The Gospel Oak to Barking railway line continues from Upper Holloway Station in a north easterly direction

Post to the north Crouch End
Post to the west Archway
Post to the east Finsbury Park

Ashley Road
St.Mary and St.Stephen. Built for the new community of Hornsey Rise in 1860 and subsequently took in St.Stephen Elthorne Road. It was designed by A.D. Gough, in ragstone and extended in 1883-4. Inside is some panelling brought from Teulon's St Paul, Avenue Road.
Church Hall and Community Centre built 1878
40 Church of the Kingdom of God (Philanthropic assembly).  This church is now in an old cinema in Seven Sisters Road and this house appears to flats.
43 Ashley Road Care Home in what was Blythe Mansions Health Clinic. This was before 1984 the City of London Maternity Hospital Nurses Home.


Blythwood Road
Holly Hall Community Centre. This is a Christian Science Church.
Entrance to the Parkland Walk


Courtauld Road
This is the renamed north end of Elthorne Road. Courtauld took over the Betts works in the 1960s, the new road name apparently dates from 1981.
Cutler's Steam Joinery Works. 


Crouch Hill
The road is thought to be part of Ermine Street and of a pre-14th route out of London to the north.
Bridge over the Parkland Walk – the ex-railway to Highgate. Down in the trackbed there is still some original retaining wall on the north side.  This is a bridge which replaced an earlier one which collapsed following a gas explosion in October 1994, and was built wide enough to cover a railway line, rather than a footpath.
103 On the pavement outside is a borough marker stone and this is the boundary between Islington and Haringey
1-3 The Old Dairy. A building of 1891 with sgraffito panels, built for the Friern Manor Dairy Farm Company. The earliest reference to Friern Manor Farm is in 1853 and originated in south London, with a Head Office in Farringdon Street. They had branches elsewhere but began in south London.  It supplied Dr Gaertner's Humanised Milk. The building was let in the 1920s until 1968 to United Dairies. The builder and designer are unknown. It is built of red rubbed bricks made by Tommy Lawrence of Bracknell. In each bay is a panel with a mural of dairying in the past and as practised at Friern Manor Farm - grazing, milking, cooling, country delivery, making butter, and to the right of the entrance, old style delivery and 1890 delivery. Converted to a restaurant 1990s.
Crouch Hill Station.  This was opened in 1868 by the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction railway as one of the initial stations on the line. It now lies between Harringay Green Lanes and Upper Holloway Stations. The original station building are now in private use and the brick platform buildings have been replaced.
Signal Box. This lay east of the down platform and was replaced in 1888 and eventually closed in 1959
Ilex House, tower block owned by Islington Council. It is a 17 storey Bison system point block built in 1972.
29 The Noble. This pub was a Marler Bar and after that a Tap & Spile. Also seems to have been called The Flag, the Big Fat Sofa and The Racecourse
Brick gate pillars at the entrance to Vicarage Path. This is remains of the entrance to Hill Hall.
Holly Park Methodist church. The Church was founded in 1875, although a permanent hall was not built until 1882.
Crouch Hill Presbyterian Church, Holly Park, originated in an iron chapel built locally in 1873. The Holly Park site was bought with the help of Sir George Bunce and a lecture hall and vestries were built in 1876. A permanent chapel opened in 1878. The church closed in 1975 and the buildings demolished.


Dickenson Road
Crouch Hill House became St.Gilda's Convent School. One of the few remaining posh villas probably built in the late 18th.
St Gilda’s' Catholic Junior School. In 1915, the Sisters of St. Gilda’s’ established a school in Crouch Hill House as an all-age private school. In the late 1960s St.Gilda's School was rebuilt as a Voluntary Aided Junior School on the original site. In 1989 the school transferred to the Diocese of Westminster and is now a two-form entry Junior School providing a Catholic Education for primary age boys and girls.


Dulas Street
Asquith Day Nursery. This is on the site of previous housing


Everleigh Street
18 Stroud Green Christian Assembly. This was founded in the 1920s and held meetings in various venues. The congregation joined the Assemblies of God and the present building was acquired in 1955
Roman Catholic chapel of St. Mellitus opened in 1938 and a church opened on a different site in 1959.
Everleigh Street Open Space is a garden designed for families with toddlers and open to key holders. It is by a local Friends Group.

Evershot Road
Open space with flower beds


Granville Road
Holy Trinity Church. As the suburbs of London expanded in the 19th there was a need to provide additional Churches. In 1878 Holy Innocents church opened a temporary mission hall here called the Iron Room. A permanent church was built here a year later designed by B. Edmund Ferrey, and built by Mattock Bros. The Iron Room then became the church hall and was replaced by a brick hall in 1913. In July 1944, the church was damaged by a V1 and it was decided to put any money into re-building houses rather than a church. By 1951 the building was unsafe and closed and the church hall was used instead. The church was later demolished and the hall became the church,
Peace Garden. This is on the triangle of land between Granville Road and Stapleton Hall Roads.  Early on 16 July 1944 a V-1 fell here killing 15 people and injuring 35 others. Twelve houses and Holy Trinity Church were hit. Later prefabs were put up, now replaced by the Spinney. The Stroud Green Residents Association put up this memorial up to those who were killed.  The site was once part of the church grounds


Grenville Road
Grenville Road Gardens. Small local public garden with a Friends group. The Allotment Garden is a student and community project. It was developed by the American Intercontinental University with Buro Happold. Built on a site with Japanese knot-weed, the garden has hovering planters at varied heights and an elevated rain-water harvesting system.
Timbuktu Adventure Playground. Free play activities for local children with indoor and outdoor facilities
Grenville Workshops – post war industrial buildings on both sides of the street.


Hanley Gardens
Housing Association homes built in 1986, partly on the site of the City of London Maternity Hospital.


Hanley Road
51 Primary Health Centre. Doctor’s surgery in building of 1982 built as an Islington Neighbourhood Centre by Chris Purslow, Borough Architect.
75 Hanley Road Day Centre. NHS Employment and Education Project; plus Mind’s Hanley Road Resource Centre
Arthur Simpson Library.  This was at the far end of the road and there is now a block of flats on the site. The Library opened in 1952 and named after the then chair of the Libraries Committee.
North London Houses for Aged Christian Blind Men and Women. This was founded by Rev. Henry Bright and his wife – he was blind from birth- in a building used as a school and known as ‘Mansion House’. They continued in charge of the home till their deaths in 1919 and 1918.  There was also a seaside home at Southend. The site was later sold to the City of London Hospital.
City of London Maternity Hospital. The City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women and Sick and Lame Out-Patients founded in an apartment in Aldersgate Street in 1750. In 1773 it moved to City Road and had 36 beds and following other moves and a name change the building was destroyed in Second World War bombing. It then amalgamated with the Gynecological and Obstetric Department at the Royal Northern Hospital and in 1949 reopened in buildings bought from the Institute of the Blind. A new building was added in 1955. In 1983, it amalgamated with the Whittington Hospital and the Hanley Road building was closed. The site is now Hanley Gardens.
127 this is the older part of the ‘Old Dairy’ in Crouch Hill. It was used as a dairy from the middle of the 19th.  The Crouch Hill building was added to it.
St.Saviour's Church. In 1878, the Vicar of St. Mark’s leased from the Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp a plot of ground here on which to build an iron church. By 1883 a new plot of land had been found and a church was built designed by J.E.K and J.P. Cutts and the parish formed in 1888.
Church hall to the rear


Haselmere Road
Kink in the road curves round the site of Oakfield House to the south which was demolished in the 1930s.
Signposts to a network of footpaths which leads south of which Waverley Road, to the north, is part.


Hillrise Road
Called Upper Hornsey Rise 1852-1936.  A footpath leads uphill to the site of the former Crouch Hill Recreation Centre.


Holly Park
Holly Park Estate – local authority housing named for a former large house here.


Hornsey Rise
Elthorne Park – eastern side of this Islington park.
Hornsey Rise Health Centre. Opened by Islington Council 1984
Hornsey Rise Children’s Centre. Margaret Macmillan Nursery.


Hornsey Road,
The road was once called Tallington Lane and formed a boundary between manors here.
493 Plumb butcher’s shop from 1900. W Plumb butcher's shop. Only open two days a year. Inside is art nouveau wall tiling, a geometric tiled floor, scrolled meat rails and mahogany cashier's booth with etched and brilliant cut glass.
472 The Corner Flag. This pub has had several different names – originally The Railway Tavern, but also more recently The Salt Bar, and All Points West and The Blarney Stone
465b Johrei Centre. This is a centre for a Japanese system of spiritual enlightenment begun in the early 20th by Mokichi Okada.  JOHREI is the name given to the channeling of a spiritual energy or Divine Light to purify one’s spiritual body and awaken our divine nature. I
425 North London Spiritualist Church. This was previously a primitive Methodist chapel. The Primitive Methodists had previously met at Jubilee House and then at Station Parade but built this chapel in 1908. It closed in 1930 and was taken over by the Spiritualists.
Hornsey Road Station. Opened by the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway in the cutting on the south west of Hornsey Road. In 1943 it closed. In the 1950s the buildings were removed and demolished although the booking office was used by a watch mender for a long time.
Signal box. This was on the down side west of the station and replaced an earlier box in 1892. The box was removed in 1937.
471 Newton and Wright, electrical and scientific instrument makers. They made a number of important devices, including the Snook Machine, mainly for medical applications. They were here from 1905 until 1937 when they were taken over, eventually becoming part of AEI.
471 this was originally a coffee tavern called the Jubilee Hall used by many local organizations. High on the gable is a mural of a town cryer, its origins do not seem to be known.
498 Hornsey Rise Piano factory. Thomas Harper made Harper Overstrung and Vertical Pianos here in the 1920s.  Buildings appear to date from then


Japan Crescent
Named for Japan House, villa which stood in the area in the 19th
Langdon Motors – building may be on the same site as the Japan House.


Lambton Road
Britains Toy Factory.  The factory was on the site of new housing between Lambton and Spears roads. In 1893 William Britain developed the hollowcast toy soldier process hitherto dominated by the Germans but  Britain’s process was cheaper. The firm expanded with works in other areas and in the 1920s introduced the farm series of figures. In the 1950s the introduction of plastic figures led to change and Britains switched to plastic figures in the 1960s.


Mount Pleasant Villas
Railway Bridge. The carries the now Parkland Walk, the old railway to Highgate. From here the line begins to climb at 1 in 72.  Gradients were against the locomotive all the way from Finsbury Park to Highgate and trains were time-tabled to take two minutes longer when travelling in this direction


Mount View Road
Mount Pleasant was the 18th name for Crouch Hill.
Two covered reservoirs. These were for filtered water for the New River Co., holding 12m gallons before 1885. Some water is received here by gravitation from Fortis Green. There are also wells on site.
Parkland Walk – the old railway to Highgate is crossed by it the road. The trackbed below has some original retaining wall on the north side.


Oakfield Court
Flats on the site of Oakfield House private boys school founded in 1859, replaced in 1933 and closed.

Parkland Walk
The walk follows the line of a railway which began as a steam service off the East Coast Main Line with suburban services for the Great Northern Railway authorized in 1862 and opened in 1867. It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Before the Second World War it was planned to extend the line to Elstree but The designation of the 'Green Belt' killed the economic case for this and passenger services ended in 1954. The tracks from Highgate depot to Finsbury Park remained to move stock for used on the Northern Line but this ended in 1970 following the opening of the Victoria Line. The track was then removed and the land was transferred to the local authorities and re-opened as a linear park.
Electricity substation, now used as a council youth centre. To be refurbished and to incorporate a new ecology centre into the building.  It was intended as a sub-station for the proposed pre-war electrification, abandoned after the Second World War and never used
Crouch Hill Community Park. The sites designated Metropolitan Open Land while of ecological significance. It is in two parts. The lower part is the Parkland Walk which is a heavily treed wood with secondary Remnants of railway heritage. The upper part contains a derelict community building, a nursery and a multi-use games area. The project was initiated by Islington Council's Children services because they needed to rehouse a primary school and the new build primary school sparked a more ambitious project. So along with the new Ashmount School combined with Bowlers private nursery, plus a district heating system, generated by a gas CHP and biomass boiler. The architects for the £16.5m scheme were Penoyre and Prasad
Crouch Hill Recreation Centre.  This was accessed via a carved gateway on Crouch Hill leading to the Youth Centre. Beyond this was Bowlers Nursery and then the Recreation Centre. It dated from the 1920s and may have been used by American GIs in the 1920s and bunkers were said to be under the building. It was ruin by Trustees. It closed in 2004 and became derelict, and later redevelopment includes a new school.
Crouch Hill Forest Garden. A sustainable edible landscape, with fruit trees, perennial vegetables and herbs - part of the sustainable gardening system known as Permaculture.


Porter Square
Site of Shackell and Edwards printing ink and varnish factory. "A lamp-black and printers' ink factory was built  here in  1827 by Thomas Davision, printer of Whitefriars Street. It was burned down three times before 1833, and at the same time a steam-engine was installed . It was sold to Shackell & Edwards by 1853. There was an explosion at the factory in 1932 and it was rebuilt.


Regina Road
Elim Pentecostal Church. Prominent  building with a star shaped roof designed in 1961 by John Diamond. Built to succeed New Court Congregational Church but now in use by the Elim church, which originated in Ghana.
New Court was one of the earliest nonconformist chapels in London. In 1662 Dr. Thomas Manton was ejected from St. Paul's, Covent Garden and was established in a chapel in Bridges Street. In 1682 this was forced to close but reopened in 1687 and by 1606  was in Drury Lane. In 1705 they moved to New Court, Carey Street and remained there until 1866 where it became a Congregational chapel. A new church was built at Tollington Park but in 1961 they moved here and closed in 1976.


Sparsholt Road
Hanley Crouch Community Centre and The Laundry Club.  Youth and community facilities in old laundry buildings. This dates from the 1970s. Hanley Hall itself dates from 1902 but was bombed. It was reopened in 1952.


Stapleton Hall Road
Stapleton Hall. This house is noted in 1577 rebuilt later by Sir Thomas Stapleton. It stood at the north-west end of Stapleton Hall Road. In 1765 it was the Stapleton Hall tavern. It was the Stroud Green Conservative club by 1888. It has now been included in a modern housing development.
Baptist Church Stroud Green Chapel.  Built in 1888 by J. Walls Chapman.  It is a red brick group sine converted to housing and school. It was established in 1878 and registered by Particular Baptists in 1884.. in 1928, they had joined the London Baptist Association,
Parkland Walk. The walk here crosses the Tottenham & Hampstead line which is deep in cutting below.   Since Finsbury Park the walk had been on an embankment but crosses the road here on a viaduct.
Stroud Green Station.  Opened by the Great Northern Railway on the line to Highgate as a later addition to the line which opened in 1881. It had two side platforms, partly built on the viaduct and above the Road. The entrance was on the west side of the road and was built of wood with a steep wooden stair connecting the two. The station site is now on the Parkland Walk where there is a clearing marks at the site of the platforms. The buildings were burnt down in 1966. There seems to be no reference to any thought of an interchange with the Tottenham and Hampstead line below
Station House. This is on the west side of the road and provided accommodation for the Station Master. It later became a community centre and information office.


Stroud Green Road
White Lion of Mortimer. Wetherspoons Pub


Sussex Way
Housing on the site of an Islington Council Depot. Corner of Courtauld Road.
Duncombe Primary School. The school is named after Thomas Slingsby Duncombe who was MP for Finsbury in 1834-1861. He was described as ‘probably the most radical Member’ of his period and In 1842 he presented the second Chartist petition to Parliament calling for universal male suffrage and other democratic reforms. The Duncombe Road Board School was opened in 1878. The school building is an attractive well-constructed building originating from the late 19th . the school commissioned a local artist Magnus Irwin to design and paint a rain forest mural on the main park wall.  The school is on a site previously used by Cottenham Road School, a technical school and Duncombe Road School, an elementary school. The school was a relief station for the emergency services during the Second World War.


Thorpedale Road
Wray Crescent Open Space


Tollington Park
Named from the manor of Tollington.  1810. Was laid out between the routes of Hornsey Road and Stroud Green Road, as a superior development planned c. 1840, but built up slowly and irregularly and much eroded since.  The survivals display the range of classical variants current in the mid c19.  Group of big austerely treated three-bay villas
Park Tavern. Pub dating from at least the 1860s
St Mellitus. Roman Catholic Church. A large and imposing classical church, built as the New Court Congregational Church. It has a large pedimented Corinthian portico. There s a schoolroom now used as a hall in the basement, and a wing now the presbytery. The Catholic mission was founded in 1925 from St Peter-in-Chains, Stroud Green. A temporary chapel was built in Everleigh Street in 1938. In 1959, Canon George Groves acquired the present building from the New Court Congregational Church founded in 1662 who had  moved to the Regina Road Chapel now in use by the Elim Pentecostal Church. The foundation stone for the church had been laid in 1870 and the architect was C. G. Searle, who also was a deacon of the church and lived nearby at Tollington Villas. An building now used as the presbytery originally housed vestries, classrooms and a hall for weekday services. The firm of Gordon Reeves adapted the building for Roman Catholic use. this involved the removal of the bow-fronted pulpit and the partitioning of part of the ground floor.  The church retains two stained glass windows including The Good Shepherd of c.1877 as a memorial  to Henry Mason a former deacon of the church; and the Virgin Mary 1910, W.G. Langford, which commemorates a former superintendent of the Sunday School. Most of the furnishings are modern. The organ is from 1920 by A. Hunter.
158 maggot machine. nearby was an Old slot machine for the sale of milk, which had been adapted for a new use. You could buy live maggots from it for fishing, say in the middle of the night when shops were shut. The maggots were kept cool by the refrigeration system and there was quite a choice of flavours and colours.


Turle Road
Islington Arts and Media School. This secondary school was previously the George Orwell School. Before that it was Tollington Park Secondary School and the original 19th building was Montem Street School. The school thus opened on 1886 as Montem Street Board School and later called  Montem Street  Higher Elementary School until 1910 when it became Montem Street Central School. It was reorganized in  1947-51 as Montem Primary School and then moved to a different site. The central school had been renamed Marriott Road Central School in 1914 and in 1925  became Tollington Park Central School, Turle Road. In 1957 having been amalgamated with Isledon Secondary School it became Tollington Park Secondary school. A technical block was built in the 1960s, and a drama hall early 1970s. In 1981 it amalgamated with Archway School as George Orwell School. It has now beenrenamed and rebuilt yet again.


Vicarage Path
The footbridge over the Parkland Walk collapsed in the 1970s and was rebuilt in 1983 to railway standards


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The Gospel Oak to Barking Line goes north eastwards to Crouch Hill Station.

Post to the west Crouch Hill
Post to the north Haringey

Albany Road
St Aidan’s Voluntary Controlled Church of England School. In 1887, the Church opened a secondary school for girls here on Church land. It was built by the Church Schools’ Company and became known as Saint Aidan’s. By 1944, St Aidan’s was too small to continue as a secondary school so in 1949 it became a Voluntary Controlled Primary School run by the Local Authority. Ownership of the land and buildings was transferred to them except for the ball court which remains on Church land.  There is a commemorative stone in the playground to a visit from the Queen. The school now has a modern building with a separate nursery but retains the 19th school hall. At the entrance hall is a statue of Saint Aidan who lived in the 7th century on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.


Alroy Road
One of a group of road names relating to novels by Disraeli.
13 Fire Engine Depot with plaque HDC for Hornsey District Council. This depot would have housed one engine.


Athelstane Mews
Backland development next to 72 Stroud Green Road. In the 1920s site of the B&J Wireless Co. and to steam car manufacturers H.E & F. Morriss - probable connection with Morriss of Kings Lynn.

Endymion Road
One of a group of road names relating to novels by Disraeli.
New River – the New River passes under the road
Hornsey and Endymion gates to Finsbury Park.


Finsbury Park
The park is on the site of former Hornsey Wood and the grounds of the Hornsey Wood Tavern. The area is what used to be Brownswood, a sub-manor of the manor of Hornsey and part of the ancient Forest of Middlesex largely owned by the Bishops of London. Hornsey Wood has been bought by the Metropolitan Board of Works and 'marred by ugly wooden railings   only fit for firewood'.  The Park was in the nature of a consolation prize to North London for the loss of the projected park at Highbury Hill some twenty years earlier.  The name dates from 1857 when it was opened by Sir John Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works.  It is designated by statute as for the use of the inhabitants of the old Parliamentary borough of Finsbury – although it is over two miles distant from Finsbury itself.  By the early 20th century, it was a venue for political meetings including pacifist campaigns during the Great War.   In the Second World War it was a site for anti-aircraft guns and one of the gathering points for heavy armour before the D.Day invasions. It was managed by the London County Council and then the Greater London Council.   In 1986 it was passed to the London Borough of Haringey and many additions have been made.
The layout of the park, including five entrances, a Lodge at Manor Gate, the perimeter drive and paths, was designed by Frederick Manable, Superintending Architect to the Metroploitan Board of Works. The areas of formal planting, the American Gardens and the network of curving paths were designed by Alexander Mackenzie, the Board’s landscape designer. The park was originally laid out in zones – with horticultural features to the south-east and east of the lake and in the north-west corner; recreational features, in the centre; and sporting features around the edge. In 1874 it was enclosed to the north by Endymion Road and there were later additions of a bandstand, bowling green and cricket pavilion. Originally there were a great deal of planting here including a Rosery, groups of trees and shrubs, and a conservatory used for chrysanthemum displays. By the late 1940s these buildings had gone and the formal beds reduced although some remained. Much of the layout had been developed from the gardens attached to Hornsey Wood House but the western edge of the park follows the curve of the now defunct rail line to Highgate. It has recently had a Heritage Fund Lottery grant which has funded restoration of the American Garden and Mackenzie's flower gardens.
Copt Hall, was sited south of the lake. By the mid C18th it was replaced by Hornsey Wood House, a Tea House with pleasure gardens and woods plus a bowling green and shooting range. In 1786 it was enlarged and the lake was developed and its grounds were used for pigeon shooting.  . In 1866 Hornsey Wood House was demolished as part of the new park
The Pit. A nature reserve is on the site of an open air theatre, which was itself built in the mid 20th in a semi-circular hollow on the site of an earlier bandstand which had been destroyed by an elephant.
New River – this runs through the north of the park.
Cricket pitch. This was used in 1866 by Islington Albion Cricket Club
Sports facilities include football pitches, a bowling green, an athletics stadium, and tennis and basketball courts. There is an American football field, and diamonds for softball and baseball
Tennis Courts fan shaft. This ventilation shaft for the Piccadilly Line lies slightly north of the tennis courts. During the construction of the Southgate Extension this area was used as a depot.
American Gardens. These were originally laid out with trees and groups of shrubs, mainly rhododendrons and azaleas.
The Boating Lake. This was previously as Hornsey Wood Lake installed by the Tavern and with water pumped up from the nearby New River.  1860s features around the lake included an octagonal pavilion on the island, a boathouse on the southern edge, and a refreshment room with verandas,
Outdoor Gym installed in 2013 opposite the American Garden. There are 14 pieces of equipment that provide 20 exercise stations.
Furtherfield Gallery. This is in the McKenzie Pavilion near the lake, and is London's first gallery for networked media art.
Hornsey Wood reservoirs. These lie under the original tennis courts  and were built in 1867  by the the East London Water Co. to bring water in 1872  from their Hanworth pumping station (later from Kempton Park)  to their Lea Bridge works, via 19 miles of main. The reservoir holds 5m galls and the spoil from its the construction was used to build up the north-east section of the park.


Green Lanes
Drove road into London
The Finsbury. Pub
New River flows under Green Lanes having passed through the park


Oxford Road
The footbridge, which spans the East Coast Main Line, and crosses over to Finsbury Park itself.
Oxford House,, currently this is Gemal College, a private college teaching management.  Other offices and light industry in an art deco block built as a printing works.


Parkland Walk
The line to Highgate from Finsbury Park is now the line of the Parkland Walk. It is now London's longest statutory Local Nature Reserve and tree-lined for most of the way, it has become a haven for wildlife including muntjac and some 250 species of plants. After the line closed it was used by a white-robed Goat Man, who herded his goats along the line.


Perth Road
Faltering Fullback Pub. Previously the Sir Walter Scott


Rail line
Piccadilly Line to Manor House from Finsbury Park. The line falls at a gradient of 1 in 250 towards Manor House, passing the Tennis Courts ventilation plant. A little beyond here came two former working shafts which had been filled in prior to opening. Between the two stations is a diverging tunnel know as the step-plate junction which was used to divert the Piccadilly line to its present southbound platform while the Victoria line was being built.

Scarborough Road
34 Park Studios.  Factory building used as artists’ studios. Previously used by Cardiac Recorders Ltd. Making precision medical equipment.


Seven Sisters Road
The Victoria Line runs underneath the road, where Experimental tunnels were built and later used.  .
Hornsey Wood Tavern. This opened after the park had opened and the original Tavern demolished. It was later renamed the Alexandra Dining Room and closed in 2007. It was subsequently demolished. It is said to have been decorated with Gillray cartoons


Stroud Green Road
The name of ‘Strowde Grene’ means 'marshy land overgrown with brushwood'
Worlds End Pub.  This was previously called The Earl of Essex.
85 estate agents previously Thomas Swan and Company. Traditional gent's outfitters. The windows were equipped with fans for cooling in hot weather
106 This was once the Osborne Tavern, from the 1870s.


Upper Tollington Park
Osborne Grove Nursing Home – on the site of what was Osborne Grove, replacing it inn 1973
Rail bridge which carries the Parkland Walk


Woodstock Road
Stroud Green Primary School.   Stroud Green board school moved to this as a new building in 1894. In 1932 the school was reorganized into a senior mixed or secondary modern school with a junior mixed school and an infants' school. The seniors later moved leaving the board building as a junior and infants' school.


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Gospel Oak to Barking Railway
The Gospel Oak to Barking Railway running from Blackhorse Road Station goes south eastwards

Post to the south Low Hall
Post to the west Blackhorse Lane


Bemsted Road
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from the manorial name of Higham Bensted

Chewton Road
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from Warner’s Somerset constituency which included Chewton Magna
Houses – each house consists of two large flats.

Coleridge Road
30 Coleridge Road Specialist Health Centre. Learning disabilities service.

Cottenham Road
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from the home of an ancestor’s father in law

Diana Road
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from one of Courtney Warner’s wife’s names

Eldon Road
Called after the 19th Lord Chancellor.

Elmsdale Road
17 showpiece garden,

Erskine Road
2-12 William Morris Multicultural Day Care Centre.   Seems to be on the site of the Erskine Road Spurgeon Memorial church, which was an iron hall built here in 1901.  It closed about 1911–12. In 1970 it was a school meals centre.
67 Councillors Arms Off Licence. Grand pub building which is said never to have had a pub licence.  In the early 20th it was the Independent Labour Party Club. Now owned by Muslim organisations Ahmadiyya Muslim Association and the East London Baitul Ahad.
106 Emmanuel Christian Centre. Emmanuel Hall, Pentecostal Church of God, The church moved here in 1926. The church now runs a school, nursery and other outreach work


Forest Road
252-254 Lord Palmerston.  Pub with terracotta outside and inside with engraved glass and some original furnishings
360 Police Station.  Built in 1891 by John Dixon Butler. A substantial red brick pile,
341-343 The 1920s fire station was replaced with a new building in 2012. Said to be a plaque on it which says “Borough of Walthamstow. Directly opposite stood Elm House (demolished in 1898) in extensive grounds, the birthplace of William Morris 24 March 1834”.
Elm House. Morris was born here but the family later moved to Water House – the current Morris Gallery.
282 London Spring & Fibre Co building in pre-Second World War. This is now a snooker and social club
276 Jack o’London Briar Pipe Factory. Hardcastle Pipes. Hardcastle was founded in 1908 by Edmund Hardcastle. . In 1935 Dunhill started to build a factory next door to then and Hardcastle eventually became a subsidiary of them although the Hardcastle family continued in the company’s management.  In 1967 Dunhill merged Hardcastle with Parker as Parker Hardcastle Limited. The Forest Road plant was given up


Gainsford Road
William Morris Technical School. This was  Gainsford Road board school, opened in 1902, and renamed William Morris in 1903 because it was built on land adjoining Elm House, where he lived. In 1906 part of it became a higher elementary school later moved to Greenleaf Road and the rest closed in 1933. The building then became the William Morris technical school, and reorganised as a mixed technical school in 1948. The school has been demolished and the site is now housing. One building remains – said to be the domestic science block – in use by Waltham Forest Social Services


Green Pond Road
Stadium which was Walthamstow Avenue Football Clubs’ ground until they merged with Leytonstone & Ilford to form Redbridge Forest. The stadium's record attendance was for a game in the 1948 summer Olympics. The ground was often called 'The Pond'. There is now housing on the site


Greenleaf Road
80 Greenleaf Primary School. Forest Road board school opened in 1894 and in  1946 was reorganized for juniors and infants. In 1963 the junior school was closed and its buildings demolished. A new infants building was opened on the site in 1965.
William McGuiffie Secondary Modern School. William Morris School was in Gainsford Road and in 1906 part of it became a higher elementary school, which was transferred here in 1910. It was known as North West central school by 1922 and in 1932 became as a senior school for 360 boys and 360 girls and renamed William McGuffie., it has since flossed and been demolished.
Greenleaf Playground. On some of the old school site
Bedford Institute Friends Hall.  This was founded by the Quakers in 1903, as one of the new outer suburban centres established by the Bedford Institute. An educational settlement was instituted in 1922. The two merged in 1955, and in 1965 came under the control of Waltham Forest Borough Council who took it over completely in 1976. It is in red brick, two storeys with an entrance tower in Melville Road. It is now largely used by the Emmanuel church as their headquarters and for a nimbler of their projects.

Hatherley Road
Inserco House. This company is involved in the supply and installation of Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Controls and Automation equipment. It was founded in the 1970s. This was their head office until the 1990s.

Hervey Park Road
Forest Road Hall.  Forest this was built and registered in 1892. It is said to have begun s the Forest mission of Wood Street Union Church, but became a Baptist church by 1903. The building was, still listed as a mission in 1951 but registered as unsectarian in 1961 and in regular use in 1970. It is now the anglers head quarters
2a Izaaak Walton House. Headquarters of the London Anglers Association. This was formed from the amalgamation in 1871 of the 'Good Intent Angling Society' and the 'Hoxton Brothers' and they rent or own throughout the south of England: on rivers, canals and lakes.


High Street
Was Marsh Lane and renamed in 1882
Chequers. Pub which dates from at least 1699, when it acted as a courtroom. It was rebuilt after being burnt down in 1791
182 shop with “printing works” as a sign on the first floor wall. The works was established 1882- 1896, probably by George Oscar Dawson. By 1901 it was owned by Everett Brothers according and. remained theirs until 1923. The premises were then bought by The Walthamstow Press Ltd to print the Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian. In 1935, they moved away and the premises has been occupied a variety of firns and is currently a sweet shop.


Higham Hill Road
Leslie’s were druggists' sundrymen from Leicester and Warwick, and moved to Walthamstow in 1900. They were one of the first firms in Britain to develop self-adhesive plasters. The factory in here was built in 1937 but was bombed in the Second World War
Temple of Truth. Ministry of Restoration International Pentecostal Church. This was built as a Baptist Church in 1896.
99 Hillyfield Primary ‘Academy’ school. Hillyfield opened in 2003 and moved into its current new building in November 2005


Higham Street
43-46 Perforated Front Projection Screen Co., Ltd., they made materials suitable for use with projection equipment.


Limewood Close
Housing built on the site of factory buildings marked as ‘Colour works’.


Longfield Avenue
St Patrick’s Aided Roman Catholic School. An extension in yellow brick, has silver-clad monopitch roofs at different angles. The school opened as a junior and infants school, Longfield Avenue, 1930 and in 1952 a nursery class was added.
Stoneydown Park is called after a local field and farm. Originally it was an ornamental garden, called Stoneydown Gardens, opened in 1920. In 1955 Stoneydown Recreation Ground was added with a recreation ground and children's playground. A footpath connected the two areas,


Maude Terrace
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from one of Courtney Warner’s wife’s names


Mansfield Road
Named for the 18th Lord Chief Justice


Mersey Road
A Warner Estate Road with the name taken from East or West Mersey in Essex where the Warners held the manor


Northcote Road
Designs on the railway bridge undertaken by pupils at Willowfield School

Palmerston Road
St.Michael and All Angels, Built in  1884- for the first incumbent. Father William Ibbotson, by J.M. Bignall. Richard Foster contributed to the cost and it is a big church the ecclesiological tradition, although a tower and spire  were not built. It is in brick and inside are High Church furnishings.
Vicarage 1888-9, gabled with brick
Sunday Schools of 1885, both by Bignall.


Pretoria Avenue
Stoneydown Park Primary School.  The school opened in 1963 originally based in Blackhorse Road
Pretoria Avenue Air Shaft.  This structure which is alongside the gates of Stoneydown Park Primary School is a vent shaft for the Victoria Line.
Pretoria Avenue board school opened in 1888. It was reorganized in 1928, and in 1935. the school closed in 1938.It was then used as a sfore until 1955 when twp special schools used it. It has since been used as a disability centre fronting onto Warner Road. The area fronting Pretoria Avenue has scattered area of copse which screens the site and a man-made pond
Margaret Brearley school for the educationally subnormal. This school, which had been on various sites in the Borough moved to this site in 1955 and was given its present name, which was that of a previous head. Part of the school moved to a different site in 1972 and the rest followed in the early 1980s
Joseph Clarke School for the partially sighted moved here in 1952 having been on a number of sites in the area previously. In 1971 they moved to a purpose built site elsewhere in the borough.


Somers Road
Wells Toy Factory. Based here from 1924 until 1932


Stirling Road
Wells Brimtoy factory.  They made tinplate toys and had originated in Islington in 1919 by Alfred Wells. in 1924 they moved to a factory in Somers Road, Walthamstow. In 1932 Wells bought Brimtoy, and moved to a factory in Stirling Road, The factory closed un 1955 and production was moved to Wales.


Stoneydown Gardens
Mural painting on the railway bridge by local school children


Sutherland road
Essex Cordage Works purpose built by E.W.J. Fuller and Sons Ltd, and originally occupied by George Bramson Co. who made jute cordage and webbing. It is a single storey structure built in the late 1930s and as a specialist rope and cord making factory it was designed as a linear building. Bramson went out of business in the early 1960s and it was then occupied until 2011 by Baker Adhesive Labels Ltd.
Sutherland House. this was  purpose built by E.W.J. Fuller and Sons Ltd and is a three storey building built in the immediate post Second World War period for Britain’s Toys Ltd. who occupied all f it from 1951-1968 before moving to Blackhorse Road. Britains had come from a factory in Crouch End and had specialised in hollow cast lead soldiers. They expanded this to a farm range which was made here in Walthamstow.


Thomas Jacomb Close
New housing on site of a number of small works


Truro Road
10 Harmony Hall. This is an arts and music venue.  It was set up in 1936 as the Marsh Street Mission built by The Shaftesbury Society and Marsh Street Congregational Church with money from the closure of Ragged Schools and was built on the site of a previous Unitarian church. A boys club called “The League of Three”, founded in 1906, moved here and provided a boxing club, badminton, tennis and woodwork, etc.  In the Second World War an air raid shelter here was used by local residents. Since 1999 it has been managed by charity, CREST Waltham Forest and it has added to the art exhibition and performance space.


Warner Road
Varied by gables with terracotta rosettes.
Disability Centre - Board School. This is a typical Walthamstow earlier one-storey type of school built in 1888 and, planned together with the housing.  It was used as the The site contains the former Pretoria Avenue School building ad later special needs schools, also based in Pretoria Road.  Later it was the Waltham Forest Disability Resource centre which also moved out.


Winns Avenue
Warner developments and building here carried on into 1930s. The avenue was originally built in 1898 on 86 acres of land from the grounds of Water House.  There is distinctive Warner marking on the housing.

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Gospel Oak to Barking Railway
The line runs south east from Blackhorse Road Station and continues south east from Queens Road

Post to the west Lea Bridge Road


Bakers Avenue
2c Forest Recycling Project. With practical community-based projects to reduce, reuse and recycle waste


Beulah Path
This pathway between the backs of houses was once called Pig Alley

Beulah Road
Name has Biblical allusions to the Promised Land and to Paradise – which the houses in the road were supposed to provide.. The road was laid out in the 1850s on Church Common by Ebenezer Clarke, chairman of the Local Board of Health, a philanthropic town-planning exercise in healthy living for the poor with 'Model cottages'. The line of the road defines what was the eastern boundary of the common
50 this was once a pub called Beulah Stores.

Boundary Road
Built to link Markhouse Road and Hoe Street
78-80 Walthamstow Seventh Day Adventist Church. Seventh Day Adventists formed a church in 1922 on a site previously occupied by the Walthamstow and Leyton synagogue. The present red-brick church was built in 1928.
140 Walthamstow and Leyton Synagogue. Originally met on corner of Devonshire Road and then took over the Baptist Church in 1914.The Samuel Goldman Memorial Hall was built in 1956.   The building was a Baptist church after in 1875 an Iron Chapel was opened here and became a Baptist church.  In 1881 the present building was opened and named ‘Boundary Road Baptist Church’.
155a The Meeting Point. Evangelical Free Church


Chelmsford Road.
10-12 this old education building has a plaque on it “WEC Gymnasium 1927”.  It is assumed this stands for “Walthamstow Education Committee’
Thomas Gamuel Park. This is an area with playgrounds and sports areas, built also has some landscaping with shrubs and winding paths. It was redesigned in the 1990s.

Copeland Road
St.Stephens Church. Small church building attached to Stephen House, The church originated in 1874 when a temporary church was built in Copeland Road on a site given by Alfred Janson and Henry Ford Barclay. It became a parish in 1881. A permanent church in Grove Road was consecrated in 1878 but was demolished in 1969 because it was structurally weak. A church hall, built in Copeland Road in 1880, was altered for use as a church. Stephen House and the church appear to have been built on the site of the church and the hall.
Stephen House. Project for young people who need support.

East Avenue
Built on the line of a row of trees and a pond as part of the grounds of Orford House.

Eden Road
Name has allusions to the Biblical Promised Land and to Paradise – which the area hoped to offer. It was laid out in 1850s on the Church Common. The area was laid out in 1862 by Ebenezer Clarke, chairman of the Local Board of Health an exercise in healthy living for the poor as part of the Land,. Building Investment and Cottage Improvement Society.  Eighteen model cottages were built, which remain.
5-11 St. Mary’s Place. Built by the National Land Society in the 19th as model cottages.
64 Light Engineering. Formed in 1980, one of the original pioneers in the lighting control market
67 industrial building called, by developers, the rope works. Has large long shed behind and a recessed curved front window. Has been used by a succession of printers, etc.

Edinburgh Road
108 South Site of Mission Grove Primary School.
Edinburgh school was opened in 1907 as a junior council school. It was reorganized in 1929 for senior girls, and in 1946 for juniors. It moved to a new building in 2011. The old building is now the south campus of Mission Grove School

Exeter Road
Walthamstow Electricity Works. An electricity generating station, built by the urban district council opened in 1901. It closed in 1968 and was demolished in 1969. The council had been constituted the electric lighting authority in 1895. The total output from the station increased from 225 kW in 1901 to 20,500 kW in 1936 and the plant was retained as a 'Selected Station' by the Central Electricity Board under provisions of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926.

Gamuel Close
Refers to Thomas Gamuel, a benefactor of Walthamstow in the 17th

Gandhi Close
New housing on the site of Walthamstow Queens Road Goods Yard. This opened as Boundary Road Goods Yard in 1894 and was renamed later. It closed in 1982

Grosvenor Park Road
Grosvenor House estate. This had an avenue of large elm trees and was the first to be purchased for development, and the plots were offered for sale from January 1851. The trees were felled and replaced by Grosvenor Park Road properties. The road replaced an elm avenue.
Employment Exchange built 1929 and GR plaque over the door. This is now flats
27 Bremer Works. Works of the Bremer Motor Co.   In 1888 Fred Bremer built a car at the back of his house. It had a single cylinder engine and a flywheel to keep the engine running between strokes. The fuel was paraffin. It ran in the road in 1892 and in 1896 took out patents. He gave his car to the local museum in the 1930s

Grosvenor Rise East
Laid out in 1850s on Church Common.
15 The Castle. Pub erected in the 1850’s/60’s as part of the Grosvenor Road development

Grove Road
56-60 factory premises currently a garage. In the 1930s this was a lighting firm called Euston Manufacturing, later a fancy paper goods factory, and then Gainsborough Sheet Metal, and a number of other engineering and similar companies.
74 Grove Tavern. This closed in 2007 after it lost its licence. This pub was established in 1868, initially as the Britannia. At various times it has been a house for Truman’s, Whitbread and Charrington’s Breweries . It became a free house in 1993
106 Registry office. This is the former vicarage of the demolished St Stephen's church built by Habershon & Fawkneor in. 1883. It is a double-gabled house with tall chimney and trefoil-headed windows.
119-121 Grove Road Hall. Used as a community centre by the Waltham Forest Islamic Association. 

Hoe Street
Recorded with this name in 1697.
213a Baltic Yard. Ex-private bus garage. Presumably demolished for road widening round the station
275 17th timber framed house
277 Jubilee Branch of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society. A  long range of shops with a plaque showing beehive motifs and a dedication to the opening. Built 1911 and 1915 by W H. Cockcroft, with two round-headed gables, a turret and a dome.
285 Cleveland House. This was once used by Waltham Forest Health Dept but is now flats, 18th house set back from the road. With extension of 1871.
317 Telephone Exchange built in 1956, with chequer brick panels on a concrete grid. It handles the Coppermill Exchange. It replaced Court House, a house of 1700 damaged by bombing in the Second World War and demolished in 1952
324 The Queen’s Cinema opened in 1911 with an entrance through the ground floor of a terraced house, and the auditorium built at the rear, parallel to Hoe Street. It was on the site of a local builders' merchants called Good Brothers, who built and operated the cinema. T was taken over by Hamilton Cinemas Ltd. in 1933, and closed in 1933. It was taken over by Amusements (Leyton) Ltd. in 1934 and refurbished. It closed again in 1940 and became a store. In 1959 it was converted into the Paradise Snooker Club and a bingo club in the 1970’s closing in 1990. In 1996 it was converted into an indoor cricket centre known as the Pavilion and in 1998, was converted into the Pavilion Banqueting Suite.
378 Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
398 Chestnut House. This was once Essex Technical College and also Walthamstow Training Agency. An18th  house rainwater heads dated 1745 and 1747. There are also The initials of Thomas and Catherine Allen, who lived here 1743-63. The grounds were sold to the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway Co. in the 1890s.  There is also a service wing and stable block in matching style as well as gate piers
400 Motor dealer and show room in premises possibly built as engineering workshops.
468 - 474 Kingsway International Christian Centre  Land of Wonders  Pentecostal church.   This was the Scala Cinema opened in 1913 and built and operated by Good Brothers, a local builders merchants. It was re-named Plaza Cinema in -1931, but closed soon after. Taken over by Hamilton Cinemas Ltd. It re-opened in 1933. It was re-named the Cameo Cinema in January 1961 and closed in 1963. It became a Mecca Bingo Club until 1986. It was then derelict for 18 years until it was taken over by a church in 2004.

Lansdowne Road
Typical Warner Company dwellings with the ‘W’ mark

Lea Bridge Road
London Master Bakers' Benevolent Institution. Designed by T.E. Knightley, 1857-66 with brick buildings on three sides of a large railed court open to the street and extending along the road. They were built for the London Master Bakers' Pension and Almshouse Society was founded in 1832.  The main range has a centrepiece with plaques recording that electric light was brought to the almshouses in 1924 and that gas was installed in 1939.  A tablet with a harvesting putto plus  Reliefs of ploughing and bread making on the sides.  Converted into bed sits by the Greater London Council and are now Council housing
The Bakers' Arms, familiar as a bus destination, is a two- storey pub which is now a betting shop. It has granite pilasters, and with a row of pineapples on the parapet. There is a tiled picture of a baker at work.
613 Iceland, this was a Woolworths building with a cream faience-clad front from the 1930s with Art Deco verticals. Now Iceland
557-559 The Drum. Wetherspoons pub. The previous owner had a display of drums.
590 Omnibus and Tramway Depot. This was Lea Bridge Depot. It appears to be a set up initially for Leyton Council Tramway services in 1905 when the council took over the Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company’s lines.  From 1921 London County Council Tramways worked and managed the routes for the urban district council's transport undertaking. The depot closed in 1959 and photographs from that date show London Transport buses.

Leyton High Road
816 William IV pub. Built by Shoebridge & Rising in 1897. It was the Sweet William Brew pub from 2000, now Brodie’s Brewery
Swimming bath. Built in 1934 and replaced by a more modern facility to the south.  The site is mow a Tesco
832-836 The King’s Hall opened in 1910 owned by T.J. Hallinan and by 1920, was known as the King’s Cinema. It was taken over by the Granada Theatres chain in 1949 and closed in 1951. It re-opened as the Century Cinema in 1952 and closed in 1963. It was demolished and a Tesco supermarket built there. The building on the site is now a Poundstretchers supermarket
806 Community Place and Ladbrokes. This was the Ritz Cinema with a symmetrical white Art Deco front. The Ritz was opened by Associated British Cinemas in 1938. It was designed by the chain’s in-house architect W.R. Glen. It was re-named ABC in 1962 and taken over by an independent operator and re-named Crown Cinema in 1978 closing in 1979 although for a few weeks there were late-night presentations of Kung-Fu films on Friday’s. It was converted into a DIY hardware store, and later a KwikSave supermarket. It is now a Ladbrokes betting office and offices for community groups.
857 betting shop in old Woolworths store with fiancé tiles

Orford Road
Named from its one older houses. Development in this area began from 1850, after the enclosure of Church Common from 1853. The road became a shopping street, and the relocation of the Town Hall from Vestry House in 1876 confirmed the status of the area as the 'centre of Walthamstow' and remained the centre of town until 1941 when the new Town Hall was opened.
Old Town Hall.   Built in 1876 for the Walthamstow Local Board by their  surveyor, J. W Swann and later extended.  It was added to a public hall built by the Walthamstow Public Hall Company as Walthamstow's first building for public entertainment. The Company failed after 10 years and the Local Board acquired the site,. This hall was replaced by housing around a courtyard, in a rebuilding by Cube Architects in 1994. It continued as the Town Hall for the next 65 years and then became a reception area for the Connaught Hospital to the rear.  It later became a nursery and then I Kuan Tao, a non-religious temple which shares teaching from Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, as well as running classes on yoga and feng shui.
18a Asian Centre including Forest Pathway College. This was St Mary's National Schools built in 1866 and designed by William Wittington and accommodated young boys who previously shared increasingly cramped premises with girls at St. Mary's National School in Vestry Road.  The school closed in 1949 and the building became the Pathology Department of the Connaught Hospital to the rear.  The Asian Centre provides facilities, support and education for Asian communities in Waltham Forest
31 The Village Pub
45-47 formerly an ironmongery and oil shop, retain some original fittings.
73 Orford House Social Club.  This is a 19th stuccoed villa and the oldest surviving building in the conservation area. It was originally the home of John Cass, a Whitechapel merchant. It takes its name from Orford in Suffolk. The club dates from 1921 before which the house was still used as a home. It defines the western end of what was Church Common. A bowling green to the rear is the only remaining section of what were extensive grounds.  It is now a co-operative and home to film, poetry and other clubs.
42 Queens Arms. Traditional style 19th pub. It had at one time a large gas lantern hanging outside it. It was erected in 1859 on the edge of the former Church Common
58 Marsh Street & Trinity United Reformed Church. Built 1870 adjoining the former church in West Avenue.
Central Baptist Church. In 1874, Christians started meeting in a house locally and in 1881a brick building was opened in Boundary Road. However more space and a more central site were needed so in 1914, the present building was opened, the church moved here. It was built by W.D.Church and Sons and is well sited for views from Hoe Street.

Railway
Walthamstow Queens Road signal box. This was for entry to the goods yard to the south of the station. It was originally, like the goods yard itself, called Boundary Road.  It was installed in 1894.

Pembroke Road
Laid out in 1850s on Church Common
53 Windmill Pub 1857 closed and with peeling lettering over the door.

Queens Road
64 Lorne Arms.  It had hand painted mirrors, tiles, etched windows. This pub opened in 1883 and was rebuilt as it appears today in 1888. It closed in 2005 and is now in commercial use. It was originally tied to Savill Brothers Brewery of Stratford, East London – later becoming a Charrington’s house.
Masjid-E-Omer. Built 2003-4 by G. Associates. Yellow brick, with dome and minaret. The Masjid originally started in 1977 a small house on Queens Road 1977 and in 1981 the Synagogue was purchased and converted into a Masjid.  Many alterations were made to the building and in 1987 an extension was made .By 2000 it had become too small – worshippers were having to pray on the pavement outside. Rebuilding work started in June 2002 The new Masjid has three floors and this includes a community area, offices, a kitchen, main prayer hall, and class rooms.


Rosebank Road
London Borough of Waltham Forest. Children’s Services Offices

St Barnabas Road.
St. Barnabas, another companion of Christ, is popular, with six or seven names in the Greater London area.
St Barnabas and St James. Built 1902-3 by W.D. Caroe, for the Warner Estate. The whole cost was met by Richard Foster. It is an architectural contrast to St Michael of twenty years earlier .It is in brick with a thin turret. The foundation stone behind the altar, is by Eric Gill, who was then a pupil of Caroe. There is also metalwork, made for the demolished church of St James by Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft c. 1905 and by Edward Spencer of the Artificers' Guild and many other related art works. .
Vicarage. Caroe 1903-4, gabled, with tile-hung mansard, and neat tilework above the windows.
Parish Hall. Caroe designed 1909, built 1912, with main entrance from Wellesley Road, forming an attractive group with the church. Open arch-braced roof.
Stafford Hall is the original temporary iron church of 1900.

Station Approach
Walthamstow Central Station.  This was opened in 1870 and now lies between Wood Street and St.James’s Street on the Chingford branch of the lines from Liverpool Street and it is also the terminus of London Underground’s Victoria Line from Blackhorse Road. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway and opened as Hoe Street Station when it faced open fields but became the main centre of the growing suburb.   Originally a line was opened from Lea Bridge Station to a temporary station called Shern Hall Street to the east of the current station and the line that the Chingford branch now uses was opened later in 1872 and extended to Chingford the following year.It remains in a relatively original condition with ppolychrome brickwork. In 1873 a down side platform was built, But there was no booking office until 1897.  It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and eventually part of British Rail.  The line was electrified in the late 1950s with electric services starting in 1960. In 1968 it was renamed ‘Walthamstow Central’ and rebuilt for the Victoria Line which had originally been intended to run to Wood Street Station, but in the end it was Hoe Street. There is now a joint BR/LT booking hall & bus access.   The Victoria Line station is underground and there is a concrete stairway between the two escalators instead of a third escalator. In 2005 a subway was build under Selborne Road linking to a new bus station with a new Victoria line ticket office and lifts.
Goods yard on the down side 1870-1880
Goods yard on the south side 1880. , a footpath ran access it to the Walthamstow Station on the Tottenham to Woodgrange Park line of the Midland Railway. A sidings from here took coal to the Walthamstow Council power station and this continued until 1967. The yard closed 1964.
Bus interchange. This is next to the Victoria Line exit and built in 1968. It has overlapping butterfly roofs on thin hollow-steel posts

West Avenue
Built on the line of a row of trees and a pond as part of the grounds of Orford House.
Trinity United Reformed Church.  A 1864 brick built church which became the lecture hall to a newer church in Orford Road. Between 1886 and 1889 it was home to the Monoux School, and between 1883 and 1892 a school of art founded by Walthamstow Literary & Scientific Institute

Yunus Khan Close
New housing on the site of Walthamstow Queens Road Goods Yard. This opened as Boundary Road Goods Yard in 18894 and was renamed later. It closed in 1982


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The Gospel Oak to Barking Railway, running from Walthamstow Queens Road goes south eastwards

Post to the north Hoe Street
Post to the south Leyton
Post to the west Lea Bridge Road
Post to the east Leyton

Beaumont Road
Beaumont Road is the spine road in a large local authority housing estate. It is the largest housing estate in the Borough of Waltham Forest. It was built in two stages. Stage 1 dating from 1963 had one 21-storey tower and in 1965 another 21-storey tower was added. Stage 2 dating from 1966 had another 21-storey tower, and 23 low rise blocks. Demolition of the original housing, began in 2006 with plans for replacement and redevelopment 
Walthamstow Slip. In 2004, during the rebuilding of the Estate, part of a Roman Road was found. This aligned with the boundary of the “Walthamstow Slip“.
All Saints Tower. 21 storey tower block built 1963 with 120 flats and since demolished
St Catherine’s. 21 storey tower block built 1965 with 120 flats and since demolished
St Paul's Tower.  21 storey tower block built 1965 with 120 flats and since demolished
St Edward's Court. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate since demolished
Flack Court. Local authority flats
Ayerst Court. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Muriel Court. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
31 The Beaumont Arms. It was originally established in 1872 and by 1905 was leased to the New London Brewery, and described as ‘structurally unfit and dilapidated’. It was completely rebuilt in 1963.  By 1959 it had been taken over by the Wenlock Brewery of Hoxton, later passing to Charrington’s.  It closed in 2997 was demolished in 2010.
Dare Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Shelly Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Atkinson Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Beaumont Community Centre

Byron Road
This was originally James Road, but changed to St. James Road and then Byron Road during the 19th

Campion Road
10 St Elizabeth Court
St Luke’s Court. Four storey flats part of the Beaumont Estate

Capworth Street”
In the 18th this was “Capport Street or ‘earlier ‘Copper Street.
Walthamstow Slip. This was a part of the Parish of Walthamstow that actually lay in Leyton. It was a between 80 and 100 yards wide and stretched from the Eagle Pond to Leyton Green and then followed Capworth Street, and then across the Marsh to the Lea.
21 St Josephs Court. Part of the Beaumont Estate Flats which have been demolished
29 Emanuel Court. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
49 St Mathews Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
78 Charis Church. The premises have been a church since 1993 when it was Glory House. It was previously a warehouse used by a newsagent and distributor.
Leyton Manor Park.  A local park with play facilities set up in 1994. It is on the site of Leyton Manor/Capworth Street School
175 Lord Clyde. Flats in old pub dating from the 1860s
Cambrian Gardens. ‘Pocket park’ on the corner of Cambrian Street
St. Marks Court. Four storey flats part of the Beaumont Estate
Osbourne Court. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Capworth Street Board School. Opened in 1896. It was reorganized in 1932 and in 1948 it became a secondary (modern) school for girls, which was renamed as Leyton Manor in 1957.  Built in 1909 by Frere and described as "delicate and original". 
All Saints Church.  The original church was built in 1864 by W. Wigginton as a chapel of ease to St. Mary's on a site given by Edward Warner. It was brick, and in 1886 became a parish church for a new parish. In 1883 a Sunday school for 600 children was opened beside the church. The church was replaced in 1973 with a new church by Laurence King & Partners. It is triangular in section with an interior incorporating stained glass from the old church. 
Manor House.  This may have been built by Anthony André about 1758 to replace an older property.  John Pardoe bought it in 1763 and in 1783 bought part of the manor. The house was on the side of the street with grounds stretching back to Lea Bridge Road. It was in brick and square in front with bow windows at the back. It became Leyton manor-house in 1783. The Pardoes continued to live there but it was burnt down in 1884.
Forest House. Lea Hall in was in 1626, and occupied by Sir Richard Hopkins and later by the Quaker Joseph Hunton, who was hanged for forgery in 1828. It later became a girls’ school and was a branch of the county lunatic asylum in 1894 shortly before it was pulled down.  Do not know the exact site

Carlisle Road
Laid out in 1853 by Freehold Land Society first modern development in Leyton
Laundry there in the 1950s on the corner of Shaftesbury Street

Church Road
190 Willow Brook Primary Schools.  Church Road Board opened in 1877 and enlarged in 1891.  In 1913 new buildings were opened for the girls and infants. There is an attached teacher's house. The building has rustic porches and tiled lettering. It is thought it may have been partly funded by the railway as compensation for loss of Lammas Land.
Leyton House. This was here until about 1910. An earlier Leyton House here may have been the home of Sir Thomas More. It was built about 1706 by David Gansel as a red-brick building with a front of seven bays and two flanking stable blocks.  In the late 18th it was the home of Joseph Cotton., of Trinity House, East India Co. and the Royal Society.  It was later a home for parents of William Morris.  It went into institutional use with St Agnes Orphanage -established here in 1874, which was then renamed Park House. By 1882 it was St Agnes Roman Catholic “Poor School”, and orphanage. This closed in 1900 and the site is became part of the London Electric Wire Works. Leyton House was demolished in 1912. Some portions of the brick wall which surrounded may remain
The London Electric Wire Co. Ltd., this was established a year earlier in 1899, and occupied land south of Leyton House. In 1912 it merged around 1912 with Thomas Smith's wire works and became known as the London Electric Wire Co. & Smith's Ltd. In 1921, the company manufacturing electric cables, wire, and flex and By the 1960s it was Leyton‘s largest employer, and said to be the largest manufacturer of insulated wire in Europe. In 1959 it became part of AEI.
Bowling Green Tavern. This was next to Leyton House and its gateway was said to come Leyton Grange
Church Road Industrial Estate. This is mainly on the site of the Electric Wire works.
201 Antelope. Pub dating from the 1880s.
210 Gateway Business Centre

Clyde Place
New Model Laundry and Magnet Laundry. These laundries stood on either side of the place until at least the 1950s. That on the west side was the larger and not built until the 1920s, that on the east was earlier. They were said not to have been built as laundries.

Dunton Road
31 George Mitchell House. Patten plumbing supplies merchants. Mitchell was a local VC winner
31 Royal British Legion

Farmer Road
George Mitchell School.  The school was originally Farmer Road School which opened in 1903 as an elementary school. In 1948 it became a boys secondary modern and in 1968 comprehensive for 11-14 year-old boys. In 1986, it became co-educational. In 1957, the school was renamed for George Mitchell who had attended the school and won the Victoria Cross in the Second World War. A previous ex-scholar who had won the VC was Jack Cornwell.  In 2009 it became an 'all through school' to take pupils from 3-16 taking in a local primary school and nursery and the school now has five sites.
Union Works

Gloucester Road
Friendship gardens. Garden area at the back of the library

Goldsmiths Road
Leyton Hall, this belonged to the intermarrying and exclusive Christian Brethren who met here from the late 1870s. In 1912 a larger hall was built on the opposite side of the road but this was bombed in the Second World War but was in use until the 1970s. The site now appears to be flats.

Grange Park Road
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church opened in 1924, but not consecrated until 1930, when debt on the building was cleared. It is a simple brick building
Bible Faith Holiness Church. Church Quarters
Leyton Grange. The house would have been in the area of this road north of the junction with Church Road.  An earlier house here was demolished leaving only an arched gateway. This was a grand house built in the early 18th and passing through a number of wealthy occupants, including those involved with the slave trade. It was sold to the Freehold Land Society for development, as the earliest of the local estates to be disposed of in the early 1860s.

Grange Road
Laid out in 1853 by Freehold land society first modern development in Leyton
55 Hollybush. This 19th pub is now housing
Riverley Primary School,  belongs to some sort of ‘Trust’.

High Road
777 Shoelaces Pub. This was previously called The Prince of Wales and dates from the 1870s.
Gate to the main drive to Leyton Grange would have led up a Chestnut tree drive from here situated where the garage is

Kings Close
Russell Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Howell Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Staton Court Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate

Lake Road
1 St Thomas Court

Lea Bridge Road
368 corner building which was a showroom for the Leyton Municipal Borough Council Electricity Undertaking in 1934 with the Mellish flats above.
369 Cinema at the corner of Theobald Road. The Markhouse Cinema opened in 1913 with a single floor. In 1936, it was re-named Regal Cinema, it was independently operated, and closed in 1942. It later became a clothing factory, and in the late 1960’s, the decorative front of the building was demolished and it became a car repair workshop. A modern frontage was later added and it remains in retail use.
380 Lea Lodge East. Hostel accommodation
382 Carnegie Library. Built 1906 By W Jacques in Red brick, with the original tiled staircase still in place. Plaque with councilors, etc names
439 – 451 Jamia Mosque. The site was originally a furniture, cabinet and chair, factory belonging to S. Hille, and later a denim jeans factory, and became a mosque, registered for marriages from 1977. It was refronted in the 1990s with glazed brick of two colours, Pointed arches, a small minaret at either end
479 Grey Green Coaches garage. They acquired this from Classique Coaches, which closed in 1976. 
481 Aspray House. Care Home. The site had had a number of previous uses but including ones as a petrol station and as a motor coach operator.
562-584 Diamond Ladder factory. This is owned by the Clow group – a company founded in Glasgow originally in the early 20th.  Diamond Ladders have been here since at least the 1920s.
543-586  Ibis Hotel with a public clock on it the side. This site had been a machine tool factory and metal works of Chappell & Son.  The site was then known as Midland Metal Wharves and ran alongside the railway. It appears to later have been the Sleeping Beauty Motel.
Park Road
Laid out in 1853 by Freehold Land Society first modern development in Leyton

Skeltons Lane
Beaumont House. Flats. Part of the Beaumont Estate
Beaumont Primary School. This is now part of the George Mitchell School.
Mural on the boundary wall of the playground of Beaumont Primary School. It an underwater view of tropical fish and plants
Skeltons Lane Park and Brooks Farm
Vicarage Road
The road follows the line of an avenue of trees on in the grounds of Leyton Grange
91/93 until the 1930s two trees from a ring of trees from the grounds of Leyton Grange still stood here.
150 St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School.  St. Joseph's originated with St. Agnes Roman Catholic 'poor school' which had been established in 1874 at Leyton House. By the 1880s that was both a local school and an orphanage. St. Joseph's school was opened in Vicarage Road in 1900, and the orphanage closed. It was reorganized for juniors and infants in 1948. The school was bombed in the Second World War.
174 Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church. The church was opened in 1875 on a site given by a E. J. Farley, a Baptist clergyman, alarmed at the 'spiritual destitution' of the neighbourhood.  It was extended and mission halls were built. The building was damaged by Second World War bombing. The Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church was established in locally 1994 in East London under the leadership of Rev. Francis Sapong.  It is a member of the Baptist Union
192 Davis Centre. In 1922 E. J. Davis left to the local education authority a freehold house and grounds, called Broomhill as the Davis home craft institute and Practical domestic courses for girls from local schools started in 1923. The building has been used more recently as the Waltham Forest Pupil Referral Unit and currently is the nursery department of the George Mitchell School


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Beaumont Road. Wikipedia. Web site
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Gospel Oak to Barking Railway from Leyton Midland Road Station runs south eastwards


Post to the north Leytonstone
Post to the west Leyton
Post to the east Wanstead Flats


Acacia Road
Acacia Road Playground. This was redesigned from 2005 by Rachel Mooney with a theme of “journeys”, for children under 4. With money raised by Acacia Playpark Friends. This included gates at a new entrance, and the Giant’s Head.  Dance Chimes in the main axial pathway parallel to the railway embankment was adapted from a playground in Kensington Gardens - when stepped on, the bronze plates chime different notes on a scale.
Meeting Hall – Mission Rooms. A Bethel mission existed here from 1895. Methodists also had a mission in the road and Brethren met here from 1903. A meeting hall is shown on maps on the south side of the road, next but one to the west side of the railway bridge – a site which had properties of newer build than its neighbours.


Beachcroft Road
Emmanuel Hall. This was used by Brethren since the 1920s and registered for worship as Beachcroft Hall. The hall was still in use in 1968 but now appears to be part of the Homebase car park.
Essex Cottage. Nurses' Home.  This was a training institution for District Nurses run under the Queens Nursing Institute. It also appears to have been called the Lady Raleigh Training home.

Birch Road
Birch Road and the surrounding area are built on the site of Langhorne Hospital.
Langhorne Hospital. In 1840 the West Ham Union built a new workhouse on land acquired from the Stratford-Langthorne Abbey. It has a 3-storey block with courtyards for male and female inmates plus offices, infirmary and quarters for the Master and the Matron. It was subsequently enlarged.  In 1930 it passed to West Ham Borough Council and renamed the Central Home Public Assistance Institution - for the chronically ill, aged and infirm.  In the Second World War it became part of the Emergency Medical Service. It joined the NHS in 1948 under the Leytonstone Hospital Group Hospital Management Committee and renamed the Langthorne Hospital for geriatric care.  Some improvements were made and there were some ungrades – a car par and a lawn. In 1951 am Out-Patients Department was added and upgrading continued including work with the WRVS. In 1974, the Hospital came under the control of the West Roding District Health Authority and later under the Waltham Forest District Health Authority. It finally closed in 1999; the main workhouse building was taken over by the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust and converted into housing and rest of the site used by Waltham Forest Council in 1996 for the Langthorne Park development.
Langhorne Park. On the site of Langhorne Hospital, Langthorne Park was opened in 2000 and is named from the Stratford-Langthorne Abbey, which owned it as farmland. There are a number of art objects in the park - a cafe with a mosaique by Stewart Hale, Robert Koenig's oak totem figures, Tom Norris's wooden seating area made from old railway sleepers, Dee Honeybun's carved clay panels and Stewart Hale's mosaic sign and mosaic trail.


Cann Hall Road
145 Cann Hall Deen and Education Trust. The trust acquired the building in order to fund raise and convert it to a mosque and a community centre.  This building was previously the Colegrave Arms, named for a family connected to Cann Hall itself and said to have had an unusual 1930s interior.
296 Cann Hall Methodist Church. The church began as a mission in 1887 and Services were first in the open, then in a rented hall. They had a small iron church from 1898 and an additional iron hall in 1927.  They said that this meant they had negligible maintenance costs. The current church was designed by Higgins Group plc. Design & Build, and has a gable to the road with three circular stained glass windows.
314 Lord Rookwood Pub. This appears to have closed. It opened in 1893. Named after Sir Selwyn Ibbetson MP, created Lord Rookwood for his efforts in steering the Epping Forest Act through Parliament in 1878.
234 Buxton All-through School Primary Phase. This was previously Cann Hall Primary School. Education in this area was at one time the responsibility of the Wanstead School Board but from 1902 it was the under Leyton Urban District Council.  . Cann Hall Road Board School was opened by the Wanstead school board in 1882 and from 1948 was solely for junior mixed and infants.

Cathall Road
Cathall Estate. This estate was built by the local authority in 1972 on an area cleared of 19th houses with two 20-storey tower blocks Redwood and Hornbeam and 8-storey flats. These used the Camus industrialised buildings construction system and had been built by Wimpey for Waltham Forest.  It became a poor area with high levels of poverty and crime.  It has been largely replaced in the late 1990s through a Housing Action Trust implemented by English Partnerships and the tower blocks demolished.
2-4 Waltham Forest Worknet
6a Harrow Green Library.Opened in 1960. The library was closed in 2011 despite a 4000 signature petition. The building is now being used as offices by charities, etc.
8 Leytonstone Children’s Centre
Cathall Green– green space with boulders and gym equipment
Cathall Baths and Wash House built in 1902.  They were bombed in the Second World War. It had two pools which were first and second class and priced accordingly, as well as slipper baths and facilities for concerts, etc. There was an adjacent public laundry. It was demolished in 1974 having been used for filming.
Leisure Centre of 1974-7 N.F. Astins, Borough Architect.  The site includes a Community Centre, and a playground. It has pedestrian access from Cathall Road and some access from Lincoln Street.  It is recorded that in front was preserved the pump and motor of an artesian well, which pumped water to the old baths 1899-1972.  Now run by Greenwich Leisure Ltd.
Welcome Mission. Originally a pub it was renovated in 1896 and a hall built at the back. It became an evening institute affiliated to Shaftesbury Society

Cecil Road
1 Rowan House. Waltham Forest YOT.  Local authority youth work centre, justice, etc
Acacia Road children centre. Nursery

Corn Way
Plaque to those who died, including five air raid wardens, when a bomber crashed into the grounds of Harrow Green School in 1942.
Holy Trinity Church with St. Augustine of Hippo. Two Anglican Churches were amalgamated in 1974 to form the present Church. Holy Trinity in Birkbeck Road was demolished for redevelopment and services were held at St. Augustine in Mayville Road. A new church was built here and dedicated in 1974. It was a very plan church, designed to match in with the mew Cathall Estate. The Lady Chapel was enclosed in plate glass could be left open for private prayer and there were some windows from St. Augustine’s church. The church has recently been renovated.  A Roman Catholic Mass is held here on Sunday mornings and the hall is used on Sunday afternoons by the Pentecostalist Church, the Spiritual Baptists.


Cotton Close
This new housing was built on the site of the Acme Seals factory.
The Acme Lead Seal Company established at Harrow Green Works in 1884 following the development of a Lead Seal and Sealing Press. In 1914 they moved to this site in order to expand the lead seal. They designed an alternative to the lead seal and later the first flat metal strap. Later they moved into plastic and heavy-duty barrier seals. In 1998 they opened a factory in Malaysia and in 2003 left Leytonstone and went to a new factory in Witham, Essex

Davies Lane
The Pastures.  This was the property which Agnes Cotton bought and renamed.   It was built by Daniel van Mildert about 1686–7 - the date 1697 was on a cistern - but was remodelled and refaced in the 18th. It was eventually owned by a Mr. Davies.  In 1762 it was left to Mary Bosanquet, daughter of a wealthy Leytonstone family who had become a convert to Methodism and a friend of Wesley. She opened a Methodist centre and orphanage here.  After bombing in the Second World War it stood derelict until its demolition in the 1960s.
15 Pastures Youth Centre. Built on the site of Pastures house.
Home of the Good Shepherd. In 1879, Agnes Cotton, a daughter of William Cotton owner of the estate in the later 19th, built a girls' industrial home with chapel and laundry, by Milner Hall. On her death in 1899, the home was taken over by the Clewer Sisters of the Anglican Community of St. John the Baptist. It closed in 1940 when the children were evacuated, and was not reopened after the Second World War. A three-storey building remains. This is used for youth and children’s activities
Davies Lane Primary School. This is an old Board School in a three-decker which is plain except for pretty tiled plaques and a terracotta panel at the side. It yeas opened in 1901, and was reorganised in 1932 and since 1948 had been for juniors and infants.
Drinking Water Fountain. This was provided by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. It is made of polished red granite.

Ferndale Road
1 sign for Acme Seals on the side wall.
12 Christ Apostolic Church.  This was the London City Mission’s central hall built by Henry Borton, a builders' merchant at Wanstead whose five children were holding evangelistic services. In 1901 he built this hall in brick and stone by T. & W. Stone. It became a centre of evangelism in the area and in 1948 Beatrice Borton, invited the London City Mission to take charge.

Granleigh Road
Football ground. This was the ground of Leytonstone Football Club which dated from 1886 and had one covered stand and the remaining three sides were for standing. The ground was sold by after merger with other clubs in 1986. It stood alongside the station.

Harrow Green
The green is the site of an old hamlet now, marked by a triangular patch of grass and named after the pub. It was earlier called ‘Sob Green’, Sauls Green or Salts Green. Legally .it hands been part of Epping Forest handed to Local Board as ornamental land by the Conservators in 1883. The planted area surrounds the War Memorial as a formal 1930s style layout. This is a circular paved seating area with four radial pathways having Stone piers are at each entrance. There are small trees around the perimeter including winter flowering cherry. The layout appears to predate the war memorial which itself replaced a central drinking fountain
1 Wesleyan Christian Centre. The building is by J Young built in 1959 and it replaced a bombed church. Simple, with angular windows and small square tower.  It is a Wesleyan Holiness Church which is Evangelical, Protestant denomination with its roots in John Wesley’s Methodism.  The church apparently originated in 1895 with a group of evangelistic Baptists who set up in Harrow Green in a building known as the People's Hall. In 1940 this was bombed, and rebuilt in 1959.
War Memorial, a simple granite obelisk. This was erected to the Leyton dead in the Great War and the names of those killed in the Second World War added later.


Harrow Road
This was once known as Wigram’s Lane –Wigram were a local family
31 Refrigeration Spares. This company provides refrigeration components. It was founded and been in this site since 1946. It is a sister company to an Irish parent.
119 Woodhouse Tavern. Built in 1865. May have closed and turned into housing


Holloway Road
The area around this road, and that of the West Ham Union Workhouse, was known as Holloway Down. This was named for the estate of Holywell Priory, Shoreditch, set up in 1201.
Bell Centre, The Redwood Pre-Nursery


Howard Road
Mission church. This stood on the north east side of the road on the site now covered by the Homebase car park. It has been established in 1867 by the Leytonstone High Road Congregational Church and built by William Goodman about 1880. It was sold to the Harrow Green Baptists in 1943.
Acacia Business Centre


Joseph Ray Road
Trading Estate on the site of the Leytonstone Goods and Coal Depot and sidings
Leytonstone High Street coal depot.  This was owned by the Midland Railway and set up in the 1890s. The site included a Hyraulic Pumping Station and Brotherhood turnover capstans. Restricted space meant wagons had to be lowered from the goods line to ground level by means of a hydraulic hoist which stood immediately behind the High Road shops. The yard closed in 1968
Royal Mail distribution centre
Panther House. Stratford City College. Not at all sure about this.


Leytonstone High Road 
Royal Lodge, big house which preceded the cinema and demolished in 1932. It appears to have originated as a 16th house called Andrews, the name later changed to Royal Lodge during the 17th.  During the 18th it was used as a boys' school. It was partly burnt down in 1878. It had very large grounds which were used by the railway and later for cinema car park.
566 Lincolns, a plain three-storey pub of c. 1870, J five bays with big projecting eaves. This pub was established in 1870 as the Elms. It was renamed Lincolns in 1986 and closed in 2008. It was demolished in 2012 and there is housing on the site.
689 Rex Cinema. This was built for Associated British Cinemas by their in-house architect William R. Glen. It had a facade in white faience tiling, with six vertical columns. Inside were decorative panels depicting deer in a forest. It closed in 1960. It was converted into an ABC Tenpin Bowling alley which closed in 1972 and the building was later demolished and the site lay unused for several years. It is now the site of flats
Leytonstone High Road Station. This opened in 1894 and now lies between Wanstead Park and Leyton Midland Road.  It was originally opened by the Midland Railway and spread across the grounds of what was Royal Lodge. And included some old stables which were demolished.  Originally called just Leytonstone, it was renamed Leytonstone High Road in 1949.  The original upside platform was bracketed on the viaduct with a glazed staircase going to the booking hall which was in the viaduct but these structures were damaged in Second World War bombing,.  The station was modernised and rebuilt in 1958 but was burnt down and demolished in 1996.  It has since been rebuilt again and is now part of Transport for London’s Overground system.
Signal Box. This controlled entry to the goods yard and sidings and stood at the top end of the down platform. It stopped work in 1993.
647-661 Panther House. This was at one time a car show room. It is now TFC
615 State Cinema was opened as the Premier Electric Theatre in 1910 by architects Emden & Egan with a single floor. The ceiling has plaster decorations. It closed in 1938. Cinema architect George Coles employed to re-construct it into an Art Deco styling and it re-opened on 1938 as the State. It closed in 1961 and it became a bingo club. In 1979 it was converted into a snooker club. In 2008, it was refurbished and converted into a banquet hall known as Ivory Mansion.
466 Fire Station. Thus was built by Leyton Urban District in 1924 as headquarters of the Leyton Fire Brigade and taken over by Essex County Council in 1948.  It has striped stone-and-brick and a tower with clock and parapet. Closed
468 The Bell. A 1930s pub. A pub with this name was first noted here in 1718.
470 Police Station 1908 by John Dixon Butler, in his domestic Jacobean style, all brick, including the window mullions. This is now closed as a police station.
485 Shepherds Inn.  This was previously the Loaded Dog pub. It is now a Lithuanian restaurant. The pub dates from at least the 1870s and was originally the Cowley Arms
419 Plough and Harrow, a big half-timbered pub. Named from an inn recorded as ‘Le Harrow’ in 1651 - referring to the agricultural implement -- later the Plough & Harrow 1760. The present pub is south of the original and dates from 1928. It was more recently renamed the Laurel and Hardy for a while.
362 The Academy Cinema opened in 1913 operated by Scriven and Huxtable. It was closed on 1933 and then enlarged and given a new modern facade to the plans of architect F.C. Mitchell. It re-opened as the New Academy Cinema operated by Harry Hymanson. In 1954 it was taken over by Granada Theatres Ltd and closed in 1955 for renovations by George Coles. It Re-opened as the Century Cinema and in 1957 was taken over by Denman (London) Ltd. In 1962 bingo sessions were held on Thursday nights, and it closed in 1963. It was converted into a full-time Granada Bingo Club which closed in March 1983. The building was demolished and a block of flats known as Paramount House was built there.


Lincoln Street
Mayville Primary School.  This was originally Mayville Road board school, which opened in 1889, and became a junior and infants school in 1948. One building survives from the Board School of 1889.
Site of the church St. Augustine of Hippo which started as a mission church, but became ritualist. The site to the rear of the existing church in Mayville Road was bought in 1897 and a new church built by Bottle and Olley.  It was bombed in the Second World War and renovated in the 50s.  It closed in 1974 as part of the redevelopment of the area and was demolished


Mayville Road
St.  Augustine’s church. This began as a mission in the High Road., and in 1886 an iron building was erected here.

Montague Road
Fred Wigg. 17 storey tower block built in the 1960s.  Ground to air missiles were installed here by the army during the Olympics.
John Walsh. 17 storey tower block built in the 1960s


Newcomen Road
The Lifeboat evangelical church was here in 1908, bombed and restored


Southwell Grove Road
Brick barracks and citadel for the Salvation Army built by Coxhead for Leytonstone corps. Sunday school added 1954. The Corps is part of London Central Division
Site of a Zeppelin bombing raid in 1915 in which ten people were killed.


Terling Close
Buxton School. This is the site of Tom Hood School built by Wanstead board school and renamed an after local poet. Rebuilt in the 1950s. It has become Buxton School having joined with what was formerly Cann Hall Primary School in 2010


Trinity Close
On the site of railway sidings and the Leytonstone Football Club ground
Hitchcock Business Centre
Indian Muslim Federation Centre. This is the largest and oldest organisation of Indian Muslims in the UK. It was founded in 1969 by British Indian Muslims in the wake of anti-Muslim riots in Ahmadabad. In 1982 IMF bought a derelict property in East London and in 1983 was inaugurated by the Indian High Commissioner in London. It has been offices and a community centre ever since.
Granleigh Road Clinic. Health clinic now closed


Wanstead Flats
This square covers the westernmost portion of the large open space known as Wanstead Flats which are the southernmost portion of Epping Forest.
Bush Wood Flats
Northern Flats
Wanstead Flats Playing Fields. This area was used as allotments in the Second World War. There are now 13 football pitches
Cat and Dog Pond. A drainage ditch runs from here towards an SSSI and in which there are wet flushes.
Harrow Road Changing Rooms


West Street
41 The Epicentre, community buildings in an elementary neo-vernacular style, L-shaped, with big roofs and an angular lantern at the junction. Nicely paved entrance courtyard leading to a broad foyer, with meeting hall. Includes a new library using unpaid non-professional staff


Woodhouse Road 
St.Margaret of Antioch. Built 1893by J. T. Newman and W Jacques. A red brick basilica, with furnishings in Anglican tradition, on a corner site, though without its intended tower. The High altar s a memorial to the first Bishop of St Albans, designed by Louth, with carving by Sebastian Zwinck of Oberammergau,.  The Lady Chapel was added 1912 by Cutts, Johnson & Boddy
Church institute. Built 1910 by T.E. Lidiord James


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Gospel Oak to Barking Rail Line
The line from Leytonstone High Road going to Wanstead run south eastwards

Post to the west Leytonstone


Aldersbrook Estate
Land around the old Children’s Home has been developed as local authority housing estate,

Aldersbrook Road
St Gabriel. The parish of Aldersbrook was set up in 1903 with a mission church to serve a housing estate built in the hamlet of Aldersbrook. Land, used as a nursery was bought and an iron mission church built and dedicated to St Gabriel the Archangel. By 1912 the population had increased and a larger and more permanent building was needed and the present church was dedicated in 1914 .The church was designed By Charles Spooner, with funding from the Misses Nutter. It is built of thin red bricks, with tile decoration.
Aldersbrook Children’s Homes. In 1907, the West Ham Guardians purchased The Aldersbrook site and in 1911 built five Receiving Homes called Lodges. Workshops for training the older Boys and Girls were opened. In 1930 the ownership of Aldersbrook homes were vested in the East Ham Corporation who were required to receive destitute children from the Essex County Council and West Ham areas. In 1933, the Aldersbrook Children’s Homes Nursery was opened.
Aldersbrook Emergency Hospital. Before the outbreak of the Second World War there had been negotiations between East Ham Council and the Ministry of Health over the use of Aldersbrook Children's Home as an emergency hospital.  In 1939 the children were evacuated, to Bacton and later Polzeath.  Alterations were made by the Borough Engineer and the ground floor of the main building and the Nursery Block were converted into a Casualty Clearing Station.  The Hospital opened in 1939. The Hospital had its own operating theatre as well as an X-ray and a Physiotherapy Department. The Children’s Home's farm was allowed to keep sheep and pigs for the war effort.  In 1942 a Decontamination and Cleansing Unit was built and other alterations were made. In 1945 Ministry of Health terminated the arrangement and the buildings reverted to their former use as a children's home.   The main building of the Children's Home, built in 1910 by West Ham Union, and the Nursery Block have been demolished.  Ward buildings have been converted into homes and sheltered flats for the elderly.
Aldersbrook Maternity Hospital. In 1946 the East Ham Public Health Committee began to use the Aldersbrook Children's Homes Nursery Block, built in 1933 as a temporary maternity hospital. Thus The Hospital officially opened in 1947 with 21 beds.  The lying-in wards were - Heather, Rose, Acacia, Hyacinth, Primrose and Snowdrop, while the labour wards were Lavender and Laburnum.   As a temporary hospital, it was not covered by the National Health Service Act and it continued to be administered by the Maternity and Child Welfare Sub-Committee of East Ham Council until 1948.   The Hospital closed in 1957. In 1963 the Hospital building became the Aldersbrook Unit, an annexe for the East Ham Memorial Hospital but has since been demolished.

Belgrave Road

This road is the perimeter which defines the outline of the Lake House Estate built in the 1900s and which occupies the site of the lake. The houses it surrounds define the area of the lake.

Lake House was originally called Russian Farm and may have originally been a summerhouse for Wanstead House. It was on an island in the lake. Thomas Hood the poet lived there from 1832-5. It was demolished in 1908, but had been used as a sports pavilion
The Great Lake was one of a chain of lakes in the grounds of Wanstead House. A number of designs were proposed for it but it was very shallow, and disappeared around 1908


Blake Hall Crescent
Aldersbrook Tennis Club. This is in a hollow at the junction with Aldersbrook Road and Centre Road. It is said to have supposed to have been dug as a lake, but was not completed. It lies below the embankment which carries Blake Hall Road.


Brading Crescent
Charles Brading was an East Ham County Borough councillor.
Fry Lodge has been converted into two private houses. As one of the original lodges for the children's home it was called Elizabeth Fry Lodge after the prison reformer and Newham Resident.
Hayter Court. This was a building of Aldersbrook Children’s Homes and is now sheltered housing managed by Springboard Housing Association, part of the Genesis Housing Group.
Buxton Lodge. Named for Edward North Buxton and one of the original lodges for the children’s home
Hood Lodge. As one of the original lodges for the children’s home named for Tom Hood, a local poet who lived for a while in adjacent Lake House
Joseph Lister Lodge. As one of the original lodges for the children’s home
Porters Lodge.

Centre Road
Plane trees were planted along the road by 1890
Wanstead Model Flying Club has operated here for many years, with a landing strip near Centre Road.
West side of the road is an area used by travelling fairs and circuses. In 2012 used by the Metropolitan police as a temporary Olympics headquarters


Dames Road
141 Holly Tree Pub


Lake House Road
Runs alongside the site of the Lake House on which Lake House Estate is now built.


Park Road
Aldersbrook Library. Another ‘community’ library. This was opened in 1950 in   an old garage once used to house a milk cart.


Richmond Way
Half way along the road is the approximate site of Lake House


Wanstead Flats
This is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1883, but on the 1805 map it is called Epping Forest. Thus the area is the southern-most portion of Epping Forest. The greater part is flat, open grassland on the river gravel and the nature of the area encouraged people to turn out cattle and other animals to graze on this unenclosed land. Some Landowners and occupiers have the 'right of common pasture' but in 1996 the BSE crisis forced removal of the cattle. Areas of the flats were also used to assemble cattle by drovers. There are thickets of gorse and broom, as and woods and copses, most planted in the 19th by the Epping Forest Committee,
Jubilee Pond until 2002 this was the Model Yacht Pond or Dames Road Pond. Until then it had stone banks, and Lack of repair and water supply meant that for many years the pond was often dry. There are three islands: Pigeon Island, Centre Island and South Island.
Prisoner of War camp in 1945 between Centre Road and Lake House Road. Some of them on the area later used as a fair ground, there were also camps on the Flats for 100,000 Italian prisoners of war in 1941. The Flats held sub-camps between 1939 and 1945 of a larger prisoner of war camp located on Carpenter’s Road, Stratford
SSSI. This is in an area called Police Scrape in the V junction of Lake House and Centre Roads. It is an area of acid grassland with some rare insects.

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Gospel Oak to Barking Railway. Forest Gate
The Gospel Oak to Barking Railway running from Leytonstone High Road goes south east to Wanstead Park Station and thenceforth eastwards

Post to the north Wanstead Flats


Bignold Road
Bignold Hall. This began in the 1870s with an iron room.  In 1881 a hall was built in the corner with Station Road and this became the largest Brethren's meeting in West Ham. In the Second World War it was bombed, and a new hall was opened in 1958. It appears now to  be used by a variety of organisations many of them Christian.


Capel Road
Joseph Fry drinking fountain. This is near the corner with Centre Road. Joseph Fry was the son of Elizabeth Fry and  arranged provision of drinking fountains for people and horses.

Chapter Road
This road, which ran diagonally between Forest Road and Forest Street, now seems to be under the school buildings
Congregational Church. In 1856 a building to replace that in Forest Lane was erected here. In 1884–8 it was replaced by a new church, in Sebert Road. It was kept but sold in 1930. 

Chestnut Avenue
In the 19th the north end of the road was called ‘Chestnut Walk’ and led to an estate fronting onto what is now Capel Road.
20-24 Brettells. Wood turners. This specialist family business began in Haggerston in the 1820s and moved to this site in 1980

Cranmer Road
Godwin Primary School. Godwin Road board school was opened in 1885 and reorganised in 1945 for juniors and infants

Dames Road
98 Church of God. A Small plain brick building constructed in 1894-5 for Christian Israelites repaired after war damage, 1952, with further work in 2002. It had originated about 1884, when a Christian Israelite began preaching on Wanstead Flats. One of his followers, Robert Rosier left to the Branch Society of Christian Israelites houses and land, here where the church was erected. In 1959 the Society of Christian Israelites sought to affiliate the church, but it refused to accept their doctrines, and in 1962 took on the name of Church of God (Forest Gate)
Forest Glen pub. Closed 2010

Earlham Grove
93-95 West Ham Synagogue Communal Hall. Built in 1927-8 by Bertie Crewe, the theatre specialist. It had a Star of David window. West Ham Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1897 and  became known as West Ham Associate Synagogue in 1907, when it became an Associate member of the United Synagogue. In 1927, it was renamed West Ham District Synagogue and merged with Upton Park In 1972. It closed in 2004. The site is now flats.
Synagogue. This was a Romanesque building from in 1911 by Bertie Crowe. It was behind the hall but was burnt down in 1984. Crewe had designed a number of London theatres for the Abrahams family who were noted on the foundation stone.
Church of the Holy Carpenter. Built on the front lawn of Durning Hall in 1963,
Durning Hall Community Centre. Complex built 1957-64 by Shingler & Risdon Associates.  This is owned by the Aston Charities Trust (ACT) set up following charitable work of the Durning, Smith and Lawrence families, in the East End. The first Durning Hall which was built as a community resource for the Limehouse area in 1884. In 1948, it was hope to build a new Durning Hall and ACT took over the site of a bombed cinema and shops in Woodgrange Road and the hall opened in 1959. In 1964, ACT opened a hostel here through an early Housing Association. The building has the church at the front and the hall and residential block set behind at right angles.  There is an Aston Charities coat of arms on the gable end and a tiled mural on the front of the community centre.
175 Church of the Cherubim and Seraphim. The Holy Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church has its UK headquarters here. It dates from the 1970s and is one of the earliest African congregations to settle in Newham. The building used is Earlham Hall built in front of the music college in 1897.  It was used for musical events.
175 Rev John Curwen was a congregational minister in Plaistow. He became interested in the musical work of Sarah Glover and based on her work, developed the Tonic Sol-Fa system and set up a press in Plaistow in 1863 to publish literature and music. In 1864 he opened the Tonic Sol-Fa College here and this was later taken on by his son. In 1890 the College moved to Finsbury and this became the Forest Gate School of Music under Harding Bonner. In 1906 it was renamed the Metropolitan Academy of Music and by 1926 it was the largest music institution in the country.  It closed during the Second World War. The building still stands behind the church which now uses the hall but has been remodelled.
199 Royal Mail building.  There is a war memorial in the sorting hall saying “In memory of those who fought in the First and Second World Wars” and “In memory of our gallant comrades who fell in the Great War. 1939-1945  "Their memory long will live."


Field Road
95 this site was a food factory until the 1950s.
70 Camden Arms. Demolished in 2008 and now replaced by flats but a Watney pub sign remains free standing outside
62 Healing Church of God in Christ
Methodist Church. This began in 1861 and school chapel was built and then a large church in 1870. It was renovated in 1930. The congregation finally united with that of Woodgrange Road in 1956 and four other local societies. Scruffy flats now on the site.


Forest Lane
Forest Gate British School was founded around 1830 by Jabez Legg, as part of the original Congregational church which then stood on the corner with Woodgrange Road, the position occupied by the original Congregational church. It was taken over by the school board in 1872.
Congregational Church. In 1831 Jabez Legg, and William Strange, built a chapel at their own expense on the corner with Woodgrange Road. 1856 a larger building was erected in Chapter Street. The chapel in Forest Lane, was sold but was a glass-works in 1965
173 The Forest Tavern. This was The Railway Tavern
178 Fox and Hounds pub
Forest Gate Cinema was opened in 1912 designed by J. Groom & P.J. Groom. By 1922 it was called Forest Lane Cinema. IT closed in 1932 and re-opened as the Splendid Cinema. It was closed in 1939, and demolished.  The site is now under the school
Clock. This is on a traffic island at the junction with Woodgrange Road. It is combined with a drinking fountain and a Horse & cattle trough. There are also two rectangular stone mounting blocks. This was originally set up in the middle of the market.
Railway footbridge. There is a series of decorative panels on the footbridge over the railway from
Norwich Road


Forest Street
Forest Gate Community School. This is a co-operative sponsored academy on the site of what was Whitehall School. It was previously a comprehensive school which had itself been a secondary modern school. There are murals around the play area showing London skyline
Whitehall School. This opened in 1896 and was reorganized in 1926 for mixed seniors and mixed juniors. in 1945 it became Forest Gate mixed secondary modern school. In 1965 it was transferred to new buildings as Forest Gate high school after the site had been redeveloped. In the 1920s and 1930s the Shakespeare day-continuation institute used part of the site
Shakespeare Institute. In 1921 West Ham Council introduced compulsory attendance at day-continuation institutes, including Shakespeare  which was based in Green Street, The Shakespeare later moved to Whitehall Place school and closed in 1936.


Macdonald Road
St Saviour’s Church. Built in 1904 by F. Danby Smith. What is here is the hall to a now-demolished church.  It is an original building Arts and Crafts building. This was built next to the church. Along with a vicarage.
St. Saviour's Church was on the corner with Station Road. It had begun as a as a mission of Emmanuel, Forest Gate in 1880 and an iron building erected in Macdonald Road. In 1884 a permanent church was built to the designs of Edwin Clare. In 1944 the church was damaged by bombing and closed and not reopened until 1949.  It was however demolished in 1977 and flats built on the site


Odessa Road
Leggs Almshouses. Jabez Legg built three cottages, known as Forest Gate Retreat, - as homes for his retired family female servants. Three more cottages were added in 1863.  After Legg's death, aged his family offered accommodation to needy, usually local, women.  The Legg Charitable Trust merged in 1939 with a similar organisation, in Wimbledon. This subsequently joined Pathways - a not-for-profit organisation dealing mainly with sheltered housing projects, in 2012
Odessa Road Primary School. West Ham School Board was set up in 1871 and within three years a Board School was built in Odessa Road. In 1945 the school was reorganised, for mixed juniors and infants.
181 two cast iron notices on the side of the house, he lower one sayes: W.H.P. BOUNDARY IS NINE FEET N.W. OF THIS HOUSE
Odessa Road Open Space. This is playing fields with play equipment and sports pitches.


Post Office Approach
1 Donald Hunter House. Built as Telephone House, a nine storey building for Post Office office use in 1958. It was previously the site of Forest Gate post office and of massive Second World War bombing. It was converted from offices in 2001 by the Peabody Trust and reclad with pink panels and a wavy-roofed single-storey block in front.  It is now student accommodation managed by the Unite Students Foundation. Donald Hunter was a doctor specializing in industrial medicine who was born locally. The ground floor is used for shops and other facilities


Romford Road
350-360- Police Station. This was built in 1992 by Property Services Department of the Met. Huge corner building.
342 Simpsons. Pub. This was previously the Freemasons Arms and is now closed
329 The Princess Alice, by Donald Hamilton, Wakeford & Partners built in. 1951 to replace an earlier pub destroyed by bombing.  Sadly it was named after the disaster of the Princess Alice’s sinking. It has a curved brickwork facade and is seen as being in Festival of Britain style. In 2007 it was renamed The Monastery and has since been closed.
328 Imamia Mission. Shia Mosque and Bab ul Ilm School
Emmanuel Church.  Built for the suburb between East and West Ham in 1850-2 by George Gilbert Scott. It is in ragstone, with a timber steeple. It was subdivided in 1980 with a suspended ceiling. 
Churchyard.  This is surrounded by plain cast iron railings and Tombs are set among grass with some mature trees including lime and sycamore.
333 Destiny Apostolic Church International.  Is this in the Emmanuel Institute?
Emmanuel Institute. Built in 1882 by Habershon & McDonall opposite the church, a library and reading room although these were never built. The building was sold in 1982
306 Barclays Bank. Modern building replacing a grand and gothic predecessor.
302 The Queen’s Cinema opened in 1913 designed by architect W.R. Jackson. It was operated by Forest Gate Estates Ltd. In 1926 it was taken over by Abraham’s Super Suburban Cinemas, who closed it in May 1928 and it reopened in with changes by Leathart & Granger. It was re-named the New Queen’s Cinema and could stage variety shows. It had a Christie 2Manual theatre organ. In 1929 it was taken over by Associated British Cinemas but in 1941 it had a direct hit from a German parachute mine and was destroyed beyond repair, the organ was salvaged and used in the Regal, Halifax.  It was replaced with shops and offices.
300 Natwest Bank was built as the London and County Bank in 1900, by Zephaniah King and Co.  It is in buff lime stone with classical motifs to convey a feeling of stability and probity. The bank’s insignia is on the front. It is the sole survivor of the late Victorian development here.
292-296 Minhaj-Al-Quran Mosque and Cultural Centre., Minhaj-ul-Quran is a broad-based Islamic organisation representing a moderate vision of Islam, working for peace and integration. Its first British base was this building. The organisation promotes education of classical Islam and modern Islam. The building was an Odeon Art Deco styled cinema by Andrew Mother which opened in 1937 and survived wartime bombing although damaged. It was operated by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. Chain but is unlike other Odeons of that date.  Brick with grey ashlar facing. Some of the original decoration, including a figure of Pan, have been removed and destroyed. It was closed by the Rank Organisation in 1975 and converted into a snooker club. That closed in 1994.
Woodgrange Baptist Church. This began about 1880, with services in a hut lent by the builder of the Woodgrange estate. In 1882 a church was built with J. H. French as pastor. In 1899 the Richmond hall was built behind the church and later renamed the French Memorial Hall. French, was president of the London Baptist Association . The buildings were damaged by bombing in the Second World War but were repaired


Sebert Road
West Ham Hall, a large house that stood on the site now occupied by Woodgrange School. This was earlier called Hamfrith Farm and its fields were the site of what is the Godwin and Sebert Road Estate and Manor Park Cemetery. In 1787 it belonged to John Greenhill who built Hamfrith House here about 1800. In about 1890 it was bought by the Tottenham & Forest Gate Junction Railway, who sold it to West Ham School Board who demolished the house, some time after 1893. In 1966 the site was a depot belonging to Newham Council. It was then used as the site for Woodgrange Primary school in 1986. The gates to the house remain as the gates to the school.
Woodgrange Infants School. Built in 1970
Congregational Church. Built 1884 by Francis J. Sturdy in brick.   It has two octagonal towers, one with a dome. It has a grand interior with galleries on three sides, on iron columns. The church orignated in 1825 in a chapel in Forest Lane and later in Chapter Street. In the 1880s William Skinner built a new church here for what was then a new housing estate. It is now in use by other churches - Has since been Miracle Ministry Mission and is now AEC4UK – A Radical Church.


Station Road
Field Point. Local authority tower block.
147 Field Community Centre. Providing a range of activities.
16 Earl of Derby, closed and now a nursery


Wanstead Flats
This is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1883, but on the 1805 map it is called Epping Forest. Thus the area is the southern-most portion of Epping Forest and often called Lower Forest. Some of the southern sections are in West Ham and have been managed, by them since 1894
Bandstand Pond.  Originally called Angel Pond after Lewis Angell surveyor and engineer who planned it.  In the early 20th century there were paddle boats for children,
Near the pond is a circle of trees where the bandstand stood which was used for open air concerts. 


Woodford Road
1 Forest Gate Learning Zone and Adult Education Centre
1 Forest Gate Youth Centre


Woodgrange Road
Forest Gate gets its name from a put up in the 17th century to stop straying from Wanstead Flats. It is first mentioned in 1693. In 1851 the Lord of Woodgrange Manor erected a new five-bar gate cross Woodgrange Road. and this was there until about 1883. It was situated near the Eagle & Child pub. The area was part of ‘Hamforth Wood’ until 1700. 
Woodgrange Farm was recorded in 1189 as a holding of the Cistercian Abbey at Stratford. It was leased out to tenant farmers until the dissolution in 1538.  It stood on the west side of the road. It and its land were developed by Thomas and Cameron Corbett between 1877 and 1892. They built 1,160 good quality houses of four to six bedrooms, many with attached servant’s quarters for city business men, and professionals.
4-20 The Library and Local Service Centre is at The Gate and is a multi-purpose community facility where people can access a range of library and council services. The building was opened in 2003 and replaced the older library further along Woodgrange Road. It is now in the ground floor of Donald Hunter House
13 Kings Cinema. This was designed by J. Baker and Co., as the Forest Gate Public Hall and opened in 1902. It was set back from the road and it included inside stage facilities and a ballroom. In 1907 it was renamed Grand Theatre, in 1908 the People’s Picture Palace and in 1910 the Public Hall. It Closed in 1920, and re-opened as the Grand Cinema.  Operated by London & Provincial Cinemas Ltd. It closed in 1932 until 1935 and again until 1937, when it re-opened as the King’s Cinema. This closed in around 1940. It was later used as a roller skating rink, a clothing factory, a nightclub and an electrical store until 2000. The building was demolished in 2005.
Wanstead Park Station. This opened in 1894 and now lies between Woodgrange Park and Leytonstone High Road stations. It was built by the Tottenham & Forest Gate railway and the line runs on a brick viaduct through Forest Gate about which there were lots of protests. Before opening it was known as Forest Gate Station. There was no goods yard.  The original platform buildings were removed in 1970 and brick shelters built. At the same time the booking office was replaced by a portacabin.  Later access was proved from Woodgrange Road instead of Station Approach.
Signal Box. This dated from the opening of the line and closed in 1965.
14-39 shops built in the late 1890s on the site of the Pawnbrokers' Almshouses built in 1847 by the Pawnbrokers Charitable Institution. They were in 'Elizabethan' style set back behind landscaped gardens.
55 the Forest Gate Electric Theatre opened in 1910 designed by G.J. Valentine. It was re-named Imperial Playhouse and owned by Smithers & Spindler. In 1922 it was taken over by London and Provincial Cinemas Ltd.  It closed for alterations in 1932 by Gledhall & Wigmore and it re-opened in 1935 as the Regal Cinema, operated by Abraham’s Suburban Cinemas Ltd.  It closed in 1938 and re-opened as Rio Cinema.   It was closed in early-1944.The building has been demolished and there are new shops on the site.
59 was one of the shops bought up as part of Durning Hall but used by them until the hall was built. It was used by the Busby Scouts add remained a scout shop for some years
79 Congregational chapel. In 1831 Legg and William Strange built a chapel in Woodgrange Road near its junction with Forest Lane. The Kings Hall Cinema opened in 1910 in a building of the Forest Gate British School. It closed in 1914. The building was occupied by W.J. Biles glaziers in the 1990’s. In 2009, it is a discount shop called Pound Plaza.
112 Eagle and Child. The pub dated from the 1740s and is shown on the Roque plan, and at the entrance to “The Lower Forest” on the Chapman and Andres map of 1777 but had been rebuilt 1896. On the ground floor façade are five, carved wooden reliefs of drinkers, musicians, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.  It is thought thse date from the 1920s. The name comes from the storey that Sir Thomas Latham, who had no natural heir, adopted a baby boy that was found on his estate under a tree guarded by an eagle. The child inherited the estate and his daughter married into the Stanley family who became the Earls of Derby and the eagle and child are on their coat of arms. The pub and a neighbouring print works have been converted to Raymond Chadburn flats, with a pharmacy on the ground floor.
A gate with a toll-house was built across the Road close to the pub.
121 Lord Lister Health centre
176 Gatsby pub, Short lived pub, also known as Mickey Finns. It closed in 1993
Compass points in the pavement on the corner of Sebert and Woodgrange Roads. This is a circle 14 /metres in diameter. It is surrounded by four seats and has a large cross in the centre whose arms point to the cardinal points.
The Bijou Theatre was opened before to 1908 and was part of Gales Bioscope Theatres chain. It was closed by the local council in February 1909, because of safety concerns.
Forest Gate Station. Opened in 1854 on the line to Tilbury it now lies bBetween Manor Park and Maryland. It was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway. The original entrance was in Forest Lane but from 1870 it was in Woodgrange Road. Soon after platforms were lengthened and siding provided for terminating trains.  It was then rebuilt in the early 1890s.
Florist’s kiosk in front of Forest Gate Station. The dome was a feature of the railway station, but was removed when the station was Therefurbished. It was originally on the corner of the main building.
Market Place – these words are above the shops on the corner with Sebert Road. This is the site of the old local market.
Forest Gate Methodist Church and Hall.  The church began in 1878 when the Stratford circuit built an iron church here. In 1881-2 a permanent church was built but this was bombed in the Second World War. In 1956 a dual purpose hall was built on the Woodgrange and in 1962 a new church was built by Paul Mauger to show his ideas that Methodist churches should be more explicitly community minded. It replaced a large church of 1890. The hall opened in 1956.  The church is simple, with a  sculpture "The Preacher', modelled in 'Pericrete' by Peter Peri. It is held in this position because it is counterbalanced by the church organ. There is also a foundation stone with the five local uniting societies involved named
Drinking fountain in granite, donated by A.C. Corbett in 1890 who developed the Woodgrange Estate.  In the centre is a cast-iron column supporting a clock, by James Rowly and Parkes Co. of Clerkenwell.
Emmanuel (later St. Saviour's) National school, was built in 1853 on a site, given by Samuel Gurney, at the corner  with Forest Street.. it was closed in 1894.


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Gospel Oak to Barking Rail line
The line from Gospel Oak to Barking runs eastwards from Wanstead Park Station to Woodgrange Park

Post to the west Forest Gate

Balmoral Road
1a Elfes Moumental Masons. family run traditional stonemasons. established since 1894.

Bluebell Avenue
Housing on the site of Woodgrange Park Goods Depot.

Capel Road
166 Golden Fleece pub

Clarence road
Housing north of Cumberland Road on the site of rail sidings on the London Tilbury and Southend Railway serving Forest Gate goods depot.

Forest Gate Junction
This is where the original London Tilbury and Southend railway of 1854 diverted from the Eastern Coast main line.  The Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway – now the Gospel Oak to Barking line crosses it on a viaduct and then merges with it to the south.
Signal Box. This was by the down side of the line west of the Gospel Oak-Barking Line viaduct. It closed in 1996 and was soon after demolished.

Gladding Road
Manor House. The house is said to have been built by the Lord of the Manor of West Ham on the Hamfrith estate as the East Ham Burnel Manor House.Apparently no ancient manor-house is known to have existed for West Ham. |At some time before 1848 the then lord, Edward Humphreys, was said to have had, sold ' the Manor House” to the Eastern Counties Railway”. It had been owned by the Railwaysince 1839, with the Fry family living there as tenants. In 1866, it was sold to the Victoria Land Co.and the grounds built over. The house itself is a 3-storey building been built between 1799 and 1838 but is thought to have had earlier origins.  It has a central 19th timber clock and bell turret with a dome but the clock is missing.  It is now flats.
St.Nicholas Roman Catholic Industrial Schools.  The school had been founded in 1855 by Cardinal Wiseman, in Shernhall Street, Walthamstow and transferred to Manor Park in 1868. It was run by the Sisters of Mercy and set up to receive destitute boys, not convicted of crime, and committed to the School by magistrates. It closed in 1922 and in 1925 the whole of the school site apart from the chapel and the presbytery was bought by the London Co-operative Society.  The school buildings were later demolished.
St. Nicholas Church. Built 1869-70 by Gilbert Blount.  The church originated as a chapel attached to Roman Catholic industrial schools in the Manor House, established by Cardinal Manning.  It was bombed in the Second World War.  It is in grey brick and a ‘homely’ interior.
Presbytery,  In 1988 the Sisters of the Sacred Heart took up residence here
Co-op Dairy. By the London Co-operative Co. as their principal a milk depot including offices and a bottling plant.

Hampton Road
All Saints Church. Built in 1886by A. W.Blomfield in knapped-flint facing. Inside are a few embellishments -  three mosaic panels set in brick recesses and glass presumably by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars.


Katherine Road
This was previously called Red Post Lane
United Methodist Church. A church was opened on the corner with Sandringham road in 1907 and a church in Stratford closed and its work transferred here. It was bombed in 1941. It closed in 1957 and demolished. The site is now flats.
Bristol smelting and Refining works T. Callow & Co. In the 1890s they were on a large site here with the Bristol (or British) Smelting and Refining Works. This may or may not have been T.Callow and Sons, Silversmiths of Park Lane.

Lorne Road
St Mark’s church.  The church began in a cowshed on Tylney Road, which was converted into a mission church.In 1886 land was bought for a church and Parsonage. The new church, by E.P Loftus Brock, was consecrated in 1893 and a hall added in 1905.  The church was rebuilt in the 1980s by APEC Architects for multi-purpose use. It is small and single storey. The church itself white-walled, with movable furnishings.  It includes a stained glass War Memorial window from the old church in 1920 by Herbert Hendne of Lowndes & Drury with a crucifixion and soldier with sword of justice and angels above.


Romford Road
566 Vacant site. This is the site shown as a ‘Recreation Hall’ in 1894. In 1904 it was used as meeting room for Brethren, but also at the same time a venue for boxing matches.  Later it was Manor Park Liberal Club. And then JBs Dance Studios. Latterly it was a pub called Kiran Lounge and was demolished sometime after 2008.  It was a small gothic building with steps up to an entrance above ground level.
Woodgrange Park station. Opened in 1894 it now lies Between Barking and Wanstead Park stations on the line from Gospel Oak and South Tottenham. Track was laid here in 1854 as part of the first section of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway from Forest Gate Junction on the Eastern Counties Railway to Barking. In 1894 the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway opened a line to Tottenham from this junction and this station was then opened. The line was electrified here in 1962 as part of the modernisation of the old London Tilbury and Southern Railway although their trains pass through the station and do not stop.  The original platform buildings were in brick but demolished in the 1970s. The station ticket office was demolished in the late 1990s and made into a cycle rack. The footbridge was removed in 1994.  Staff since operate from a portable office.
Woodgrange Park Goods Depot. This opened in 1895 and was used as a coal depot. It closed in 1964.  The site is now housing
Signal Box. This opened in 1894 and was closed in 1996.
540 WoodgrangePark Cemetery.  Established 1890 the Cemetery is unconsecrated, privately owned and operated. The owner is a private company, Badgehurst Ltd., based in Essex which took over the cemetery in its current state in 1981.  the Woodgrange Estate, was built by Corbett & Son between 1877 and 1892, providing over 1,100 dwellings on the site of Woodgrange Farm.  Woodgrange Park Cemetery was established in 1889 by a private cemetery company.  Near the entrance is a ruined Gothic chapel with a small tower flanked by the grandest angels and red-granite columns. There is also a War Memorial with cross of sacrifice. The eastern part has been sold off for a private housing development by Badgehurst Ltd. This needed a private Act of Parliament. In the process of site clearance numerous graves and tombs were removed, and remains interred in the Memorial Garden of Remembrance, elsewhere in the cemetery.  According to the London Ecology Unit's survey in 1991, it is a haven for wildlife, then having 32 species of birds breeding, as well as amphibians and reptiles. Near the chapel the Muslim Patel Burial Trust maintain a private burial area, fenced off behind green-painted railings and gates.
528 Rising Sun
512a  Quakers Place. New housing on the site of the Bard Bros Factory.   They made jellied sweets and were eventually taken over by Butterkist
Plashet Hall. This house locally known as Potato Hall was to the east of the junction of Romford Road and Katherine Road. This was a large house with ornamental grounds in occupation by a farming family. By the late 1880s it seems to have been owed by North Metropolitan Tramways.
Tramway Depot. This occupied the yard on the western side of Plashet Hall and was also known as Plashet Hall Works.  The depot was used as the eastern end of a tramway line from Stratford on which were run experimentally seven cars of the American Elieson Motor – this was a battery operated vehicle which was charged at the Stratford Works. They were manufactured in this country by the Compton Company.  The works was sold in 1893 together with the tram cars and their dynamos.
Animal charcoal works. This was at the top of Katherine Road adjacent to what became the tramway depot on the other corner. It may have been Charles Hart’s knackers’ yard – since the bones processed for the charcoal probably came from slaughtered horses.  Animal charcoal was used as a filter particularly in the sugar industry.
392 Temptations. This pub was previously the Waggon and Horses. There is a 'London & Burton Brewery Sparkling Ales' sign outside
Cook’s Bioscope. This small cinema was here before 1910 could not meet the requirements of the 1910, Cinematograph Licencing Act, and was closed.
447-451 Forest Gate Mosque. This is in shop premises. It includes the Imam Zakariyah Academy Primary School, The Bangladesh Muslim Shomity Ltd
370 Former Police Station. This was built in 1888 by John Butler, Metropolitan Police Surveyor.  It was funded by the residents of the Woodgrange Estate, after complaints about 'the throwing of bricks and brick bats at the windows of properties careless of the safety off ladies therein'.  It is in red brick and now in other use.

Salisbury Road
Woodgrange Laundry

Sandringham Road
Sandringham School. Built in 1895 by Robert L. Curtis. A three-decker board school on a large scale. The roof has a cupola with spike and six ventilating turrets. It was opened as an infants school by East Ham School Board  in 1896. In 1921 part of it became a central school. In 1945 it was again reorganized for infants and Secondary (modern) boys. It is now a primary school.

Sebert Road
244 Jireh Chapel, this began in 1888, when Mr. Allen began to hold meetings at 133. The chapel was built in 1921 with materials from a chapel demolished at Woburn Sands.
133 Jireh Lodge. In 1888 Mr Allen began to hold meetings in a building here and later moved to the chapel at 244.  Jireh Lodge was sold after 1921 and used by the Seventh Day Adventists and later by a builder.  It now appears to be a ruin and is apparently fire damaged.
Manor Park Cemetery.  Site of the eastern part of the Hamfrith manor - rest of it went for building in 1874.  A pprivate cemetery the Company having been managed by the same family since its foundation. the first interment took place in 1875. Chapel of 1877,  bombed in 1944 and rebuilt after the crematorium was added in 1955. There are 226 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 191 of the 1939-1945 war here. There are also 2 non World War burials. Those whose graves could not be marked on a headstone are named on a Screen Wall memorial.  Part of it has been abandoned and become oak woodland and grass with birds. 

Shrewsbury Road
Shrewsbury Children’s Centre

Station Road
Manor Park Station. Built in 1872 it lies Between Ilford and Forest Gate on the Great Eastern Main Line and originally intended to be called Little Ilford.   It was completely rebuilt when the line was quadrupled in 1894 but it was then bombed in the Second World War.  It is intended that this will be a station for the Crossrail service

Whitta Road
Co-op Funeral Care
Archway into Comet Close with Co-op plaque

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Gospel Oak to Barking Railway,
The Gospel Oak to Barking Railway line runs south eastwards from Woodgrange Park Station towards Barking,

Post to the west Manor Park
Post to the north Aldersbrook
Post to the east Little Ilford

Bluebell Avenue
New housing on what was the site of the Woodgrange Park Station goods yard and entered via a path from Warwick Avenue which goes through the old area of the line and under the main road
Woodgrange Park Community Centre


Browning Road
Little Ilford School. Secondary School. Founded in 1957. The site was previously used for Rectory Manor School, a local authority girls' school.
Sri Murugan Temple. The decorations follow Tamil traditions.  The start of the temple was in 1975 when a group of Hindus from the Tamil community in London got together to plan and fund raise.  A programme of religious meetings and social events became regular features.  A number of sites were considered but, because so many members lived in East London, this site was acquired in 1978 for a temple to be constructed in traditional style.   It was opened in 1984.  The central granite shrine belongs to Lord Muruga, one of the two sons of Parvathi and Shiva. His brother, Ganesh, is on his right, and father Shiva on his left. Lord Muruga is the sole supreme lord who holds the three aspects of the holy trinity, Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. The shrines are carved from black granite shipped from India. The building follows a design drawn by architect Sri Muthiah Sthapathi and chief priest, Sri Naganathsivam Kurukka and architect Terry Freeman worked on the construction with a team of Indian experts


Carlyle Road
St. Saviour's church. This was built in 1894–5, where an iron church had stood earlier. It was a Reformed Episcopal Church building. In 1905 it, or an adjoining building, was taken over by the Salvation Army, who remained there until 1920.  The East Ham, Manor Park, and Ilford District Synagogue was consecrated here in 1900 and rebuilt in 1927. In 1947 the synagogue took over the adjoining building as a youth centre.  It closed in 1986 and the buildings are now the Gurdwara and community centre.
Shri Guru Ravidass Gurdwara. The members of this mission believe in Shri Guru Ravidas Ji as their prophet and revere him as Guru, the embodiment of God. The devotees are known as Ravidassia’s.  In 1965 members celebrated the 558th birth anniversary of Shri Guru Ravidas Ji Maharaj decided to hold regular gatherings to worship and learn the teachings. In 1985, the Sabha purchased a premises formerly used as a Synagogue in Carlyle Road and in 1987 also purchased the neighbouring building for use as a community centre.. Unfortunately there was then a split over doctrine and many of the congregation left.

Church Road
31 small hall which was used by CARE Newham and a number of other voluntary sector organisations. 
2a Church Road Masjid Mosque. This is in a large building which looks industrial
East Ham Electricity Substation. This was built in Church Road in 1931 for the East Ham Municipal Electricity Department. It had two 1,000 kw. motor converters by the English Electric Co., Ltd., a five- panel Whitehead type E.H.T installed.
School.  In 1865 a National day-school was built on glebe land with grants from the government and the National Society and this school was extended in subsequent years. In 1887, when a school board was formed, it was immediately taken over and the children moved elsewhere although and from 1901 it were used for church purposes. In 1951 it was sold to East Ham borough council which demolished them and built flats now called Leamington Close
30 Clinic. This opened in 1936 providing maternity and children's welfare services and dental care. The building was demolished and the E12 Health Centre opened on the site in 2004.
E12 Health Centre GP based clinic opened in 2004
30a Royal British Legion. This club has now closed but the local branch of the Legion still operates from here.
121 Darus Salaam Mosque. Madrassa and welfare centre
56-62 Church Road Studios. This is in the buildings of what was the Advance Laundry. Advance was a national company with many laundries and services. They were a subsidiary of British Electric Traction itself an associate of Rentokil.  They were eventually merged with Initial Towel Services which still operates under Rentokil.
78 Sri Murgan Temple, the entrance is in Browning Road
90 Avenue Pub. This is closed and is now the site of the Hindu Temple. The building is still there.
Manor Park Youth Institute 1952-1956
St Winefride’s Roman Catholic Primary school. The school dates from 1909 but has since been enlarged.
St Mary. The church is now part of the parish of St. Michael and All Angels which is in Romford Road. St. Mary’s is a tiny medieval church in an ancient churchyard. Excavation has uncovered Romano-British pottery, and posthole evidence of a Saxon church. The doors and windows of the current church are Norman and the walls are a mixture of rag stone rubble, flint, chalk, and Roman tile, owing to the lack of natural stone in the area. The nave could well be older than the estimated late 12th century. There is a timber bell turret.  The interior has a Georgian character with cream-painted plastered walls, grained panels of painted wood, and Hanoverian Royal arms.  The Organ is later 19th. There is a brick Lethieullier Chapel with family monuments and eulogies and many other monuments in the main body of the church.
Churchyard. This is enclosed by a row of blackened brick kiln wasters.  There are several railed chest tombs and headstones with the device of a soul borne by angels with two identified war graves.
St Stephen. Roman Catholic Church founded in 1918 and built in 1924.  The church is by D.R. Buries & Buries, steel-framed, faced in grey brick, with a pinnacle spire.

Eighth Avenue
Gloy Works. Gloy glue and other adhesive pastes was made here by A. Wilme Collier & Co in 1907 – this was later Associated Adhesives.

Fifth Avenue
Chancery Court. New build flats on the site of a vehicle repair business. Uses themes relating to 16th costume in design because of the adjacent school named for local landowner Sir John Heron.

Herbert Road
Wesley House. This relates to the church adjacent to it in Romford Road. I was built following the amalgamation of two Methodist groups here in 1934 and was built with money from the sale of a church in Romford Road as a Sunday school and institute.  It dates from 1937 and was designed by R.J.L. Slater. Its severe exterior hides internal spaces with provision for play schools and functions and an oak-panelled chapel upstairs.

High Street North
The road is called White Post Lane on earlier maps
524 Manor Park Community Centre. This was formerly Rehoboth Strict Baptist Chapel. This began in 1830 with a group from Stepney. This church was built in 1907 add a new school room added in1928. The church closed in the mid-1970s and the building converted into Manor Park Community Centre.
500 Revival House – this is a Kenyan church group.  The Capstone Church is also at this address.  It seems previously to have been the Manor Park Constitutional Club, who went into liquidation in 2002.
501 Royal Regency Banqueting Hall. This was the Coronation Electric Theatre which opened in 1911 designed by architect Stanley Burwood and operated by the Fredericks Circuit. It closed in 1920 to be enlarged by Clifford A. Aish and re-opened as the New Coronation Cinema in 1921.  It was decorated in flamboyant style - “unusually lavish” with full stage facilities, an organ and a cafe. It was owned by Abraham’s Suburban Super Cinemas Ltd. until 1929 when it was taken over by Associated British Cinemas. It was hen wired for sound and a Compton 3Manual/8Ranks organ was installed. It closed in 1968 and was converted into a Mecca Bingo Club painted in a lurid colour-scheme. Bingo closed in 1985 and it was converted into a snooker club which remained open until 2008. In 2009, the building it became the Royal Regency and the outside has been re-painted and inside the original ceiling and decorations have been restored.
Salisbury Primary School. This was opened as Manor Park Board School in 1893. In 1924 it was renamed Salisbury and reorganised. Since 1945 it has been for juniors and infants and is now a primary school.
495 Building which was originally used by the Territorial Army but which has been used by Newham Council and become part of the school to the rear.
454 Manor Park Christian Centre. The church is part of the Evangelical Alliance and includes a Tamil Church. The building was originally Manor Park Tabernacle, a Baptist church.  In 1889 there were meetings in a local school and a shop. In 1897 the church bought five plots of land on the corner of High Street North opened an iron church there. In 1906 a larger church was built on adjoining land and - Sunday School Halls followed in 1925. The church was affected by Second World War bomb damage and the Sunday School Hall was used by the local authority until 1953. Membership figures dropped and the church withdrew from the Baptist Union and the main building was derelict. In 1984 an independent Tamil speaking church, began to meet in the side hall and then in 1986 ‘the East London Christian Fellowship joined the Church. They were a break away from the Assemblies of God in Plashet Grove. The main church buildings have been modernized and made ‘user-friendly’ and are used by worshippers from many different nationalities, and cultural backgrounds
442-444 Baitur Rahman Masjid. Banglashdeshi institution in two converted shops.
East Ham United Services Club. This was on the corner of Salisbury Road but has been replaced by flats
Leamington Close
Flats on the site of a previous National School.

Little Ilford Lane
54-68 Azhar Academy. Suppliers of Islamic books.  This is basically on the site of what was the Gloy Glue Works.


Manpreet Close
Housing on the site of a council yard

Rabbits Road
Rabbits Road gets its name from the pub that stood on the corner and is now a chemists shop.
Rabbits farm- this farm appears on maps before 1900 roughly at the northern end of the road

Rectory Road
Little Ilford Learning Zone. Adult Education classes.

Romford Road
616 Earl of Essex.  Pub which is now closed. Over the entrance in Romford Road there is an inscribed stone that the pub was "erected Coronation Year 1902". The coronation was that of King Edward VII.
654 Cosy Corner Picture Palace. This was a shop turned into Electric Bioscope Theatre and operated by a Mr Dickman in 1914. It closed in the early-1920’s, and was eventually demolished to become a car park
685-693 Manor Park Library.  This was built and designed in 1905 by the then Borough Engineer, A.H. Campbell.  It is in red brick and terracotta with all sorts of decorative features. The foundation stone was laid by Passmore Edwards but it was Andrew Carnegie who the leading funder. There are various busts and names of literary figures on the walls -Longfellow, Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson - Burns and Scott, and a bust of Carnegie himself. Inside there is a circular lobby with doors with Art Nouveau glass.
722-744 Shah Jahal Mosque. This is also Manor Park Islamic Cultural Centre.
776a Celestial Church of Christ. The Seventh Year Parish. The building was originally a Methodist Church Built in about 1901. The Celestial Church took it over in 1992 by which time it was the Little Eye Youth Club. It has a prominent tower in striped brick.
833 Three Rabbits pub. Apparently it was named because the area was known for its rabbit warrens. This is closed and is a chemists shop and flats.
855 Froud Centre. St. Michael’s church replacing a former arts and crafts building from 1897-8.  The new church, community centre, and flat are, named after Jimmy Froud, a past warden of Durning Hall and built in 1990 by APEG.  It is part of the Aston Mansfield charitable organisation which owns and manages a number of centres and settlements in east London.  There is a freestanding figure of St Michael slaying the devil by Crutchley. Wooden triptych War Memorial with names on it behind hinged doors. 
Methodist Church.  Church building opened in 2009. It replaces a church built in 1964, that was badly damaged by fire (believed to be arson) in 2003. This too replaced a church built in 1891 which replaced one built in 1870. The first congregation met in an old beer-shop and then in a skittle alley.
County Gaol, This stood on the site between Worcester and Gloucester roads. As the County Gaol, Little Ilford house of Correction was built in 1829–31 by Essex quarter sessions. It was run on the ‘silent system’, had about 60 cells, 8 day wards, 10 airing yards, and a tread-mill.  In 1860 it became a gaol for prisoners on remand or serving short sentences. It was closed in 1878 and demolished soon after.


School Road
Sir John Heron Primary School. This opened in 2001 – and its web it says it is on the site of the ‘Fifth Avenue School’. Avenue Junior and Infants schools were opemed in Fourth Avenue 1890 by Little Ilford School Board as the successor to the former National school in Church Road. They appear to have been called Fourth Avenue School and were between Vernon Avenue and School Road, which then ran parallel to Vernon Avenue. In 1929 the school was reorganized and called Avenue School. During the Second World War the infants’ school was destroyed by bombing and reopened in a temporary building in 1947. By the early 1960s the school had buildings on both sides of School Road.  Sir John Heron appears to have held land in Wanstead in the 16th.

Sheridan Road
Essex Primary School. Essex Road board school was opened in 1898 by Little Ilford School Board. It was reorganised in 1929 and again in 1945. In 1952, secondary pupils were transferred to a new Rectory Manor building, and Essex became a school for juniors and infants

Sixth Avenue
38 ex-industrial site which appears to be in private educational use

Snowshill Park
16-18 Kingdom Life Chapel International

Station Road
Blakesley Arms.  This dates from 1887, with terracotta detailing.


Sheringham Avenue
Little Ilford Baptist Church. This is Little Ilford Tabernacle founded in 1889.It was originally in what was then White Post Lane but in 1895 an iron building was erected in Salisbury Road. In 1900 the congregation moved to Little Ilford Lane again using an iron building. The present church was built in 1905. In 1957 a new hall for youth work, was added and it as a mural painting in it of 'Pilgrim's Progress'.
Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre. Post Second World War buildings on a site previously used for 19th housing.
Sheringham Primary School The school dated from the 1970s and appears to be a post- Second World War foundation on a site previously used for 19th housing. It has recently been rebuilt

Third Avenue
Little Ilford Spiritualist Church. This began in a shop in Church Road as a Christian Spiritualist Church. In 1925 land became available in Third Avenue and members built a new Church which was later extended. This building has a large as well as an office used by the mediums a healing and circle room.  The site is likely to be rebuilt as flats in order to fund building repairs. The church will then be renamed Newham SNU Spiritualist Centre.

Toronto Avenue
1 mosaic Attached to St Michael and All Angels Church

Warwick Road
London Electricity Woodgrange Park Sub-Station on the site of an earlier coal yard


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Aston Mansfield. Web site
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Revival House. Web site.
Salisbury Primary School. Web site
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River Tillingbourne
The Tillingbourne flows westwards, and divides into two, both flowing south westwards, There are also associated mill leats

Colyers Hangar
Colyers Hangar. This is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is on the south-facing escarpment of the Greensand Ridge, on St. Martha's Hill. It includes Ancient Woodland and an area of heath land. It is of particular interest for the diversity of the woodland which results from the geological diversity. Coarse sands in the upper slopes support pedunculate oak/birch/hazel woodland. The middle slopes support an ash and maple on light sandy soils and material leached from an outcrop of Bargate Stone. On the lower slopes at the spring line is alder. These last two are nationally rare.  It is said to be called ‘collier’s’ because of workers there who supplied charcoal to the gunpowder industry along the riverside below  - and alder wood was particularly suitable and often planted for the purpose.

Guildford Lane
Pillbox at the junction with the North Downs Way.  The pillboxes are on the Second World War stop line and were constructed by Mowlems to their design of a quickly constructed circular pillbox using metal shuttering
Pillbox in field.
Keepers Cottage

Lidwell Copse
Lid Well and stream to the Tillingbourne

Mill Lane
Mill – the mill here, at the northernmost point of Mill Lane has had a variety of names and uses.  The site here is on the parish boundary.  The Upper Mill, Waterloo Pond and Postford Pond are not in this square.
Lower Mill.  A mill here probably originates with the 'Kings Mill' in 1636  ie it was funded with money from the Crown.  A new gunpowder mill was set up with six incorporating mills on the site of Postford Mill in 1677 by Cordwell and Collins.  Sir Polycarpus Wharton, an existing gunpowder maker, was instructed to sort out problems with the gunpowder milling complex at Chilworth, including this mill the derelict remains of which appear on a survey of 1728.  The mill appears to have been abandoned in the early 18th.   The Upper Mill of this time is on the square to the east.
Postford Mill. This is the site of what was then Postford Lower Mill on Postford Pond. The Upper Mill is to the east in the next square. The Lower Mill was leased as a paper mill in 1809 by Charles Ball.  They made paper for banknotes and became bankrupt and the mill was for sale by 1821. They were taken over by Magnay and Sons, the mill was refurbished and by the mid 1830s was producing paper and a Foudrinier machine was installed. In the 1840s it was said to be the principal producer of paper in Surrey.   By the 1859s a series of operators went through many financial difficulties. The site became a flock mill but in 1886 there was a serious fire.  In 1909 the site was taken over by Charles Botting.
Bottings Mill. In 1910 Charles Botting built a turbine powered roller mill for animal feed.  This closed in 1991. There was an associated fish farm. A cast iron mill wheel from Clandon Park was installed here by the Surrey Industrial History Group.  The mill buildings were however demolished for the posh housing now on site.
Postford Mill Cottages. The original cottages were converted from the cordite press house of the Cordite factory. They were replaced by the present cottages in the 198-s.
Mill Reach – posh new offices and housing on the site of the works associated with the mill. Various ‘keep out’ notices.
Pill box to the west of the mill in the inner angle of a leat. This was part of the Second World War stop line.
Brown prismatic powder works. This dated from the 1880s and eventually spread up the north bank of the Tillingbourne.  It was set up by a specially formed Chilworth Gunpowder Company.  A row of six steam powered incorporating mills were built in 1885 and conserved by the local authority in the 1990s and they lie along the riverbank.  They have a German maker's mark of 'Burbach 1884'.  A row of brick press houses remain north of the Tillingbourne.
Cordite factory. This covered the area south of the Tillingbourne and eventually to the Dorking Road.  This Smokeless Powder Factory dated from the 1880s and was German owned, until in 1901 Vickers had a 40% ownership and it became British owned in 1915.  This was extended into a second factory to the south for the Admiralty in the Great War. A barrel roofed solvent recovery store remains.


White Lane
White Lane Farm. 18th farmhouse which is timber framed with red brick cladding on the front.
Barn. This has the date of 1783 on a beam. It is timber framed on a whitewashed and painted rubble plinth


Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Colyers Hanger. Wikipedia. Web site
Crocker. Damnable Inventions
Gunpowder Mills Study Group Newsletter
Guildford Borough Council. Website
Haveron. Industrial History of Guildford
Surrey Local History Council. Surrey History

River Tillingbourne
The Tillingbourne flows south westwards in two parallel streams.

Post to the north Postford Mill

Chilworth Road
Opened in 1876 and cuts across the end of Postford Pond
Postford House. This was built as Postford Hill by Charles Ball in 1796. He was one of a family of paper makers involved in the industry locally.  It was later the home of William Magnay wholesale stationer and Lord Mayor of London in 1844 and a number of subsequent wealthy residents. It was used as a hospital in the Great   War. In 1956 a purpose-built shed housed a model railway layout.
Postford House Mill. This mill was built by the paper making Mangays and is still standing near the entrance to the drive in the grounds of the house where it powered a saw mill. It is on the leat from Postford Brook which also served an earlier Twist Mill but is thought to be on a different site.

Dorking Road
Lockner Farm. Riding School and Livery stables. The farm has several old barns, farmhouse and associated cottages. Surrey Gliding Club is said to have begun here
War Memorial. This is a plain cross on a square plinth on a three-stepped octagonal plinth. A down-pointing bronze sword hangs on the front of the cross and there are bronze plaques attached to the faces of the plinth. There is an inscription on the top step.

Lockner Farm Road
Wet deciduous woodland has developed over the site of the gunpowder factory.
Hop Gardens. These were planted near the Postford Upper Mills site before the cordite works was built
Brown prismatic powder works. This dated from the 1880s and eventually spread up the north bank of the Tillingbourne.  It was set up by a specially formed Chilworth Gunpowder Company
Cordite factory. This covered the area south of the Tillingbourne and eventually to the Dorking Road.  This Smokeless Powder Factory dated from the 1880s and was German owned, until in 1901 Vickers had a 40% ownership and it became British owned in 1915. 
Admiralty Cordite Factory built in 1915 to increase cordite production and a few buildings were also added to the 1890s Smokeless Powder Factory. This factory was laid out in fields to the north of Lockner Farm and to the west of Postford Mill
Tramway. This single track, manually operated tramway, travelled round the works and then to a siding at Chilworth Station, agreed in 1888 with the South Eastern Railway Company. This was to transport coal needed to fire steam boilers and connected the various factory buildings. Most of the wooden sleepers and iron rails have been removed, and the course of the tramway can be seen as low linear earthworks, but some stretches of track are believed to survive in the eastern areas.
Tin Town. After the factory closed in 1920 buildings constructed from, or roofed by corrugated iron, were used as house which gave rise to the local name of “Tin Town”. The last of these buildings was eventually abandoned in 1963
Pillbox. Second World War stop line pillbox apparently dug into the earthwork traverse of a former factory building.
Anti tank block from the Second World War on the Lockner Farm Road.

Lockner Holt
Castellated house, now divided built in 1860 by Henry Woodyer for the Duke of Northumberland. It is in Bargate stone with a circular tower by the entrance. It is now divided into three dwellings

Longfrey
Terrace of 5 brick houses for employees at gunpowder works; now one house. 1885 with tile hung walls
A test range was established to the north of Longfrey.  This is a hollow which probably housed the target.


Mill Lane
This is the old road between Chilworth and Albury and follows the line of the mill dam round Postford Pond.
Postford Pond.  This, and Waterloo Pond to the east, were built in the 18th as part of the development of the Upper Mills. It receives water from the Tilllingbourne via a leat which has bypassed Waterloo Pond to the east and also from the Postford Brook to the south.  It is separated from the Waterloo Pond by a huge curved earth dam
Anti-tank blocks, which have been removed, barricaded Mill Lane

Pine View Close
Site of Pine View Farm

Railway Line
Topiary memorial in the shape of a peacock to a railway accident in 1900 to a goods train where a railway worker was killed.

Sampleoak Lane
Chilworth Station. The Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway opened the station in 1849 as "Chilworth and Albury".
The footbridge was removed to east Somerset railway in 1978

Tillingbourne
On the southern side of the valley the Tillingbourne has been divided and the southern diversion it “New Cut” which probably dates from the 1650s. It was designed as the header leat, providing water to power the mills. It was also used by punts which carried products around the factory site. It has been narrowed by the Environment Agency to stop silting.

Vera’s Path
Footbridge - the path bridges New Cut with a utilitarian footbridge. Directly adjacent to the east of this is the remains of a swing bridge built in 1888, this bridge carried a branch of the works’ tramway to Chilworth and Albury station. Constructed of part timber and part iron, it pivoted to allow punts to pass through
Mound– there are a number of these to protect against blast and they are of corrugated iron and earth.
incorporating mill buildings of the 1880s strong walls at the back and sides and a flimsy roof. Levers for a system of drenching the walls if there was an explosion. 
Pond formed in the 1980s

Sources
Chilworth Station. Wikipedia. Web site
Crocker. Damnable Inventions.
English Heritage. Web site
Guildford Council. Web site
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North Downs Line. Wikipedia. Web site.
Pastscape. Web site
War Memorials Online. Web site

River Tillingbourne
The Tillingbourne flows west and south west, joining with the New Cut

Post to the east Chilworth


Blacksmith Lane
Old Mill. The garden is the site of the Great Paper Mill and the Unwin works. The building is the remains of the mill house which escaped the fire at Unwins
Old Cottage. Early 18th timber framed cottage. This was part of the drying house of the Little Paper Mill.
Rose Cottage. 18th timber framed cottage. This was part of the drying house of the Little Paper Mill
West Lodge. Lodge to gunpowder works now a private house. It is a small late 19h building, which was originally a single storey gatehouse. It was used for workers reporting for duty and where they had to leave any inflammable material.  Access to the Middle Works was gained via the gates next to West Lodge
Anti-tank block. This has now gone but was covered by a fortified position adjacent to Powdermills Cottage.
Yard Opposite West Lodge at the entrance to the public open space currently used for mixed light commercial and some residential use. This is on land previously occupied by the Lower Works.
Culverts. These cross the causeway which carries Blacksmith Lane.
Packhorse Bridge. An ironstone bridge of late medieval or post-medieval origin which crosses the Tillingbourne. The track carried over this bridge leads northwards towards Chilworth Manor. Restored by Guildford Council in 2001.
Waterworks Cottage. Probably built in the 19th with an early 20th extension.
Brick pump house. This is in the grounds of Waterworks Cottage and was a pumping station belonging to the St. Martha's Waterworks of the Hambledon Rural District Council which used a turbine to pump water to a reservoir on St Martha's Hill. This is now disused
Meadow Cottage. This is at the westernmost boundary of the area directly adjacent to the river. It is probably the oldest building in the area from the 16th and 17th with a timber frame and accessed on foot only. It is set within meadow land. The northern part seems to be a stone built cell, possibly of industrial or agricultural to which a domestic unit was added in the late 17th with a chimney and an oven. It was at one tome divided into two dwellings. It may have been in 1786 to 'a building used as a hop-kiln with a Barn, converted into a dwelling-house'. There is also an outbuilding used as a studio but which has stoke holes and a small door, possibly to a flue or oven.
Brick foundations, there are remains of walls and earth scarp ear Waterworks Cottage and Chilworth Old Mill. These are the only remains of the paper mill and printing works
Saltpetre Refinery. This is on a factory site known as Titan Sheds. The site and contains the two buildings. One is s 19th origin brick building known as the Saltpetre building
Titan Sheds. The company made metal sheds
Charcoal House. This is now offices and a studio. Noted as a store for charcoal
Powder Mills Cottage

Chilworth New Road
St Thomas Church. The powder works contributed jointly with the Unwin’s printing works on to the construction of the Greshambury Institute in Chilworth village architect W.H.Seth Smith. It is now St Thomas’s church which was dedicated in 1892 as a mission chapel for Shalford parish. The ancient church of St Martha on the hill above remains the parish church.
Chilworth Village Hall. This was a tin tabernacle church later sold to become the Village Hall. It was used as a school for evacuee children in the Second World War.
Tangley Mere.  Built by members of the gunpowder making Sharp family in 1891.
Level Crossing

Dorking Road
Chilworth Church of England Infant School. Opened 1873 but on a different site, and moved here in 1967
Percy Arms.  Percy is the family name of local landowners, the Dukes of Northumberland. At the beginning of the 18th a cottage on this site was one of only two buildings in the neighbourhood. It later became a pub with stables. The Postford stream can be seen at the back of the building.
Aston Villas – this was once the village shop

Fish Pond
Powdermills Fishery. Commercial trout fishery and part of a syndicate based on Albury Park.
Fishpond was excavated to the east of Blacksmith Lane in 1980s in a field which by the 1960s was known as Waterworks Field.

Halfpenny Lane
Chilworth Cottage
Kingfisher Cottage.
Old Great Halfpenny. Late 16th house with a Timber frame on whitewashed rubblestone plinth with tile hung cladding
Pillbox. on the rise up from Chilworth Manor. It was a Mowlem designed drum and had gun sights covering the lane in three places.

Lane to the north east of Blacksmiths Lane
Chilworth Manor House. Built in three stages - mid 17th range to south, possibly for Vincent Randyll, with 18th range to north joined by range to centre, circa1930 by Alfred Mildmay. Sandstone rubble with brick dressings to south and centre portion, cement rendered on north end. Open built 1650 by Vincent Randall gunpowder maker.
Garden of the Manor may be a copy of Evelyn’s layout at Albury. Sandstone rubble Walls with buttresses enclose a 17th flower garden with terraces set into hillside. A Terrace runs across the north end of garden. The walls and garden terraces are attributed to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Barn. This is now a store which had the date of 1767 on a brick. It is in sandstone rubble

Mill Pond
Mill Pond. This predates the gunpowder works and was there in 1626 when the East India Company took over the site. They raised its level. More work was done to it in the 1630s and 1640s.  The pond has two dams – one at the downstream end and one at the upstream. A culvert was made under the pond and the damn to drain the valley floor and this still controls the flow in the 1980s built fishing pond.  Its inlet can sometimes be seen when water is low.  There is an embanked channel to allow water from the Tillingbourne to enter the pond – and this channel may be an earlier mill stream.


Mills
Mills. The gunpowder mills were set up here on the sites of existing mills. There may have been a 16th pin works here, and there was a later wire works.  Although the Evelyn family had a monopoly on gunpowder production The East India Company decided to manufacture its own. By 1626 it had established a works at Blacksmith Lane on the site of an existing mill. In 1635 the powder monopoly passed to Samuel Cordwell and George Collins and there was expansion on the site throughout the Civil War period. By 1675 there were 18 mills here plus other buildings connected with gunpowder processing. In 1677 the works were leased to Sir Polycarpus Wharton, who expanded them for Board of Ordnance contracts. Gunpowder production then declined and only the Middle Works continued to produce gunpowder and it was not until the late 19th century that the works expanded again having passed through various owners. The quantities of powder sent show an increase during the Crimean War and in the 1860s it is believed that the mills became powered by steam. The works were sold to Charles Westfield and in 1885; he sold the works to the newly formed Chilworth Gunpowder Company. Technological change became more rapid in this period and the directors of the company were largely German. The works was remodelled, becoming a major supplier of gunpowder to the British and colonial governments, second only to the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey. Further extensions were built in the 1880s and 1890s. On 16 June 1920, the Chilworth Gunpowder Company closed the works and the company was put into voluntary liquidation. In 1922, the land on which the works stood was sold by auction as part of a wider sale by the Duke of Northumberland who had acquired the land through a 19th marriage.
Steeresland. This was downstream of the mill dam and was the site of a brass and wire works owned by Thomas Steere in 1603. He had been forced to close the works in 1606. It is thought the mill leat may have been built for this works.  When Wharton took over the gunpowder works in 1677 there were five incorporating mills along the leat here.
Corn Mill. The corn mill which preceded the gunpowder works was near the middle of the mill dam. An East India Company mill was built on the site
Fulling Mill. This is noted in 1589 but was probably medieval. There was an associated house. Two East India Company mills were built on the site
Lower Works. Cordwell and Collins expand the works to the west of the original mills and in 1677 there were seven incorporating mills here but after Wharton left the Lower Works were converted to papermaking. In 1791, Charles Ball from a Northamptonshire paper making family took over the Mills.
The Great Paper Mill. This was worked by Hugh Rowland, from 1803. It was powered by a breast-shot waterwheel. It was The Great Paper mill was reopened by the London printing firm Unwin Brothers as the Gresham Press print works.  This family-run printing company had opened in London in 1826.  The factory continued in business here until it was destroyed by fire in 1895 and Unwins then went to Old Woking where they remained until 2007.
The Little Paper Mill. This was worked by Hugh Rowland, from 1803. It was powered by an overshot wheel. It appears to have gone out of use by the 1830s and was demolished
Middle Works. Following Cordwell's death the works was taken over by a new group in the early 1650s and the site expanded. Despite decline in the 18th and 19th this works continued in gunpowder production.
Mud Wood
Woodland following the line of the Tillingbourne

New Cut
Man-made leat called New Cut which runs through the gunpowder mills site and along with the Tillingbourne provides the main structure of the works. It dates from the tome of the construction of the middle works
Expense Magazine. Used for storage of material between processes. When the works closed it was made available to Chilworth and District Old People’s Welfare Committee for the storage of firewood. Alongside the Cut
Edge runners – millstones half buried. Some of these lie alongside the Cut
Steam engine bed, top of fallen factory chimney, incorporating mills bed stone from the 1860s mills. Alongside the Cut
Corning house remains where men were killed in an explosion of 1901. Alongside the Cut

Old Manor Gardens
Chilworth Manor. At the beginning of the 18th the settlement we now know as Chilworth comprised just two buildings, one of which was the Old Manor House at the southern end of Blacksmith Lane. It was once known as Powder Mill House, and was usually the home of the owner or manager of the Powder mills. The original date of this much-altered house is unknown and not clear although above the north doorway is a date stone saying ‘1609’. 

Old Manor Lane
Old Manor Farm
Magazine Cottages.  Built during the 1880s for accommodation for workers in the powder factory.

Postford Stream.
This is a man made channel which comes of the old mill stream at Twist Mill and runs westwards to Tangley Mere. It was part of a water meadow system set up in the 17th

Tillingbourne
The two streams of the Tillingbourne converge at a point northwest of Rose Cottage and west of Blacksmith Lane by approximately 80m.

Wire Mill Leat.
 In 1603 a wire mill was established to the west of the causeway and a new millrace was dug, and this is marked by the earthwork scarp to the north of The Old Cottage and Rose Cottage. This leat was subsequently used by the Little Paper Works until about 1830 when it went out of use and t was partly filled


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British Listed Buildings. Web site
Chamberlain. Guildford
Chilworth2gether Web site
Crocker. Damnable Inventions
Crocker. Gunpowder Gazetteer
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Surrey Local History Council. Surrey History

River Tillingbourne
The Tillingbourne flows westwards

Post to the east Chilworth

East Shalford Lane
Saw Mill. This site contains a number of fencing, etc. companies
The Lodge, Manor Farm.  17th cottage remodelled in the 19th and 20th. It is
Timber framed with brick infilling.
Manor House. Late 17th house in sandstone blocks.
Pressure reducing station
Moat. Medieval moat associated with the manor.
Little Halfpenny Farm– a courtyard of rotting barns, appears deserted
Level Crossing
Valley Park, Equestrian centre
Hornhatch
Housing on the site of East Shalford Lane Estate which was made up of asbestos pre-fabs.
Bradstone Brook Sports Ground. This was taken over by Guildford Grammar School in 1985


Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Chilworth Memories. Web site
Royal Grammar School. Web site
Valley Park. Web site

River Tillingbourne
The Tillingbourne flows north westward

Post to the east East Shalford

East Shalford Lane
Lemon Bridge, over the Tillingbourne
Tile House Farm. Tithe barn at Tile House Farm. This is 16th with a timber frame on brick and stone plinths with weatherboard cladding. It is now a vet's practice. Tiles were manufactured here in the 14th and 15th.
Pillbox. On a section of GHQ Line is a drum shaped anti tank gun emplacement which is overlooking a bridge over the Tillingbourne. It was constructed by J Mowlem Ltd and the design is unique to this part of the GHQ line.  The embrasure gives an excellent view of the road and the bridge but the inside is flooded and it sits on a concrete raft which is surrounded by damp ground.

Horsham Road
Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Fountain. This was erected in 1897 with much celebration
Village sign. This stands at the junction of the A281 and King’s Road and dates from 1922. It was designed by Christopher Webb, and cathedral architect W.H. Randall Blacking. The two shared a studio in Quarry Street. The sign was the result of a competition to create village signs run by the Daily Mail. It shows St Christopher carrying the Christ Child through a shallow ford,
Electricity substation building
Scout hut
Bridge Office– now a ‘Collectables’ shop
Cemetery. Shalford cemetery opened in 1887 because the churchyard at St Mary’s was full. It was put on land called the Kiln Field purchased from the Godwin-Austen Estate. There is a Lychgate built in 1886 in Bargate rubble stone with open timber-framed upper walls. The Chapel was also built 1886 by E L Lunn of Peak & Lunn in Bargate rubblestone. Inside it is a decorative roof with moulded stone corbels and the framework of a former roof feature.  There are 4 Commonwealth war graves from the Great War I and 6 from the Second World War.


Station Road
10 Shalford and District Social Club. Queen’s Hall. The building has 1886 on the top gable.
53 Thursley House. Used by the local parish council.

Station Row
Pet Doctors Veterinary Clinics.  These buildings are on the site of a railway coal yard
Shalford Station. Opened in 1849 by the Red Hill and Reading Branch of the South Eastern Railway.
The Queen Victoria. Pub

The Street
31 Lemon Bridge Cottage. 19th house.
32-34  16th Cottages with 19th changes. Timber framed and First floor jettied
36 – 40 Moles Cottage is now partly a shop. It dates from the 16th and is timber framed with whitewashed roughcast walls
44 Beech House. House built around 1820 with a whitewashed stucco front
Whitnorth. 17th house refronted in the 18th and extended at the back. The timber frame is exposed with brick infill
Shalford Mill. There was a mill here at Domesday and milling finally ended in 1914. In 1408 it belonged to John atte Lee of Guildford and was later recorded as Pratt’s Mill. In 1599 George Austen owner of Shalford Rectory Manor, built a second mill beside it and in 1653 there were two corn mills and a malt mill .It closed in 1914 and became a store for Fogwills seed merchants, then a furniture store. It was saved from demolition in 1932 by Ferguson’s Gang who fund raised, eccentrically, and presented to the National Trust. John Macgregor converted the eastern part of the Mill, to a holiday home and in the Second World War it housed artists, intellectuals and musicians who were refugees from Nazi Europe. Now the National Trust operates a programme of guided tours there. It is an 18th timber framed tile hung corn mill with well-preserved machinery and breast shot wheel.
War Memorial. This commemorates the residents of Shalford who were killed or missing in the Great War (47) and the Second World War II (22).
The Sea Horse. Pub built in the 17th with a 19th extension at the back. It was built as a house called Burtons and as a pub was once called The Mermaid. It was never a coaching inn.   In 1940 it was on the GHQ Stopline so at the back was a wide anti-tank ditch coming from the Wey an extended across the pub’s garden: Concrete blocks were placed over the yard and a pillbox was built into the garden bank. Loopholes for rifles were cut into the west and south walls of the pub. Outside three concrete blocks were erected with slots to hold a steel barrier to form a roadblock – and one of these blocks remains, marked with a commemorative plaque which says “GHQ Stopline. This roadblocks marks the line of the last ditch defence against German invasions summer 1940” Holes were dug in the road, to be filled with explosives.  By 1972 the owners, Gales Brewery wanted to demolish and replace the building plus eight houses on the land. In 1997 the pub became part of Bass’s Vintage Inns chain, and they tried to change the name to ‘The Wise Old Owl’. It has since passed to Birmingham brewers Mitchell and Butler
Gate to County First School. Designed 1855 by Henry Woodyer. Wooden on brick plinth walls.


Tillingbourne Road
Shalford Infant School. This was originally Shalford National School built in 1855 by William Swayne of Guildford


Sources
British Listed Buildings. Web site
Chamberlain, Guildford
English Heritage. Web site
Hartner. Industrial Archaeology of Guildford
Haselfoot. The Batsford Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of South East England.
National Trust Guide
Penguin. Surrey
Pevsner and Cherry, Surrey
Shalford Scouts. Web site
Shalford Village Web site
Surrey Industrial Archaeology
Wikeley and Middleton. Railway Stations. Southern Region

Great Eastern Railway to Ilford
The Great Eastern Railway line runs eastwards from Bishopsgate

Post to the west Shoreditch
Post to the north Bethnal Green Boundary Estate

Post to the east Mile End New Town
Bacon Street
The road has lots of graffiti-art and Vintage (i.e. junk) shops.
6-7 site of the Ship pub
St Matthias’s School. The school is linked with the St. Matthew's Church.  It was built originally in 1874 by Joseph Clarke and was a National School. The original building had Gothic detailing in brick and zinc gutters as lead would have been stolen. It uses the Seal of the old Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green as its badge. It was remodelled in 1994.
35 site of Black Bull Pub


Bethnal Green Road
This section of the road was opened through to Great Eastern Street in 1879 from what had originally been Church Street by the Metropolitan Board of Works.
2-10 Box Park. Pop Up Mall.
5-11 complex of warehouses occupying an entire block as far as Shoreditch High Street.  They were originally built for timber merchants and developed on the sites of earlier warehouses, yards and public houses. The first phase was built in 1921 which was two tea warehouses built for Pearks' Dairies.  In 1924 a Bacon-washing plant was added. In 1928 Pearks added more to the structure as a tea warehouse.  In 1931-33 Lipton's Ltd added a large bacon factory which was steel-framed, faced in red brick; this was built by George Parker & Sons to the designs of Hal Williams & Co, architects. Hal Williams, a New Zealander, and a specialist designer of factories. From the late 1930s it was owned by Allied Supplies and used for processing and packaging tea. Derwent Valley redeveloped it as offices in 2002.
13 The Swan. This pub was built in 1880 and was open until at least 1944.  There is a terracotta relief of a swan high over the corner door. The facade has been kept and built into an office building. The building was integrated with the bacon and tea warehouses adjacent in the 1960s and converted into laboratories.
Huntingdon’s Buildings were erected in 1880s by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Co. By 1969 they were owned by the G.L.C. and closed; one block was demolished in the early 1970s and another in 1980, the rest became the Huntingdon Industrial Units. There are current redevelopment plans.
11/15 Former Bethnal Green Synagogue established in 1906. The site had previously been the Glasshouse Memorial Chapel – a Baptist chapel. This was leased to the Federated synagogue in 1905 and alterations undertaken by Lewis Solomon. It was rebuilt in 1958 after wartime bombing on a slightly larger site as a grey brick box. Now the studio of the sculptor, Rachel Whitbread, who has used its interior for several works since 1999. Decorative coloured glass has been removed from the windows.
25 Knave of Clubs. Now renamed Les Trois Garcons. It dated originally from the 1790s buy the present building is from 1880 by E. Dunch. The bar and three exceedingly fine engraved-glass mirrors, one of which is modern have been kept in a conversion by Michael G.  Humphries in 1996.  Bird auctions used to take place – and it was thus also called the Bird House
34-42 Avant Garde, by Stock Woolstencroft.  Residential tower block
35-47 Rich Mix. This opened in 2006 in a former garment factory and has been involved in film festivals in our three-screen cinema and theatrical events well our studio spaces and workspaces for other creative companies such as ADFED, Bwark and Biggafis
51-55 Brew Dog Pub opened in what was the Green and Red Pub.
113 - 115, now set back from the new line of the road, are three-storey weavers' houses of 1735, much altered but their garrets still visible. One-room-deep, they originally had front, winder staircases making space for large work shop windows in the timber-framed rear walls.
120 East End Kebabish. This was the Flower Pot Pub. It dates from pre-1800 and closed, probably in the 1920s.
121 this was the Von Tromp pub which was established by 1827 as the Van Tromp.  In the 1980s it was closed for a while and in 1985 renamed Lyons Corner.  It finally closed in 1990. It is now a cafe
143 Well & Bucket pub. This was there by 1818.  It was a Truman’s house and closed in 1991 having been renamed The Stick of Rock and was then as a hostel.  It is one of a mid-19th Italianate group of buildings with a stuccoed front rebuilt in 1873 and with a plaque advertising Truemans.  Inside are wall tiles by Wm. B. Simpson & Son, including one showing 'Club Row in Ye Olden Times', with local markets and trades.
152-156 Cat Cafe
159 Espacio Gallery opened in 2012 founded by a group of artists working across all contemporary visual arts media who wanted a space of their own specially designed to meet their needs.


Boundary Street
In the middle ages this was part of the garden of the nunnery of St-John-the-Baptist, Holywell,
The road marked the division between the parishes of Shoreditch and Bethnal Green. It also marked the gap between 'respectable' East London and the 'The Nichol'.   This was a slum area, described in Morrison's novel, The Child of the Jago in 1896. It was condemned by health officers as early as 1883. Its poverty drew the attention of reformers who tried to improve health and housing. It only in the 1890s, planners began to take notice and The London County Council was the body which brought about change
13 Ship and Blue Ball pub.  The pub closed in 1994 and is now in commercial use and as flats. It is alleged that here in the 1960s the 'Great Train Robbery' was planned and false wall in the games room concealed the results.


Brick Lane
This was called ‘Brick Kiln Lane’ in the 17th and bricks were made here from the 16th. It once represented the nadir of East End poverty.
94 Black Eagle Brewery. Truemans brewed here from 1666 and it remains a complete example of a brewery.   Originally A brew house was built west of Brick Lane by Bucknall and this was purchased by Joseph Truman. It was expanded by successive Trumans, other family members and managers. The firm prospered through making porter which, heavily hopped, could be made in large quantities without deterioration. By 1760 Truman’s was the third largest brewery in London; by 1853 they were the largest in the world.   Sampson Hanbury and Thomas Fowell Buxton joined the firm in 1800.  Buildings from the 19th were designed by Young and James Brodie with Robert Davison plus extensions after 1830, when Beer Duty was abolished. The cooperage had its entrance in Spital Street it was rebuilt in 1924-7 by A.R. Robertson, and large-scale modernization by Arup in 1970.  In the mid-19th lighter beers became more popular and Truman’s opened a second brewery at Burton where the water was more suitable for light beers. At Brick Lane they made mild ale and stout, using water from artesian wells.  The brewery closed in 1988 and Arups were again commissioned to redevelop. Their solution placed the different functions in tiers over six floors, with three storeys of offices over the recreational floor and two storeys of warehousing beneath. A new building links the Director’s and Head Brewer's Houses and reflected the Vat House and Engineer's House opposite. In 2008, the brewery buildings were an arts, fashion and commercial enclave.  In 2010 the Truman’s name and the Black Eagle have been revived in east London with an ‘artisan’ brewery at Hackney Wick.
The Directors' House. This is on the west side of the road and was a grand private residence and company headquarters with offices on the ground floor. Benjamin Truman had been knighted following massive loans to government.  John Price is thought to have enlarged an 18th counting house in 1745 and there have been changes since. It is a brick house and inside the main rooms on the first floor are reached by a 19th staircase with cast iron balustrade. The reception room was once the directors' dining room and the boardroom was the drawing room. It has now been linked to the former brew house, by Arup Associates with a façade of mirrored glass. The Directors' House was the principal residence of Thomas Fowell Buxton, from 1808-15 who was a leading figure in the international movement to eradicate slavery, In 1811 Buxton became a partner in the company and oversaw the conversion of the works to steam power; in 1835, on Sampson Hanbury's death, he took over the business. Following Buxton's death in 1840, Prince Albert headed a movement for a public tribute to his memory. In 2007 an English Heritage blue plaque was put on the Directors' House commemorating Buxton's life and work there.
150 Engineer's House. Built 1831-6, presumably by Davison for himself.  It is in brick with some tile-hanging and the original carriage entrance. Now offices
Head Brewer's House.  Built 1834-7 probably by Robert Davidson. A building to its rear was converted in the 1920s as the Experimental Brewery, a small-scale working brew house for the testing of ingredients and plant. Its five-storey, five-bay round-arched yellow brick flank was retained and restored to its original in the 1970s by Arup
Vat House. Built 1803 probably by Young and John Brodie. It is rather like a meetinghouse, with an open pediment, clock and hexagonal cupola containing a bell of 1803. The interior has a forest of iron columns, with capitals, and I-section girders inserted in the 1840s. This is fully exposed in the semi-basement, where it supports a stone flagged floor which suggests that it had a fireproof construction. The iron columns were to sustain the great weight of the beer. Now offices and stores.
Warehouses. By Smith & Fanners. The brewery had numerous large stores and warehouses, linked high over street level by a series of enclosed bridges.                    
Stables.  Brewery stables from 1837. There is an arcaded upper floor with circular windows and a stucco pediment surmounted by the black eagle. It is designed to house 114 horses and in fact had nearly twice that number in double boxes by 1891. At its end is a red brick towering chimney with the company name inset in white tiles – this was added when the stables were converted to a boiler house and canteen in 1929 by Robinson. It is now offices and for a while was a music hall.
Dray Walk – this is on the line of what was Black Eagle Street. Loading bays have been turned into shops and galleries by Smith & Fanners in 1970.
Railway Bridge. The road is cut in two by the railway on a line which also marked the boundary between Bethnal Green and Spitalfields.   Rail Lines go both over and under the road. Originally in 1840 the Eastern Counties Railway lines to its terminus at Shoreditch came in at high level and the bridge over Brick Lane was situated here. In 1874 their successors, the Great Eastern Railway, opened Liverpool Street and for this the lines were at a low level and passed under Brick Lane – and in they still do this.  The high level lines then took traffic into the ex- original which was renamed Bishopsgate goods station. The over bridge was partly demolished in the 1960s although the abutments and some of the lines remained. A new bridge has been built here to carry the East London Line to the new Shoreditch Station
Goods yard. A coal depot called Brick Lane had been built alongside the Great Eastern Railway and was on the approach to the Bishopsgate Terminus. The other, also for coal, was nearer to Whitechapel and which included a junction with the East London Railway. They were merged in 1881 as Spitalfields Depot.  The two sets of lines merged slightly to the east of Brick Lane Railway Bridge in an area which included an engine shed and an office.  The site included a granary and the signal box covering the junction was the Granary Box. The yard included a Hydraulic Pumping Station and another which covered the Spitalfields Wagon Hoist.
125-127 on the corner with Sclater Street. This was originally one house, rebuilt as two in 1778 with weavers' workshops in the upper floors. Restored 2001. A plaque marks a corner of the Slaughter family’s estate.
149-161 early 18th single-room tenements built for weavers
154 Religion Clothing. This was the Two Brewers Pub, later known as the Old Two Brewers.It was effectively the brewery tap;
157 Jolly Butchers. This pub was established by 1839 as the Turk & Slave, by 1842 it was Turkish Slave, 1844 Turkish Head, 1847 Turk & Slave and in 1881 Jolly Butchers. It was a Truman’s House by 1922 and closed in the 1980s.  There is a large Truman’s plaque on the first floor. It is now in other use.
155 Beigel Shop. Claims to be the oldest Brick Lane Beigel Shop and that it opened in 1855
159 Beigel Bake. All night Beigel shop.


Buxton Street
Allen Gardens. The park results from post-1945 slum clearance of a dense and impoverished area, next to a weaving field.  A brick railway viaduct ran along the northern edge, now replaced by the new East London Line to Shoreditch.  The anarchists have their summer fetes there


Cavin Street
This was Great Pearl Street
French Church. By 1697 Jacques Laborie, founded a new church here But in 1699 he left for America. The Church continued until 1701.
15-16 This was an early 19th house built for James Lewis Desormeaux, a black-silk dyer who also appears to have had a dye house there. It was later owned by Sir Francis Desanges who had an interest in an early gas making plant in this area. Later owned by Hague and Topham, millwrights with a foundry in Grey Eagle Street.
10-11 houses thought to have been built for weavers in the 18th.  The site is now probably modern housing.


Chance Street
Area built up for housing from 1670 having previously been Preston’s Gardens. It was originally Little
Anchor Street.
Dirty House of 2002 by David Adjaye for the artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster, is a converted warehouse covered in a thickly impastoed texture of black anti-graffiti paint, with strange smoked-glass flush windows to the ground floor, rectangular windows above and the roof raised to float above a terra
Hedgehog by Roa


Cheshire Street
This was known as Hare Street at this western end of the road
8-38 a very complete terrace with integral shop fronts built c. 1870-2 by Reddall & Cumber. The regularity of the design has been emphasised during refurbishment in 1991 by Building Design Prospect.
21 flats built in 1998 by Michael Sierens Architects on the site of the Cheshire Street synagogue which closed in 1987 because it was structurally unsound. Its formal name was the United Workmen's and Wlodowa Synagogue and it was founded in 1901.  Wlodowa is in Poland near Lublin and is where the founders' families originated.  It had been the base for the welfare work of 'The Fund of Good Deeds' which helped to look after the welfare of local elderly housebound Jewish residents.  It was a working-men's synagogue for Polish Jews, mostly cabinet- makers, who created its panelled interior and fittings  which have been destroyed.

Chilton Street
12 Britannia Pub. The Britannia was there by 1856 and in 1924 became a Truman’s house and their signage and green faience tiling remains. In the mid-1980s it was renamed Chilton’s, as an evening-only, gay bar. It became the Britannia again in 1994, and closed in 2001. It is now flats.
52 St Matthias Church House, Mission and Hall. Designed by William Reddall 1887-9. The church itself was on the corner with Cheshire Street.  Petley Hall, mission house and other buildings were passed by land owner C. R. C. Petley to the Bishop of London's Fund in 1887. On the gable is a rebus of a three clasped arms with hands at each end and a golden ball


Club Row
A market for live animals was traditionally here from the 18th.   It was a live bird Fair by the 1850s, as well as small animals which might include stolen dogs.  It was closed down in the 1980s. There was a Cycle Market in here around 1910.
St Hilda's East Community Centre.  The settlement derived from a ragged school established in the 18th by Nicholas Duthoit, a Spitalfields silk merchant, and rebuilt in 1879. The 19th building remains on the left of the main entrance.  The Women's University Settlement Committee was set up in 1887 founded by the Guild of the Cheltenham Ladies College, under Dorothea Beale. They opened Mayfield House Women's Settlement in of Cambridge Heath Road. In 1895 the Settlement moved to Old Nichol Street and became St Hilda's East. It retains an active link with the Ladies College and its Guild. The current building by Mackenzie Wheeler dates from 1994. It has the Boundary Estate’s motifs of a canted stair-turret and, banded brickwork,
16 Thinking Space Modern.  A tiny infill house with a fully glazed facade By Howard Carter and Sarah Cheeseman 2001.


Code Street
Daniel Gilbert House. A Providence Row project for single homeless people which won a Housing Design Awards in 1995. It houses 82 single people in single rooms, bedsits and flats. It was designed by Parry Frame Associates with Yates Associates.


Commercial Street
The street was built in 1845 made up from a series of smaller roads.  The southern section was built first and this northern section. The extension north from the market, to the Eastern Counties Railway's Bishopsgate terminus and to Shoreditch High Street, was made in 1849-57 and opened in 1858.
Bishopsgate Station. This was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1840 as its London terminus with trains coming initially from Romford and then from Colchester. It was called Shoreditch; to be renamed Bishopsgate in 1846.  It was rebuilt in the late 1840s with grand buildings by Sancton Wood and a carriage entrance and exit in the front. The buildings second floor housed the company offices. The station itself, designed by John Braithwaite, had just two platforms. The station closed in 1875 when Liverpool Street had opened.
Bishopsgate Goods Station. This was the Great Eastern Railway's two-level goods station of 1877-82, replacing the original Shoreditch passenger terminus of 1839-42.  Together with the Brick Lane yard to the east it handled most of the goods rail traffic coming into London from eastern England. The upper level was 'burnt down' in 1964. The site consisted of a brick viaduct with two peripheral roadways and a central corridor with three lines of rails. There were also three hydraulic hoists that brought wagons down from the level above powered by two hydraulic accumulators on the south side of the station.   Platforms under the arches were intended partly for fish and vegetable markets. There were large wrought-iron gates at the Bishopsgate entrance.   Much of this complex has now been demolished for the new London Overground Extension and the Shoreditch Station.
Bishopsgate Low Level Station. Opened in 1872 by the Great Eastern Railway and closed in 1916.  The main entrance was on a footway between Norton Folgate and Commercial Street south of the main line. This gateway remained along with a Great Eastern Railway trespassers notice. There were two platforms west of Wheeler Street and two east of it. There was a second entrance north of Quaker Street. The site eventually became a goods station of British Railways (Eastern Region).
St Stephen's Church built through the efforts of the Rev. John Patteson, of Christ Church, and parishioners
including Robert Hanbury and Thomas Fowell Buxton. The architect of the church and parsonage was Ewan Christian, and the builders were Brown and Robinson of Worship Street. The church was consecrated in 1861. It was closed and its parish re-united to that of Christ Church in 1930. The church was demolished
The Luxor Cinema was built on the site of St. Stephen’s Church. It opened on 1933 operated by the George Smart circuit. It had a striking Art Deco design with a white Portland Stone clad facade. It closed in 1939. It was used as an auto-repair shop with shops in the foyer. In 2003 the auditorium was converted flats called Hollywood Lofts. Shops remain in the foyer. .
152 St. Stephen’s parsonage. A tall urban Gothic house, with some polychrome brickwork, arched doorway and gable. Now flats
Burhan Uddin House. This was Commercial Street Police Station built 1874-5, with an additional storey in 1906. It is now flats,
138-149 Commercial Street Steam Mills. Cocoa, chocolate and mustard manufacturers. Roasted with patent enamelled cylinders. Set up in 1811. Bankrupt 1891.
Royal Cambridge Theatre of Varieties. The Cambridge Music Hall was built in 1864. It was burnt down in
1896.  A new theatre was built on the site in 1898 designed by D. Harry Percival and called the Royal Cambridge Music Hall and later called Royal Cambridge Theatre of Varieties. By 1910, it was re-named Cambridge Theatre of Varieties, and was screening films. It continued as a variety theatre until November 1924, when the licence had not been renewed. In 1936 it was demolished
The Cloisters,  This was the first tenement block to be built by the Peabody Donation Fund The red-brick block was designed by H.A. Darbishire and opened in 1864, but was sold by the Peabody Trust in the 1970s, and is now flats.
National Telephone Works, This appears to have been on the south east side of the street in the 1890s. The National Telephone Company was an independent concern which was eventually taken over by The Post Office. It was formed in 1881 to set up services in the Midlands, Scotland and Ireland.
142 Commercial Tavern.  Built in 1865 with a curved corner to Wheler Street and its name on raised central parapet. Fancy stuccowork with small heads in fruity wreaths over the arched windows, and leafy mouldings.
132. Exchange building. This was a tobacco factory built in 1935 for cigarette firm Godfrey Phillips and designed by W. Gilbert Scott and W.H. Scott. It was known as Cambridge House. Godfrey Phillips signage is on a frontage in Jerome Street. It has a faience frontage described as ‘restrained art deco’ and the site includes a ‘historic chimney’ on Jerome Street. In the 1990s it was converted to flats with retail on the round floor.


Elder Street
The road, part of the Tilliard Estate, is lined with early 18th houses, most of which are listed. They have mainly been refurbished by the Spitalfields Trust.
1–3 19 facade to former public house and house adjoining. Built originally before 1731
22 It was here that James Pulham began a career in artificial stone and Roman cement with William Lockwood.
32 blue plaque to painter Mark Gertler


Ebor Street
Area built up for housing from 1670 having previously been Preston’s Gardens. This was originally York Street
3 part of Lipton's block.  This four-storey warehouse was built in 1879 and occupied by various small businesses until it was taken over by Allied Supplies Ltd in the 1930s but not rebuilt.


Grey Eagle Street
Laid out in the mid 17th by John Stott along with other local streets in the area of the Black Eagle Brewery. It has recently been described as a ‘phantom street’ now consisting apparently entirely of the backs of large buildings many from the old brewery complex and car parks.
52 The Grey Eagle pub – this dated from at least the 1850s and was eventually demolished as part of brewery expansion in the 1970s.
French Chapel. In 1687 James II permitted a chapel of ease for the French Church on the corner with Black Eagle Street. It was then occupied by Almshouses given by Paul Docminicq and his wife Marie Tordreau which were then rebuilt. In 1718 a charity school was established in connexion with the church. In 1743, the French congregation left and went to a new built church elsewhere. As the ‘Old French Church’ it became the base for Wesleyan expansion in the East End. It was here that the first Methodist Covenant Service was celebrated in 1755. The chapel became a warehouse for the brewery and may have remained there until the 1890s.
Hague and Topham Millwrights. They had a foundry here in the early 19th


Hope Street
Ragged School


Jerome Street
Signage for Godfrey Phillips on the side of the Exchange Building.
Chimney
Telephone exchange. This serves Spitalfields and Whitechapel. It used to have BIShopsgate numbers until the late 1960s, but now has 0207-247, 375 and 377 xxxx numbers plus some Inner London numbers.


Montclare Street
Boundary Estate. These are the earliest surviving blocks of the estate by Plumbe, 1894.  They consist of two long blocks with a courtyard between with ranks of narrow windows - showing very little advance on earlier philanthropic housing.
Cookham House. This was designed in 1897 by R. Minton Taylor, with tall, projecting bays and big gables.
Laundry at Cookham House. The absence of washing facilities within the blocks required this communal Laundry although there was no bath-house. Built in 1894-6 by William Hynam with two storeys, arched chimneys and an arched doorway.


Navarre Street
Wargrave House. Designed in 1897 by William Hynam, with projecting eaves over brown brick.
Hedsor House. Designed by C.C. Winmill in 1898
Abingdon House. Designed in 1896-8 by A.M. Phillips.


Old Nichol Street
Said to have been named after Nelson's admirals – but there was a landowner of that name  This was said to be the bottom pit of east end slums - the worst poverty level in East London. Many inhabitants were from the criminal families and fights between rival gangs were a regular. In 1889 the death rate in the area was twice as high as in other parts of Bethnal Green.
Well - During the Construction of the Boundary Estate, a well was uncovered in Old Nichol Street, thought to be the original Holywell.
Vavasseur, Cartier & Collier silk weaving firm on the corner with Turville Street 1876 – 1902.   This may be the building in multiple use at1 Old Nichol Street known as the Robert Elliott Centre


Pedley Street
Shoreditch Station. Opened in 1876 on the East London Railway, which was extended here from Wapping in 1872 with a connection to Bishopsgate Junction with a facility to allow trains through to Liverpool Street. Trains ran from here to both the New Cross Stations and in the 1890s to and from Croydon and to Addiscombe, other connections to other lines followed, to be gradually withdrawn in the early 20th. Originally it was to be called ‘Brick Lane Station’. It was in a cutting with a station building at the end of a footpath from Brick Lane. It was a small brick building and from 1912 it was terminus station in effect although there were some through trains until the 1960s. One of its two platforms was taken out of use in 1966 when the link to the Great Eastern Line was cut and the track lifted. Up to the 1940s the station was run by a joint committee between the underground and the railways but after nationalisation it vested in London Transport and run solely by them.  In 2007 it was closed. Much of the building remains but the cutting where the line itself lay has been filled in.
Graffiti and Street Art – this is an area famous for famous names in the Street Art world.

Quaker Street
Entrance to Bishopsgate Low Level station. The entrance and stairs were still there in 1990.
Bedford House. This was a Mission building run by the Quaker Bedford Institute Association, 1894 to designs by Rutland Saunders. It is in red brick from Rowland’s Castle Brick Fields with Monks Park stone and terracotta dressings. It was built on the site of a Quaker meeting house of 1656 from which Quaker St takes its name. It was named in honour of Peter Bedford, a Quaker philanthropist and silk weaver of Spitalfields, who formed the Society for Lessening the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency. In 1947, the Bedford Institute moved out and continues as Quaker Social Action. Meanwhile, Bedford House became a warehouse and bottling plant for E.J.Rose & Co Ltd, suppliers of spirits and wine, until they moved out and the building remained empty for 20 years
St. Stephen's Schools. These were on the corner with Wheler Street and were opened in 1872. And had had been purchased by the vicar of St. Stephen's from the Great Eastern Railway Company. The school was closed in 1909 because of the nearness of the railway, and was used as a Sunday school in 1929 the property was sold and is now the site of flats and shops
41a The Lighthouse Salvation Army Shelter which dated from the 1890s.  It was built on the site of the Quaker Street National Schools. It is now industrial and trading units.
Great Eastern buildings.  For those displaced by the building of Liverpool Street station. One of the three buildings for this was begun in 1890 at the corner with Wilkes Street with ninety two one and two bed flats. The architect was John Wilson, engineer to the Great Eastern Railway Company. Since demolished and the site redeveloped.
Eagle works. Live work units built in the 1980s.
Quaker Street Bowl. Set up in 2012 in, what is said to be, a former textile warehouse is for skateboarders. It is s a wooden installation Designed and built by Benedict Radcliffe and Associates. It has once been offered for sale
Silwex House. 19th industrial buildings, in effect the Great Eastern Railway stables redeveloped.   The frontage has been kept and behind is new build. This was planned as a hotel but appears to be live work units. The stables were said to have specialist lifts to transport the horses through the buildings.


Railway
Lines coming eastward from Bishopsgate.  This link was disused following electrification in 1913 but was used for goods trains until 1966.
Signal Box. This was demolished in 1949
Line to Liverpool Street Station – when Liverpool Street was opened in 1875 a line was built which diverged to the north of the Bishopsgate Station lines, to cross Bishopsgate and curve south into the new station


Redchurch Street
Parallel to Bethnal Green Road was originally Church Street, the old road from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green. Its narrow proportions are a good reminder of the cramped confines of this district in the c19 and it still has a ragged appearance with houses, pubs, small factories and warehouses jostling together.
34 Owl and Pussycat Pub. This was The Crown. It is possible that the pub has a 17th origin but the current building is an 1890s refronting of an 18th pub. Inside it is grand with 1760s panelling, furniture and staircase.
50 Saatchi The Gallery. It is claimed that this was previously a hat factory
53-55 Shoreditch Mosjid Trust. Shoreditch Mosque
85 Labour and Wait kitchen ware shop. This was The Dolphin pub which was there in 1808 and in the 1830s was a meeting place for local Huguenots. It was rebuilt in the 19th. By the 1930s it was a Truman’s Brewery House and closed in 2002.


Sclater Street
Centre of the live-bird markets in the 19th andc20th had tall rows of weavers' tenements on both sides.
95 Brick Lane Gallery.
Wall plaque set within a classical frame and inscribed 'THIS is SCLATER Street, 1778'– which is a late date for its Rococo style.


Sheba Street
This was originally Queen Street


Whitby Street
This was built as Little York Street. It is now home to a great deal of street art and a stone lion.
1 Lounge Lovers bar in what is claimed to be a meat packing plant.


Wheler Street
Laid out for Sir William Wheler in the 1650s and 1660s, as a main north south thoroughfare
Braithwaite viaduct. Within the 1870s work of the goods station is a section between Wheler Street and Brick Lane, of 850 feet of the original viaduct of the Eastern Counties Railway, opened on 1 July 1840. It is now referred to as the Braithwaite Viaduct, after John Braithwaite the ECR's engineer
Railway bridge with much street art.
Friends' Wheler Street Meeting-house. In about 1656 a Friends' meeting was set up in a house on the south side of Quaker Street.  Shortly afterwards another building was erected which became ‘Wheler Street Meeting-house’. The meeting was persecuted after the Restoration, and William Penn was taken into custody here early in 1670.  The building was severely damaged by the Great Storm of 1703 and By 1745 had partly collapsed, and in1749 has ‘tumbled down’


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Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street to Ilford
The Great Eastern Railway runs due east from Bishopsgate

Post to the west Spitalfields


Buxton Street
The east end the road was Luke Street and the west end was Spicer Street
Mile End New Town Workhouse. This was set up in 1783 and consisted of two houses and one room was used as a meeting-place for the Vestry. It was closed after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and the buildings were demolished and the site passed to the Church Building Commissioners in 1838
35 All Saints Vicarage is a plain brick house in the Gothic style. Now it provides a flat for the curate at Christ Church and 4 flats for other people.
All Saints’ Church. This was built in 1839 and the architect was Thomas Larkins Walker, a pupil of Pugin. In 1894 the spire was taken down. The church survived the Second World War of 1939–45 afterwards, the parish was joined to Christ Church, Spitalfields, and the building was demolished.
Hanbury Hall.   This was All Saints church hall which built later in the 19th and which is now used as a community hall by Christ Church.
St. Patrick's R.C. Primary School. This was on Land to the west of the Mile End Workhouse purchased by trustees of the ’Spitalfields Catholic Charity School’. In 1833 a building was erected which provided for the’ education of poor boys and girls ....in the practice of the Roman Catholic Church’. The girls moved to different premises in 1857. A building on the site now is described as Old St. Patrick’s School and is a woodcarver'
Spicer Street British School. The Soup Ladling Society was formed in 1797 and planned to open schools. In 1811 a site on the north side of Spicer Street was leased, and schoolroom built. This opened in 1812 as a boys' school under a former assistant of Joseph Lancaster. However the payment of a 1d was too much for many families and attendance was low and debt remained so the school closed in 1840. Its site was taken by the National Schools of All Saints' Church.
All Saints' National School was founded in1840 and the lease transferred to the incumbent of All Saints ‘Church, and Robert Hanbury, brewer. New buildings showing bearing the date 1840 were erected in the same style as All Saints' Church.
Spitalfields Farm. Spitalfields City Farm was originally set up by volunteers in 1978. It was built on the site of a goods shed, part of the Great Eastern’s Pedley Street goods yard.  The East London Railway Line from Whitechapel to Shoreditch ran underneath it. Rail line to the south of the site was built in 1876 and ran underground in a tunnel beneath the goods shed
Thomas Buxton Primary School
65 Prince of Wales Pub. Closed and demolished
37 Rose and Crown Pub. Closed and demolished


Cheshire Street
Known as Hare Street in the 18th when it ran alongside Harefields. The open ground was taken in 1839 for use by the Eastern Counties Railway.
St. Matthias Church. The church was set up in part of St.Matthew’s Parish and a Commissioners' church. The first incumbent refused to live in unhealthy district. Throughout the 1850s there was a close association with the London. City Mission, which supplied additional staff .The building, was in yellow brick by T.H. Wyatt and D.Brandon. In 1944 the parish was united with St.Matthew ad it was demolished in 1951.
City Pavilion. On the site of St.Matthais Church. Flats, workshops and offices built 1980 by Spiromega, behind gates on the street to its courtyard.
Great Eastern Goods Depot. Built by the Great Eastern Railway as a large 1860s goods depot, along the street. There is a single-storey gabled range of five units in bricks with a taller two-storey w range adjoining designed as multi-storey stables. This site is described as an engine shed in the 1870s and was a railway horse stable from the 1880s.  There was a ramp o the West Side for the horses to go up and down by which has now been truncated but a first floor door to the street remains. The current occupants, Beyond Retro, claim the building was a ‘dairy factory’ because of the sloping floors inside.
Reflection House.  Engelfields. The Great Eastern Horse Stable building was used in the 1980s for the manufacture of high quality pewter ware by Engelfields. This was the only firm of its kind in Europe producing pewter ware by traditional methods and said to have originated from the pewter casting business of Thomas Scattergood founded in 1700. . Since then the Company has had many names and in 1885, when U.J. Englefield took over, he was soon the only pewterer in London. He became Master of the worshipful Company of Pewterers in 1909.  The Crown & Rose mark was put on all Englefield's products - syringes, ice cream moulds, World War II aeroplane models, candlesticks, handbells, facsimiles of historic items, ornaments and tankards.  Engelfields were eventually taken over by Malaysian pewter specialists Royal Selangor who operate from a unit in Beckton.
73 Carpenters Arms Pub. Somewhere else that the Kray twins are said to have frequented.
88 Duke of Uke. Said to be London’s only banjo and ukulele shop.
89 The King & Queen Pub. This was a Truman’s house present here by 1771.  It closed in 1996 and is now flats.
118-122. Coppermill Ltd. have been in the textile recycling business for over 100 years. They make industrial cleaning wipers and have a Royal Warrant for it
Repton Boys Club and Repton Boxing Club. Repton Boys Club, which was established in 1884 by Repton Public School as a way of giving support and encouragement to the young men in one of the country's poorest communities. It is now housed in the old Bethnal Green baths since 1978 having previously been in Bethnal Green Road.
Bethnal Green Baths. Former public baths and washhouse. Built 1898-1900 by R. Stephen Ayling and partly converted for flats 1999-2000 by Yeates Design Architecture. They were the first baths built in Bethnal Green under the 1897 Public Baths and Washhouses Act and it is a Two-storey red brick block with carvings of cherubs over the male and female entrances. The iron and glass bathhouse was demolished for a discreet, uninspired new wing but the utilitarian single-storey former washhouse survives, with its iron and glass lantern roof. Its provision of space for prams 'in which the washers usually bring their linen' was a noted improvement. It was built on the site of Hereford buildings tenements.
44 this was The White Horse Pub. It was there in 1818 and was rebuilt in its present form in 1860.  It closed in 1917 and is now a shop. In 1821 it was selling beers from what is described as the Hanbury Brewery, one of the partners in what became Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton. It has kept its arcaded and shuttered front.
46 18th building with a later, glazed and shuttered shopfront. There are tripartite weaver's windows on the first and second floors


Dunbridge Street
Before the Second World War this was called London Street
89 Cavalier Pub. This was a Truman’s House previously called The Lord Hood. Demolished and replaced with flats.


Fakruddin Street
This was formerly Peace Street and renamed after a community activist and founder of Spitalfields Housing Association
The housing is the Shahjalal Estate, named after the Sufi Saint of Sylhet. It was built by the Spitalfields Housing Association.


Fleet Street Hill
This is/was a small street with granite setts leading from Pedley Street under one rail line and then to an enclosed bridge to Cheshire Street.  Above it was one of the wagon hoists on the goods yard.  It runs alongside a redundant railway embankment.  As a through way it was changed by the building of the new East London Line.

Hare Marsh
Hare Marsh was the name of the area before any building began and was used as the name for this small side street. It is now reduced to a few yards of road which finishes at an iron fence.

Hemming Street
The road is made up of trading and light industrial units several of them connected with the London taxi trade which has traditionally had a base in this area.
South of the tunnel under the rail line the road is crossed by the obvious sites of rail tracks which went from goods yards to the Spitalfields Coal Drop viaducts to the east. A hydraulic hoist transferred trucks to and from viaduct level, and gave access to a number of sidings via wagon turntables.
26 Royal Standard pub.  This dated from the early 19th and is now demolished.

Hereford Street
St. Matthews Rectory. Built 1905 in a 17th style
St. Matthews Parish Hall. Built 1904 on the garden area of the previous rectory

Kelsey Street
Weavers Fields Community NurseryDrapers' City Foyer. This was Hague Street Board School by E.R. Robson opened in 1883. It was reorganised 1930 and after the Second World War as a primary school. It moved from the site in 1965.  The building then became Weavers' Field School for maladjusted children. It is now Drapers' City Foyer formed in the 1990s with a partnership between the Drapers Company and   Providence Row a major housing and homelessness charity. It is now run by East Potential, an economic and social regeneration charity and  designed to provide temporary accommodation for young people who are homeless and in need of support.


Pedley Street
Pedley Street Goods Depot. This was here from 1875 until 1990. But By 1978 the railway lines to the site had been removed along with the sidings

Ramsey Street
Abbey Street British Schools. The Spitalfields and Bethnal Green British School was here on a site purchased in 1838. A day school opened in 1839 and a Sunday school in 1840. The day school was transferred to the School Board for London in 1883 and part of the Sunday school united with Hope Street Ragged School in 1884 – the rest becoming the sole tenants of the premises. The site was sold to the School Board for London in 1894 and the proceeds invested and as the Abbey Street Educational .Foundation makes grants.  The buildings are now flats. They were probably built by William Wallen and faced a narrow alley. There was a central block for washrooms and rooms for master and visitors flanked by two large classrooms. The original cast-iron windows, iron truss roof and original joinery to the boys' classroom were removed on conversion. The infants' school, probably added in 1841, lies behind at right angles.

Selby Street
Coal drop viaducts.  In the 19th until at least the 1970s the entrance to the coal drops and works around the line to Whitechapel was at the east end of this road. There were three sidings of the East London Railway in a brick lined cutting tunneling under the coal-drops.

St.Matthew’s Row
St.Matthew’s Church built in 1743 By George Dance, senior, to serve the new parish and in a spacious churchyard. It was remodelled in 1859-61 by T.E. Knightly, after a fire. The interior was gutted by incendiary bombs in 1940 leaving only the outer walls and the clock tower. In 1952 a temporary church was opened within the wall and it was rest reconstructed 1958-61 by J. Anthony Lewis and using Dance’s drawings. It was one of the Commissioners churches on a site bought in 1725 chosen to be near the dense population of weavers. Ebenezer Mussell, a trustee and vestryman, laid the foundation stone He gave a silver chalice and there is also a Parish Beadle's mace from 1690, engraved with the figure of the blind beggar and the names of the parish officials. The interior follow the parish's Anglo-Catholic tradition from the 19th set up by radicals Septimus Hansard and curate Stewart Headlam. The gallery is however, a cantilevered steel structure, with concave front. Furnishings are by a variety of young artists. 
Churchyard. This was converted into a public garden by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association in 1897.  Before that Dog-fighting and bullock hunting events were held on Sunday morning hundreds in a adjoining fields
Little watch house. This dates from 1754, for a watchman to guard against body-snatchers. It was extended in 1826 to house a fire engine.
Former St Matthew's National Schools. Built over vaults to ease pressure on the burial ground with aid from the Bishop of London and the Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church and from tithe rate. The National Society built the school on the corner of churchyard with burial vaults underneath in 1819. They suffered the stench of corpses on one side and a slaughterhouse on other and in 1854   the Master absconded. In 1859 the buildings were conveyed to the rector and churchwardens and it was in disrepair by 1879. T was closed after the rector refused to let the School Board for London use it and it was later occupied by the Parochial Charity School.
Infants' schools. Added in 1862 by Caesar A. Long. Converted for flats 1998-9
The Parochial Charity (Greencoat) School was founded in 1763 by voluntary subscription and various bequests. In 1879 they moved to the empty National school buildings
Town Hall. This stood opposite the church gates. It was built of Caen stone in 1851 by G.H. Simmonds and demolished in the early 1970s for housing. It was built for the Commissioners for Improving the Parish and was recognized by The Builder as 'one of the first kind’.  It housed the clerk's office on the ground floor with a board room and committee room above
Granby Hall Day Centre



Underwood Road
St Anne’s Roman Catholic School. Girls from the Buxton Street School moved here in the 1850s and a site for a permanent school on the north side of what was Hunt Court was acquired and Marist Sisters came from France to take it over. In 1862–3 a convent and school were built in Hunton Court to the designs of Gilbert Blount. The school is a tall brick building on a semi-basement
St.Anne's Roman Catholic Church built 1855 with the presbytery to the east.
38 Infant Welfare Centre set up here, where free milk supplements were available to nursing mother, part of the Jewish Maternity Home...
24-26 Mother Levy’s Jewish Maternity Hospital.  In 1895 Mrs Alice Model founded the Sick Room Help Society, concerned with maternal welfare and linked to 'Helps' which provided maternity nurses.  The Sick Room Helps Society evolved into the Jewish Maternity Home opened by Mrs Bischoffstein in 1911 plus a Midwifery Training School. Old houses were demolished and a two-storey building erected with three maternity wards, an operating theatre and three annexes. It was extended between 1927 and 1928 and was renamed the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in memory of  Lord Bearsted but the need for larger premises meant a move to stoke Newington after the Second World War. Stepney Council bought the buildings and established the Mary Hughes Centre and Day Nursery. This included an antenatal clinic, a day nursery and a hostel for nursery nurses, and a school treatment centre.  This Centre closed in 1996, but the building continued in use.  The buildings were passed to Peabody, who demolished them to build housing on the site.
Osmani Centre

Vallance Road
Formerly Baker's Row, and named after a late c19 clerk of the Whitechapel Union, responsible for the Workhouse Infirmary which stood at the southern end of the road and destroyed in air raids in 1940. 
71 Earl Grey's Castle. This dated from around 1901 and was bought by Quaker philanthropist Mary Hughes in 1926 and renamed the Dew Drop Inn, converting it to ‘a place of rest and refreshment for the homeless’.  Trade Union meetings took place here, and Sunday services for the Christian Socialists.  It is now flats.
79 Rinkoffs, making beigels since 1911. Hyman Rinkoff’s handlebar moustache greets customers above the shop at first floor level.
110 Royal George. This was here in 1895 & earlier but rebuilt as part of the flats in the 1950s. It is now a café
114-118 Knowledge school. Potential black cab drivers need to have the knowledge
Hughes Mansions. Built 1952-4 by the Borough of Stepney. Red brick grouped on a staggered plan. They are on the site of the pre war group was built in 1928 by B.J. Belsher, Borough Architect. A plaque says the flats were named after social worker Mary Hughes the daughter of author Hughes of ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays.’ They were destroyed in 1945 by a rocket bomb 131 killed and 40 severely injured.
Houses. Between Selby Street and the railway line filling the site of the Spitalfields  Coal Depot, in red and yellow brick, 1992 by Feilden
Spitalfields Coal Depot. In 1866 the Great Eastern Railway opened Whitechapel Goal Depot later renamed Spitalfields Coal Depot. It had six sidings on a spur viaduct south of the Eastern Counties Railway viaduct used to supply coal drops. Each arch was divided by a wall parallel to the railway tracks with a par of holes In the crown of the arch through which coal could be dropped. Each half-arch was let to a coal merchant. The whole viaduct of 50 arches, about a mile long and 70 ft broad, survived into the 1990s. In 1900 a second "loop" viaduct was built to serve the ‘ Spitalfields Hoist', a hydraulic wagon hoist which could transfer two trucks at a time. This worked until 1955. The coal depot closed in 1967.

Weaver’s Fields
Landscaped open land created in the 1970s by the removal of an area of early 19th two-storey weavers' cottages.
Weaving Identities by Pete Dunn, has steel figures on a mast carrying security cameras rising from a base of bricks laid in a warping woven pattern

Wood Close
Recorded in 1643 as a field 'new dug for brick' but built up with houses on both sides by the late 18th.
William Davis Primary School.  Board School of 1900-1 by T.J. Bailey, serving a largely Jewish population. A classic three-decker. The school was built following the compulsory purchase and demolition of houses surrounding the site with no alternative accommodation was offered to the displaced owners. At first it was named Wood Close School. From 1902 more Jewish children enrolled at the school, and the building was hired in the evenings and weekends to the Jewish Religious Education Board for Hebrew and Religious Education classes. Fromm 1903 the building also began to be used as an evening continuation school to allow adult workers to improve their trade skills. At the outbreak the Second World War it was evacuated to Egham to escape bombing.  In 1953 the school closed and re-opened in 1959, as St. Gregory the Great Secondary School. It then became St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic School and remained so until the 1980s. The building then became temporary accommodation for Swanlea School until 1993 and then a permanent site for William Davis Primary School which had begun, in the Osmani building,


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Great Eastern railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford
The Great Eastern Railway runs north eastwards from Bishopsgate

Post to the west Mile End New Town


Brady Street
Brady Street was originally Ducking Pond Lane.
37 Jews' Cemetery. This was a brickfield leased for burials by the New Synagogue in 1761 for 12 guineas a year, but subsequently used by the Great Synagogue too. It is a large walled enclosure, founded by the Ashkenazi community and crowded with 19th monuments, Buried there are several members of the Rothschild family, including Nathan Meyer Rothschild in 1836. Also buried is Miriam Levey, who opened the first soup kitchen in Whitechapel and Solomon Hirschel, Chief Rabbi 1802-1842. Changes in ground level reflect the requirements of rabbinical law. When the cemetery was full in the 1790's a four-foot thick layer of earth was put over part of the site to use it for further burials, leaving a flat-topped mound. Because of the two layers, headstones are placed back to back.   A hummocky area was used for those who did not belong to a particular congregation and was known as the Strangers Ground.  Although it was closed as a cemetery in 1858, the gardens are well maintained
Mocatta House. Tenement block by Joseph & Smithem for the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Co., built in 1905. The entrance has tapered-stone buttresses with a motif, and Art Nouveau ironwork. It was built on the site of a Jewish almshouses;
180 Yorkshire Grey later called JJs Free House. Said to be on the site of 18th coaching inn.  Wooden beamed house.  Closed 1998, became flats, now demolished.
Buckhurst Street
Vicarage. The site was acquired by the church in 1841 and is now flats.
Collingwood Sure Start Centre. Built 2006
St Bartholomew’s Gardens. This was converted to a public garden by the Metropolitan Parks and Gardens Association and opened in 1885 by Princess Louise. It was laid out to the designs of Fanny Wilkinson, landscape gardener to the MPGA. Within two years later the paths needed to be asphalted because of the heavy use. The Gardens were maintained by the London County Council, and extended to the south in 1973. There is an obelisk to Tanner Lucas, 1840, but otherwise no gravestones remain. The garden is largely grass with perimeter planting and there is a children’s playground.  St Bartholomew's Path divides the ex church and the gardens, and some original 19th railings remain.


Collingwood Estate
Estate built from 1923 in an early interwar slum clearances programme by the London County Council under its Chief Architect, G. Topham Forrest, whose designs continues until 1939. The first block opened in 1923 and the estate was complete by 1930.

Coventry Road
This was Suffolk Street until at least 1877
St Bartholomew‘s Church. Built 1843-4 by William Railton. Gutted in the Second World War bombing but restored and reopened in 1955. In 1971 the parish united with St. John and St. Simon Zelotes. In 1983 the church was closed and under the Church Commission Scheme became residential. It was converted to flats in the 1993, as Steeple Court.
83 Vicar of Wakefield Pub. This was here in the 1870s and remained until the Second World War. Since demolished.
St. Bartholomew's Church of England Schools.  These were founded as a Sunday and day school   in 1841. The school was built in 1842 with Parliamentary and National Society grants.  They were passed to the National Society in 1844. In 1852 they were attended by children of artisans who paid 2d.–4d. A week to be taught book keeping, history, geography, and English and 'crammed to suffocation', children of lower classes paid 1d.–2d.  There was a teachers' house with a single-storey Board school and another building for girls and infants. A new elementary school was built to the north in 1853 and enlarged in 1858. It was offered to the School Board for London in 1874 but continued as a voluntary school. Both schools were bombed in the Second World War and not reopened


Cudworth Street
Businesses in railway arches along the north side of the street. Many of them connected to the London taxi trade.

Darling Row
Follows the line of a track to one of the farms that occupied the land in the 18th
Grindall House. Built 1949 and utilitarian but angled slightly to follow the line of the street. A post Second World War addition to the core of the estate
Collingwood House like Grindall

Granary Road
The road is built between the Jewish Burial Ground and the rail line which once went to the Spitalfields coal drops at Whitechapel.

Selby Street
This was the approach road to the Spitalfields Coal Drop area from Vallance Road

Somerford Street
Stewart Headlam Primary School. The building was designed by E. R. Robson and opened in 1881 as Somerford Street Board School. The First London County Council day nursery was opened here in 1917.  It was renamed Stewart Headlam School in 1925. After the Second World War it was reorganised as a junior and infant school and also absorbed Wilmot Primary School in 1955/8. The building it makes maximum use of the tight site with a roof playground with characterful iron railings. Stewart Headlam, Christian Socialist and Radical Anglican, was curate at local St. Matthews Church in the 19th.
Ashington House. Built by Noel Moffett Associates in 1970-4 for the Greater London Council. They tried to meet the need for high-density housing and at the same time provide some character. There is an unusually high degree of privacy plus roof gardens.
46-48 were intended as flat-roofed houses for disabled tenants, with hexagonal units with wide angles for increased mobility.
Orion House. By the Greater London Council’s Architect Department 1964-70 with a ten-storey slab on piloti.


Tapp Street
Lion Pub. The Lion was a Truman's house dating from the 1870s closed and converted into housing in 2002. There is still a Truman's sign notice board on the north side of the building. In the 1960s it was known as the Widow's as it was run by the widow of the previous licensee and it had connections to the Kray family. It is said that the pub was a ‘no-go’ area for the police and in 1966 it was thought there was a weapons store there. The Krays raided Mr Smith’s club in Catford because they thought the Richardson gang were coming to the Lion, and a Kray gang member was killed as a result. Ronnie Kray was at the Lion when he heard that Richardson member George Cornell was in the Blind Beggar - and he left to get revenge.
Bethnal Green Station. The now demolished station entrance was at the corner with Three Colts Lane.
East Junction – this is the point at which the line to Hackney Downs diverges from the main Great Eastern Line

Three Colts Lane
Bethnal Green Station.  Opened in 1872 it now lies between Cambridge Heath and Liverpool Street Stations. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway and was the first station out of Liverpool Street. It is there because a junction was being built for a line to Hackney Downs and this was to be the junction station with two side platforms and a central island.  A complex of sidings on the south west of the lines was part of the lines which served the Spitalfields depot. A station was planned at Bethnal Green on the Central Line under the New Works programme of the 1930s and this was implemented in 1946. Thus from 1946 Stratford line services stopped calling here and the up suburban platform was closed.  A stone drinking fountain in the middle of the platform was there until the 1960s. The station was rebuilt in 1985 with two platforms and all old buildings removed. There is a small waiting room on the down side.
Bethnal Green West Signal box dates from 1891 and was taken out of use in 1947 and removed.
Bethnal Green signal box. This was a box put in 1949 at the time of the electrification to Shenfield. It closed in 1989 and was demolished in 1997.
Waterlow Buildings. There is a plaque on the buildings on the Three Colt Lane frontage. The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd. was set up by Sir Sydney Waterlow in 1863.  Bethnal Green's Waterlow Estate was built between 1869  1890 and flats are along Ainsley, Wilmot and Corfield Streets. This block includes ground-floor shops: an uncommon feature only repeated again once in the Company's estates. The estate was sold off and partly demolished in the 1980s.
The Good Shepherd Mission.  In 1856, A Sunday School resulting from a closure in another church became known as ‘The Good Shepherd School’. New school was built in Mape Street in 1866, and a day school was opened. The Mape Street School was compulsorily purchased by The Great Eastern Railway and a new school built in Three Colts Lane in 1872. In 1873 the day school was transferred to the School Board for London. The building was later extended and amalgamated with King Edward Institution, George Yard Mission, and Darby Street Mission. In the Second World War the Mission provided temporary shelter and supervised large air raid shelters in the area. In 1980 a team of volunteers, opened a youth club, which was followed soon after by a girls club and a junior club. A new registered charity was set up ’The Good Shepherd Mission’, in 1995 and a Church Leadership Team was formed in 1997. The Mission runs a programme of early years activities, a children’s club, youth clubs for boys and girls as well as with vulnerable adults, and this includes a winter night shelter
Greenheath Business area. This was the site of the Allen and Hanbury Works while retaining their office at Plough Court in the City. This dated to 1878 when part of what was then Letchford’s Buildings was leased and used for purifying cod liver oil. Adjacent buildings were also leased so More and more departments moved to this site, printing, publicity and surgical instrument manufacture – up to and including operating tables... A research department produced their later very successful milk foods – but these were eventually made in Ware, as too were lozenges from the 1920s.  Manufacture of Battleys Solution of Opium was moved here and in the early 1920s a large new factory was built to replace buildings lost in Great War air raids. Here specialist laboratories made insulin and similar products in sterile conditions - The factory produced a vast selection of drugs and pharmaceuticals – syrups, lozenges, specialist foods, pastilles, and tinctures, pills, tablets, in 1958 the firm was taken over by Glaxo and the whole operation moved to Ware and newer plant. Where they still and as SmithKlineGlaxo a major world pharmaceutical company.
29 Duke of Wellington. This pub dates from the early 19th and until at least 1851 was called the Lord Wellington. It closed before 1983 and was demolished in 2010.
Letchford’s Buildings.  This had been built as a match factory in Camden’s Gardens. R.Letchford made ‘wax vestas’ matches and paraffin matches in the 1860s.A major explosion in the early 1860s killed several workers and damaged the factory.  Despite this Letchfords said that their matches ignited only on the box, and never failed
Sanitas factory in the 1890s. One of the building taken over by Allan and Hanburys and used as their surgical instrument factory.
Rucker bicycle factory. In 6 Letchford's Buildings. 1881 – 1885. 1884 The Company introduced what may have been the first tandem cycle that bears resemblance to today’s tandem bicycles, be that the two wheels were much larger, being 56” in diameter. Although they sold ordinaries and tricycles as well.


Wilmott Street
Sydney Waterlow's Improved Industrial Dwellings Co.  Built in 1870.  Some are grander than others and possibly designed for better-off artisans.
Hague Primary School. The school here was opened in 1873 as Wilmot Street Board School in a building designed by Giles & Gough on a site bought from the Industrial Dwellings Co. It was damaged by rioting in 1877. It was reorganised in 1930 and became a secondary school. After the Second World War it was reorganised again as primary and secondary girls’ school. In 1955 the primary school amalgamated with Stewart Headlam School and the school was closed in 1965. The building was then used by Hague Primary School which had originally opened in 1883 in the building now used by the Drapers’ City Foyer.

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Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford
The Line runs north eastwards from Bethnal Green Station

Post to the west Three Colt Lane

Bellevue Place
Cottages 18th-19th brick terrace with garden paved walk from Cleveland Way., with ‘true cottage gardens’.

Cambridge Heath Road
This was at one time called Cambridge Road and also partly Dog Lane.  The heath is an area now built over at the northern end.
223 Morain House. This was a sheet metal works for Sol Schaverien and Sons, Ltd built on the site of a mission hall. Schaverien eventually concentrated on their umbrella manufacturing business here moving to a site at Mile End in the 1980s. The building has since been used by an electrical equipment business with a series of art galleries in the office accommodation.
231 The East London Electric Theatre opened in 1911 operated by Frank Stebbing. By 1918 it was called the East London Picture Palace and closed in 1919.
205 1940s office block on a site which before the Second World War was the Three Colts Pub. The pub was there before 1820 and may have closed before the Great War.
93 Sovereign House. Site of the Foresters Cinema which was opened as a hall attached to the Artichoke Public House from 1825, and converted into the Foresters Music Hall in 1889 by Edward Clark. Known as the Royal Foresters Music Hall from 1901-1904 it reverted back to Foresters Music Hall from 1904, when it was operated by the MacNaghten Vaudeville Circuit. In 1916 was re-named the New Lyric Music Hall and was also known as the Lyric Theatre. It closed in 1917 re-opened in 1926 when it opened as the Foresters Super Cinema with alterations by George Coles.  In 1937 it was taken over by Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Theatres Ltd. It suffered from damage in the Second World War, and was closed in 1947 and re-opened in 1949.  It was eventually closed in 1960 and demolished in 1964
Bethnal Green Gardens.  This quarter square covers only a tiny portion of the southernmost end.  The gardens cover an area safeguarded by trustees as ‘Poors Land’ since the 1690s in order to stop development.  The section covered here consists of ornamental gardens and some tennis courts.
The bridge taking the Great Eastern Railway over Cambridge Heath Road is a replacement of 1893
Mile End Station. This was built in 1841 on the Eastern Counties Railway and from map evidence it may have been on the south east side of the road.  In 1872 it closed having been replaced by replaced by Bethnal Green Junction
135 The Carpenters Arms. This was present in what was then Dog Row in 1849 and at 34 Cambridge Road in 1861. It was rebuilt after the Second World War on a different site as part of Donegal House on the Collingwood Estate
Brick arch surmounted by a globe and a small public garden on the corner with Cephas Street as some sort of entrance to Globe Town.
Rope walk. Before the 1890s a rope walk ran from Three Colt Lane between this road and Buckhurst Street


Cephas Avenue
This was originally St. Peter Street and was laid out in a straight line, running north from Mile End Road and centred on the church. The housing was built up from the 1830s to the 1890s.
50 ½ Katherine Wheel pub. Closed and now housing


Cephas Street
In the 19th the east end of the road, near the church, was called St. Peter’s Street and the end near Cambridge Heath Road was Devonshire Street
Frank Dobson Square.  Named after the artist of with Woman with a Fish which had been acquired by the London County Council in the 1960s as a feature for the Cleveland Estate. . The 1950s statue was used as a drinking fountain until vandalised and then removed. There is a replica in Millwall Park.
John Scurr Primary School.   John Scurr was born in 1876 and grew up in Poplar. He was secretary of the Poplar Labour League and District Chairman of the Dockers’ Union.  He was elected to Poplar Borough Council in 1919 and in 1921 he was sent to Prison for refusing to levy Poplar’s share London County Council rates. He was later an Alderman of the LCC. And MP for Mile End Ward in 1923 and played a leading role in 1930 Education Bill. The school is housed in a 1920's three-decker building which appears to be part of what was Cephas Street School. John Scurr School appears to previously have been in Wessex Road in the site now used by the Bangabandhu Primary School.
Cephas Street School. This was a School Board for London school built as an elementary school in 1928. It was badly bombed in the Second World War.  It is assumed that ‘School house’ in Cephas Street is one of the original school buildings.
Smith, Druce & Co.  Phoenix Gin Distillery. This had an artesian well
St. Peters Court. Housing in what was St Peter’s Church. This was built in 1838 for the Metropolis Churches Fund. It was designed by Edward Blore, but bombed in the Second World War. The Vicarage was to the west of the church and the Sunday school to the east


Cleveland Way
Cleveland Estate. Designed and built by the London County Council Architects Department in 1962
64 Crown Pickle Works. Barons Crown Pickles & Binnella Ltd. This was on the site of what is now Lamplighter Close.
56 Golden Eagle pub demolished in 2000.  There are now flats on the site.

Colebert Avenue
Previously Devonshire Street
Moses and Solomon Almshouses. Thus charity was set up to to relieve the poverty and to ameliorate the condition of the Jewish poor of the Metropolis. It consst of Twelve tenements Founded in 1838 by Lyon Moses and the late Henry Solomon, and administered by the Jewish Board of Guardians. The almshouses appear to have remained there until the early 1950s. There now appears to be ball courts on the site.
Barrows Charity Almshouses. Barrow’s Almshouses were founded by Joseph Barrow. The Almshouses of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, founded in 1703 were amalgamated with the Montefiore Almshouses, founded by Sir Moses Montefiore, and the Pacifico Almshouses, founded by Dr. Emanuel Pacifico, and they were all removed to a new set of buildings in Devonshire-street on the site of Barrow's Almshouses, and opened in 1894. They appear to have gone by the Second World War. The site is now flats.
Cigar Box Factory

Hadleigh Close
Railway Viaduct. The skew bridge was replaced in 1880 with a substantial iron bridge carried on cast iron Tuscan columns. The bridge is said to be of interest for its five slanting rows of columns.
Blind arch to the east, with a pylon-formed buttress to its left and beyond a further row of five arches.


Hayfield Passage
Recalls the time when hay carts would travel down to the hay market in Whitechapel High Street.


Malcolm Place
Railway Viaduct – a Section of the north side of the Eastern Counties Railway Viaduct built 1838-40, for which John Braithwaite was engineer. It is in brick, and includes a number of arches and buttresses. A skew bridge spans Malcolm Street to Braintree Street. This viaduct carried the first railway to connect London with East Anglia. The arcade along Malcolm Street was originally called Railway Place. The viaduct is from the first generation of railway building.

Mile End Road
A wide thoroughfare with broad pavements with gardens and shrubberies. The open land attracted large institutions in the 19th including workhouses. It was here that Jewish tailors came here to hear their leaders like Lewis Lyons. In 1898 Theodore Hertzl proclaimed Zionism here and in 1917 the Jewish Legion was formed here to liberate Palestine from the Turks.
31 Tower Hamlet Mission. Charis provides therapeutic residential care for addicts.  The was established in 1870 by Frederick Charrington, heir to a brewery fortune and set up as a charity by the Charity Commission in 1938, following his death. Charis opened in 1988.  There are three staff houses and an administration block. The central feature is a light well and a courtyard with a small fountain and pool give light and a feeling of peace and there is a Chapel for prayer and meditation.
Statue of William Booth. This is a copy of the statue by G.E Wade which is outside the Salvation Army Headquarters at Denmark Hill. It is painted grey and in fibreglass to defeat vandalism – the bottom s also filled with concrete. However the book which he once held is gone. It was put up in 1979 to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
39 Statue of Edward VII.  Life-sized bronze bust of unveiled on 12 October 1911. Erected by the Freemasons of the Eastern District of which he was Grand Master.
69-90 Wickham & Sons.  Department store with an extensive frontage along the road. The Wickham family were originally drapers, trading from 69, 71 and 73 Mile End Road.  Built by Thomas Jay Evans
81 occupied by the Spiegelhalter family business of clockmakers and jewellers. The Wickham family acquired the entire block except the Spiegelhalter's shop at 81 and planned a major rebuilding of their shop. This time the Spiegelhalter family refused to part with their premises at any price. Their refusal to move led to the odd situation in which the new store was built around the family shop which continued to trade when Wickham’s opened on both its sides.
91 Al-Huda Mosque. Built in 1928 by Whinney, Son and Austen Hall as a bank and closed in 1987 after repeated bank robberies. In 2000 it became a Mosque, which serves the Somali Muslim community.
93-95 The Genesis Cinema. This opened in 1848 as the Eagle pub and music hall. This was later Lusby's Summer and Winter Garden and later Lusby's Music Hall which was burnt down in 1884. The owners, Crowder & Payne, hired Frank Matcham to design the Paragon Theatre of Varieties which opened in 1885. This had a revolutionary air extraction system which helped Matcham become the most successful theatre architect of his day. The drop-curtain was painted by. Charles Brooke and interior decoration was by the Framemaker's Gilders' and Decorators' Association. Charlie Chaplin made his first stage appearance here. In 1912 it was renamed the Mile End Empire and used as a cinema and was bought in 1928 by the United Picture Theatre circuit and then in 1934 ABC. ABC replaced the old theatre with a modern building designed by their chief architect, W.R. Glen. In 1963 it housed the Royal World Premiere of Sparrows Can't Sing hosted by Ronnie and Reggie Kray attended by the Earl of Snowdon because Princess Margaret was ill - the auditorium had been specially redecorated and a new wide screen had been fitted. As well as Barbara Windsor and half show biz of the day, there were trumpeters of the Household Cavalry and music from the Metropolitan Police Band. It was called the Cannon cinema when it closed in the 1980s. It opened as Genesis Cinema was opened in 1999, with Barbara Windsor as the guest of honour.
129 Adams House. This is remaining building of the Anchor Brewery. It is offices and flats called Charrington House. The name of Adams House comes from Adams Solicitors who own it.
133-135 house built in the 18th which  incomplete and reduced to first floor level. In the 1960s, it was used as a garage, and used for the storage of car tyres. In 1994, an arson attack almost led to the loss of the panelled interior.
137-139 Malplaquet House. Built as one of three in 1742 by Thomas Andrews and named after the Battle of Malplaquet. Brewer Harry Charrington lived 1794 -1833 and following his occupancy the house was subdivided, and shops built on the front garden. A number of small businesses were there in the 19th - a bookmaker, a printer and 1910-1975 by the Union of Stepney Ratepayers. Architect Richard Seifert provided new shop fronts following repairs to Second World War bomb damage. In the 1990s, Spitalfields Trust helped save it from demolition. In 1998, Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan bought it from the Spitalfields Trust. In 2010, it was described as "possibly the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country
156 Hayfield Tavern. This pub dates from the 18th, it was the brewery tap for Charrington’s Brewery and the rooms upstairs were where Brewery directors met for private dining and meetings. It was called the Pearly Queen from 1970 and is now the Hayfield Masala,
166 Early 19th house. Painted brick with parapet. Modern shop on ground floor.
168 This was the Black Horse. It was originally a Charrington Brewery house.  It has its original pub façade and inside is has a tiled mural of a black horse.  It later became a gay bar and is now closed.
182 site of Augustus Attwell's butcher's shop. Mabel Lucy Attwell was born here in 1879 and became a popular illustrator of children's books.
Anchor Brewery – This was Charrington's Brewery. It had been built in 1757 by Westfield and Moss, replacing their Bethnal Green brewery. In 1766, John Charrington, and After Moss retired in 1783 John and Henry Charrington were in full control of the business.  By 1783 John Charrington and his brother Harry were the proprietors. In 1785 they installed a steam engine and by 1808 they were second in the list of the leading 12 London brewers. After Charrington's death in 1815, the business was continued by his son, Nicholas. In 1833 Charrington's began brewing stout and porter as well as ale. At its peak it produced 20,000 barrels of beer a week. In 1872 they bought a brewery in Burton on Trent and thenceforth operated the two breweries. They also bought up 40 other brewers between 1833 and 1930. Frederick Charrington, heir to the Charrington Brewery, began his Temperance movement in Whitechapel, and he relentlessly pursued brothel keepers, hounding them out by noting their activities in his black book. . In 1967, Charrington formed Bass Charrington Limited. The Anchor Brewery ceased production in 1975, but remained the company's head office. Most of the brewery buildings had been demolished and has been redeveloped as housing, offices and a shopping centre as the Anchor Retail Park.


Wylen Close
Gouldman House. Tower block of reinforced concrete frame on stilts part of Cleveland estate


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Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford
The railway running from Bethnal Green Station goes north eastwards

Post to the south Bethnal Green
Post to the east Globe Town

Bancroft Road
This part of Bancroft Road was called Devonshire Street in the 19th
Devonshire Street Station.  Opened in 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway.  It was a simple wooden station used as a temporary terminus for the Eastern Counties Railway while Bishopsgate was being built. The entrance was to the north of the viaduct reached by an alley way from the alley called Providence Place. It closed in 1840 when the line was extended to Shoreditch.

Bethnal Green – the Green and the Gardens
The Green.  This is the medieval Green or Poors' Lands which lies along Cambridge Heath Road. It was originally, part of the common land of Stepney.  When building increased in the area in the late 17th land was purchased by a group of people anxious to preserve open land in the area and set up as a trust in 1696. This included a charge for the support of the poor of Bethnal Green and money to lay the land out as a public garden.  Maintained by London County Council part was preserved as Bethnal Green Gardens and recreation ground by the LCC in 1895. The green is triangular and stretches from Old Ford Road, tapering to a point at the railway line.   In 1825 some of the land was purchased for St John’s Church which divided the Green into two. In 1868 more and was sold for the Bethnal Green Museum. In 1888 following attempts by the trustees to allow land to be sold for development the land was passed to the London County Council on condition it remained as a ‘recreation-ground’. It was remodelled as a public park under Lt. Col Sexby with an ornamental wrought-iron enclosing fence; walks and shrubberies; a sunk garden with a central fountain, a rockery; a gymnasium for children. The park opened in 1895.
Museum of Childhood. In 1851 William Gladstone, suggested a museum be built in Bethnal Green while leading locals bought the common land and lobbied for a museum. In 1851 the Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park and a museum was conceived as a result. This was housed in a temporary iron structure in Brompton - nicknamed the Brompton Boilers. It was then decided to add similar Museums elsewhere in London but only Bethnal Green was e interested and in 1868, construction began under architect, J.W.Wild. The work was carried out by S Perry & Co., led by Col Henry Scott, of the Royal Engineers. The Prince of Wales opened the Museum in 1872. The final structure was much less grand than Wild’s original plans. Female inmates of Woking Gaol laid the fish scale pattern marble floor and F W Moody designed murals – agriculture on the south wall and art and industry on the north - with female students of the South Kensington Museum Mosaic Class. The exhibits were made up of Food and Animal Products Great Exhibition, bits of various the South Kensington collections plus 18th French art from the Wallace Collection. The Royal family began to pass stuff they had been given to the museum. In 1922 Arthur Sabin became curator and decided to make it more child-friendly. He began to put together child-related objects helped by Queen Mary and a donation of a collection of toys. In the Second World War the building became a British Canteen. In 1974 Roy Strong, director of the V&A, reopened it as the Museum of Childhood transferring relevant collections there.  In 2005 the Museum was closed for refurbishment and new extensions and facilities were added,
Bethnal Green Museum Gardens. The section of open ground round the museum was initially maintained by the Government but in 1887 it passed to the Metropolitan Board of Works, subsequently the LCC, then the GLC and now London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is required under the Act for the purchase of the land that it is 'laid out and for ever maintained ... as an ornamental garden'. The original layout was designed by A. McImyre, the superintendent of Victoria Park. The gardens are separated from the museum by Museum Passage and until recent refurbishment works the gardens consisted of lawns, with rose beds, plane trees on the perimeter, with picnic tables on each side. The semi-circular area at the front has now been changed as ramped access to the building and there is increased planting.
The Eagle Slayer. The sculpture by John Bellshows a shepherd, who, upon discovering one of his sheep has been killed by an eagle, fires an arrow and kills the eagle. This may be the version cast in iron by the Coalbrookdale Company in 1851 and shown at the Great Exhibition at the centre of a fantastic cast-iron structure, referred to as a 'rustic summerhouse'; It was placed in the garden in 1927 and was much damaged. It has now been restored and taken inside the museum, although the plinth remains in the gardens
St. George’s Fountain.  The fountain which was the largest piece of majolica work ever made, stood at the centre of the International Exhibition in South Kensington in 1862. It was by by the sculptor J. Thomas for Minton made up of 369 parts and was 10 metres tall. It was displayed outside the Bethnal Green Museum until 1926 when St.George fell off and it had deteriorated beyond repair. The statue of Sr. George is now held at the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent and much of it is said to be crushed in the museum pathways.
Memorial fountain in Museum Gardens. This is dedicated to the memory of Alice Maud Denman and Peter Regelous, who lost their lives while attempting to save others in a fire at 423 Hackney Road on 20 April 1902.
St John’s Church.  This was originally a Chapel of ease to St. Matthew in 1828The church itself was built in 1826-8 by John Soane, as his third church for the Commissioners.  It is in brick with a tower made up of detached pillars and a circular cupola. An intermediate storey was omitted on cost grounds. There were later alterations by Teulon and it was badly damaged in the blitz so in 2004 there has been a larger renovation programme. The interior was remodelled in 1871 by William Mundy after a fire. Paintings of the Stations of the Cross, by Chris Gollon, were commissioned 2002.  There are bronze tablets members of the East London Regiment of Royal Engineers as from the Boer War till 1945; St John’s was the regimental church for the Regiment. From 1844 the Patron was Brasenose College Oxford and incumbents came from there. In the 19th however the church supported a staff of three assistant curates, a scripture reader and 24 women visitors 1858.  The church now supports a programme of contemporary arts and multiculturalism.
Vicarage built on former Poor's Land east f the church in.1852. It was enlarged by G.M. Hills in 1879 and destroyed by bombing in 1941 and replaced in Victoria Park Square.
Churchyard. This includes a Great War Memorial. This is a granite cross bearing a figure of Christ. On the base is inscribed the single word: ‘REMEMBER’.
Bethnal Green Library. This is in a wing of what was latterly a private Lunatic Asylum. The library opened in 1922 partly funded by the Carnegie Trust The brick building of 1896, was converted as into Bethnal Green Public Library and incorporates a cottage and a wing of the had been Bednal House. The Library had been the male ward block of Bethnal House Asylum of l896 probably built by James Tolley jun. and converted in 1922 by A.E. Darby, Borough Surveyor and Engineer. The entrance was remodelled in the 1920s, with an inscription above and there is also a 1920s service wing. The lending library was added in 1922 and is top-lit with decorative glass lights. On the wall are oval plaster reliefs of Darwin, Marx, Morris and Wagner, by a local artist, Karl Roberts.
War Memorial, on first floor of the library which was unveiled in 1923. There is a stained glass of 'Peace', flanked by ‘Manhood’ and 'Motherhood'. Bethnal Green's War Memorial Committee had hoped to pay for a Children's lending library and Reading Room but only raised enough for the window.
Bethnal or Bednal House also called Kirby's Castle stood facing on the green. It had been built for Kirby in 1570 and became known as the Blind Beggar's House. In 1727 it was leased by Matthew Wright, who opened a private asylum here incorporating adjacent the Red House and White House. In 1843 Kirby House itself was pulled down and rebuilt with a new block for male patients. The asylum eventually moved to Salisbury and the site was purchased by Bethnal Green Council
Shadwell War Memorial in Bethnal Green Gardens. This is a tall crucifix on a Portland stone base. The base is inscribed as follows: “A.M.D.G. / IN LOVING AND HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF SHADWELL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE WAR 1914-1918/ R.I.P.” The plaque was replaced in November 2013 by the Council.
Public Shelter, which disguises vents to the underground built in the 1940s in the manner of Holden's stations with rounded ends and a thin, projecting concrete roof
Kiosk, erected in the late 1940s. In modernist style.
Stairway to Heaven. By Harry Paticas as a memorial to the 170 people who lost their lives on the stairway of the tube station in 1943. It is a white concrete plinth with Bronze plaques to those who died. Opened in 2013.

Braintree Street
123 The Fountain Pub. Demolished in 2013
49 Baitul Aman Mosque and Cultural Centre. This was set up in a disused garage in 1998 and it is hoped to build a permanent mosque.


Burnham Street
Drill Hall. Army Cadet Centre in what was Tower Hamlets Engineers Volunteers Centre
Museum House. Built by the East End Dwellings Co., was founded in 1884 to house the very poor while realizing some profit. Following clearances by the Metropolitan Board of Works the Metropolitan Street Improvements Act of 1883, the company was leased a plot where it built four-storeyed Museum House in 1888.


Cambridge Heath Road
Bethnal Green tube station is on the Central line and lies between Liverpool Street and Mile End stations. It was opened as part of the delayed Central Line eastern extension in 1946 as part of the New Works programme.  It is finished with pale yellow tiling, originally made by Poole Pottery and some original panels remain on the platforms. Some tiles showing symbols of London designed by Harold Stabler. The station, and some above ground ancillary buildings, show the design influence of Charles Holden. In the Second World War the unfinished satin was used as an air raid shelter under the administration of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green – who had warned that crash barriers were needed - and became an overnight shelter.  The stairs into the station were the site of a crush during an air raid when 170 people died.
memorial bronze plaque above the stairs to the station. This has an inscription below an enamelled coat of arms: “Site of the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War. In memory of 173 men, women and children who lost their lives on the evening of Wednesday 3rd March 1943 descending these steps to Bethnal Green Underground Air Raid Shelter, Not forgotten.
Gate Piers, The station was built beneath Bethnal Green gardens and at the entrance are classical gate piers designed to disguise vents.

Cornwall Gardens
Sutton Dwellings. Three blocks built in 1909 by the ‘charitable trusts' of William Richard Sutton, carrier of Golden Lane. Painted crests on the walls.


Digby Street
In the 1840s the road had included a dump for night soil taken from houses by refuse collectors.
Digby Estate - pre-war art deco council blocks of the Digby Estate, 1935-6 by E.C.P Monson, Bethnal Green Met. Borough Architect.  This includes Butler House by Monson from 1934, with the same stripy brick
Digby Greenways Community centre. Regeneration of the estate in 1998 by Levin Bernstein included the conversion of what is said to be a depot for London Council Trams. Said to be of 1900, into a community centre.  My guess is it’s a transformer substation built by Bethnal Green in 1916
Digby Street depot. Local authority engineering department and depot which included a disinfecting station and stables. Now housing and community space. An electrical substation was opened here by the Mayor of Bethnal Green in 1916. Although Bethnal Green had applied for an order giving them powers for electrical generation plus a dust destructor in 1899 they continued to receive power from the Stepney generator until 1916. Transformers were built at New Tyssen Street and here at Digby Street depot in 1916 with Westinghouse equipment. This was later taken over by the London Electricity Board following nationalisation.
Godley VC House memorial plaque.  In 1992 the Council renamed a housing block to commemorate Sidney Frank Godley who was awarded the Victoria Cross in management of machine guns under heavy fire after he had been wounded in August 1914. He subsequently worked as a caretaker at Cranbrook School in Tower Hamlets


Gawber Street
Globe Primary School. The school opened in 1874 as a Board School called Globe Terrace School. It was remodelled in 1900 and renamed Globe Road School.  Following evacuation in the Second World War the empty school building was used by local fire-fighters to store the fire engines and trucks needed to fight fires during the blitz.  The school was also used as a base by the ARP wardens and the ground floor was filled with families after their own houses were destroyed by the bombs and fires of the blitz. The school re opened in 1944 for both Junior and Infants and was renamed Globe Primary School. For a while in the 1950s it was also known as Pilgrim School,


Globe Road
Globe Town. This was Globe Lane in the 18th 1708 probably because it was a track from Bethnal Green to the Globe pub at Mile End. Before that it was called Theeving Lane. The northern part of Globe Road was once known as Back Lane and the southern part as Globe Piece - Cattle were pastured at Globe Fields on route to Mile End cattle market. Globe Town devolved after land on the Eastfields estate was developed in the late 18th by a consortium of builders and aimed at a middle-class market. The name was revived in the 1980s when the borough was divided into small neighbourhoods for governance
264 Sweet Tea House. Tibetan Art Gallery
Housing by Samuel Barnett’s East End Dwellings Company. A group of cottages in a terrace designed by Henry Davis in red brick with rendered arched panels over doors – one of which shows the company name. They replaced weavers' cottages of the 1850s removed in slum clearances between 1900 and 1906.
Merceron House. Red and yellow-brick with terracotta decorations designed by Ernest Emmanuel for the East End Dwellings Company in 1901
Montfort House. Red and yellow-brick with terracotta decorations designed by Ernest Emmanuel for the East End Dwellings Company in 1901
Globe Primary school. Mosaics along the wall facing Globe road. The theme is s animals from around the globe and everything in the design was drawn by children in Artyface workshops.
Gretton Houses. Five-storeyed parallel blocks with terracotta decoration for the East End Dwellings Company.  Originally built as two blocks with a wide carriage arch between them. The rear blocks were rebuilt after bomb damage by Henry C. Smart & Partners in 1947. .
156 Sigsworth Hall. Victory Baptist Church. This is on the site of what was the Weslyan Methodist Chapel. It was previously a base for the Salvation Army who bought what was then Gordon Hall, from the Methodist Church in 1959. They rebuilt it and renamed it Sigsworth Hall after one of their staff Alice Sigsworth in 1960
Globe Road Wesleyan Chapel, now demolished, was opened in 1819 and later taken over by Dr. T.B. Stephenson of Children's Home as a mission hall named after General Gordon. It was sold to the Salvation Army in 1959. Its burial ground was once known as Mile End Cemetery’
Craft School Memorial Garden.  The garden was created on the old Wesleyan burial ground to ‘perpetuate the memory of its work, and of the ideals of beauty and hand craftsmanship for which it stood’. The design was carried out by F W Troup, adviser and governor of the Craft School. The entrance gate and Art Nouveau boundary railings were by a former blacksmith who had taught at the School with the Rose and Ring emblem recalling the ‘Rose and Ring Club, from which the Craft School grew’. The bronze plaque on the gate of 1925 shows The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green and inside is an inscribed plaque by two craftswomen. A copper weather vane with a globe on a flagpole showed East India Company 17th ship, The Globe. A copper flower bowl was placed on the central mausoleum and an oak-framed map showed East London in 1703. Flagstones were donated by Bank of England. The garden was opened in 1926.
The Crafts School was established in 1890 and closed in 1915 because of financial problems during the Great War. They had moved to this site from Whitechapel where they had grown from ‘The Rose and Ring Club’ and later in 1907 moved to Stepney Green.
Saint Anthony’s church This church was funded by the sale of the building and site of All Hallows Staining in the City of London. It was designed by Ewan Christian and consecrated in 1879. The parish was united with that of Saint Simon Zelotes in 1936 and it was demolished in 1937
Flats - blocks of London County Council flats between this road and Sceptre Road.
277 Camel pub. Faced in vaguely Art Nouveau tiles in plain brown exterior tiles. Inside is an etched Camel mirror.
Globe Road and Devonshire Street Station opened in 1884 Built by the Great Eastern Railway to the west of the site of Devonshire Street. The station was at the junction with Globe Road.  There were two entrances - on the east side of Globe Road and facing onto the rod. The entrance remained into the 1950s with an elaborate arch and gates with the station name above in the ironwork. The other entrance serving Devonshire Street, now Bancroft Road,  but also Morpeth Street via a subway under the viaduct. The station only had two platforms which were served by new local lines on the then quadrupled railway. These platforms were on the viaduct and the booking office was at street level at the London end in Globe Road with another in Devonshire Street. The Devonshire street booking office and arch was still identifiable in the 1970s with ‘Great Eastern Railway’ in stonework on the bridge over.  It was closed in 1916. In 1938 it was demolished but the entrance gates survived
Globe Street Junction Signal Box. Closed 1894
Devonshire Street Signal Box. This was above the tracks at the London end. It closed in 1916.
Devonshire Street West signal box. This was at the country end of the station. Built in 1884 to replace an earlier box.
Acton Engineering. On the station site in the 1950s.
184 Muaythai. Thai boxing club. This appears to be in premises adjacent to and under the railway arches, previously used as a snooker club.
131 The Railway Tavern
Buddhist Centre entrance.  This is behind the centre which is in Roman Road. There is a large mural of flowers on the party wall with 343 Globe Road. There is also a sculpture over the gateway which shows the Nalanda crest with other symbols. This includes a lotus flower, a pair of deer and the wheel with eight spokes symbolic of the path to enlightenment. Nalanda was the name of a university which flourished in India from the 5th century BCE to about 100 CE. The design of the crest is at least a thousand years old.


Knottisford Street
Tuscan House. A twelve-storey system-built tower by Tower Hamlets Council. 1965.


Museum Passage
Four ornate cast iron lamp posts of 1897. This is an old path across Bethnal Green which in 1872 was planted with plane trees as a division between the Green and the Museum.


Old Ford Road
5 Netteswell House 17th brick house with later alterations and the oldest surviving house in Bethnal Green. Above the entrance which now leads to garden is inscription "Netteswell House - AD1553 - Remodelled 1705 and 1862". The entrance is from Old Ford Road and the house overlooks the grounds of Bethnal Green Museum. It was originally attached to the chapel of ease built in.1512.  This house was built in 1553 by Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London, and Oliver Cromwell's great-grandfather. But this was been replaced by two houses in 1720; and themselves replaced in 1787-91 by Ruby for Anthony Natt Rector of Netteswell in, Essex. It was for a while the museum curator's official residence, but is now in private ownership.
Community food garden. This was established in April 2012 and is managed by the Globe Community Food Garden Committee who allocate plots to residents.


Peary Place
This was once called North Passage – which presumably is why the name was changed to that of the Polar explorer, Robert Peary.


Roman Road
This was once called Green Street and at the Cambridge Heath end it divides the closes of the Green. It is shown on Gascoyne's map of 1703 as a drift way but it was called Green Street by 1883.  It was renamed because of Roman finds in the 19th
11 Bethnal Green Fire Station. Built 1969 by the GLC Architect's Department. in dark brick and concrete
19-35 Museum House. Built in 1888 this is the the earliest surviving tenement by Davis & Emmanuel for the East End Dwellings Co. It has three storeys above shops on and had flats with shared WCs.
50 Bacton Tower. This was built in 1965 by Yorke Rosenberg & Mardell. It was the first fully. System built tower in what was then the new Borough of Tower Hamlets, It is in pre-cast reinforced concrete clad with YRM's trademark white tiles. Since 1990 it has had a pitched roof and flimsy porch
51 the old Bethnal Green Fire Station which has since become the Western Order of Buddhists. London Buddhist Centre.  The fire station was built in 1888-9 by Robert Pearsall for the Metropolitan Board of Works, in a free Arts and Crafts Gothic in red brick and -terracotta decoration. It has a symmetrical front, with entrances through brick arches. The hose tower was once topped by a, turret. A new entrance has been made, through a gateway with a wrought-iron design depicting the crest of Nalanda, by Arya Daka. The interior was remodelled by M.E Wharton with Windhorse Design and includes murals of natural landscapes by Chintamani. There are two shrine rooms with figures of Buddha, also by Chintamani.  There is a courtyard with flowers and a water sculpture. The main entrance to the building is a glass-walled conservatory with a gilded Buddha surrounded by plants
37 The Atlas Pub. This pub was here before 1869 and closed towards the end of the Second World War. It has since been in use as a shop.
62 Albert Jacobs house. Council offices
62-66 Empire Picturedrome. This opened in 1913 with independent operators throughout its existence. In 1946 it was renamed Empire Cinema and in 1955, Premier Cinema. It was closed in 1959. The building was demolished and the site is now under Alfred Jacob House
63 The Devon Arms. This pub was here before 1852, and then called Lord John Russell. It closed in 1924.
67 Black Horse Pub – which is written in cement lettering on the gable. This pub was there before 1869 and in 1883 rebuilt by Hammack & Lambert.  It was a Truman’s Brewery house but bought by Bellhaven Brewery in 1985. It closed in 1995 and was used as an art gallery.
85 Baitful Murmur academy. This mosque and cultural centre moved to 100 Roman Road. However following a dispute some members moved back here.
100 site of The Weavers Arms. This was a Taylor Walker Brewery pub, which was here before 1850. It was rebuilt after the Second World War as the ground floor of a block of flats. It closed in 1994 and was used as council offices. It later became a mosque and an Islamic cultural centre.
100 Globe Town Mosque and Cultural Centre. The Group moved from 85 Roman Road to these former council offices.
109 The Ship pub was there before 1860 and closed during the Great War. It remained a beer house throughout its existence/
123 The Star & Garter Pub, This was open from before 1869 to 1914.
129 The Old Friends Pub, This was Watney’s House there before 1869. It closed in 2009 and is now a Chinese takeaway.
Brick arch surmounted by a globe and a small public garden on the corner with Globe Road as some sort of entrance to Globe Town


Sceptre Road
London County Council flats with sun balconies and courtyards. Five stories high

Stainsbury Street
Bonner School, Bethnal Green is a two form entry school. This was originally Bonner Street Board School built on the site of Twig Folly British School in   1875 in Queen Anne style buildings by Edward Robson and John Stevenson.  It was reorganised in 1930 and again, following evacuation in 1945 and then renamed Bonner Primary in 1949. The previous school on the site had been Twig Folly British School which had opened on 1830 as a Lancastrian School in Sidney Street. It had been built here with money from both Parliament and the British and Foreign Schools. Society and conveyed to trustees in 1837. It was eventually replaced by Bonner Street School. The Board School buildings were demolished in 2005 and replaced.
Memorial on the school wall on the corner of Hartley and Bonner Street. This is a stone tablet beneath a Della Robbia style roundel of infant in swaddling bands. Erected in 1936, in place of a temporary wooden shrine of 1916, to commemorate the dead of Mace Street, "Love shall tread out the baleful fires of anger & in its ashes plant the tree of peace"

Sugar Loaf Walk
The name is thought to come from a public house.  There was a clothing factory here, making uniforms during World War One.

Victoria Park Square
Flats rugged Brutalist for the fire station round the corner in Roman Road.
12 Police Station built in 1997
16 This was the clubhouse and chapel of the Bethnal Green University Settlement,. Built in 1888 it is a 2-storey clubhouse and a chapel both in red: The University Settlement was established here by three Oxford theology graduates to provide 'entertainment, rational amusement, and social intercourse' for the people of the East End. In 1887 they were based in No.17 and built this at No.16 plus a hall to the rear which is now demolished They Shared the premises with the Repton Club, which included one of the largest boxing clubs in the country. The building is now offices and flats.
Victoria Park Square Hall operated as a cinema during 1912 and 1913.
17 Temple House. Workers Educational; Association. Offices. The staircase incorporates a dog-gate. Its gateway was brought from Hythe Church, Kent, by Sir Wyndham Deedes, principal of the University House Settlement, who lived here. from 1923 to 1939. He retired to Bethnal Green from the army and served on the council and the L.C.C.  The house was built as a pair with 18 in the late 17th.
18 The house is said to have a Tudor Well in the cellar. It houses the Young Foundation and was the Institute of Community Studies. The Young Foundation is in the same buildings where Michael Young and Peter Willmott researched and wrote Family and Kinship in East London in the 1950s.  The Institute for Community Studies had been set up in 1954 as an urban studies think tank, bringing academic research and practical social innovation together. It helped create over 60 organisations, including the Open University and the Consumers’ Association.  Michael Young has been described as “the world’s most successful entrepreneur of social enterprises” As the author of Labour’s manifesto in 1945 he played a key role in shaping the post-war welfare state. In the early 1950s he set up the Institute of Community Studies. He was involved in the creation of NHS Direct, the spread of after-school clubs and neighbourhood councils and in his later life was instrumental in creating the University of the Third Age and Grandparents Plus.
21 In 1853 Henry Merceron leased this to the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of the Tower Hamlets militia. by the 1860s this included a barracks and the Territorial Army site in Globe Road still used by army cadets.
26 Montfort House.  Flats built for the East End Dwellings Company by its architects Davis & Emmanuel in 1901 as part of their scheme between here and Globe Road.   Inside are enclosed stairs and self-contained flats rather than single rooms. The name reflects the legend of the blind beggar, who was supposedly Simon de Montfort in disguise.
Mulberry House. This was one of the last schemes for the East End Dwellings Co. Built by Arthur Kenyan in 1934-6. It is on the ground of what was Aldgate House in 1643,
Our Lady of the Assumption. The Church and Priory of the Assumptionists is on the site of Aldgate House,  and later Park Congregational Chapel.  It is Roman Catholic built 1911-12 by Edward Goldie. The site was given by Florence Cottrell-Dormer.
Priory of the Assumptionist Fathers. .
Aldgate House. This had been built in 1643 and the site of the house and its gardens are now covered by Mulberry House and the Church and Priory of the Assumption. In 1760 Ebenezer Mussell had bought part of the City gate of Aldgate when it was demolished, and used the bricks and stones to build an annexe to this house – hence the name.. It was demolished in 1806 and replaced by houses, and in 1816 by the Park Chapel
Park or Ebenezer Chapel was  built on site of Aldgate House in 1811 and originated in Independent Calvinists under minister .Robert. Langford . It closed in 1876.
Swinburne House stands on the site of the Red House.
Red House. This was one of the buildings of the Bethnal Green Asylum. Built before 1831.


Welwyn Street
Mendip House. Built by the East End Dwellings Company in 1900, with a plaque on the wall facing Globe Road.


Wessex Street
28 Bangabandhu Primary School. The school dates from1989 and has been in these premises since 1991. The name of the school means 'Friend of Bengal'. It is the honorary title given to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who helped found Bangladesh in 1971
National School. The John Scurr Primary School was previously on this site and it was later an annexe for Morpeth School.


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