As we can see the Rose and Crown public house remains and has changed little. The tall building on the left in Head Street once served as a workhouse until 1838. In 1850 this then became the Church of England St Andrew's National School with funds raised locally and with grants from the Essex Education Department. In 1876 the pupils moved into the newly built St. Andrew's School in Colchester Road and the old school was incorperated into the Greenwoods Industrial School for girls which already had extensive premises alongside in Mill Chase, off to the left. The Greenwoods School was founded in the 1860's by Miss Lucy Greenwood to take girls as boarders from difficult and unsatisfactory family backgrounds.
