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Upminster and Hornchurch

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Description for Upminster and Hornchurch Paperback. A history of Upminster & Hornchurch Num Pages: 128 pages, 180 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 307 x 11. Weight in Grams: 334.

This selection of over 200 archive photographs of Upminster and Hornchurch brings to life the early decades of the twentieth century. This unique sequence of images captures the rural past, and also shows buildings from a former era, swept away by the work of estate developers, as fields and hedgerows gave way to houses. The pictures range from shopping parades to children in their classrooms, Upminster's well-remembered May Festival and reflections on the 1914-18 war period in Hornchurch when Grey Towers Mansion became a military camp and convalescent hospital. Each picture is described with a wealth of detail that will ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752432069
SKU
V9780752432069
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Tony Benton
TONY BENTON is a keen local historian and genealogist. He is a past editor of Cockney Ancestor, and a former member of the executive committee of the Society of Genealogists. His most recent publications are Upminster: The Story of a Garden Suburb and Upminster & Hornchurch in Old Photographs.

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