Carnanton Road, E17

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Henriques Street, E1 Added: 20 Jul 2024 01:13 GMT	Whitechapel (1980 - 1981) Diana Lee-Gobbitt - Artist rented a room at No 1 Berner Street, Whitechapel, opposite Church Passage (Ripper territory) for one year, rent approx 3 pounds pw. Worked as Receptionist for n Indian import/export company in the Watney Markets. Owner of No 1 Berner Street was Sammy Ferrugia, Maltese Taxi company owner. The artist was shown the gambling den in Dutfield’s Yard behind the terrace houses. It was common local knowledge prostitution was high end income for those in the East End during the 1950s. Reply
Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:26 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 My Grandfather bought No 45 Buchanan Gdns in I believe 1902 and died ther in the early 1950s Reply
Haycroft Gardens, NW10 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:20 GMT	Haycroft Gardens, NW10 I lived in No 7 from 1933 to 1938 Reply
Sylvia guiver Blandford Square, NW1 Added: 4 Jul 2024 14:52 GMT	Grandparents 1937 lived 37 Blandford Square Y mother and all her sisters and brother lived there, before this date , my parent wedding photographers were take in the square, I use to visit with my mother I remember the barge ballon in the square in the war. Reply
Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply

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The courtyard of the Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow (2008) Vestry House Museum is a history museum focusing on the heritage of the local area. The collection includes various artefacts dating from the Victorian Era to the 20th Century including numerous archived documents and photographs. Credit: Geograph/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1611236777 Licence:	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:	The Cricketers, Woodford Green This local landmark started being used as a public house just before 1848, with it being first listed as a ’beer house’ that year. TUM image id: 1620148773 Licence:	Woodford Green at the top of Salway Hill Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629993244 Licence:
Old cottages in College Place in Upper Walthamstow (1905) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630146267 Licence:	The Highams Park Estate was an estate of 176 prefabs which existed between 1947 and 1961. All 20 roads on the estate were dug up and Highams Park itself restored. Credit: Walthamstow Memories TUM image id: 1642002174 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Highams Park Estate was an estate of 176 prefabs which existed between 1947 and 1961. All 20 roads on the estate were dug up and Highams Park itself restored. Credit: Walthamstow Memories TUM image id: 1642002174 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A typical post-war prefab, coloured in magnolia and green Credit: Wiki Commons/Rudi Winter TUM image id: 1642090128 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hale End Road in Highams Park (1920s) TUM image id: 1642095417 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Highams Park Estate was an estate of 176 prefabs which existed between 1947 and 1961. All 20 roads on the estate were dug up and Highams Park itself restored. Credit: Walthamstow Memories TUM image id: 1642002174 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Queens Wood Avenue, 1900 TUM image id: 1466523562 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Clapping people TUM image id: 1457100971 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Highams Park Estate was an estate of 176 prefabs which existed between 1947 and 1961. All 20 roads on the estate were dug up and Highams Park itself restored. Credit: Walthamstow Memories TUM image id: 1642002174 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Highams Park Estate was an estate of 176 prefabs which existed between 1947 and 1961. All 20 roads on the estate were dug up and Highams Park itself restored. Credit: Walthamstow Memories TUM image id: 1642002174 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Queens Wood Avenue, 1900
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