On Friday 27 May, Cllr Peter Dean, accompanied by WBRA Chair Marie Pender, unveiled the history panel detailing the 300 year history of Elmers End Green.
The panel shows a map of the Green in 1775, when it was surrounded by fields, and how the area around it changed beyond recognition over the 2oth century with housing for returning soldiers from WW II, a cinema, shops and restaurants and now a thriving set of shops on home improvements.
A group of WBRA members and children from Marion Vian School attended the unveiling, under the Elmers End village sign erected in 1998 by the then Elmers End Residents Association.
Afterwards the members gathered at The Elm Tree pub (formerly the William IV pub that has stood here since the 1850s) to see the plans for the refurbished ex-toilet block to be changed into medical consulting rooms. Although WBRA objected strongly to the closure of the toilets and the sale of the building, we feel that this new use is an acceptable one. It will not increase the footprint of the building, will improve its appearance and will not significantly add to the traffic either on foot across the Green on by vehicle around it.