Braintree, Market Place 1903
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More about this scene
We are looking eastwards along Manor Street. The three-storey building to the left is the Nag's Head Inn, and buildings with the finial on top are the Manor Street School. The area with railings and the two low buildings is the site of the new cattle market, which was opened by George Courtauld on 1 October 1902, in time for the October Fair. It was on this site that the Town Hall was built in the 1920s. The open space beyond is the Fair Field, which was used for the two annual fairs. During the First World War it was in use as a field kitchen, baking bread for the troops billeted in the town. Manor Street was developed from 1847 to provide a link road from the centre of town to the new railway station, which was situated on a new road - Railway Street; the railway line to Witham opened in 1848. In the far distance is Manor Works, the factory of the Crittall Manufacturing Company.
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