Keats Close, E11

Keats Close is a road in the E11 postcode area

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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
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply

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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:	Wanstead station TUM image id: 1510185958 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The George, Wanstead (early twentieth century) The George was a central feature of Wanstead from the earliest times with local courts being held there. The depicted building dates from 1902. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630144208 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:	Hermon Hill on the Snaresbrook/Wanstead border (undated) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620668549 Licence:
Advert from the 1933 edition of Kelly’s Directory of Leytonstone, Wanstead and Snaresbrook. The development of Nightingale Farm had started by 1933 - they were advertising properties for sale there from £795. TUM image id: 1620150689 Licence:	Grove Cottage, on the corner of Leicester Road and George Lane (now Nutter Lane), Wanstead (1907) Oliver S. Dawson, author of ’The Story of Wanstead Park’, spent his later years in Firtree Cottage on George Lane. Both Grove Cottage - which was Wanstead’s oldest building - and Firtree Cottage have since been demolished. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630072026 Licence:	Watch Box, St Mary’s Burial Ground, Overton Drive, Wanstead (1901) The ’Watch Box’ is a memorial to Joseph Wilton (1722-1803), sculptor and founder member of the Royal Academy. The memorial was used in the 1830s as a ’watch box’ to guard against body snatchers. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1636131879 Licence:	The Green, Wanstead, looking roughly north-east toward The George (1938) Four of the sweet chestnut trees planted by Sir Josiah Child or his son Richard, 1st Earl Tylney of Castlemaine, are visible. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630145284 Licence:	The A12 Wanstead in the style of Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1629990645 Licence:
The future sites for roads called The Avenue and Grove Park in Wanstead prior to development (1880) Both roads were constructed after the sale of the Wanstead Grove Estate. Credit: The Counties Residents TUM image id: 1630142692 Licence:	Cottages in Eastway in the late 1960s. Taken from opposite the passageway looking along towards the Nightingale Green area, Grove Farm dairy was located on the Nightingale Green end of these cottages, possibly demolished when the flats were built. TUM image id: 1620146454 Licence:	Early Central Line poster TUM image id: 1629993957 Licence:	Early Central Line poster TUM image id: 1629993848 Licence:	Advertisement for the Wanstead Infirmary and Boarding Kennels for Dogs TUM image id: 1629992401 Licence: