Trolleybus Memories courtesy of David Bradley at www.trolleybus.net

Pictures circa 1959

691 outside Ilford Depot (corner of Perth Road) facing towards Barkingside.

Ilford High Road - there was room for people to walk across the road!

In the past twenty years the whole of Ilford Town centre has been redeveloped. North of Ilford Lane is "The Exchange" Shopping Centre, which did not exist in Trolleybus days. To the West is the completed North Circular with the massive interchange covering much of the original Romford Road / Ilford Hill area.

The massive redevelopment has obliterated much of this area. The Exchange Centre has truncated Ley Street, which is also broken, further up. South of the High Road and Ilford [now Redbridge] Town Hall there are a mass of new roads that simply did not exist in 1959.

The wholesale rebuilding at Ilford Lane / Ilford High Road makes it very difficult to identify former landmarks and indeed the location of any trolleybus picture taken in the late 1950s in, and around, Ilford Broadway.

Looking East up Ilford High Road from the Broadway