Tawny Avenue, Upminster
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Tawny Avenue, Upminster
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 18 Sep 2011
A product of the suburban spread of Upminster over the parkland of Gaynes Park between the wars. It was a slow development, even up to at least 1950 there were many plots not built on, and the road was unmade*. Oddly, on the first Ordnance Survey large scale map to show the road, it was called 'Dawns Avenue' - a misread developer's plan? * I know because I was there!
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Image Location
Latitude
51.546655
Longitude
0.243634