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Streets and Roads

  • Saxon Roads in Benfleet c 500 AD

    Saxon Roads in Benfleet c 500 AD

    How rising sea levels changed the road layout
  • Selbourne Road

    Selbourne Road

    Numbers 16 and 18
  • Shipwrights Drive

    Shipwrights Drive

    Mid 1950s View from the Hollywood Restaurant
  • Shipwrights Drive

    Shipwrights Drive

    From Unmade Track to Tree-lined Pavements
  • Southwell Road

    Southwell Road

    1950s to 2011
  • St Mary's Road

    St Mary's Road

    Memories of a one-time resident
  • St Mary's Road Benfleet  - 1930's and 2011

    St Mary's Road Benfleet - 1930's and 2011

    Look how much it has changed.
  • The Development of Felstead Road

    The Development of Felstead Road

    Why was it at one time called Rectory Road?
  • The Hollywood

    The Hollywood

    From Tea Rooms to Function Rooms
  • The Hollywood Estate, Hollywood Boulevard

    The Hollywood Estate, Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Estate a 'Young town of colour and greenery'
  • Vicarage Hill.

    Vicarage Hill.

    Then and Now.
  • Victoria House Corner

    Victoria House Corner

    When Victoria House Corner was a crossroads
  • World's First Mini-Roundabout (1) was installed in Benfleet

    World's First Mini-Roundabout (1) was installed in Benfleet

    One of our supporters has pointed out that the mini-roundabout at Church Corner is the ...
  • World's First Mini-roundabout (2) being built by Frank Blackmore

    World's First Mini-roundabout (2) being built by Frank Blackmore

    We have been lucky to borrow the relevant photographs again and make some higher definition ...
  • World's First Mini-Roundabout (3) on its First Night

    World's First Mini-Roundabout (3) on its First Night

    This photo we believe to be taken on the first night the mini-roundabout was in ...
  • World's First Mini-Roundabout (4) after modifications in May / June 1970

    World's First Mini-Roundabout (4) after modifications in May / June 1970

    As this was the first mini-roundabout in the world it was subject to several changes. ...
  • World's First Mini-roundabout (5) being used.

    World's First Mini-roundabout (5) being used.

    The mini-roundabout was a brand new experiment so Benfleet Urban District Council (the predecessor to ...
  • World's First Mini-roundabout (6) in 1974

    World's First Mini-roundabout (6) in 1974

    These two pictures show the roundabout in 1974. What is noticeable is the the centre ...
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