Hello to all Phil says that I should introduce myself, so here goes. My name, Ray Smith formerly from Romford and now living at St Ives, Cornwall.A 'Silver...
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Andy Lee
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Jul 9, 2000 11:06 pm
Hello Raymond, I lived in Rush Green and was schooled at Rush Green Primary too, although 20 years later than you. I have been to Romford this weekend and I...
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Peter Staniforth
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Jul 10, 2000 8:19 am
I thought it would be polite to say hi to everybody on this group. I'm a man of 48 years, most of which have been spent in the Romford area; I lived in Rush...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 10, 2000 10:39 am
Hello Ray, Many thanks for introducing yourself to the group. I have read a little about the Romford Fire Service - if I remember correctly it was founded by ...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 10, 2000 10:39 am
Hello Peter, Many thanks for introducing yourself to the group. I work in Park Lane, and cycle along George Street on the way to work, and Albert Road on the...
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Peter Staniforth
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Jul 10, 2000 8:13 pm
... completed ... to Romford ... before the ... really ... Collier Row I ... although I've ... can't ... I'd be ... Then" ... Hallo Phil - and hallo to anybody...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 11, 2000 8:46 am
Hello Peter, ... This area was indeed one of the first to be developed (after 'New Romford', south of London Road, and 'Laurie Town', at the east end of Market...
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raymond smith
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Jul 11, 2000 6:24 pm
Hello Andy It must have been around 1933/34 when I first attended Rush Green infants school, (those days schools were referred to as either Infants, Junior or ...
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raymond smith
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Jul 11, 2000 6:26 pm
Hello Phil After enrolling at Romford Fire Station (1951) and on leaving the fire training school at Dagenham Fire Station, I anticipated being posted to ...
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Andy Lee
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Jul 11, 2000 11:49 pm
... I last passed by the school a couple of years ago. The Dagenham Road gates were still there then. The smell I remember in the Infants School is that of...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 12, 2000 8:17 am
... Any suggestions anyone?! (rhetorical!) Best Regards, Phil...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 12, 2000 8:34 am
Hello Ray, Many thanks for filling us in on your time in the Fire Service. ... Please do, when you get the chance. I (and others, I'm sure) would be very ...
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Peter Underwood
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Jul 12, 2000 11:16 am
The Market Garden was run, during the 1950's, by Mr Ives, I think. I can remember him tilling to soil using a small mechanical cultivator driven by a...
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Bernard
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Jul 12, 2000 3:38 pm
Hi Groupers A little while ago I wrote to the group about a branch of my family who lived in Romford but I could not trace. I now have some new clues which may...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 12, 2000 3:48 pm
From the Romford Recorder (http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk), June 30, 2000, page 22: I WOULD like to appeal to any Recorder readers who have memories of the ...
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Gerrie
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Jul 13, 2000 8:21 am
Hello you all in the 'Garden of England', I was re-potted to Canada by my grandfather Henry JOLLY, who emigrated here about 1900. My last known address for him...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
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Jul 13, 2000 9:25 am
I receive this list in 'digest' mode and the recent editions have really provoked the nostalgia ! Thanks a lot. Phil tried to prod Ray's memory of the Romford...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 13, 2000 9:38 am
Dear Peter, Many thanks for your recollections. I've always been intrigued by Mercury Gardens, as today's ring road is so different from a path through a...
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Peter G. Underwood
pgu@...
Jul 13, 2000 10:54 am
Phil, I am happy to try to answer your questions. To add some context, I was born in 1947 in Romford (24 Carlton Road) and lived there until 1970, following...
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David Maltby
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Jul 14, 2000 9:51 pm
Hi again Romfordians - I've lurked long enough! ... As I recall "The Tryst" was a rather genteel tea room further up the market place from St Edward's church. ...
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Casanova
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Jul 15, 2000 12:01 am
... Could we be (distant) family, I wonder? Have you also ever had relatives called Ruby, Edward, Art, or Sket Thompson?.... I can't remember all the other...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
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Jul 17, 2000 6:31 pm
Peter's detailed description made me realise just how wrong my memory can be. ... I thought that, at that time, the big store was known as Stones (probably ...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
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Jul 17, 2000 6:40 pm
Adrian Thompson asked abouth the Thompson family of Lodge Avenue ... Sorry nothing recognised there and Judith Thompson has been to some considerable...
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Bob Wells Tel: +44/0 ...
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Jul 17, 2000 6:59 pm
Adrian asked ... I'd never thought about it before. Does Balgores Lane pre-date the railway and is the bridge the original ? Presumably there must have been a...
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adrianofromford
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Jul 17, 2000 9:58 pm
... I guess that Balgores Lane was there before the railway (which was built in the 1830s, I think - Phil, do you know?). Ged Martin thinks that the name ...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 17, 2000 10:59 pm
... It was indeed! You can see this on John Cary's map of 1786, available on my "Romford Now & Then" website - the section of interest can be found at: ...
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Peter G. Underwood
pgu@...
Jul 18, 2000 8:46 am
Yes, Bob is correct about the siting of the YMCA; it was nearer Mercury Gardens (my mother confirmed this last night). It did, indeed, have a large stage. ...
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Michael Merry
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Jul 18, 2000 2:07 pm
Gentlemen: This following is a review of the book "Ken Farnes - Diary of an Essex Master. As many of you will know, Phil Steer bought this book to our...
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Phil Steer
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Jul 19, 2000 10:48 am
... The Great Eastern Railway came Romford in 1839, and was extended to Harold Wood and Brentwood the following year. However, Squirrels Heath and Gidea Park...
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Tony Hodge
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Jul 20, 2000 8:42 am
Hello from Vancouver,British Columbia.My name is Tony Hodge and I am a former Romfordian.I went to Pettits Lane school from 1946-50.The Headmaster was Mr...
