The War Memorial in Laurie Square was unveiled in about 1921, and formed the focus for the annual thanksgiving service of Remembrance; in the early days a maroon was fired from the fire station in Mawney Road to start the two minutes' silence.1

Step forwards in time to around 1965, when the two pairs of semi-detached villas had been demolished to make way for the new Central Library.

¹ Photograph and text reproduced from Romford, Collier Row & Gidea Park, plate 48, by permission of the author.

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