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Location: The Broadway, Pitsea Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 24/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: The Broadway, Pitsea Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 24/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: Note the Golden Virginia Tobacco advertising billboard, banned from 14/02/2003. | |
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Location: Pitsea Market Photographer: Dave Clark Year of photo: 1976 Copyright: Dave Clark Source: Dave Clark Comments: View of Tudor buildings at Station Lane from the site of the 2nd Pitsea Market. |
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Location: Pitsea Broadway Photographer: Dave Clark Year of photo: January 1975 Copyright: Dave Clark Source: Dave Clark Comments: The Railway public house in 1975. Ind Coope supplying the beer. |
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Location: High Road Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: c.1940s Copyright: Unknown Comments: View of the Broadway Cinema. |
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It was during the late 1920s and 1930s that the
Broadway took on the appearance that is still architecturally the most striking feature of
the shopping facilities at Pitsea. This was all due to the work of one man: Harold George
Howard. He designed a series of Tudor style buildings beginning with the Railway Hotel public
house, and continuing with the cinema, which opened as The Broadway in 1929 and later became
the Century, and the parade of shops adjoining it known as Tudor Mansions and Tudor Chambers,
and lastly Tudor Buildings (Anne Boleyn Mansions), occupied by Lloyds (now Lloyds T.S.B.) Bank since the 1930s. He name is perpetuated in the
local park, where his privately funded war memorial now stands, and in Howard Crescent which borders the park and features his residential designed
homes. He was a noted landowner, farmer and successful businessman as head of Howard's Dairies,
which for many years had shops at Pitsea, Laindon, Southernhay Basildon, Whitmore Way and Timberlog Lane, and dated back to the days of
horse-drawn milkfloats in a dark blue and cream livery. He lived for a time at Bluehouse Farm
in London Road, and died in 1961 and is buried at St. Margaret's church, Bowers Gifford.For many years the main Pitsea post office was in the Broadway until relocating to nearby Tesco's superstore in the 1990s. Text written 2006 with revisions 2006-2008. Copyright © 2006-2008, Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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