Hornchurch, All Saints Church, Squirrels Heath c.1965
Photo ref: H115077
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Photo of Hornchurch, All Saints Church, Squirrels Heath c.1965

A Selection of Memories from Hornchurch

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Hornchurch

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Lived at 387 Elm Park Avenue. Benhurst Primary, then Suttons. I too studied under Miss/Mrs Syrett, Mr Walsh (great guy) / Mr Crew/ and the formidable Mr Pike for the last two years! Was he a stern bully or just trying to toughen us up for life? I was in the first extended course and left at 16 as Head Boy. Other names ; Mr D’Arcy (Head), I then did an apprenticeship at a plastics factory in Wingletye Lane. In a ...see more
Opposite where the bus is located is a row of shops at the end of Glanville Drive. For the first part of my life from 1947 I lived at the far end of Glanville Drive. The large house in the background with the light-coloured flank wall is 'Dury Falls' a Grade II Listed Building. That is at the junction of Upminster Road and Wingletye Lane.
The Kings Head on the left of the photograph was one of the pubs I would regularly drink in when I was in my twenties. I remember it being 'tarted up' at one time with fake beams made of chicken wire covered in textured plaster painted dark brown. It was truly awful! On the opposite side of the road from the pub in those days was a row of modern shops but as a child I remember there being a vacant site where a brewery had once stood and which was once used by a circus.
The church on the left hand side of the photograph was Hornchurch Baptist Church. I was, in the second half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, a member of the 6th Hornchurch Scout Group based at the church. A little further up North Street on the right was Westland Avenue where North Street Primary School was located. I attended the school from 1952 to 1958.