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Maxwell Road, ROMFORD, RM7 0FG

Oldchurch Hospital is due for closure in the next month and is likely to be demolished soon after. Many buildings date from the early part of the 20th century and this and other photographs will provide a record of this long established hospital. See Image for the new hospital.

Oldchurch Hospital is due for closure in the next month and is likely to be demolished soon after. Many buildings date from the early part of the 20th century and this and other photographs will provide a record of this long established hospital. See Image for the new hospital.

Oldchurch Hospital is due for closure in the next month and is likely to be demolished soon after. Many buildings date from the early part of the 20th century and this and other photographs will provide a record of this long established hospital. See Image for the new hospital.

Oldchurch Hospital is due for closure in the next month and is likely to be demolished soon after. Many buildings date from the early part of the 20th century and this and other photographs will provide a record of this long established hospital. See Image for the new hospital.

Oldchurch Hospital is due for closure in the next month and is likely to be demolished soon after. Here a start has been made on re-developing the nurses home. Many buildings date from the early part of the 20th century and this and other photographs will provide a record of this long established hospital. See Image for the new hospital.

I've had to edit this image a fair bit to try and brighten it up, as visibility wasn't the best that day, so apologies if it doesn't quite meet the requirements for a Geograph. This is the view looking south-southeast from the Brewery Car Park exit towards the railway bridge crossing Waterloo Road (the road you see here).

Between the Brewery shopping centre and the railway line.

Opened in 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway on the line from London Bishopsgate to Shenfield, this station closed to passengers in 1844 when a new Romford station was built 500m east, behind the camera position, at the site of the current station. View west towards Chadwell Heath and London. At the time of the first station, the line was only double track with some sidings. Access was from a road on the north side of the line, now also gone.

Use of concrete channels in urban rivers enables better management of the watercourse. Here the channel has two levels, a narrow low section and a broad upper section. Under normal flow conditions such as those seen here the water is constrained to the lower channel but it is then deep enough to sustain fish and other life. Under flood conditions the upper section of the channel becomes covered in water but the concrete walls should, in theory, be high enough not to be breached and flooding is avoided. This view was taken from the Oldchurch Road bridge.

Part of the ring road on the west side of Romford.