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Location: Rectory Road - Pitsea Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: circa 1910 Copyright: N/A Source: Rob Jarvis Comments: |
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Location: Rectory Road - Pitsea Photographer: Unknown Year of photo: circa 1910 Copyright: N/A Source: Rob Jarvis Comments: |
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Location: Rectory Road Photographer: Thomas Barnes Year of photo: Circa 1983 Copyright: Thomas Barnes Source: Thomas Barnes Comments: Empty Housing now demolished between Crest Avenue and Kenneth Road, Pitsea. |
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Location: Rectory Road/Burnt Mills Rd Photographer: Thomas Barnes Year of photo: Circa 1982 Copyright: Thomas Barnes Source: Thomas Barnes Comments: The old general store at the junction with Burnt Mills Road. This section of Rectory Road is now called Tenterfields. |
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Location: Rectory Road/Burnt Mills Rd Photographer: Thomas Barnes Year of photo: Circa 1982 Copyright: Thomas Barnes Source: Thomas Barnes Comments: |
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Location: Rectory Road - Pitsea Photographer: Thomas Barnes Year of photo: 1982 Copyright: Thomas Barnes Source: Thomas Barnes Comments: Pitsea carnival 1982. Note petrol prices at the Total garage, which itself has been replaced by housing. |
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Location: Rectory Road - Pitsea Photographer: Thomas Barnes Year of photo: 1982 Copyright: Thomas Barnes Source: Thomas Barnes Comments: A Ford Corsair pulls a float along as part of the Pitsea carnival in 1982. |
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Rectory Road is one of the oldest roads in Basildon. It
originally ran from the old A13 High Road to a junction with Burnt Mills Road. Sometime during
the mid 1970s the road was truncated and a large roundabout constructed; in anticipation
of the new housing estates under construction at Felmore and Tyefields. A small section
remains beyond the roundabout, and the last sections have been renamed Mayfair Avenue and
Tenterfields. Direct access for vehicles into Mayfair Avenue from Rectory Road is
restricted. Pitsea Rectory once stood in Rectory Road on the site of St. Gabriels Church and was originally Shophouse Farm. W. J. Wager's 'people's dairy' was another feature, as was a police station, operational until 1967, that stood just beyond Howard Crescent. This was demolished and years later a new station was built which stands close to the original. Rectory Road had a wide variety of shops at one time including Papworth's, The Cabin, Steggles and T.G. Cycles at number 102. Another shop, which would later move to Basildon town centre, was television and radio specialists Kelley's, who had a shop at number 94 in the 1950s. For the motorist the Rectory Road Motoring Centre at 87/89 was AA recommended and sold BP Arco petrol and more recently Total. There are still two small shop parades that predate the new town. A small reminder of the towns past. Text written 2002 with revisions 2002-2007. Copyright © 2002-2007, Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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