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This memorial in the midst of very busy roads, with double yellow lines all around it, is not now in an attractive location. War Memorials Trust will post some of my photos  but the major feature of a tall cross on a many sided plinth with plaques full of names is in good order. Other plaques are inset within long concrete strips abounding one of the roads. These names are almost impossible to read save by getting down to bended knee! Maybe this was a design fault in 1921.. Around the central area are two more modern concrete benches, inscribed 1914-1918, a plinth to a VC holder, and another plinth recording further military deaths since 1945 but without any individual names being given. The flower beds today were in a deplorable state, packed with weeds, but Brentwood Borough Council have just issued a consultation paper to residents and wish to tidy up the central area by placing fresh paving in circular form around the cross and perhaps eliminating most flowerbeds.They also wish to relocate the smaller features mentioned above to the corners of the site. It is worth recording that the Council have spent much money on maintenance of this memorial in the last twenty years. One can wish the Council well in their efforts.

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Brentwood, Great and Little Warley, Hutton, Shenfield, South Weald