Rainham, The Broadway c.1950
Photo ref:
R354011
Photo ref:
R354011
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The 12th century Church of St Helen and St Giles looks down on the Clock Tower, erected in 1921 as a memorial to Rainham men who fell during the First World War. For decades this has been a bus terminus. On the left, a London Transport STL-class bus on route 165 waits before returning to Romford Collier Row.
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Memories of Rainham, the Broadway c1950
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Does anyone remember the webb family that lived in upminster road around 1955?
My father Sidney Edward Nurden whose name is on the war memorial at The Broadway at Rainham. He died from wounds he received in France in 1944 aged 28 years. He is buried in the cemetary in Upminster Road where there are now several others from the Nurden family including my mother Lucy Maud Nurden whose ashes are scattered on my father's grave. I think we used to call the Broadway the Clock Tower and it was always ...see more
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