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Romford, Essex
Romford was a large village in Essex which was granted a
charter for a market in 1247. As the charter forbade, and still forbids, the
holding of any other market within six miles of Romford this meant many
local farmers came to Romford to sell their produce and buy fresh stocks and
equipment. Romford also became an important coaching stop on routes from
London to East Anglia.
Both these factors meant that Romford received a
lot of visitors and lead to it having a large number of pubs in the High
Street and adjoining Market Place. These factors declined in importance from
Victorian times onwards which lead to a decline in the number of pubs. In
some cases the licences were surrendered and used to licence new pubs built
as Romford expanded. By the 1960s Romford was swallowed up in the expansion
of Greater London but the market still takes place on Wednesdays, Fridays
and Saturdays although most of the stalls merely sell cheap clothes and
household goods, similar to any other street market. There are still two
pubs in Market Place and quite a few in surrounding streets
One of the former pubs, the Star, had a
brewhouse attached and it was bought by Edward Ind in 1799. This became the
Ind Coope brewery which eventually closed in 1993. The brewery site became a
shopping centre although some traces of the brewery remain in the High
Street. |
