MILL LANE, BEECH HILL AND DAMSON LANE. This was the old village centre before the development of the Rajar Works and Ilford which pulled it towards the factory and the housing built throughout the 20th Century.

Beech Hill 1916 Postcard

Beech Hill

Beech Hill

Beech Hill

Dam Head - Manor House

Dam Head

Damson Lane

Damson Lane postcard sent in 1921

Damson Lane 1917 Beattie Murphy, Nancy Bradbury, Ethel Walker and Richard Raukins written on the back

Grimsditch Cottage

Grimsditch Farm

Mill Lane

Mill Lane Post Card 1907

Mill Lane Post Card 1909

Mill Lane Post Office

"The Slade" which is the cutting where Town Lane now runs up to the Church lane Junction. This is a pre-new road postcard

The bridge at what is now the junction of Mill Lane and Town Lane looking up The Slade and Tipping Brow

Another postcard of the old junction at the Mill Lane bridge

Mill Lane Smithy

Mill Lane Post Card 1942

Mill Lane 2014

Mill Lane Smithy

Mill Lane Smithy Cottage - Alan Twibell

Smithy

Mill Lane Post Card 1911

Smithy Cottage 1963

Mill Lane Smithy

Smithy Cottage 1963

Old Post Office Mill Lane

Old Smithy Garages c1970

Roebuck Post Card c1911

Roebuck Print 1936

Bull's Head 2014

The Bulls Head and Roebuck

Roebuck and Bulls Head

Roebuck 2013

Spout Lane

The Old Crepe Mill

The Old Crepe Mill with its reflection in the millpond

Lake House