Oscar.
A Memory of Hornchurch.
I have this photo. Some 25 yrs ago I was in an antique shop with my late father when he saw this photo and told me the man was my grandfather, who I never met, and the horses belonged to him. They were used in the families green grocers in north street. The shop was in the family for some time as I would go there as a young boy after school at langtons. My father would go with his older brother to market at stratford useing a horse drawn cart. How things have changed in just 3 generations. I lived in hornchurch from 1946 to 2004 apart from two years as a boy spent in nz.
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I also remember a similar clapperboard building, which was a Cramphorns shop. It was by the bus stop opposite the White Hart. From there we'd get the Eastern National bus to visit my Nan in Laindon.
The building on the left had already been replaced with a more modern building that was occupied by Burtons the tailors on the ground floor and by a Temperance Billiard Hall on the first floor. I sometimes used to sneak off school (Abbs Cross Technical School) to play a game of snooker with friends. Next door to the entrance to the billiard hall was the Unemployment Office.
Langtons was known as North Street Primary School when I went there in 1952.
I remember Cramphorns' garden supplies shop opposite the White Hart. We used to buy sulphur and carbon there to grind up to make gunpowder. That was when I was still at primary school! A bit further towards the Bull was another old building that was used as a coffee bar in the 1960s. The well-known camp gay George Hurrell who lived nearby would play piano there. A large Green Shield Stamp shop occupied the building that replaced it.