Harold Park
In 1868[1] a wealthy Brentwood solicitor built himself a mansion to the south of the river and railway line, named Harold Court.After the owner's bankruptcy the house served as a children's home, then a lunatic asylum and then a sanatorium.After the First World War the Essex builders Iles and Company laid out a bungalow estate here that it called Sunnytown.When Harold Court primary school opened in 1929 the area still retained a rural character, but this was slowly eroded as further development plugged the gaps, including some industry beside the Ingrebourne River.Harold Park was located in the northeastern protrusion of the Hornchurch civil parish.