1970. Eastwood Baptist Church opened exactly 59 years after the now demolished first church in March 1970. It is of pale red bricks with a later extension. The first church was built by a retired Baptist minister from India, who also laid a 1913 stone at and doubtless funded West Leigh Baptist Church. His name was T.R. Edwards and as explained above his arrival stimulated the Anglican Church cause in western Eastwood and probably the Peculiars as well (see 1934 and 1966). But looking at legal documents forland along Rayleigh Road, there was (in 1907) a prohibition on building any public buildings selling drinks or providing any species of amusement except presumably church activities.