epw006268 ENGLAND (1921). The Market Place and St Edward the Confessor's Church, Romford, 1921

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Title [EPW006268] The Market Place and St Edward the Confessor's Church, Romford, 1921
Reference EPW006268
Date 23-May-1921
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Place name ROMFORD
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Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 551259, 188962
Longitude / Latitude 0.18321664833809, 51.578721765472
National Grid Reference TQ513890

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Pig in the Pound Public House. Called the Queen and Crown until the early 1870's. Ceased trading in the 1960's so I read. Another pub gone.

Keni010
Wednesday 13th of April 2016 09:56:16 PM
St. Edward's Church, named after Edward The Confessor. Originally built in 1410, the present one was completed in 1850.

Keni010
Wednesday 13th of April 2016 09:49:22 PM
120 Market Place Romford Site of my father's greengrocers shop from the end of WWII to the sixties when he took over his parents' shop at 56 Collier Row Lane.

Sally
Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:43:10 AM
120 Market Place Romford Site of my father's greengrocers shop from the end of WWII to the sixties when he took over his parents' shop at 56 Collier Row Lane.

Sally
Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:43:09 AM
The Old Romford Town Court House was demolished and also the properties backing onto the entrance to South Street in the early 1930`s to enable road widening for traffic to gain easier access for turning into either North or South Street.

hillman34
Friday 14th of June 2013 10:18:41 PM
The Public Drinking Fountain.

hillman34
Tuesday 11th of June 2013 09:16:43 PM
The Tryst tea rooms in Main Road 1967

rs200
Monday 29th of October 2012 08:24:33 AM
I remember this from when I used to walk from home in Erroll Road, along the other side of Main Road to my Dad's greengrocers shop at 120 Market Place.

Thanks!

Sally
Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:45:21 AM
Mid 1960's became Hambletons, retail and commercial photographers. Next door was a Chineese restruant which was taken over by Hambletons in 1967.

rs200
Wednesday 24th of October 2012 08:19:00 PM
This must be the Golden Lion Pub, which is still there.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 07:00:46 AM
Entrance to South Street

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:59:31 AM
It's likely that this photo was taken on a Friday because that was always the small market days - no animals. The market was surrounded by pubs, I think at one time there were 7 or 8 but they have all gone now except 'The Lamb' which would be tucked into the bottom left of the market place.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:55:16 AM
Hiya, just to let you know the 23rd May in this year was a Monday. Keni

Keni010
Wednesday 13th of April 2016 09:32:49 PM
The white building adjacent to the Church is still there, Wykhame Hall, still painted white. Through the many years I've known Romford the frontage has been occupied by a book shop, a herbalists and various other enterprises. During the 1960s when I was a Police Cadet stationed at the old Romford Police Station, it was the venue for regular Saturday evening rock and roll dances where people like Gene Vincent, Marty Wilde and Joe Brown played, I even remember 'Screamin' Lord Sutch playing there a few times.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:53:58 AM
Yes, the Wykeham Hall, I used to go there in the 1960's to see bands and dance, listen to music generally. Do you remember Carlos, a really jovial Italian chap, (I think) he had a hot dog / hamburger stand outside the Lamb p.h? Lord knows how I ate those boiled hamburgers but we all did!

Keni010
Wednesday 13th of April 2016 09:37:54 PM
'development' Behind the Laurie Hall are the old Laurie Villas, in front of which was Laurie Square, where the War Memorial used to stand before being moved to Coronation Gardens which would be just out of shot.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:53:07 AM
The large building across the top of the market of the old Laurie Kinema, later the Laurie Hall, which was used as a general civic hall well into the 1960s. It was demolished to make way for the Market Plain 'development'

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:51:38 AM
1956: The animal pens in the middle of the photo (left hand side of the road) were still there as were the remnants of the holding pens on the right hand side, at the 'top end' of the market. Animals were still being driven along the roads to the market every Wednesday, that continued until around 1962.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:50:33 AM

User Comment Contributions

Mid 1960's became Hambletons, retail and commercial photographers. Next door was a Chineese restruant which was taken over by Hambletons in 1967

rs200
Friday 3rd of April 2015 02:03:18 PM
I LOVE this photo! It could even be my Mum's Mini!

She shopped at The White House, which was a ladies' clothes shop. My Dad's shop was about three shops to the right of it, past Forsters the sweet shop, and Forsters the Chemist, then my Dad's greengrocers. When he left there it became Ernie Brooks Turf Accountant. LOVE THIS PICTURE!

Sally
Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:48:17 AM
I LOVE this photo! It could even be my Mum's Mini!

She shopped at The White House, which was a ladies' clothes shop. My Dad's shop was about three shops to the right of it, past Forsters the sweet shop, and Forsters the Chemist, then my Dad's greengrocers. When he left there it became Ernie Brooks Turf Accountant. LOVE THIS PICTURE!

Sally
Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:48:18 AM
I've got a photograph of those shops of Forsters and the greengrocers although its a bit blurred and other shops

LadyJ
Friday 3rd of April 2015 02:03:18 PM
Opposite the Laurie Hall c 1957 there was a bike shop where I got a new bike at 11 after passing the 11 Plus. I went to concerts in the Hall - small orchestras and string quartets. Discos were held in the Wykham Hall - Teddy Boys with their `bothel creepers` and DA haircuts. There were also Romford `Ideal Home` exhibitions; Dad sold typewriters there [Haywoods]- he also sold typewriters from a caravan in the Market Place on Saturdays - his shop (where we lived) was at 273 South Street; people still remember his Christmas Trees!; the first one was the `top` of the tree from Norway that broke in two before it got to Trafalgar Square. Shopping with Mum in Sainsburys with its long marble counters, bacon slicers, butter pats and cheese cutting wires. Live eels from Brummy in the Market just outside BHS - a perennial Saturday night feast. Happy days and happy memories.

Roy
Thursday 28th of June 2012 11:44:53 PM
The cycle shop was called 'Harry's', it was there for years. My grandparents who lived in Wood Green, bought me my first train set there. I used to go into Harry's to buy Airfix kits because they always had a better selection that Woolworths which was in the High Street, almost opposite the brewery. Was 273 at the top end of South Street, beyond the railway station some way after Victoria Road? Roy, if you pick this message up, which school did you go to?

TonyF
Thursday 28th of June 2012 04:53:19 PM
Tony F. You have got 273 South Street right. After Victoria Road - on the corner of Brentwood Road - opposite the Old Oak Pub; the Landlady was a Mrs Downs. Dad sold to the Romford Labour Party who I think are still there. My Primary School was Park Lane Primary (later called the Edwin Lambert) in Park Lane. Isn`t funny I can still remember catching the 247 bus to go to Warley where we used to take picnics and go for walks in the woods. Does anyone remember the old Headly Arms Pub with its pond & ducks, geese and swans? I think I fell in once feeding the ducks. I have also remembered a restaurant just `above` the bike shop (Pickney`s ?) where they home baked the most tasty rabbit pies! It was there that I used to gorge myself on sausage egg and chips, white bread and butter and numerous cups of tea.

Roy
Thursday 28th of June 2012 05:48:51 PM
Roy: Goodness yes, The Headley Arms is still there. I remember Pickneys too, I think they ended up in North Street, above the shops on the right hand side heading for Collier Row, not too far from the Golden Lion traffic lights. There was also a funny little restaurant tucked away in the corner of Laurie Square, on a small walk-through between the square and the back of the Laurie Hall. Because of my Dad's work, we used to go there quite often in the school holidays because it was almost next door to the Town Hall where we lived. Last time I was in Romford - last year - your Dad's shop was still occupied by the Labout Party.

TonyF
Thursday 28th of June 2012 11:44:53 PM
Goodness, these photographs have really brought the memories back, when I moved to Romford with my family and through to around 1966, Romford still had the feel of an old, historic, market town. That started to go in 1963. The ground work for the changes in the town started on 18 March 1963. I remember it well because it was the day that the work started on the 'new' Central Library. It was also the day I started work at Romford Police Station and I walked past the builders demolishing the old Civil Defence Hall next to the Town Hall on my way to work.

TonyF
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 06:58:29 AM
I moved to Romford in 1956 and some of the features in this photograph were still there. The animal pens in the middle of the photo (left hand side of the road) were still there as were the remnants of the holding pens on the right hand side, at the 'top end' of the market. The large building across the top of the market of the old Laurie Kinema, later the Laurie Hall, which was used as a general civic hall well into the 1960s. It was demolished to make way for the Market Plain 'development' Behind the Laurie Hall are the old Laurie Villas, in front of which was Lauirie Square, where the War Memorial used to stand before being moved to Coronation Gardens which would be just out of shot.



From Laurie Gardens ran Park End Road where first mt grandparents and then I lived in the early 1980s before the old houses were demolished to make way for an extension to the Town Hall, where I lived with my parents for many years. It's likely that this photo was taken on a Friday because that was always the small market days - no animals. I wonder whatever happened to Keith Radley and Nigel Hogben who also lived in Park End Road?



The white building adjacent to the Church is still there, Wykhame Hall, still painted white. Through the many years I've known Romford the frontage has been occupied by a book shop, a herbalists and various other enterprises. During the 1960s when I was a Police Cadet stationed at the old Romford Police Station, it was the venue for regular Saturday evening rock and roll dances where people like Gene Vincent, Marty Wilde and Jow Brown played, I even remember 'Screamin' Lord Sutch playing there a few times.



The market was surrounded by pubs, I think at one time there were 7 or 8 but they have all gone now except 'The Lamb' which would be tucked into the bottom left of the market place.



Really brought memories flooding back, I can see me coming back to this time after time.

TonyF
Monday 25th of June 2012 08:30:30 PM