EPW062662 ENGLAND (1939). The town, Braintree, from the north-west, 1939

Warners

Now Peel crescent

Tabour comprehensive school

Town Hall, largely unchanged in 2016

Sandpit Lane- now all sadly gone. In my day (50s and 60s mainly) this held a yard with occasional seed sales, later a car park useful for the adjacent fish and chip shop. I do not recognise it now.Probably the most spoilt part of the town.

Then Blyths Meadow, now a car park

The Braintree County High School Main Building. It also used Bocking Place during my time, 1960-1966, but which had previously been the Intermediate School, where my father went to school pre WW2.

The Braintree County High School Gymnasium, and opposite the Congregational Church where the seasonal congregations and annual prize-giving took place. The Headmaster in my day was Dr Cordingley.

Chapel Hill Primary School, ran by the headmistress Miss Austin for most of its life as a school.

All allotments at that time

Crittalls Main Factory

Wheatley Avenue, Bartram Avenue and Cunnington Road, recently constructed

Ushers Dairy, certainly during the 50s to 70s.

Howard Close, Howard Road at this time, and only half the length that it is now.The end house on the right hand side is now No.27. The later red brick Houses were flates and were constructed after WW2, the turning head at the end of the Close being connected to Cressing Road by a "Gant" as they were known locally.

The Jubilee Oak, Cressing Road planted to celebrate Victorias Diamond Jubilee. Now gone