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Eustace Road, ROMFORD, RM6 6JR

Local lines on the left (are they still called 'Electric'?), Main lines on the right, with extreme right a disused freight line formerly an eastern approach to the long gone Goodmayes Yard.

London Transport AEC Regent buses (RT's) parked at Chadwell Heath. They were outstationed from Seven Kings garage whilst it was being rebuilt. The post war RT's began to enter service in 1947 and over 4000 were built. The last RT's were withdrawn in 1979. Many of the more modern designs introduced in the late 1960's and early 1970's to replace the RT's were withdrawn at the same time, having failed to cut the mustard.

During the 1930s the idea of constructing homes and shops in a half-timbered Tudor style was much in vogue. Here's a classic example of a line of shops in that style, Tudor Parade on the south side of the High Road in Chadwell Heath, built c 1938. Woolworths is prominent and the Post Office can just be seen at the far left end.

Or, as I had it when I was growing up there, Station Hill.

Note the lack of a pedestrian walkway on the far side of the road, which has since been improved. The iconic London Transport RT bus was only 7 ft 6 inches wide, considerably less than modern buses at 2.50 metres (8 ft 2 inches), emphasising the narrowness of the carriageway. Hardly surprising that the fence post appear to have taken a battering (probably not from buses!). This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761 . RT1989 is operating on route 62 to Gascoigne Estate.

Eva Hart? She was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 and lived in nearby Japan Road. She became a magistrate and was awarded the MBE. She died in 1996. Quite what she would think of the conversion of Chadwell Heath's former Police Station (for this is what the building is) into a Wetherspoon's outlet named after herself can only be speculated on! The orange and peach coloured building is the Coopers Arms. However the two pubs are in different London Boroughs, the Eva Hart in Redbridge and the Coopers Arms in Barking and Dagenham.

London Transport's iconic RT buses were coming towards the end of their working life; RT3951 is on the rather circuitous route 62 to Barkingside which would be the last to use them, in April of the following year. The station building remained virtually unchanged in 2010 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1992362 This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761