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Rainham, Station Road c.1955
Photo ref: R80004
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In this view from the High Street, a man sits under the awning outside the Rainham and District Co-operative Society shop, opposite the wine merchant's shop of J Owen Carter. Frank Rule's newsagent (extreme left) displays a pavement board announcing a new Dan Dare serial in the boys' comic, the Eagle.

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Memories of Rainham, Station Road c1955

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. These memories are of Rainham, Station Road c.1955

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Back those days (1960-1970), pen-friendship was the big deal as Face book/Bebo is today. I used to have a penfriend by the name of Karen Francis. I am from Mauritius - a tiny dot in the Indian Ocean - and relating to Rainham, Kent simply seemed so far, so impossible. I knew a little about England through my geography class in primary school, more interested because of the history and literature class in ...see more