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Noting the changes to East Walk and East Square.

I thought I would share a few photos of Basildon town from the past particularly around the East Walk and East Square region where a lot of changes are happening right now.  The last photographs are my own shots of the demolition of the old post office in East Square.  These can be clicked on to be enlarged.

The Mother and Child Statue with East Square seen behind.  
Date unspecified.  From Basildon Through Time.

Basildon Town Square 1960s.  Keay House can be seen on the 
right and the part of it that overhung the square was demolished 
in 1996.  From Basildon Through Time.

East Square before the head post office was built and opened
in 1963.  From Lost Basildon.

A photograph that seemingly didn't appear in either book.  
East Square.

You can see Stylo (Barratt) and Austin the Tailor in East Walk,
Basildon, in the 1970s.  From Lost Basildon.

New shops in East Walk, Basildon in the 1950s, before Brooke 
House was built in 1962.  From Lost Basildon.


I wouldn't use this photograph for a 
book with my shadow looming in it.

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