Loughton High Road in the 1950s (Image: Gary Stone)
Little has changed at this end of Loughton High Road over the last 70 years since this picture was taken in the 1950s.
Loughton’s first railway station terminated here in 1856 near to the former site of Café Rouge.
Gary Stone is a local historian (@loughtonhistory).
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