Chelmsford @ 20.29

Chelmsford is the County town of Essex and about 30 miles north east of London. Mum and Dad, both North Londoners, moved here in the mid-fifties. After almost thirty years they moved back to London for the next nearly thirty until in 2011, Dad moved back to Chelmsford to be my brother's neighbour.

In the Domesday Book of 1086 the town was called Celmeresfort and by 1189 it had changed to Chelmsford. Following the opening of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation in 1797, cheaper transportation and raw materials made milling and malting the main industries until the 1850s, when increasing prosperity created a local market for agricultural machinery. Chelmsford became home to the United Kingdom's first electrical engineering works established by Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, a pioneer of electric street lighting and electric traction motors within the UK. Crompton installed electric street lights around the town centre in 1888 ... making ... Chelmsford one of the earliest towns to receive electric street lighting. The United Kingdom's first ball bearing factory was established at New Street and Rectory Lane in Chelmsford in 1898 by cousins Geoffrey and Charles Barrett and bankrolled by American ball bearing machine manufacturer Ernst Gustav Hoffmann from whom the Company took its name. Hoffmann bearings were later used in the first transatlantic flights and extensively on machinery during World War I. In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi opened the world's first "wireless" factory under the name The Marconi Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. Chelmsford is credited as the "birthplace of radio". (Wikipedia)

The photo is taken from near Tesco's carpark in the town centre. The very posh flats and shops development nearby goes by the silly and pretentious name of 'The Hub" where a two bedroom penthouse flat costs more than my Dad's four bedroomed house. A quick pit stop shop at Tesco after six hours at the Hospice where Dad, awake and coherent kept fretting about stuff and I don't know how to give him peace. I did however, give him California Rose to go with his supper, and he enjoyed that. We both did.

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