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35 - 39 West Street, Rochford.
A vital local restoration project
by the Southend & District Building Preservation
Trust.
'Welcome to our Rochford Primary Schools Quiz'
We hope you enjoy taking part, and learn a lot about Rochford, even if you are not at school, but young at heart, why not
have a go.
Please print off this page Good Luck!
Take a pleasant stroll from St. Andrew's Church to Rochford
Square, the reservoir, South Street and North Street.
While you're about it, why not have fun learning about Rochford's
fascinating history, by answering the questions in this quiz!
1.) Where might you find a very funny stone
face at the top of a drainpipe, which runs between two walls with stained-glass windows?
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2.)
My name is John Turner and I died on the 6th March 1922.
What was my job? (Clue: If the answer to question number 1.
is on the South, then you'll find me to the Northeast.)
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3.) Golfers visit this house nowadays,
but it was once the home of a young woman, who was to become the Queen of England.
What is the house called, who was the
Queen, and what tragedy was to befall her?
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4.) If you walk from the Church of St. Andrew
towards Rochford, you will pass under a railway bridge and over a river bridge.
When was the bridge over the river built?
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5.) Lord Ryche (Rich), Henry VIII 's Lord Chancellor, left money for Almshouses to be built for
the poor of the parish.
What date were these Almshouses built?
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6.) Now I haven't seen a steam
train pass through Rochford station, have you? of course, they did once, and all that steam used up an awful lot of water.
What was built to provide the steam trains with all that water? (Clue: They might fill up with Carp as well water if they
tried that now.)
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7.) In fact, there is somewhere close by Rochford station, where steam trains
run on some weekends.
But there is something very unusual about these trains.
What is it?
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8.) Four quarters in a red rose; four pictures tell Rochford's story.
Go to the bottom of South Street, and find
out what four things are represented. (You've seen some of them already!)
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9.) The oldest
house in Rochford, rumoured to be haunted, is black and white and not part of a terrace.
What number in South Street is
it?
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10.) Butchers, bakers candlestick makers.....
How many butchers, how many bakers,
and lets forget candlestick makers! how many shops might sell candles?
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11.) Talking of butchers,
where can you always see a naughty dog, trying to steal a string sausages? (The answer is blowing in the wind.)
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12.) How old is the Fire station? It's taller than most cottages in North Street, because the firemen needed
to hang their hoses up to dry!
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13.) What terrible thing happened to John Simson, in the Market
Place in 1555?
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14.) Where is Queen Victoria's Clock? (Not in the clockshop.)
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