The Forest Hall mission church c1905. Credit: Gary Stone
High Beech Road, Loughton c1905 showing the Forest Hall mission church.
The structure was imported as a ‘flat pack’ from Scandinavia in 1899 long before Ikea came to prominence.
The building was clad in bricks in 1952 and still exists today as an Evangelical church.
The shop on the right was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a car park.
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