Memories Of Marks Gate
A Memory of Marks Gate.
I lived on Marks Gate from 1954-1972 when I got married. We lived in a two bedroomed flat in Arneways Avenue. I went to the Oaks school in Collier Row, John Preston school on Marks Gate and The Warren school, Chadwell Heath.
I was a choir boy at St Mark's church, Marks Gate from 1959-1963. When we moved th Marks Gate there were no proper roads, no shops. A Mr Secker had a converted coach in which he sold groceries, we had milkman, coalman, bakers who all came to your door. Whe we moved in, across from Rose Lane to Whalebone Lane was abandoned farm land with the old farm house still standing. I think the shops were opened in 1960.
I went back recently to Marks Gate, it had changed massively and not for the better...
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