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Whipps Cross
Caervarvon Road
Leyton Green, a bit of Epping Forest handed to local board as ornamental land by the conservators in 1883
Bus garage 1906 built by Great Eastern London Motorbus Co. taken over by London General Omnibus Co. in 1911 and rebuilt. LPTB 1933. Converted to trolleys
Post office ‘higher office’ although always a sub-office first post office in Leyton
Livingstone College Towers on site of Livingstone Medical College for Missionaries, which was in Knotts Green House.
25 plaque to Sol Plaatje. He founded the first native newspaper in South Africa. The 'Tswana Gazette first appeared in 1901 and lasted until 1908. In 1912, he became the first Secretary General of the South African National Congress, now known as the ANC. Plaque erected 1986.
Cheltenham Road
Chesterfield Road
Clare Road
Ely Road
Epsom Road
Essex Road
St Paul Church for Barclay estate, 1906, bits added
Forest Drive East
Reached from Leyton Green by Leyton Green Road. Nothing to see now. There was a c18 mansion with excellent grounds, in the c 19 the home of the Barclays a branch of the banking family. The streets to the north east began to be laid out after the death of Joseph Gurney Barclay in 1890s. The house became Livingstone College, a training college for missionaries; it was replaced in 1961 by a block of flats, since demolished.
Lea Bridge Road
Wittington Cox. A private bus garage called Pro Bono Publico. Became Gates Ford Garage.
Waltham Forest Carnegie Library, 1905 by W. Jacques.
Liverpool Road
Matlock Road
Maynard Road
47 Plant collector's paradise. An eclectic mix of unusual and exotic plants in a 40ft x 16ft space. Entered via an eye catching and densely planted front garden.
Nottingham Road
Peterborough Road
Raglan Road/Shernhall Street:
As far as Methodist Church is Epping Forest.
Roland Road
Sandringham Road
Shernhall Street/Grove Road/Lea Bridge Road
Grant of Waste of part of Epping Forest. Piece of ground.
Western Road
Chestnut walk girls’ school of 1858 became British school; taken over by school board.
Whipp’s Cross school. Mission building and factory in 1970s
Caribonum factory
Whipp’s Cross
Whipp’s Cross Hospital. 1936 partly funded by West Ham Borough Council. Forest House built as union infirmary in 1892. 1899 West Ham Guardians. Managed by West Ham Council. Samuel Boyle old people’s home is site of old Forest House. West Ham workhouse for a while and old peoples’ home in 1964. Red brick garden wall from old house of 1681
Forest House - Samuel Bosanquet lived at Forest House, Leyton, and also held Low Hall Manor in Walthamstow from 1741. It was owned by the family until they sold it in 1877. The Hospital, occupies the grounds of Forest House. demolished 1964. built in 1683 by the Huguenot banker Sir James Houblon, sold 1703 to Sir Gilbert Heathcott and from 1730-1831 was home of the Bosanquet family for whom Sir John Soane made alterations in 1786-7.
Lido built in 1905 by Walthamstow and Leyton jointly, dug by the unemployed. Modernised 1937
To deter wood poachers whipped at the cart tail from here to Stolen’s Corner. Stopped in 1819. Transit camp for troops in Second World War. Then ground used for temporary homes for bombed-out families
Whipp’s Cross Road
Assembly House where London merchants did business during the plague. Rebuilt in 1840s
1st church of Christ Scientist. From 1920s. Built in 1937 original temporary building used as reading room
Sir Alfred Hitchcock pub with Hitchcock memorabilia
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