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North Hill Drive, ROMFORD, RM3 9AQ

Not literally my place, as this is the name of a Big Lottery funded state of the art youth centre with dance and music space, a recording studio, a bike workshop, a computer suite, a juice bar and café and a crèche. The London Borough of Havering were awarded £4,704,492 in funding to achieve the project. The photographer finds it somewhat amusing that it is such a precise figure. Woe betide the construction management team if it had cost £4,704,493. Mr Micawber would have been predicting misery...

Sustrans cycleway No. 136 runs southwards from here down to Rainham. Much of the way is shared with the London Loop path.

Harold Hill was a large 'out-County' housing estate built by the London County Council during the early 1950s on a green field site in what was then Essex. The picture shows the junction of Chudleigh Road (left) and Broseley Road (right).

On the right, a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. On the left, an anonymous building with rather weedy surrounds. This is the Harold Hill and District Affiliated Synagogue.

'Harold Hill Ambitions - Community Voices' is the slightly enigmatic theme of the illustration, which features mainly an elderly group bowling. This appears unrelated to the development, which replaced a comfortably spaced out residential area with small greens with higher density housing with no shared grass.

Including a post office.

Luton House is one of nineteen similar housing blocks on the estate north of Dagnam Park Drive, all named after towns in England and Wales. The names of all 19 in alphabetical order are:- Camelford Epsom Gillingham Glossop Halifax Haslingden Luton Lynmouth Macclesfield Minehead Morecambe Nantwich Nelson Newmarket Northampton Portmadoc Thrapston Wilmslow Wolverton Quite what the connection is between these 19 is anyone's guess!