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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedBroad LaneBank 1902 Free Classical; angled gable with pepperpot turretsGreen space which recalls with trees at the start of the lane...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAmhurst ParkNorth London Progressive Synagogue. Built as a Methodist church. After war damage, reconstructed as a synagogue by Derek Sharpe,...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAbney Park Cemetery. Entrance Egyptian, with railings in complementary style added in 1993. The offices flanking the entrances gates were...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAlbion GroveChapel. Late 19th Gothic, converted to housing in 1993Allen Road Mid 19thshopping streetShakespeare Amhurst Road St.James, West...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedBarnabas Road2-8 respectable mid-c19 paired villasOld Homerton Station. Gaslamp & handrails. Bishop Wood’s Almshouses. He was Bishop of...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedCaervarvon Road Leyton Green, a bit of Epping Forest handed to local board as ornamental land by the conservators in 1883 Bus garage 1906...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedCalderon Road Chobham Road Preserves the name of the old manor of ‘Chabhames’ 1412, ‘Chobhams’ 1488, apparently so called from a family...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedChurch LaneLeytonstone train staff mess room depot Forest School. Part of it is row of Georgian buildings. Oldest 1760 and probably built by...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedColworth RoadLeytonstone High School for Girls. 1911. Swimming pool etc in 30s. Formerly the Leyton High School for Girls. The school...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAshbourne Avenue One of a group of names vaguely suggesting wooded countryside perhaps, indicates the proximity of Epping Forest:...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedBlake Hall Road Temple with ionic portico at the back from Wanstead HouseBuckingham Road One of a group of county related namesCambridge...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedBush Road Friends Meeting Place. There since 1870 on the site of the Becontree Meeting place and archery ground . It was rebuilt in...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAldersbrookAldersbrook means ‘place by an alder stream’ and comes from a fairly late farm name. Previously it was the unexplained name...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedClaybury BroadwaySite of Claybury Farm.ClayhallLike Claybury takes its name from the de la Clay family who lived here in 1203. first...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedBeehive Lane Synagogue1960-1 by Norman Green. Sliding doors open to a hall, lit by a curtain gable wall. At the opposite end offices...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedCranbrook Roadwrought-iron gates, gateposts, and railings of an 18thhouse called Great Gearies. The house itself was rebuilt c....
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAldeborough Hatch Lay at the southernmost entrance to HainaultForest. Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1883, earlier ‘Aldborough...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedAldeburgh Road St. John the Evangelist,. was dedicated in 1903. In 1904 a new parish was created. William Torbitt School, 1937 by L.E.J....
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Becontree EstateWas it called ‘Becontree’ not ‘Beacontree’ to fit it on to bus blinds?‘Genteel neo-Georgian’ not conducive to inebriety. It was impossible to have such a lot of people and not build...
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This post has not been finished, is not edited or checkedParsloes AvenueRailway tracks were laid down the centre of these avenuesto transport building materials on to the estate from the...
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