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Bit of a random one this which turned out to make for a decent mooch, not the most historic or interesting but a bit of industry not usually seen nonetheless. It involved a spontaneous trip to see the Rainham ROC post, to find it locked. The ROC post closed in 1991 and fell on the site of a...

Something I spotted the other day, I don't get over that way into Essex much at all but it looks definitely worth a nose just from the size of it alone, it appears to be composed of some nice on-trend 1960s school buildings with some more modern parts linking them together. Only closed a couple...

Very large site close to Hornchurch District line station. The Hornchurch facility was opened in 1938 as an old people’s home, called Suttons Institution, but soon played a key role in the Battle of Britain – housing RAF airmen during the Second World War. In 1948 the Sutton’s Lane...