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Masefield Crescent, ROMFORD, RM3 7PB

This small parade of neighbourhood shops is on the north side of Masefield Cresecent at the junction with Straight Road. The current shops are, from left to right, Terrys Gents' Barbers and Ladies' Hair Stylists, The Bread Basket, the Crescent Pharmacy and Sunny News.

Postbox No. RM3 215.

It does exactly what it says on the tin..., running dead straight for about 1.2 miles NNW from Gallows Corner. However it was not always called Straight Road. Old Victorian large scale Ordnance Survey maps show the thoroughfare as Gallows Lane.

This is a response to John Winfield's Image, taken from high above where he took the photo on the nearby Gallows Corner flyover which features in his image. I have sharpened the image slightly as it was a little blurred, which I could tell especially by the lamp posts in shot. What strikes me as rather strange here on Geograph is that this first half of the flyover is classed as Gidea Park while the other half is classed as Harold Wood, meaning the flyover is right on the border of two places! View taken looking north-northeast.

Virtually up to the start of the Second World War the Plough was an isolated pub at Gallows Corner on the Colchester Road, most frequently used by Eastenders as a watering hole on the way to visit the delights of Southend-on-Sea. But with the post-war residential development of Harold Wood it became a local pub. It eventually ceased trading several years ago, and a devastating fire in April 2011 reduced it to the current burnt-out shell. Plans are currently being drawn up to demolish what remains of the structure and to build a new KFC outlet in its place.

Where the A12 and the A127, the Southend Arterial Road, part company. The A127 optionally avoids the roundabout by using the rather make-shift looking flyover, which nevertheless has been here a very long time now.

This temporary looking flyover has been here a very long time now, and has been successful in taking the A127 (Southend Arterial Road) traffic away from the busy roundabout on the A12. There are or were similar structures at Chelmsford across the old A12 at the Army and Navy roundabout and on the A13 at Barking. This last has been removed as the A13 has been generally improved with proper grade separated junctions.