Comment
Local List SPD - Discussion & Consultation Document
Representation ID: 27957
Received: 03/05/2011
Respondent: The National Trust Rayleigh Mount Local Committee
Brocketts Shop, 349 Eastwood Road, Rayleigh
Further to my earlier suggestion that this building should be considered for inclusion in the Local List, I have since come across a map of Rayleigh dating back to the mid 1920s which shows it as being a post office at that time.
The roads off of Eastwood Road in that area, (such as Lancaster Road, Connaught Road and Clarence Road) are on the map, but there are very few houses - so it must still have been plotland then.
In a way, it represents a lost period in Rayleigh's history. To have a post office stuck out in what was then a relatively sparsely populated area, so far away from Rayleigh High Street, suggests that when it was built there must have been an expectation that it would soon be serving a fast growing community.
Brocketts Shop, 349 Eastwood Road, Rayleigh
Further to my earlier suggestion that this building should be considered for inclusion in the Local List, I have since come across a map of Rayleigh dating back to the mid 1920s which shows it as being a post office at that time.
The roads off of Eastwood Road in that area, (such as Lancaster Road, Connaught Road and Clarence Road) are on the map, but there are very few houses - so it must still have been plotland then.
In a way, it represents a lost period in Rayleigh's history. To have a post office stuck out in what was then a relatively sparsely populated area, so far away from Rayleigh High Street, suggests that when it was built there must have been an expectation that it would soon be serving a fast growing community.