>
*[[Henry de Grey]], who gave his name to [[Grays, Essex|Grays]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourthurrock.com/2013/06/14/commemorating-the-norman-knight-henry-de-grey/|title=Commemorating the Norman knight, Henry de Grey|date=14 June 2013}}</ref>
*[[Kate Luard]], the much decorated Boer War and First World War nurse