A soldier out of barracks with his lady escort.  The Raphael Park gates with their elaborate ironwork provided a splendid background for photographs, enhanced by the smart lodgehouse on either side and the luxuriant vegetation beyond.1

Step forward in time to see how this view appeared in March 1999.

¹ Photograph and text reproduced from Romford, Collier Row & Gidea Park, plate 36, by permission of the author.

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