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Barstable: Timberlog Lane, Long Riding, Luncies Road and Sandon Road



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The 16 units comprising the neighbourhood centre at Timberlog Lane was under construction during 1954. Eleven of the units are in Timberlog Lane and the remaining three, odd numbered 1 - 5, are in Long Riding.

Above the Timberlog Log Lane shops are a combination of two storey maisonettes in one block and a second three storey block of maisonettes over 1st floor flats. Perhaps in anticipation of the centre's completion a numbering sequence was introduced during c.1954 for existing properties in Timberlog Lane.

The first shops were let in early 1955. Stewards, T.V. and electrical dealers of Vange were one of the first to open on 2nd March 1955 along with Cox Bros. butchers and Warren's fish and chip shop, located in the short Long Riding parade.

A public car park was also provided, along with three public telephone boxes set in to the outer post office wall, though these would later be resited.

Some of the past and present businesses to have traded at Barstable:

Timberlog Lane			Open	Closed
No. 199	Crown Post Office	Post Office	1950s
No. 201	Crown Post Office Shuma Tandoori	Post Office Take-away	1950s --	-- --
No. 203	Howard's Dairies Kibby's International Stores Rethink	Foodstore Supermarket Supermarket Charity Shop	1955 1971 1972	1971 1972 --
No. 205	Twitchett's Westminster Wine The Local	Off Licence Wine & Spirit Merchants Off Licence	1960s	1970s
No. 207	Bartens W. Waide Pollard & Sons Whites Wonderland Auto-Care (& at 33 Ballards Walk, Lee Chapel North)	Drapers, Hosiery, Clothes Drapers Toys, Prams & Cycles Car Accessories	1950s Pre-1962 c.1970 c.1990s	1960s -- 15/03/2020
No. 209	Kershaw & Cressy Peachey's Fresh Fare Auto-Care (& at 33 Ballards Walk, Lee Chapel North)	Wine and Spirit Merchants Greengrocers & Florists Car Accessories	c.1960s c.1990s	c.1990s 15/03/2020
No. 211	Cox Bros. Fred Bennett T. Gleed & Sons Food Stop	Butchers Butchers Butchers Takeaway	1955 1970s c.1980s	1970s 1970s --
No. 213	Stewart N. Anderson Vantage	Chemist Chemist	c.1962
No. 215	Barnett's (K. Barnett) Styles Hair Studio	Ladies' and Gents' Hair Stylists Hairdressers	1955
No. 217	Stitcher's Downsway Home Sellers	Grocers Supermarket Estate Agents	c.1957 c.1974	1970s
No. 219	Maurices Martin	Newsagents and Confectionery Newsagents and Confectionery	c./03/1955 1960s	Post /06/1960
No. 221	L. Stacey Stacey's Pie and Mash Shop	Hardware, Paints, Paraffin Take-away	c./03/1955
No. 223	Stewards Whirlpool Laundrette Co. Ladbrokes	Radio, T.V., Electrical, Toys & Cycles Laundrette Betting Shop	02/03/1955 c.1970	c.1965
Long Riding			Open	Closed
No. 1	Barton's the Bakers Bread Shop	Bakers Bakers	1960s	1980s
No. 3	The Bell - Achille Serre Man Lee Wan Ying House	Cleaners and Dyers Chinese Food Take-away Take-away	1955 /02/1971	--
No. 5	Warren's Sargent Bros. Fish 'N' Chick'N	Fish and Chip Shop Fish and Chip shop Fish and Chip Shop	1955 1960s	c.1960s

Barstable West

The two units at Long Riding, Barstable West were built by the development corporation who described them pantry shops. They were completed around July 1957 with upper flats accommodation.

Some of the businesses past and present are listed below:

Long Riding			Open	Closed
No. 303	Moorcroft's W.D.J. Wright PC Planet UK Ltd.	Groceries & provisions Groceries & provisions Computer components & Accessories	Pre-/06/1959 Pre-/06/1964 --	c.1964 --
No. 305	Newswell - E.E. Goodchild Long Riding News and Off-Licence	Confectionery, Tobacconists Confectionery, Tobacconists & Groceries	Pre-06/1959	c.1980s

Barstable East

The two units at Luncies Road were built by the development corporation and described as pantry shops. The were completed in late 1959 and designed with accommodation above which matches the style seen at numbers 562 and 564 Whitmore Way.

Some of the businesses are listed below:

Luncies Road			Open	Closed
No. 51	W & D Crook Motorstar Express	Groceries Foodstore	Pre /06/1960	1970s
No. 53	J.A. Forman (late of 2 London Road, Pitsea) Martin's Motorstar Express	Newsagents & Confectioners Newsagents and Confectioners Foodstore	Pre-/06/1960 Pre /06/1961	1961

Barstable East

The single shop at Sandon Road opened in the 1970s.

Some of the businesses past and present are listed below:

Sandon Road			Open	Closed
No. 95	Wavy Line Supermarket Sandon	Foodstore Food and Wine Superstore	c.1975	--

Page added: 2013

Other points of interest:

1) The Long Riding/Timberlog Lane road junction is often referred to as 'Stacey's Corner'. It took its name from the Stacey family who previously lived further along Timberlog Lane at the corner with the original Mopsies Road at what had been a right hand bend along the original course of the road in the direction of Craylands. That section continuing off the bend was eventually renamed Timberlog Close and closed off to through traffic in 1965 as a new section of Timberlog Lane had already been constructed between Chittock Gate and a new junction with Broadmayne. The Stacey family, Edward and Winifred and their 13 children, had lived on the corner of that bend since 1920 where they made a living as greengrocers, as well as selling logs, paraffin and coal from their property smallholding, which doubled as a shop. Their property, called Mopsies, stood in the way of future development planned for the area and was compulsory purchased by Basildon Development Corporation in 1954. It was the corner of this bend that was the original 'Stacey's Corner'. Coincidently, at the time of the completion of the Barstable neighbourhood shopping centre in 1955, one of the first traders were L. Stacey, who ran a hardware shop at 221 Timberlog Lane. It is sometimes mistakenly thought that it was this unrelated business that gave its name to the road junction.

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