Looking up North Street, probably sometime around 1900.1

A sign on the large building to the right proclaims it to be the Romford Recorder Printing Works, although it was originally a Congregational chapel, built in 1823, and sold when a new building was erected in South Street in 1877.²

The large cart looks like a travelling hardware shop, whilst the smaller cart to its right may be delivering coal (as there appears to be a pile of coal on the pavement behind it).  Notice also the timber-clad buildings.

I believe that this photograph was taken from somewhere around the western end of Church Lane (modern St Edward's Way).   The trees in the background would be on the Mashalls estate.

¹ Published by A. G. WIlson, 20 South Street, Romford and 96 High Road, Ilford. Printed in Saxony.
² Britain in Old Photographs: Romford, page 12.

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