Aveley, Ship Hotel c.1960
Photo ref: A110034
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Photo ref: A110034
Photo of Aveley, Ship Hotel c.1960

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The imposing Ship Hotel appears to have been a popular meeting place. It has links with the past, and a blocked tunnel is said to have led to St Michael's church that stands nearby. Where A Fryer once sold boots and shoes (left), there is now a private house.

Memories of Aveley, Ship Hotel c1960

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My grandparents, Arthur Andrew Rush & Lilian Maud Rush 9nee Sayers0 had this pub, The Ship Inn, from 1940 -1955. They had two daughters, my Mother, Lilian Beatrice Gough (nee Rush) & Gladys Barker (nee Rush). At the start of WWII, after being bombed out of our home in Romford Essex, I was evacuated to paternal grandparents in Drogheda & Caherviveen, Eire. In 1943 I returned to Aveley, ...see more