Author: Brian Evans

Brian Evans's interest in local history began at the age of eight. He is a life member of the Romford and District Historical Society and is a prol...

The Grays Thurrock area of south-west Essex has been described as Forgotten Thameside. This book features over 200 photographs that reveal the char...

The stones of Romford market-place have echoed for centuries with the cries of the traders of every product imaginable. This book records Romford's...

Around Grays

Thurrock is an area of South Essex which displays strong individuality, despite its contrasting mixture of quiet countryside to the north and inten...

Local history of Romford

A Century of Romford offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of fami...

Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, str...

A Century of Thurrock offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of fam...

East Ham was sparsely inhabited in the fourteenth century and had not changed much with the advent of the railway in the 1850s. Farmers and market ...

This book gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in the area over the past 100 years. Thurrock Past & Pres...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Ilford during the twentieth century....