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The Upminster Uploads
see copyright notice. Page created 5-Oct-2009
This memento of Roomes "homeware" store is reconstructed
from
three photos taken with a 0.8 megapixel camera in January, 2000
The building on the right, once the Post Office, had already been
replaced by a block of flats when the Roomes store went down in 2007...
...to be replaced by yet more flats, plus an M & S
food store,
pictured here on its opening day in November 2008
In 2001, a shop next to the Clockhouse sold garden ornaments
In spring 2009 it was turned into a supply of hardcore
Upminster's famous Smock Mill was 200 years old in July 2003
In January 2007 the mill showed its age when a sail snapped in a gale
Station Road hosted a French Market in July 2005
In August 2006 the monthly Farmers' Markets began
Christmas 2005
In May 2009, Somerfield (née Gateway, née
International)
in St. Mary's Lane became a Waitrose store
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