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Pearly kings, queens, prlncesses and assorted children and pets at the congregation of a pets service at Durning Hall on 26 June 1955, as they parade from the church past the Forest Gate Jive Academy. Credit: Newham Heritage & Archives collection TUM image id: 1556884934 Licence:	Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1653781310 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Walthamstow’s Ancient House is a timber-framed hall house, estimated to have been first built in 1435. Credit: FB Group Londonist Urban Oddities/Keith Wells TUM image id: 1653771810 Licence:	The Eagle on Hollybush Hill, Snaresbrook. The painting is a James Pollard from the early 19th century, one of two he painted of the Eagle Credit: James Pollard TUM image id: 1620147625 Licence:	All Saints and St Paul’s Tower viewed from High Road Leyton (2006) Credit: Wiki Commons/pjcard TUM image id: 1673700045 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The front of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone (2009) The 491 Gallery was a squatted self-managed social centre and multi-disciplinary gallery in Leytonstone, that operated from 2001 to 2013. Taking its name from its street number, 491 Grove Green Road, the former factory was home to a community-led art organisation and served as an exhibition space for a diverse range of artists of different origins working in varied media. It contained a range of art and music studios, which were used to host workshops, classes and musical rehearsals. The building was subsequently demolished in 2016. Credit: Wiki Commons/Anka Krom TUM image id: 1637673284 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Blake Hall Road (1916) A postcard described as Leytonstone which is in an area more often called Wanstead nowadays. The view is looking south, possibly from a viewpoint just south of Bush Road. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629995508 Licence:	Despite the old postcode calling the area ’Leytonstone’, this is on the Leytonstone/Wanstead border. Either name applies. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620150105 Licence:	View of Cambridge Park, Wanstead, looking east from the corner of Blake Hall Road (1914) Printed by E.G.C "The Wonder Box", The Mall, Wanstead. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629997360 Licence:	Old cottages in College Place in Upper Walthamstow (1905) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630146267 Licence:
Hermon Hill on the Snaresbrook/Wanstead border (undated) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620668549 Licence:	Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate (1905) View coming down from the station to the Alice. Going the other way, the turning on the right is Hampton Road. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621940085 Licence:	Wallwood Road, E11 is named after an old house. Historian Frederick Temple placed Walwood House itself on what became Chadwick Road and Whipps Cross Road. The house with just over five acres of land, was sold in 1894 to Thomas Ashbridge Smith, a businessman from Whitechapel for £4000. The solicitors employed in this transaction and many other were Fladgate & Company and Maple, Teesdale and Company. These three provided the names of three new roads nearby. TUM image id: 1466548523 Licence:	Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate. The first known record of the name ’Forest Gate’ comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century and describes a gate placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the Romford Road. The gate was located close to the former Eagle & Child public house. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620301549 Licence:	God’s Own Junkyard is a neon art hub, plus cafe, hidden away on a Walthamstow industrial estate, utterly beloved by international Instagram curators Credit: diamond geezer TUM image id: 1655796105 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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The front of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone (2009) The 491 Gallery was a squatted self-managed social centre and multi-disciplinary gallery in Leytonstone, that operated from 2001 to 2013. Taking its name from its street number, 491 Grove Green Road, the former factory was home to a community-led art organisation and served as an exhibition space for a diverse range of artists of different origins working in varied media. It contained a range of art and music studios, which were used to host workshops, classes and musical rehearsals. The building was subsequently demolished in 2016.
Credit: Wiki Commons/Anka Krom
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Wallwood Road, E11 is named after an old house. Historian Frederick Temple placed Walwood House itself on what became Chadwick Road and Whipps Cross Road. The house with just over five acres of land, was sold in 1894 to Thomas Ashbridge Smith, a businessman from Whitechapel for £4000. The solicitors employed in this transaction and many other were Fladgate & Company and Maple, Teesdale and Company. These three provided the names of three new roads nearby.
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