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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>80079 heads the "Cockney Coaster" Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness via Tilbury on a bank holiday weekend. It is approaching the bridge formerly the access to West Thurrock power station, now demolished. The QE2 bridge is in the distance. Behind the viewpoint is the church featured in the funeral in "Four Weddings and a Funeral".
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ensign Bus no.722 makes its way along London Road en-route from Grays to Lakeside shopping centre. The vehicle is a Dennis Dart with Marshall body and used to belong to London Northern.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>Terraced housing and small shops on this stretch by the junction with First Avenue.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>All that remains of a works building.
©Nigel Chadwick
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©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.4km<br/>A Shepherd Neame pub on London Road West Thurrock.
©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.4km<br/>A Vietnamese restaurant and bar beside London Road, West Thurrock.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>Sign of closed Vietnamese restaurant which was damaged by fire. See [[2058749]]]
©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.4km<br/>On London Road, former Vietnamese Restaurant, now for sale by auction.
©Oast House Archive
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>Located on the corner of London Road and Motherwell Way.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a view across West Thurrock Cemetery. The three graves in the foreground are those of Sappers Tola, Scovil, O’Lary & Gardner, all of the Canadian Railway Troops. The first three died between 13th and 21 October 1918 a matter of days before the end of the war. There are other graves from the same regiment at the same time dotted around the graveyard. To be buried in Thurrock the action in which they were involved would have probably happened in the first two weeks of October, they survived long enough to be evacuated, could it be that influenza finished what the war had started? Sorry for the bleached out inscriptions (another go sometime with evening light called for). 2010 UPDATE the War and Medical records of Sapper FWB (Francis William Becham) Andrews (who is also buried in West Thurrock) show he was originally from Herefordshire but emigrated to Canada in about 1912. He joined the Canadian Railway Troops in July, 1918 and arrived in England in September, 1918. His medical records indicated he started having very high fevers (most likely Spanish flu)in early October and he died on October 25,1918. He mostly likely was not the only one since this flu was so contagious.Thanks to Gordon Thompson of Canada for the extra info.
©Glyn Baker
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is a small HGV truck repair and sales depot in Sandy Lane West Thurrock
©Glyn Baker

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