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The Mercury used to have a cinema on the top floor back in the days when it was the Liberty 2 and there was another cinema on South Street, but both are long gone now.
(I'm a Havering local)
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Bored? Never!
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Bored? Far from it. |
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I may sound odd, but I for one have always been curious as to why a few fields beyond the M25 remained within Greater London even after the boundary in the area was tidied up in the 1990s, so bring it on! |
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Romford dogs! |
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Oh goodness, I see what you mean about the Havering web site. Utterly horrid isn't it.
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Hornchurch has an interesting church - and it has horns within. But that's about all. |
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Hornchurch has nice memories and was pleasing to the eye... Romford however isn't great, and it was probably a good thing that you didn't stick around until the evening. My memories of Biggs out were watching fights and getting chased by groups looking for fights. |
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The Havering website is pretty vile, the link to the Gidea Park walking tour doesn't work any more and a search on the site didn't turn it up either. The combination of a local authority and a web-site upgrade was never going to work, was it? |
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Hornchurch was also home to a Second World War RAF airfield that gets namechecked in The Battle of Britain. Half of it is now a housing estate, the rest a country park.
The Mercury used to have a cinema on the top floor back in the days when it was the Liberty 2 and there was another cinema on South Street, but both are long gone now. (I'm a Havering local) |
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The horns on St Andrews church are, of course, without, rather than within - that is precisely what is odd about them. There's some aviation/military history connected with Hornchurch, too, but not all of it is that evident. Romford can certainly be brash and in-your-face and horrid, but it's not all bad. Although usually the worse you'd face getting a late night bus out is someone liable to vomit down your back, rather than threatening to knife you, as in some other bits of Greater London. |
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I believe there's a shed shop in Rainham. |
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If Universal Studios had had their way, there'd be a magnificent Movie Theme Park in Rainham by now |
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The Sanders-Draper School is part of the aviation history of Hornchurch. Raimond Sanders-Draper was a Canadian pilot who heroically lost his life in 1943. Sanders-Draper had just taken off from Hornchurch Aerodrome when the plane developed engine problems. In order to avoid the plane hitting the school, he stayed with the plane, and crashed it in the school playing fields, killing himself in the process. My mother was in that school (then called Suttons) on that day, so had Sanders-Draper not made the ultimate sacrifice, I probably wouldn't be here to write this..... |
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