High Road Leytonstone, E15

High Road Leytonstone is one of the streets of London in the E15 postal area.

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Richard Eades

Downsell Primary School

Added: 3 May 2021 11:42 GMT

Downsell Primary School (1955 - 1958)
I was a pupil at Downsell road from I think 1955 age 7 until I left in 1958 age 10 having passed my "11plus" and won a scholarship to Parmiters school in bethnal green. I remember my class teacher was miss Lynn and the deputy head was mrs Kirby.
At the time we had an annual sports day for the whole school in july at drapers field, and trolley buses ran along the high street and there was a turning point for them just above the junction with downsell road.
I used to go swimming at cathall road baths, and also at the bakers arms baths where we had our school swimming galas. I nm y last year, my class was taken on a trip to the tower of london just before the end of term. I would love to hear from any pupils who remember me.

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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:	The Stratford High Street mug is an 11 ounce ceramic mug. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1621268681 Licence:	Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1653781310 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	The renowned Two Puddings pub on the Broadway Stratford (1966) Early in the twentieth century, the Two Puddings had became a notorious pub, known locally as ’The Butcher’s Shop’ on account of the amount of blood spilt. Some people would turn up at the pub for a Saturday night punch up rather than for a good time and a pint. From 1962 until its closure in 2000, Eddie Johnson was landlord of the Two Puddings and he started to drastically change its reputation. Eddie and wife Shirley were rock ’n’ roll fans and the Two Puddings - a.k.a. The Puddings or simply The Pud - became a prime venue with the UK’s first disco upstairs, later more of a nightclub. Coming along to the pub in the 1960s and beyond were television personalities, actors, writers, champion boxers, musicians, gangsters and footballers. Harry Redknapp met his wife Sandra there in 1963 and David Essex made his performing debut at the Puddings. At the end of the 1990s, changes in the law required breweries to sell off pubs, including the Two Puddings. There was a court case that saw Eddie Johnson thrown out as landlord. Because of his four decades in charge, Eddie Johnson was then London’s longest serving licensee. In 2012 he wrote a book about his experiences called ’Tales from the Two Puddings’. It was later made into a documentary. Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1624529399 Licence:
Stratford mug Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1621268493 Licence:	The Stratford International mug is an 11 ounce ceramic mug. Despite its name, no international services stop at Stratford International - plans for it to be served by Eurostar trains never came to fruition. On the Docklands Light Railway it is a terminus for local services via Canning Town. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1621266993 Licence:	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:	Limehouse bound - Romford Road (1967) This was a Seven Kings-based bus. The 86 also used to run through to Upminster at one point TUM image id: 1685015312 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:	Stratford Broadway (date unknown) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621248075 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:	West Ham Lane (1950s) Despite the caption on the original postcard, West Ham Lane is more Stratford or Forest Gate than West Ham itself. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1608049054 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: