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Monday, 5 November 2007




1966. Anglican St. David Church, Eastward, with hall in cream coated rather than yellow coated bricks dating from 1979 on the right. If I remember correctly the bell and bracket, not unlike those on the 1922 School Chapel illustrated above, came from the original shed-like structure in Gale’s brickyard, built of his own London ashes bricks and in response to the opening of an adjacent Baptist Church in 1911. That building and a later one with a red brick front to a lower corrugated iron roof have now been demolished from their site further to the right than the new hall. Where the road there meets Rayleigh Road, at the S.E. corner of the present church grounds, there was once a gate into the now destroyed Rayleigh Park which continued eastwards on the north side to include the future brickyard as well as St. David’s.

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