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ROMFORD, RM1 1AA

The church in the High Street is currently closed while a major refurbishment is undertaken.

Angel Way begins as High Street at its junction with St Edwards Way - it doesn't become Angel Way until you reach the road barrier on the High Street and you turn the corner to get into the multi-storey car park. View taken looking northeast towards the town centre from St Edwards Way.

This is the end of Angel Way alongside St Edwards Way (the Romford ring road). It is simply a small, narrow street that has parking facilities as well as leads traffic from the Angel Way multi-storey car park onto St Edwards Way at the roundabout where the latter road and North Street meet. View taken looking east-southeast towards the town centre. The multi-storey car park is out of shot to the right.

Romford Brewery closed in 1993, and most of the site was demolished and replaced with the Brewery shopping centre which opened in 2001. Some parts of the old brewery have survived, as shown here. Part of the building now serves as the Havering Museum, and much of the remainder has been converted into housing.

The Museum http://www.haveringmuseum.org.uk/ is housed in the former Romford Brewery (Ind Coope [Allied Breweries]). From the mid twentieth century this Victorian Brewery was used as offices for a huge beer factory now replaced by a shopping mall.

The old inn is situated at the western end of Romford Market.

This was an attempt to re-create a Francis Frith image from exactly 100 years ago http://www.francisfrith.com/search/england/essex/romford/photos/romford_59842.htm Unfortunately trees now obstruct the original view point and the Frith photograph was probably taken from a point which is now in the middle of the Romford Ring Road... As my better half pointed out to me the major visible change in the church since the 1908 photograph was taken is the fact that the surprisingly flamboyant and slender Rapunzel-style towers on either side of the main gable end have been considerably shortened since 1908. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1887.

Romford Auction Rooms with Angel Street multi-storey car park above

The plaque in front of the tun reads:- "This original copper brewing tun was part of the former Romford Brewery which ceased production in February 1993. It was donated by the London Borough of Havering to Romford Developments Limited, a joint venture between Stannifer and J Sainsbury Developments Limited. The tun was unveiled in the Spring of 2001, to mark the opening of the new Brewery Development, which was designed by Architects Chetwood Associates."