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Balgores House, at the northern end of Balgores Lane, seen here in about 1917.1  At this time it was being used to provide additional accomodation for the Artists Rifles, having been offered rent free by Sir Herbert Raphael.2  Previously it had been the home of Mr. William Bose, secretary of Gidea Park Golf Club.3
Balgores House, at the northern end of Balgores Lane, seen here in about 1917.1  At this time it was being used to provide additional accomodation for the Artists Rifles, having been offered rent free by Sir Herbert Raphael.2  Previously it had been the home of Mr. William Bose, secretary of Gidea Park Golf Club.3

Step forwards in time to see the building in March 2000.

Display a map showing the location from which this photograph was taken.

1 Photograph reproduced from A Century of Romford, page 47, by kind permission of the author.
2 Romford, Collier Row & Gidea Park, plate 42a.
3 Ibid., plate 42b.
 

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