A service commemorating factory workers killed in the First and Second World War has taken place today.
Highams Park Society organised the exhibition and ceremony at Highams Park Library in The Avenue, from 10.30am.
A memorial with the names inscribed of the Xylonite factory works returned to Highams Park in 2011 after the two plaques, stored in a barn in Brantham, where tracked down by the Society and historian Ian Wade.
The factory Halex Works, which made an early form of plastic called Xylonite, was based off Larkshall Road but closed in 1970 after production was moved to Suffolk, along with the war memorial.
For the last three years, the Society has held an annual ceremony on the Saturday of Remembrance weekend.
This year, the Society's secretary Pat Hills, has researched the lives of the workers for an exhibition to honour the men.
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