Bexleyheath's longest queue! John Newton Mallimon, vicar of Christ Church, Bexleyheath, on the left of the view, must have regretted that his services could not pull the crowd as the adjacent Regal Cinema, which opened the day this photo was taken.

Christ Church dates from 1877, when Bexleyheath was starting to exert an independence from Bexley.

After the cinema closed the site was redeveloped as an Asda supermarket, which opened in 1988.