Grays When It Was A Proper Town.

A Memory of Grays.

Despite the cement dust from West Thurrock, if the wind was in the wrong direction, Grays had everything available, from a baking tin to a new car, such a variety of shops. Good bus service, Eastern National, London Transport, Greenline and including "Our Bus" which is pictured. Regular train service to London or Southend, which ran on time, three cinemas, library, a beach with boating pond that used to be a swimming pool, a small swimming pool called the Exmouth, taken from a training ship that was moored just off the beach. The cadets trained in this pool originally. An extremly low crime rate, historic olde worlde wooden shops and houses lined road.  And now...... due to big headed short sighted, know it all Council Members who just strutted their stuff, Grays has been destroyed, gone is decent market, gone is the wooden old high street, gone are the cinemas, a joke of a bus service, what trains?, a swimming pool that that is run by jobsworths, and costs a fortune to use, police that sit inside doing paperwork so that everything is recorded. Crime rate that beggers belief, Councillors back stabbing each other, more destruction in the name of progress. Buy all these photos of Grays to remind you and your family of what a decent town used to look like, and weep for what is lost.