Even in recent timeframes the local area has changed significantly and one example is Orchard Street. I believe land was retained to allow for a bypass to be built avoiding the centre of Rainham but when this plan was cancelled the land was then redeveloped.
The photo below from 2001 looking towards Rainham shows the old Lukehurst warehouse with the green wall and corrugated tin roof and car sales yard before the site was cleared to build the new flats
Looking up Orchard Street towards Thames Avenue, 2001
Below: Looking towards Rainham with the cleared site after Lukehursts warehouse demolished showing view through to church and Millennium centre
Below: Site after Lukehursts warehouse demolished showing view through to church and Millennium centre
Below: Orchard Street Car sales site looking towards school
Below: Same location photo of new houses built on Orchard Car sales site, 2003
Providence Chapel Orchard Street, 2001
Orchard Street outside St Margarets School, 2001
New houses, 2003
Former Church Hall site, now flats on Hurst Close/Orchard Street
These photos of Orchard Street Rainham were taken in around 2002 before the bypass land was released and the new housing was built on the former Orchard Street Car Sales and Lukehursts green warehouse
Photos below of Orchard Street during winter of 1987 kindly provided by Darren H
