Bricklaying ceremony, probably for first bricks at Templars estate, Cressing Road. Includes Gordon Sparrow (fourth from left at back with specs, Clerk of Witham Urban District Council), Barbara English (two places to right of Mr Sparrow at back), Molly Clarke (to right of Miss English, nearer front, with hat), John Howe (to right of Miss English to right of Mrs Clarke, bald with cigarette), Ted Smith (to right of Mr Howe, in front with vice-chairman’s ribbon), Rex Mott (in hole with chairman’s ribbon). All the ones named except Mr Sparrow were Witham Urban District Councillors.

Ref	M387
Photographer	Braintree and Witham Times
Date taken	1965
Source	Braintree and Witham Times