In this week’s Down Memory Lane, we travel to Aveley.

In clay pits extracted for the cement industry the remains of a range of Pleistocene animals have been identified including wooly mammoth, straight tusked elephant, giant elk, bison, rhinoceros, wolf and wild cat dating to c200,000 years ago.

Here we see High Street from Ship Lane Corner in 1910.

The photographer is being watched with interest. He is producing postcards for Finbow’s shop to sell.

Next we see the village 80 years ago. The girls are standing on the junction of Mill Lane and Purfleet Road.

Then Aveley windmill that was removed about 1916 and stood near Mill House in Mill Road photo dated 1903.

Lastly we have the new Prince Albert being finished it opened 2 Oct 1937. It was built on the site of the old one.