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Huxley Drive, ROMFORD, RM6 4RH

A narrow strip of a recreation ground sandwiched between Thackeray Drive and the A118 High Rd near Goodmayes Station

The line through here was opened on 20th June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the Mile End (temporary terminus) to Romford section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. The London terminus was moved in July 1840 to Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate), and at the eastern end the line was extended out to Brentwood in the same year. Colchester was reached by 1843. Liverpool Street opened in stages from February 1874. The line was quadrupled to Ilford in 1895 and in 1899 out to Seven Kings. In 1902 the quadruple track was extended from Seven Kings through Chadwell Heath to Romford, Goodmayes station was opened on 18th February 1901. In this photograph these are the original lines, now the slow lines, while the fast lines dating from 1902 are out of sight to the right beyond the railings. The next station in this direction is Chadwell Heath.

My cousin, Ada Baker, was a resident here http://www.carehome.co.uk/carehome.cfm/searchazref/10001010EASA until recently, having lived previously in Seven Kings, Here, she is seen standing at the entrance to her front garden Image She always said how fortunate she was to reside at Eastwood Lodge and I thought the staff were exemplary in the way they treated her and the other residents; the environment had a nice feel to it.