Crittall’s factory, Braintree Road, after being bombed. It was a metal window factory, but turned to making other things, such as Bailey Bridges, during the Second World War. I believe the bomb fell on the Power House at the back, and that the damage was put right quite speedily.

Ref	M2958
Date taken	January 1941
Source	Poulter, Roy, 94 Howbridge Road, Witham, CM8 1BZ Volume 6, number 40